Since it was around 8:45 p.m. last evening when I noticed my younger brother arriving home, I hastily turned off the T.V. and came upstairs to use the toilet one last time ere putting myself to bed.
I was not going to risk his condition and attempt to sit up over the remainder of the evening while operating our Android TV Box to fetch episodes of some of the T.V. series we follow. He had failed to arrive home by the unspoken 8:30 p.m. deadline that I have in place for him, and that was that, as the expression goes.
My wife ─ who was home at the time ─ was already shut up here in the small room where I keep my computer, immediately adjacent to our bedroom, so I never alerted her to my intention.
I managed some sleep before becoming alert enough to be curious on the time early in the midnight hour, so I deemed it late enough to chance that my brother had retired for the night.
As I was dressing, my wife entered the bedroom ─ I had heard her sharing a goodnight with my brother, so I knew that he was still up. However, he was also about to retire for the night, so I replaced my wife in this room and pulled the door to in order for my brother not to realize that it was me in here and not her ─ she commonly spends a lot of her time in here during the evenings when she is home, so he would think nothing of the room being occupied.
Yesterday I chronicled the troubles I was having in getting my website MyRetirementDream.com online once more. I had left HostGator and abandoned the databases for not only this specific website, but also for four others that I had on the same 'baby' account with that web host that I had been paying for over the course of more than a decade.
I also abandoned the domain names for three of the other four websites.
I determined to start two entirely new websites with the pair of domains that I retained possession of. And in working toward that end, two nights ago (or the earliest a.m. hours of yesterday) I got MyRetirementDream.com hosted with InterServer. The immediate plan then was to begin working on getting it set up.
However, I could not. Whether I tried to enter my website's new WordPress dashboard, or just try to visit the website online like any other visitor would have to do, it was inaccessible ─ a 503 Service Unavailable error.
I scoured InterServer for a resolution, and even left two queries on what I should do ─ but I left each one of them in the comments section beneath a different article on a seemingly relevant topic.
By early yesterday afternoon, neither of those article queries had any reply, so I finally did the proper thing and opened a ticket to explain my problem.
I figured for myself what was likely afoot, but I didn't have any idea on how to resolve the problem. The domain name myretirementdream.com was with domain registrar Porkbun, and also in an account I had with CloudFlare. As such, myretirementdream.com had a pair of name servers that were mirrored at both locations.
However, in getting my domain active online by InterServer, they used two new name servers entirely unrelated to the other long-established pair. And so anytime someone accessed the new website, InterServer's name servers did not reflect a valid domain name ─ basically, as far as the World Wide Web was concerned, the website did not exist.
Thus, I correctly figured that I needed InterServer's name servers to match the older or historical pair of name servers for my domain. But I had absolutely no idea how to do that.
Well, when I came here to my computer during the midnight hour last night, I had a response from an InterServer tech agent on what I needed to do:
Hello,
Could you please disable cloudflare proxy on myretirementdream.com and make sure IP used is 173.214.172.82 . Once done please let us know.
Regards,
Prak C
Can anything be clearer than that, I ask you sarcastically?
That 'solution' actually arrived at 6:03 p.m. yesterday, but I never saw it until overnight because my wife was shut up here in the room where I keep my computer.
So at 1:21 a.m. early today ─ after considerable research ─ I replied back with a screenshot, asking:
Is this all you wanted (see attachment)?
If you can notice in the middle of that screenshot, my domain myretirementdream.com has the "IP" digits "173.214.172.82" that Prak had cited, and further over to the right there is a grey cloud and the words "DNS only". Those were changes that I had figured out how to make.
I had found that by clicking any of the orange clouds representing whatever "Proxied" meant, the orange cloud would turn grey and it would then be designated "DNS only". Then I had clicked the EDIT button at the far right of that line, and found that I could paste the digits "173.214.172.82" over the other string of digits that were there.
I then saved the changes.
Here is the reply that I received at 2:53 a.m. about my changes:
Hello,
The only website you have hosted with us is : myretirementdream.com
It appears to be loading properly:
http://i.is.cc/DnUQgnn.png
Could you please let us know if you still experience the 503 errors?
Let us know if you need anything else.
Kind regards,
--
Dmitry O
So I tried to access my website ─ and this was my reply back at 3:08 a.m. to this new tech agent:
Thanks, Dmitry ─ except now when I try to visit the website I see this: "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead". I get that warning even when I'm only trying to access my WordPress dashboard.
It was not mentioned, but I suspect that I am supposed to probably reset the domain at CloudFlare back to its original "Proxied" status?
I'm gambling that this is likely the case, so I have just now gone ahead and done that in the hope that this will set everything right. But please let me know if the domain was supposed to remain un-Proxied!
I did what I said that I was going to try, and then at 3:17 a.m. I sent this message:
Okay ─ everything seems good now. I must have been supposed to reset the domain back to "Proxied".
Thanks so much!!!
Then at 3:41 a.m. I received this:
Hello,
SSL installed on myretirementdream.com also force https redirect set on it.
Please check and get back to us for any further assistance.
Regards,
Prak C
This was entirely unrelated to my access troubles, but it did relate to something I had already been pondering extensively. I wanted my website's URL to display as HTTPS instead of HTTP, but that can only be done when a website is granted SSL certification.
InterServer had advertised that new accounts with them would be issued an SSL certificate, but I hadn't yet been told anything about how this would be achieved. And now it had!
Nevertheless, I did have something about it that I needed to clear up ─ I sent this at 3:52 a.m.:
Excellent!
Then I won't have to use CloudFlare's SSL option or any of the related plugins like Flexible SSL for CloudFlare? I was just now checking out my WordPress plugin area and deciding what some of the essential plugins are that I was using at my old website with HostGator.
When I was with HostGator, I had to figure out how to do the HTTP to HTTPS conversion for myself because they weren't offering it at the time. So everything that I needed by way of CloudFlare plugins were all downloaded.
I'm not going to need to be doing any of that? I can barely believe it!
Finally, at 4:08 a.m. came this final reply:
Hello,
There is no need of plugins for the https redirect, it's set by adding below rewrite rule in .htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
</IfModule>
You can start design your wordpress site and if anything else needed please let us know.
Regards,
Prak C
I haven't a clue what that 'explanatory' batch of coding signified, but at least I knew now that there was nothing else I needed to do concerning SSL.
I returned to bed around 4:45 a.m. for a little further sleep, arising anew no later than 8:30 a.m. As yet, my brother had still not emerged from his bedroom.
At least one of us gets lots of nighttime in 'the sack'.
It is already after 8 p.m., so I want to finish this post and publish it. Now that my first of two domains is back online as a website, I have considerable work to do on it ─ there are a few essential pages that have to be created before I can begin making content posts.
I want to mention that my wife had to work today, so she left here late in the morning on a wet long drive to work. It has been a wet enough day, but the worst is still to come with the night.
My brother lit out of here late in the noon hour to join someone at the Delta Lion Pub to play pool ─ apparently the two tables or whatever they have there are free.
Anyway, if he is not back home by 8:30 p.m., I want to be all set to get to bed ─ but I haven't even supped as yet, so I must clear the way for that bedtime while I yet can.
I am sure I will have more to say about my website tomorrow.
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