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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 5th 2022
    • (edited Oct 5th 2022)

    This to announce that the technical team is going ahead with the migration of the nLab installation to a new server:

    The migration will take place this Friday (7 Oct, 2022) at 15 CET / 13 UTC.

    • They will start by switching the nLab and nForum to read-only. During this time, you will get an error message if you try to edit or post in the nForum.

    • At the end of the migration, they will point the nLab and nForum to the new server and editing/posting will work again.

    • It may be that some things are broken afterwards. If you notice any, please post them here!

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeOct 5th 2022

    How long will the migration take?

    Krzysztof Kiszka

  1. Between 10 minutes and 6 hours.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorChristian Sattler
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2022
    • (edited Oct 7th 2022)

    The migration has concluded. If you find anything broken, please notify us here.

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2022

    Well done! I’d guess it’s just a question of scaling something up, but based in Europe, both the nLab and the nForum are unusably slow at loading the majority of pages, on both a phone and computer. The problem seems slightly worse for the nForum, although I’ve not tried many nLab pages, so it might be equally bad there. At times the pages load fine, but currently for example almost everything is terribly slow.

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2022

    More precisely, I’d guess the nLab pages which are loading quickly are those which are cached, i.e. either the server processing or the database or both must be the bottleneck.

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2022

    I’m based in the United States and the nLab and the nForum take longer to load as well.

    • CommentRowNumber8.
    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2022

    Unlike the two guests above I don’t have any problems loading new uncached pages on the nLab and nForum.

    • CommentRowNumber9.
    • CommentAuthorsamwinnick
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2022
    It is very intermittent for me (WA, USA)
  2. Looks Cloudflare-related. I’ve purged the cache and the problem seems to have disappeared. Let’s see if it comes back.

    • CommentRowNumber11.
    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2022

    Same as before for me (same as #5 and #6) unfortunately. unfortu

    • CommentRowNumber12.
    • CommentAuthorChristian Sattler
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2022
    • (edited Oct 9th 2022)

    I’ve disabled Cloudflare for now. Let’s see how we fare.

    • CommentRowNumber13.
    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2022

    Seems much better now, thanks!

    • CommentRowNumber14.
    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2022

    TikZ diagrams no longer compile.

    For example, trying to save the following code:

    \begin{tikzcd} A \end{tikzcd}

    produces the following error:

    [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ’pdftocairo’

    It appears that nLab’s TikZ rendering module requires the pdftocairo software in the poppler package, which apparently is not installed on the new server.

  3. Thanks for reporting! Should be fixed now.

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    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2022
    • CommentRowNumber17.
    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2022
  4. Thanks, both fixed!

    • CommentRowNumber19.
    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeOct 17th 2022
    • (edited Oct 17th 2022)

    Google Search now shows URLs like

    https://www.ncatlab.org/nlab/show/determinant+line+bundle

    when searching for nLab topics.

    These URLs do not resolve properly. I presume the problem is caused by an improper setup of redirects (www.ncatlab.org → ncatlab.org) for the web server.

    Also, somehow Google Search now thinks that www.ncatlab.org is the “canonical” form, which presumably should also be adjusted on the server side.

  5. Should be fixed now. One problem was that www.ncatlab.org was not included in the SSL certificate.