Nels Lindahl — Functional Journal

A weblog created by Dr. Nels Lindahl featuring writings and thoughts…

Category: Websites

  • Recapping some efforts from this weekend

    It was a productive morning of working on some development. I ended up working on the setup of the nelsx domain. That involved doing a bunch of different things. First, I had to remove the redirect to my top level domain and make sure that change went global. Second, the domain had to be set up within my hosting system so that I could do something with it in terms of installing some applications. Third, the application installation for the content management on the site had to be completed. Now I’m just tinkering with the setup for the site and working to fix a few errors in the process. 

    Somehow during the installation process a generic deleteme file got dropped in the main directory. Logging into the file system management and removing that random blocking file took a couple of minutes. Something is wrong with the redirect setup for the site. It’s still dropping over to a parking domain at the moment. After a few minutes of looking at the configurations for the domain I’m probably going to have to contact support on this one. It used to be a bit easier to complete a setup. Sure the introduction of the SSL part of the equation made things a bit more complex, but that should not really be a blocking factor within the initial build. 

    Apparently the domain name was not connected. The domain was in a parking state with the host. The propagation will take 24-48 hours. Initially it had some linkages back to an old hosting plan and pulled up a post from November 23, 2022. It was about, “Loyal Stricklin Wallets:

    I own two of these wallets. They are delightful and have held up really well. Production is currently out of Opelika, Alabama. https://loyalstricklin.com/collections/johnny-wallet.” That is still my everyday carry wallet. I’m hopeful that the propagation gets it fixed up to the right hosting package here today or tomorrow. 

    I manually updated the IP address for the hosting and now the waiting process has started over again. It all ended up working out the next day.

  • No more Tumblr posting for me

    My weblog menu has been updated to remove a link to my Tumblr page for the top menu bar of the site. This seemed like the right thing to do given that I just deleted all my content and account on the Tumblr site listed below. I have not posted any original content on that site. The only content that was posted was pushed over from this weblog. It seemed like that echo was not very useful and given that my weblog does not have to have a digital shadow to exist I went ahead and hit delete on that Tumblr page.

    https://www.tumblr.com/nelslindahl

    If anything ever ends up back on that page, then it was not from me and is unauthorized as far as I’m concerned. Right now it just says, “There’s nothing here.” At the moment, that is just fine given that my intention was to delete all the content and stop using the site. My big plan for the night after hitting that delete button was to write this weblog post and hit publish before the month comes to an end. I’m ready for October.

    My current social media strategy for this weblog is to allow WordPress to post a link with each post title to Twitter. That will probably continue for the foreseeable future. I’m not sure it creates much traffic from Twitter back over to the weblog, but it seems to be something that brings me joy so it will be allowed to continue.