Technicals (and Weaving)

Technicals (and Weaving)

Technicals indeed this morning. Liz decided that she would like commenting to be available on her blog. To do this in Ghost required her signing up for a Disqus account and registering her website. Simple enough, even on the phone.

But it also required a file being edited on the Raspberry Pi computer which runs our webserver back home and then Ghost restarting. This meant starting a Linux session on the phone, connecting to home, editing the file etc. Definitely not easy on a tiny screen where the keyboard takes up most of the space. The nano editor is fine in a full screen with full keyboard but a pain on a computer.

Then when all was done, the Ghost restart failed. More pain trying to read the hidden error log and then even more when the error turned out to be something I didn't understand! So put everything back as it was before I started editing (years of painful experience has taught me to copy things before hacking), and Ghost still refuses to restart - Liz has no blog!

In desperation try a reboot. All is good. Try once more and replace the original file with the edited one, this time Ghost restarts without a blink. Go figure? I think it must have been some SSH connection error due to the campsite's internet previously.

Still it is good to know that I can do basic reconfiguration of the website remotely via a phone, even if it is fraught!

The other time absorber in the van is weaving. Being in Ireland it has to be green and Celtic as the theme for my bookmarks