Jiggyboo

So last night I was hangin with Mr. Mat Black and Mr. Johnny K.. In the roundabout way of doing things that they did, we ended up at a sushi bar.

I’m kind of a chicken and potato’s kinda guy. Though I know that seafood is healthy, I just find it to be less tasteful. Which is what has driven my opinion that sushi is gross. Plus, its raw meat … thats just weird.

Anyway so as it goes they inform me that I have to try sushi at least once. Given, I’ve tried it once before and did not like it, I neglected to mention that to them. I was feeling adventurous i guess, and tried a spicy crab something or other.

I put it into my mouth and chewed, and it tasted good.

This was conflicting, because sushi is gross (raw fish) but it tastes good. I was torn.

Unfortunately I did not even think of taking pictures of the actual event of me eating it, but nothing really happened, I just put it in my mouth and chewed. But here are some other pictures I took at the sushi bar…

Mat and John looking detective-like.

Me, looking “what???-like”.

We’ve just discovered some very useful and startling information from the suspect…

Bitter-sweet good-bad news on server setup.

Okay, the good news.

Last night while working on this new virtual dedicated server setup, I managed to obtain a small victory.

I’d loaded up pebkacconsulting.com and attempted to load the admin login screen, but instead recieved a few errors. I am in no way educated in php. But I’ve been reading enough guides that I somehow realised halfway what as going on.

Here are the errors…

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(C:\WINDOWS\Temp\sess_490934df850319d27b268068853c6032, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\pebkacconsulting.com\httpdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\wp-shopping-cart\wp-shopping-cart.php on line 34

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Inetpub\vhosts\pebkacconsulting.com\httpdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\wp-shopping-cart\wp-shopping-cart.php:34) in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\pebkacconsulting.com\httpdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\wp-shopping-cart\wp-shopping-cart.php on line 34

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Inetpub\vhosts\pebkacconsulting.com\httpdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\wp-shopping-cart\wp-shopping-cart.php:34) in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\pebkacconsulting.com\httpdocs\wp\wp-includes\pluggable.php on line 327

Warning: Unknown(): open(C:\WINDOWS\Temp\sess_490934df850319d27b268068853c6032, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (C:\WINDOWS\Temp) in Unknown on line 0

The solution was to edit the c:\windows\php.ini file on the server and to change the session.save_path defined in php.ini to another directory. In addition I granted write permissions (in addition to the already read/execute) to IUSR_computername on the newly defined sessions folder.

After doing this the admin area loaded just fine.

Alternatively I could have adjusted the permissions on the default session.save_path folder, which was c:\windows\temp but I have no idea what type of security issues that might introduce (if any).

Well, as frustrating as all this is, the site is running again under my new hosting.

Its not working, but it is running. You’ll notice upon clicking any of the title links that you get a 404 error.

I’m working on this…

**update 2007.09.27 @ 9:15 pm: It seems to be working now, my brain seems shot right now (having trouble remember the fix), but i believe it was a permissions issue.

So I’ve been on this godaddy.com deluxe hosting plan for about a while now. Its been doing fine, not that I’ve actually ever stressed it, or come within 1% of using their over-inflated marketed number (would they seeeeeriously let me use 100gig storage and 1000gig bandwidth and not shut me down? I doubt it).

Anyway I’ve not had any issues with them, and my needs have grown beyond the capability of the Deluxe hosting account.

So last Friday I purchased the lowest priced virtual dedicated server. The weekend was spent sifting through numerous guides all of which failed to guide me fully though to production status.

Yes, they are free, i get that, they just don’t work.

Its not their fault (the authors) though. It’s more an issue of them biting more than they can chew. Which ironically is the reason I’m trying to use them.

And truly the problem is that there are so many configs (IIS, php, CGI, ISAPI, mysql, etc). My uneducated perception of this does not do much in the way of allowing me the freedom I need on this fancy new plan.

Unfortunately I need to get this working.

Anyway so the weekend was spent trying to figure out one guide after another, failing, watching a bunch of T.V. shows (looove Firefly) to blow off the built up steam (anger) and then try try again.

I’ve still not succeeded. But that’s okay, because success is always the last thing you do. And that’s comforting.