404 - not found - error

[Panther]

axisandallies.org and the forum have been down for hours today.

It was unavailable from at least 11.00 until 17.00 h German time today (UTC+0200).
The same happened two days ago.

A 404 error had been shown.

[Wolfshanze]

I noticed the same thing today and over the weekend… site down for hours in the morning.

[Panther]

It happened again some hours ago.

[Panther]

… and again … offline for hours today…

What is wrong?

[Wolfshanze]

Yep… you’re not alone…

[Private-Panic]

And again this afternoon I believe P@nther :-(

[Panther]

… and today…

[baron Münchhausen]

Does servers need to re-boot? Or shutdown to make back-up files?

[djensen]

Yeah, for some reason I did see the alert lat night. The one before that I was literally off-the-grid camping so it took about 4 hours to get it back up.

I’m working on a script to automatically restart but I’m having issues.  :-(

[Panther]

@djensen:

Yeah, for some reason I did see the alert lat night. The one before that I was literally off-the-grid camping so it took about 4 hours to get it back up.

I’m working on a script to automatically restart but I’m having issues.  :-(

Thanks for the update  :-)
Indeed the website responded “404” from about Sunday morning until this early morning (German time= UTC+0200).

[djensen]

I have a new script running that will detect a 404 and restart php. It checks once every minute.

[Private-Panic]

Glad to hear it dj. Thanks for putting this in place.

[Panther]

@djensen:

I have a new script running that will detect a 404 and restart php. It checks once every minute.

Good news. Thanks a lot :-)

[Wolfshanze]

The site was down for at least a solid 24 hours straight… I started to think to myself “well, I’m glad I at least downloaded all the custom map files for the games before the site went off-line”.

[djensen]

So the script worked. At 6:58am there was a 404 error, I received a phone call from Uptime (unfortunately), and about a minute or less later the script kicked in and restarted the server.

[Panther]

@djensen:

So the script worked. At 6:58am there was a 404 error, I received a phone call from Uptime (unfortunately), and about a minute or less later the script kicked in and restarted the server.

It just happened again some minutes ago - and the website was back only one or two minutes after I noticed it. Great script! Thank you. :-)