Upgrading the server: Test site

With the site a bit over 3 years old now, unfortunately, some of the software running is out of date. I've been testing the upgraded software, but I think I've hit the limit on what I can find myself, and so I'm looking for your help!

For any of you willing, I'd love for you to try out the new server and see if you can find any errors. It's an exact duplicate of the server as of about 6PM EST on Dec 29, 2016. If you do check it out and find any errors, please post a new thread on that server. On that server, you can mess around as much as you want, as when we're done with the testing, I'll be upgrading this server and deleting that one.

To try to test site just go to http://test.gamersplane.com.

Also, of you are checking out the test site, let me know here so I can track who is looking?

Once I've added the IP addresses, do I enter them as the URL in a browser window?

Yeah, I very rarely mess around terminal as I usually have no fucking clue what I'm doing here and basically have to trust the person/tutorial...

Nope. By entering them in your host file, it tells your browser when you ask for gamersplane.com, go to this ip instead.

I'm really sorry the steps to use the test site are so technical. I couldn't think of a better way to do it :/ I know it'll mean most people won't be able to access the test site; I'll continue to test on my own, and hopefully once I'm comfortable with it, I can release with minimal impact.

Okay, hopefully I'm hitting the test site. Is there a convenient way for me to tell that I'm there?

Well, if you can see this thread, then you're still on the production server. The test server has the word TEST blasted across the logo.

I guess it didn't work, then. I did have to sudo as root to edit the hosts file, but after restarting I still hit production.

Is there a way to test it using just the IP address? Right now when I visit based on IP I see some sort of event log for a gaming convention.

That's really weird... I tested it via hosts file before suggesting to you guys...

CancerMan, are you using a private browser window?

And szemely: sounds like you're hitting the AcadeCon site, but that's at acadecon.gamersplane.com...

I guess maybe this didn't work. Donno why it's working for me. Maybe I'll just have to do all the testing and hope nothing major breaks on release.

Yeah, I was using a private Firefox session. My hosts file only had an entry for localhost so I added the two IP addresses and hostnames at the end.

Editing /etc/hosts worked fine on my part (on a Mac). For the non-tech savy people out there, please note that you'll need to comment out those lines to get back to the non-testing version. ;)

I tested some basic stuff, found some bugs. Sending them to you on a PM, Keleth.

I thought so as well, partly why I hate messing around in Terminal...

So I ended up swapping a lot of code and set it up as http://test.gamersplane.com. Hopefully any errors we find are due to the upgrade and not the test setup.

Nice, can get on it straight away using that URL. I'll spend some time poking around tonight and tomorrow and see what I can break. :-)

test.gamersplane.com looks good. I see the same stuff I saw when I modified the hosts file :)

I wanna bump this again. An upgrade is something I'd like to release when possible, and getting more eyes on it always helps. I'd hate to release it then get a flood of "everything's broken!" bugs.

I've looked around a bit, but from a cursory look, I have failed to notice anything different. Not sure what am I missing here...

If the logo on the top left says Test across it, then you're on the test site, and if nothing is different, fantastic! It shouldn't be different for you, except maybe slightly faster.

Yeah, I saw the changed logo. What I meant to say is I did not see any difference with tools, sections, etc. If the site works faster, then good. I'll admit, I haven,'t noticed, but then again, I already have a supercharged internet, so maybe this change will be more obvious to others...

It probably won't be significantly faster in general browsing, but it's def faster by a bit. If nothing else, it's more secure, I can use some functionality that I couldn't before, etc.

something I noticed real quick while updating my characters on the test site, I can check out everyone's characters on the test site now instead of just my own.

Not sure if this is a feature or a bug...

Bug, thanks. When you say check out, how so? You can see other character sheets in games you're in?

Ok, there's a bug logging in to the test site that is specific to the test site (I can't seem to get a subdomain of a subdomain working, which is making logging in not possible :/ I can't seem to get my head around A records/CNAME records and how to set it properly for my use case...). You may have trouble testing until I get this resolved.

I have the option to check them, but if I click on the characters, I get a "character not found" blank page.

Oh, and I'm also getting the problem where my weapons on my 5th edition sheet won't show up. I just re-entered them and this section of my character sheet remains blank after saving it...

Hum, Kel? I'm getting some weird shit with my Pathfinder NPCs...

I cannot log in to test.gamersplane.com

As you signed up after the test site was created, you won't be in there. I'll look at syncing it.

ok

Pathfinder is updated, but I'm going to go back through every character sheet to see if there are similiar errors.