{"id":134,"date":"2008-02-20T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/wpblog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2018-03-03T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:23:46","slug":"web-filter-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/web-filter-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Filter Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, the web filtering software stopped working. The service wouldn&#8217;t start, complaining about some sort of database error.<\/p>\n<p>So I went through the process of creating a new database, and it the service still wouldn&#8217;t start. Tried that several times, no joy. Deleted the new databases, recreated them with different names, still no joy.<\/p>\n<p>By this time it was 440pm, and a call to the tech support line went unanswered, as they close at 500pm. I tried several other tricks, but still no joy.<\/p>\n<p>The database exists on the SQL server. The web filter server shows connections to the database (with a NETSTAT command), but the service still won&#8217;t start.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m toying with the idea of removing and reinstalling the web filter program. Or rebuilding the SQL server.  But that won&#8217;t happen until tomorrow morning. I could do it from home, but too tired to go through the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I want to see what the vendor tech support tries to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, the web filtering software stopped working. The service wouldn&#8217;t start, complaining about some sort of database error.<\/p>\n<p>So I went through the process of creating a new database, and it the service still wouldn&#8217;t start. Tried that several times, no joy. Deleted the new databases, recreated them with different names, still no joy.<\/p>\n<p>By this time it was 440pm, and a call to the tech support line went unanswered,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/web-filter-dies\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Web Filter Dies &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}