3426 Lady Dirge Sings The Blues
Okay code people. I need your brains.
On my screens at least, I’ve lost the logo. It’s been gone for a long time. Just above the header bar there’s a little broken jpg symbol and for some time now I’ve been trying to fix it. Now, I’m not a coder, I’ve been using the WordPress theme customizer and it’s not working for me. There’s a ‘change logo’ tab that allows me to select a new logo jpg and -theoretically- replace the one that’s there now. But switching images does nothing. I’ve checked the code from the broken jpg image and -despite having been changed several times in the customizer- it’s still calling the old logo. Weird thing is, looking at my FTP client, the image it’s trying to call is still there where it’s trying to call it from. So I don’t know a) why it’s not showing up. b)why it won’t accept new information which, according to the code in the customizer, appears to be trying to insert the new and proper image code like it’s supposed to.
I’ve even gone to the wayback machine and checked the code on the old snapshots where the logo is still showing up properly, and it’s not changed at all (except that it’s rerouted through its own archives instead of calling the image from my own web space).
I’m stumped and unqualified to start rewriting this. Any ideas what might cause it to bork?
-Rich “BK” “Not a code guy” Morris.
****EDIT*****
OKay so I did a bit more poking and thinking based on your wonderfully helpful comments and I’m concluding that the problem IS indeed the certificate change, and the security addition of the s at the end of fttp. Back when we uploaded the original graphics and things YAFGC was an http:// site and just a few years ago WordPress shut me down until I’d updated my site to httpS://.
The change indeed appears to matter on some browsers and not others. Because, like a lot of you, I have no problem seeing the title graphic in something like Microsoft Edge (which I refuse to use regularly) and it’s broken in Chrome (which I use regularly).
I have tried removing the logo and uploading a different one, which didn’t work because the code is set in the interface of WordPress that I’m using. I can’t just opening the site and code it because I haven’t got a freakin’ clue what I’m doing. There’s simply waaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaayyyy too much of it to sift through to find that one little thing. So the problem is basically WordPress’ interface. Oddly anywhere else on the site I make edits and upload images (like the thumbnail I made for the Fang game) are not a problem. It’s JUST that one logo spot at the top of the page. The one I was hoping to modify at the end of this chapter.
I guess the next step is to try to contact WordPress and explain to them what’s going on. Thank you for your help people! You’re the best!
-Rich “BK” Morris
SOOJ!!!! SQUEEEEE!!! I know that Tricky Pixie!
Huh! It actually HAS been six months lol
SOOJ! Yeay! So happy to see she’s been added to the cast!
Please elaborate, where is she from?
Unless I’m mistaken, Sooj is S.J. Tucker, a real-life friend and collaborator of Heather Dale (who, in turn, is the inspiration for Lady Marion of Heatherdale.)
Rich recently linked a project ("Krampus Loves Music") that he, Heather, and Sooj worked on together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6inCx5R3k
Came back to YAFGC after years away (mental health issues, not the quality of the comic). Can’t say how happy it makes me to see you still going!
Welcome back! I hope you’re doing better.
Elves take as long as it needs to take, and well, our dear Lady has all the time she wants. Even if it tests Bens patience.
1. It is nice that John is still with them.
2. I do not know how such longlived people handle grieve. I know I would go mad after a few hundred years.
I’m already mad and I’m only 27, it depends on the person.
"Putting up with lots of crap" is Ben’s divine *job description and title*, and * he* thinks Lady Marion’s being unreasonable?
Sounds like the universe is resetting itself just fine. 😀
I think "grumbling about having to put up with lots of crap" is also part of that job description :p
Aha!
Time-relative exposition inserted smoothly and organically as relevant emphasis for a line of dialogue!
Nicely done.
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"As you know, Ensign, we were assigned to this sector to guard the neutral zone and, as everybody knows, the Romulans are bad guys…."
"Yes, I know my mother died in a car accident five years ago and that I’ve been in and out of therapy, and you’re my brother whose been with me through it all…"
Oh, yes.
Cordelia’s first line in every single episode of Angel.
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Codey-ish-person here, the technical term you’re looking for is "favicon". It shows up fine on my browser at present, but the file is saved for a long time and might not be up to date.
I would make sure the problem is affecting others, as the image may break or even have another webpage’s logo if your browser has an error, even if the site itself is having no issues. Refreshing the image on your end may not be easy, so if tutorials don’t work I’d advice checking the site with another browser.
It seems to be inconsistent. Some people see it others don’t. Are you sure I’m thinking of the favicon? I thought that was the little tiny Beholder King head that appears in the address bar. That seems to be working just fine. It’s the "Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic" logo that’s broken just above the menu bar.
I checked the site on my phone and that’s also broken.
I can’t see the logo at the top of the page, either. The little beholder on the tab is fine.
I can see the name logo (with the fancy corner artwork?), but not the address icon (that might be because of using and old browser, let me try a couple others)
{EDIT} can see the logo on IE, can see the URL icon on Chrome, can see both on Firefox
I am looking at it on computer via Chrome, and the logo is missing for me. Those that still see it fine may have it cached on their system, so keep that in mind.
I just cleared my cache and I can still see the header logo!
Weird, inconsistent bugs are the toughest to fix. 🙁
I wish I could help you with the logo. I am no web designer though. All I can tell you is that it has been the little broken image icon for me for a long time as well. *no help, I know*
On the comic itself, at least we have confirmation that despite the great battle, they survived, and appear to still be immortals (though only time will really tell for that). I love that Ben stays with Lady Marion, despite all the annoyances, and is the one constant undying friend for her in a world that must appear to flash by from her perspective. He may be cranky, but I really love him for that.
