First blog post for over 2 years
I'm back! you missed me right?
Okay, so it's been a while... and I have no one else to blame except myself! So whats changed? well... I lost about 4 and a half stone since we last met, now married to my beautiful wife Katharine and 10 months ago was promoted at work for a new role as Solution Architect ;)
I have to be totally honest though, the reason why I have not been able to blog for a few years is not because I have been crazy busy and trying to balance work and home life... nope, it's is because I broke my website!
It was only tonight, well actually about an hour ago that I finally decided thatenought was enough and I should really go work out why it was borked!
How I fixed it:
At first I thought it was probably permissions on the app_code folder for the aspnet user account,, but havng checked my discountasp.net admin page everything seemed fine...
The site worked fine for anonymous users, it seemed to just be the forms authentication that was borked, having given a successful password, the loginpage just redirected me back to the mainpage witout changing my authentication status.
After an hour of comparing my web.config with the blogengine.config that comes OOTB, I decided it must be a configuration setting lower down in the configuration inheritance that was upsetting the blog web.config (I host another site for a friend www.biteboards.co.uk at the root of my hosted space).
It turned out I was right, it seems the YAF (YetAnotherForum) site that I host at the root level of my domain was to blame, and a little blighting url-rewriting httphandler was the culprit. A quick <remove name="urlwriter" /> fixed the issue... easy when you know how... right? only took me two years to work that one out!
Okay, so I admit that I couldn't actually be arsed to work it out before now... but now it's fixed, I have no excuse not to start blogging more. Actually quite looking forward to start putting stuff up here :)
Next up is to migrate the blog to .NET4.0 (BlogEngine v2.5) and move duncangoodall.com/.co.uk to my other dedicated hosting space so I don't run into other conflicts and can run the site at the root as it should.
first update after 6 months
It has been a busy year, firstly I moved hosts and data center and promptly got locked out of my control panel. Six months later, I manage to sit down for half and hour and work out what the issue is, corrupt web.config!
So what's happend recently? Well I'm the daddy again! Please welcome Constance May Goodall, born 3rd April 2009... now 13 weeks.
I have decided that I am going to make an avid effort to post more this year.. been so busy with Constance, Beatrice (now 3 years old) and work, but things now settling down... for now... :o)