Max's Miscellaneous Musings

You'll recall that I recently posted about how my site is now 95% operational, but that visitors to http://www.maxxxie.net/ were being redirected to a page that didn't exist.  It turns out that "visitors", plural, wasn't quite right.  It was "visitor", singular, ie ME, that was getting the redirect.  Not realising this, I logged a ticket with the new provider and asked them if they had any ideas.  I thought it was some wierd-arse htaccess or httpd.conf thing that needed to be touched.

Imagine my surprise when they wrote back and said they had absolutely no problems accessing the site!  Imagine my shame at not using my troubleshooting skills, when I opened IE and discovered it connected to the page just fine, thanks very much!

What I should've done:  tried it in IE.  Tried it on a VM.  Asked someone else what happened when they tried it.

Lesson learned.

Having determined the browser was the problem, I was left with the prospect of having to delete the entire cache/history to resolve it.  I didn't want to do that, and with a bit of googling, stumbled across this thread: http://x10hosting.com/forums/free-hosting/111095-how-stop-old-redirection-firefox.html.

The CacheViewer FF addon allowed me to selectively delete the cached files for http://www.maxxxie.net and hey, presto!  Now it works just fine, and I'm a happy camper.

Many thanks to the support dude at HostMonster who pointed out to me that everything worked just fine for him.  Without this piece of knowledge I would never have fixed this problem. 

Now, as you can imagine, there is much to post about since I have not been able to update my blog in about a month.  However, there is so much to post about, that I don't have time to do it right now.  Stay tuned.  Or, if you enjoy jokes, How do you keep an idiot in suspense?  I'll tell you later.