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2 years ago
The ZIP file doesn’t seem to be opening on my Mac. It says it’s not compressed or encoded. Could you doublecheck to see if it opens for you?
2 years ago
It does indeed uncompress…
<pre>
[root@chewbacca prank]#unzip -l /web/shokk/downloads/prank.zip
Archive: /web/shokk/downloads/prank.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
0 01-30-07 11:36 ernieoporto/
0 01-30-07 18:21 ernieoporto/prank/
4424 01-30-07 18:21 ernieoporto/prank/class.php
218 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr1.gif
236 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr10.gif
221 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr2.gif
225 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr3.gif
226 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr4.gif
229 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr5.gif
227 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr6.gif
226 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr7.gif
229 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr8.gif
232 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/pr9.gif
156 01-30-07 11:37 ernieoporto/prank/print.gif
213 01-30-07 12:27 ernieoporto/prank/pr0.gif
6934 01-30-07 18:18 ernieoporto/prank/pagerank.php
0 01-30-07 18:23 ernieoporto/prank/cache/
-------- -------
13996 17 files
</pre>
2 years ago
Doesn’t uncompress for me either. Using latest version of Safari on the latest version of OS X.
2 years ago
No go here on OS X:
<pre>$ unzip prank.zip
Archive: prank.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of prank.zip or
prank.zip.zip, and cannot find prank.zip.ZIP, period.</pre>
2 years ago
I don’t have a Mac for testing, so if anyone wants to donate one… =)
Anyway, I’ve made a new one in the same location, only using Windows instead of Red Hat to make the zip file. Please let me know if this one is any better.
2 years ago
Still no go here in Safari or Firefox.
2 years ago
Let’s try something different: http://www.shokk.com/downloads/prank.tar.gz
2 years ago
OK I’ve updated prank.zip to version 1.01 to include some fixes and the prNA.gif. I’ve also added the preferences pane to allow you to change the cache time. Same URL as before for the zip file. Anyone having trouble with the zip can get the tar.gz version from the above link.
2 years ago
Decompression is still failing on the new ZIP and the TAR.GZ file.
2 years ago
Download never completes, hence it wont decompress. Maybe the original is corrupt.
2 years ago
Doesn’t work for me eather!
2 years ago
Same Effect for me. After the download is complete it fails to unpack (either zip or tarball). I’m using firefox 2 and winrar on WIN2000 and never had any problem like this
2 years ago
maybe the link is broken?
2 years ago
Yes, I am seeing the archive show as invalid now that I check from work. I’ll find another way to distribute this to everyone.
2 years ago
Fixed! Seems to have been a problem with the DLoads pepper. I was still on 0.70 for some reason and just updated it to 0.72. Still no help.
I’ve changed it over to Download Counter for tracking and verified that it’s all working again. Sorry for the download trouble, guys.
2 years ago
Got it installed. Now the page rank image is not displaying. Just the ? for missing image. If I try to click and open that image in a new window, the address it shows is http://www.myaddress.com/mint/pepper/ernieoporto/prank/prNA.gif
I noticed that in your file, prNA is a jpg instead of a gif.
However, I know that some of pages have ranks. Surely everything shouldn’t be listed as NA. :(
Thanks for releasing this by the way. Cool idea. I’m sure the kinks will be ironed out shortly.
2 years ago
Okay, I think I see what the issue is with the page rank. I think I have google set up to prefer my site listed as www.mysite.com, but mint is stripping the www out of all the links so that what you are checking is mysite.com. Whereas www.mysite.com ends up with a paltry 2, mysite.com gets a 0.
2 years ago
Yep, can’t decompress either on a Mac, using various different utilities. Can you compress it with some other program?
2 years ago
Smacks forehead.
OK I changed the jpg to a gif.
Version number is up to 102.
Please look into adding something like the following to your web site’s root .htaccess so that anyone going to mysite.com gets redirected to www.mysite.com. This is a known SEO issue.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..* [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,NC]
or
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomainname\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomainname/$1 [R=permanent,L]
2 years ago
http://no-www.org/
Check it out. Maybe you’ll learn something.
WWW is evil! Don’t support it!
2 years ago
And version 1.03 is now up to fix a problem that collided with Fresh Mint and probably broke a lot of other things.
2 years ago
Does it work with Mint 2?
2 years ago
Don’t know yet. I have a Mint 2 license, but I haven’t installed it yet as I’m waiting for more bug fixes and conversions of current peppers. It never hurts to install it and find out.
2 years ago
This seems to be working perfectly fine with my Mint 2 installation :) Will let you know if anything goes wrong..
