3:05 AM 9/13/02

I've fixed the problem on the file-upload/download page, for now. For some reason, and I am not sure why, the directory that held the mp3s was locked up. I even had to log in to my shell account and give myself permissions!

I am a CGI novice, and this website is a learning project for me. Eventually, I would like to have a well-organized site that serves to facilitate music trading online for a select (i.e., small and devoted) group of fanatics like us. Eventually, it would be nice to have a) a uniform file-naming scheme; b) uniform standards for encoding and ID3 tags; c) only one, high-quality mp3 for any given recording, rather than many of varying quality.

I have some ideas in mind that I think would be pretty cool, but I just don't have the programming skills to implement them yet. Fairly soon, I will put up a "requests" page, so we can take that discussion out of this forum.

Oh, hey, did I mention... I really am a CGI novice? I am having fun though. Does anything else matter? For now, I am going to try to find a ready-made script to do what I want to do, rather than try to write one from scratch.

This site is on a dedicated Apache web server on a T3 line. The server space is mine as long as I am a student. Download time is pretty much restricted by the speed of the connection on your side. Downtime should be negligible. (Before, I was running an "unauthorized" FTP/HTTP server from my desktop. If I rebooted, the server went down.)

Theoretically, I have a disk quota of 40-something MB. However, I haven't received any nasty e-mails from the administration yet. So long as traffic is not TOO heavy, it won't attract much notice. At some point we may need to move some material to another site.

(Edited by khautala at 7:31 am on Sep. 14, 2002)