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I just changed its permissions from 0755 to 0775, which should allow members of the chessvariants group (which includes apache) to write in it. Try it again and let me know if it works.

Yup, it works now.  Thanks!

Fergus, Can you look at something for me?  I'm very confused.  I created the preset but I can't move any pieces.

http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/play.php?game%3DOdyssey%26settings%3Dalfaerie

This preset has no code at all.  When I try to move a peice, I get:

"MOVE: P h4-h5 is not a valid expression, because P is not a recognized piece, coordinate, command, or subroutine."

Which is strange because P is certainly a piece.  Seems to give the error with any piece.  This piece set does have some two-letter pieces, but plenty of sets have that without issue.

Something else that is strange, that I'm guessing is unrelated, whenever you go to edit this preset, the Set is not selected in the drop-down.  Actually, the drop-down isn't populated with values at all.  You need to change set group and change it back to All to get the set drop-down to populate.  Then you need to pick the set again (in this case, Alfaerie for Odyssey.  It occured to me that it could be something I did wrong updating the sets.php, but I don't think so.  I looked carefully and I've done this several times now without issue.

I can't edit MS index information, some session problem.  I get the message
"You are not logged in as an editor, and cannot make changes here.Session:"

I can however edit (as editor) comments...

Greg, the two things you mentioned are related. For some reason, the value of $set is empty, and because of that, the value of $pieces is empty, and because of that, the piece label in the move is not recognized as a piece label. I'm still trying to figure out what the root cause could be.

Ben, I need specifics. What is the URL of the page you are not recognized as being logged in on?

/indexmaint/modifyitem.php

(specifically, after submitting changes at /indexmaint/edititem.php?itemid=MZpole-chess )

Greg, I have traced the problem to a variable name conflict between Game Courier and the header. Both are using the $group variable, and the wrong value for $group causes the value of $set to be set to an empty string.

Ben, I simplified the way sessions are started, no longer using specific names for sessions, and that file hadn't been updated yet. I have now changed how it opens sessions, and it should work now.

Greg, since the header was more self-contained, I renamed the $group variable it used, and that seems to have fixed the problem.

So far, I am at an impasse in trying to get the PHP scripts to run with user and group set to chessvariants instead of apache. I have had no luck getting suexec to do the job. So I installed php-fpm, which is supposed to do the job. But the documentation I found is for mod_fastcgi, and I installed mod_proxy_fcgi, which does things differently. It turns out that mod_fastcgi is not in the CentOS 7 repositories, and using it with CentOS 7 is not recommended. I may look into installing mod_lsapi, which is installed at the VPS this site was previously on.

For just a little bit extra each month, I upgraded my hosting package. This site now runs on a VPS with four Xeon cores running at 3.5Ghz each, 8.79 GB of RAM, 196.74 GB of SSD space, and 6.66 TB of bandwidth every month. That's a lot better than what I was getting with my old host, and I have also been learning a lot more about running a Linux server.

I added an extra space into the sql command in the indexing function table_row, in order to fix an error in the zillions.php pages.  It has fixed those pages, and I wouldn't expect an extra whitespace to cause other problems, but I'm making note of it here just in case.

Fergus, I just wanted to point out a couple of bugs that may be around due to the server move.

- The Post your Own Content link under the tab with my name comes up as "file not found"

- The Chess on a Really Big Board link that was posted under Whats New does not work.  Not sure if it was the wrong link or something with the server move.

Thanks!

- The Post your Own Content link under the tab with my name comes up as "file not found"

The header for the play subdomain had a relative link to "Post Your Own Game," which got interpreted as a page on the play subdomain. That is now replaced with a link to the full URL.

- The Chess on a Really Big Board link that was posted under Whats New does not work.  Not sure if it was the wrong link or something with the server move.

The link is fixed. I had forgotten to include the play directory in the URL.

Thanks Fergus!