Thank you for all the stories Rich. 🙂
Hmm, Mr. Morris would have sounded better… Ah, well… ‘Great and Powerful Beholder King’!
Unhelpfully the quote in my head: "She’s a bass."
Likewise, on my Windows PC, using Firefox as my browser, the logo is the broken jpg symbol. However on both my iPhone and iPad, using Safari, the logo is there. I hope that might give the expert coders out there a clue about how to solve the problem.
Windows PC with Firefox here too, but I can see the logo just fine. Weird.
To add on to the browser fun, the logo ("Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic" in fancy text) shows up just fine on chrome and firefox in linux and on safari on my iphone. I’d happily poke at it more if I could repro the issue, but all I can really say is "works on my machine".
It’s hard to diagnose something like this without poking through the site’s code, but the inconsistent behavior on different browsers suggests a few things.
1. Check file names and paths for capitalization. Some browsers and operating systems are case-sensitive while others are not.
2. The site code might use javascript code that is interpreted differently depending on the browser, or uses javascript functions that don’t work in all browsers.
The pixies picked a shoe? Pixies got shoe trees?
Now if you’ll excuse me, before Ben can start using his axe, I’m going to make a hasty retreat for the exit. 😀
Heheh, indeed!
Well, shoe trees are a thing in Xanth.
And on my mac, the logo is broken in Chrome, but visible in both Firefox and Safari. Definitely a browser/platform-dependent thing. To deepen the mystery, if I right-click the broken image in Chrome, and choose "Open Image in New Tab", then Chrome loads and displays yafgctextbanner1.png just fine…though it does mark that page as "Not Secure" in the top bar, which it doesn’t do for your main page.
I think the problem might be with your SSL certificates. When I pull up the javascript console in Chrome, I see several red warnings, one of which is:
"Failed to load resource: yafgctextbanner1.png:1 net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID"
That last bit, from my limited understanding of Web design stuff, usually has to do with expired/missing/inadequate SSL certificates. Sadly, I don’t know the next step; what I’ve told you so far is already over my depth on this stuff. But here’s a site that might help?
https://blog.hubspot.com/website/fix-ssl-certificate-error
Good luck wrestling the web demons!
(Oops; meant the above to be a reply to T-Chall’s browser thread.)
mucat hit the nail on the head. Namely, the location where the image is hosted uses a different SSL certificate than the actual webcomic page does.
This is the error that is gotten:
1. SSL Certificate Not Trusted Error
This error indicates that the SSL certificate is signed or approved by a company that the browser does not trust. That means either the company, known as the certificate authority, is not on the browser’s built-in list of trusted certificate providers or that the certificate was issued by the server itself. Certificates issued by the server are often referred to as self-signed certificates.
Indeed, inspecting the certificate where the image is hosted reveals it is self-signed – both issued by and issued to ‘sni.dreamhost.com’
In contrast, the space where the bulk of the website and the images of the comics themselves are is issued by Cloudflare Inc ECC CA-3.
Basically, either reupload the image where the rest of your stuff is that has the trusted certificate, or replace the certificate if you actually own that old space, and that should fix it up. 🙂
Indeed, I note the link to the header is an HTTP link (not HTTPS), and to http://wordpress.yafgc.net rather than https://www.yafgc.net (as, say, the strip image URLs use). I note that rules for both cross-site and HTTP/HTTPS mixed content in many browsers have hardened over the last year, and I suspect the problem may be related to this.
My immediate thought would be to change the header image link from http://wordpress.yafgc.net to https://www.yafgc.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/yafgctextbanner1.png, and see if a hard page refresh clears up the problem.
Changing it on Chrome Developer Tools works. But notice that it’s not actually the same image.
"Many browsers hardened" … meaning, the behaviour is different not only based on browsers name but also exact version.
But yes, the correct solution is definitely to use https://www.yafgc.net/ … also, yes, the yafgc.net version contains "new reader click here" while the wordpress.yafgc.net one doesn’t.
Are all your widgets, gadgets and stuff fully up to date on WordPress? Have you updated the latest version? That can affect images sometimes, I’ve found, on the 3 WordPress account/web sites I manage. It’s the WP equivalent of "Did you turn it off and back on again?"
Regarding the missing image: it is linked to https://wordpress.yafgc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/yafgctextbanner1.png This seems to be the wrong destination. Should be https://www.yafgc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/yafgctextbanner1.png
Yea thats what i thought the issue might be too thats a super easy fix luckaly
So I’m actually a webdeveloper person, but not a wordpress person. I can say the problem is your SSL certificate.
https://yafgc.net is a secure connection.
The image is on https://wordpress.yafgc.net and this is not in your SSL certificate. So in most modern browsers the image won’t load because it is an unsecure connection in a secure webpage environment.
I think you have to extend your SSL certificate so it also covers your subdomain wordpress.yafgc.net. Or get the image without this subdomain. I have no idea how you can do that in wordpress…
If i had to guess somthing(probably wordpress) has borked the HTML code that tells browsers where to look for the logo so the site is looking in the wrong folder for the logo finding nothing that fits it gives the broken icon if you have software to look at and edit the code directly its a simple but tedius fix
Re your coding issue, one idea is to delete it, forcing the server to refresh then reuploading it with the correct permissions. It has to be readable for all users, and just needs to be writable for you and your admin.
From memory (it’s been over a decade) it’s the chmod command.
When you force yourself not to read for 140 pages so you can binge the battle. So glad I did. What a ride!! Amazing end, stunning godly backstory, and lovely heartfelt homecomings. Thank you for such an amazing journey Rich, I cant wait to see what the future holds for YAFGC
Hah! Thanks Tusk! Happy to have you reading! I’m pretty excited about what’s coming up soon! 😀