Once in a while there is a service upgrade on the platform where we have our website located and the services that come along with it. Our website is hosted by Hostgator, and we are usually quite happy with them.
Now they have decided to upgrade the PHP interpreter. PHP is a language used to write very complicated stuff, like you can do with languages like C++. WordPress sites, like this one, are using PHP. WordPress is maintained by some open source organization, and so they take care of it. Normally, WordPress upgrades are handled seamlessly. It was not a problem for this very site that you’re reading this now.
Our forum was a little different. But we re-deployed the newer software to a different location, and mapped the database to the one already established. So the forum is now located in forum.webrailroader.com instead of webrailroader.com/forum (so in a subdomain instead of a plain folder), and a redirect is in place to guide you from the old place to the new place.
The manual for the CTC software is a different story. It is also a wordpress site, but it is heavily peppered with our own PHP code, which creates the nice linkages between the pages. Now the theme used for this site as well as the plugins used to make our scheme work haven’t been updated for quite some time. The PHP code that we wrote have been updated, so the interaction between the CTC program and the services on the website seem to work, so whatever you do in CTC, including reviewing what you have bought, or initiate a purchase should work (including the confirmation page on the web). So that is fine. The only thing missing is the manual.
We are working hard to make the manual working again. In the meantime download links are provided in our relocated forum here:
https://forum.webrailroader.com/index.php?topic=11602.0ly
Your WebRailRoader Team