Today has been a busy day, but nothing has been achieved. My old website was hosted on a Windows server. It had to be, because about 99% of it was written almost entirely in ASP, with the other 1% being PHP. Windows is capable of hosting both languages. This site was also being developed on a Windows server. It’s significantly more rich in PHP than the old site was, but there are still times when I’m going to need to write some ASP to handle some of the pages (e.g the species list). Linux is more stable and faster, but Windows gives me the luxury of being able to write some ASP when I can’t achieve something any other way.
Anyway, today I wanted to try an idea which I hoped would crack the ever-present issue that is re-writing the galleries and trying to integrate them into the shop. I very nearly had it working, with the exception of one bit of PHP code which should have worked, but didn’t. So keen was I to get this code working that I decided to migrate the entire site from a Windows server to a Linux server. This went far more smoothly than I ever predicted. The bad news though, was that the new gallery code still refused to perform. Deciding it was time to start thinking of a new way to proceed, most likely with ASP, I immediately started to migrate once again back to Windows. Once again the move to the new server was smooth and relatively quick. However, whilst this site is up and running (at least in a private state while I continue development), no ASP code at all will now work. It’s a server configuration issue, but one that I could do without, as I’m keen to press on with the galleries, one way or another. At the moment though, I’m still struggling to get back the same position I was at this morning!