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Due to a recent PHP upgrade to get some auto-responder software to work I seem to have broken my galleries. The photos are accessible as thumbnails but cannot be accessed directly for viewing.
PHP is the open source (publicly available and community driven) web programming language that I use to run this site, to be honest it was only a small upgrade and I was not expecting this to happen at all...
Fortunately I did a backup just before I made the changes, as you always should do. Well to tell the truth I should have a secondary test site set up and I should not be making these changes on a live site, which is the next project after I get this working again.
As you can guess there is a lot of goings on behind the scenes to maintain and grow a website, this is what is most frustrating and takes most of my time, add in that I am not very good with programming my own server and getting into the nitty gritty of remotely running a computer in Atlanta, Georgia but I am slowly getting better.
I will write in more detail later about the auto-responder software but what it is in essence is that it gives me the ability to have greater control over emails to members and more importantly it is going to give me the ability to run an email course. So if someone signs up then each week for 10 weeks that person will recieve a sequential email, over he period of time delivering a full email study course. I plan on using this in several ways, and see which getsreaders most interested.
This adds some great and useful functionality for readers and gives them a reminder and good reasons to come back to my site, thus increasing my web traffic.
Anyway I am off to see if I can update the gallery software now without breaking everything else, I remember we had troubles with this last time but I cannot remember exactly what they were :(
*UPDATE: After 2 hours of searching through forums, turning on verbose debugging mode (all errors are printed out to the webpage) it turns out that there were errors with my Database, probably due to the power outage at the server complex from a few days ago and it turned out as simple as logging into PhpMyAdmin and running a repair on hte damaged mysql database tables.
For those interested or looking for info on how to do this I will use a new post to detail how to repair damaged MySQL tables
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