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The server never crashed. I was simply unable to boot it back up after attempting a reboot. For those who don't know, this is because the host's website was down, which left me without the ability to access the control panel for the VPS. The host is now back online, and I now have a second VPS with a different company, which has been assigned to the chessvariants.org domain. I will now work on backing up my websites to the other server.

Please back it up ASAP!

I copied a backup of the files and the database to the backup server. When I extracted the tar file, it overwrote the .htaccess file, which caused chessvariants.org to go to chessvariants.com. I will have to rewrite the .htaccess file so that the same file can work properly on both servers. Then I'll be able to test that the database and pages are working correctly over there.

I can't access my game that was interrupted. I hope that timed-out games (due to the site being down) will be playable soon.

I can't access my game that was interrupted. I hope that timed-out games (due to the site being down) will be playable soon.

It appears that the problem with your game affects only Chu Shogi, and it has nothing to do with the game being interrupted, as I encountered the same problem when I tried to simply move pieces in Chu Shogi. What happens is that the page stops displaying partway through the menu, and it doesn't give me any clear indication of what is wrong. It looks like this is going to be a problem for Adam DeWitt to solve, as it stems from his chu settings file.

Congratulation for this repair Fergus! Happy to see this back!!!

The new server is running PHP 8. So, I have updated some scripts over there to work with PHP 8, and I have copied the updated versions to the main server. These include the following:

• 404.php
• footer.php
• ads/adlocale.php
• index/commentsinc.php
• index/database-funcs.php
• index/displayusersubmission.php
• index/fpd-indexing-funcs.php
• login/header.php
• play/pbm/play.php

One change is that {curly brackets} may no longer be used to specify characters within a string. [Square brackets] must be used instead, as they are already used for array elements. The other is that parentheses must now be used to specify the order of evaluation for nested ?: statements.

I will check more pages later to see if any more scripts need updating.

I have made additional changes to the following scripts on both servers:

• footer.php
• index/database-funcs.php
• index/drawemail.php
• index/editcomment.php
• index/listcomments.php
• index/login-funcs.php
• index/randgame.php
• play/pbm/drawdiagram.php
• play/pbm/logs.php
• play/pbm/play.php