2 years ago
I have had this installed on my Mint 2 for a few days now. Every page has the NA graphic, even though the site is over a year old and I know all the pages are top ranked. Any ideas what could be causing this, or how I could fix it?
Please bear in mind I know squat about the under-the-hood workings of this internet thing. Installing Mint was a confusing foray into the unknown for me. I have no idea what an htaccess is, what it does, or which way up I would have to hold it to make it work.
Is there anything simple I can do to get this working?
Thanks in advance for any help, and for making this pepper!
2 years ago
I also get an NA graphic for each page on Mint 2. Not sure what is up with this pepper…
2 years ago
Thanks for the reply Ernie, but I tried unchecking the “Trim www and index.* from urls”, but it made no difference.
I’d love to try the htaccess thing, but like I said, I have no idea what that is, what it does, and where I’d find it. I know almost nothing about the code side of webmastering. I can mess around with CSS, make a site look pretty much how I want, but when it comes to databases, php, htaccess, (whatever the heck those things are), I am literally clueless. You might as well be speaking Japanese!
Can you tell me where this htaccess thing is, and exactly what I need to do to it?
Thanks. :)
2 years ago
Make sure that the box “Trim www and index.* from urls” is unchecked. Your site is likely indexed for www.site.com and not site.com. Believe it or not, these are two different things. This is a known issue for SEO folks, so to make sure that your site is indexed properly, see my comments above about adding a couple of lines to your .htaccess file.
2 years ago
Use the page at this site to check www.site.com and site.com for the pagerank. Likely you will find one or the other does not have a pagerank.
http://www.pagerankprediction.com/
htaccess is a file, actually called “.htaccess” that can be placed somewhere on the web server to alter the behavior of the server. In this case, I recommend that it be placed at the root of the site with the lines indicated within the file so that attempts to go to site.com are redirected to include the www.site.com part. This is really more for indexing purposes these days - no one thinks of www.google.com, but instead just google.com. But the indexes can still come to www.site.com and that might be what Google knows the site as for its pagerank. Once that is in place it can take some time for Google’s pagerank scoring to adjust for your site.
2 years ago
Thanks for the explanation Ernie.
I created a file called .htaccess consisting of just the code you posted earlier, and put it in the root of my site. I don’t know if it’s made ay difference, because my Prank is exactly the same as it was (all pages showing NA graphics), and it’s now a couple of days later. The predicter site says that most of my pages are rank 5 or thereabouts. Assuming this has worked, how long do you think it would be before I should see a change?
2 years ago
What is the URL of the site you are checking?
2 years ago
www.ozzdesign.com
My Mint is in in open mode too, so you can go see:
http://www.ozzdesign.com/mint/
2 years ago
OK, so as I figured, ozzdesign.com itself has a pagerank of zero, while www.ozzdesign.com has a pagerank of 4. Having just unchecked the “trim www.” you won’t see those pages coming up yet - so far they have all been trimmed going into the database. Most of your traffic is coming to URLs like http://ozzdesign.com/SnapShooter/SnapShooter.php so you can see that they will all appear as N/A right now.
After having done the .htaccess changes, you want to test that it is working correctly. Go to ozzdesign.com and make sure that your browser is redirected to www.ozzdesign.com. If so, then you are all set and you have to sit back and wait. If not, you should talk with your hosting service to make sure they have not turned that off.
Google’s spiders take between one and two weeks to notice a change, so you may not see this change for some time. Keep an eye on it and you will see the URLs begin to gain their rightful pagerank.
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Can you take a screenshot and email it to me? Or post it on your site and post the URL in reply here?
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http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictiona... has a pagerank of 5 and http://doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/gfe/ has a pagerank of 0.
If Mint has doubletongued.org as the domain for that URL in its database, then you will get a 0. I can't assume to put www at the front of the URL because there are too many cases where you could have any subdomain involved.
It is best for the Pepper to handle the general case where you use the .htaccess redirect described above to cover any inconsistencies.
2 years ago
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2 years ago
Can you copy and paste the displayed URLs from the Prank list into an email and shoot it my way?
2 years ago
From what Grant says, he is following the rules for jiving with Google's service. Yours is more of a personal preference for not following those rules, so this is not going to work for you.
2 years ago
It has two new debug checkboxes. One will display the info in a tooltip, the other in text within the pepper display. The former is neater but will not display the whole URL due to tooltip length limits. The latter is messier, but displays the whole URL. Let me know if there is something wrong with the URL being requested or if you are still seeing the issue.