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Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:30 pm**

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum.

But, while searching for the TNM's walkthrough I encountered a problem: TNM's Wiki, along with the walkthrough and pretty much everything else is down due to a database error. What's worse, because someone used robots.txt to repel off the search engines and the Internet Archive, there is no cached copy of the walkthrough anywhere! And I kinda need it now...

So what do?

The full error message is reproduced below:

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A database error has occurred
Query: SELECT value,exptime FROM `objectcache` WHERE keyname='otp_tnmwiki:stats:request_without_session'
Function: MediaWikiBagOStuff::_doquery
Error: 1146 Table 'otp_tnmwiki.objectcache' doesn't exist (mysql.offtopicproductions.com)

Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:32 pm**

Yeah it's been down for a while. Database was destroyed by spam bots.

Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:08 pm**

Was the entire database with all tables destroyed or are there only some tables missing?

Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:32 pm**

So it's gone for good?

Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:59 pm**

No idea. OiNutter used to handle these things for us, but like the rest of us, he got a life and stopped having time for that kind of thing.

Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 6:05 pm**

Aw, man. It'd be good if there were even a plain text copy of the stuff. New screenshots can always be taken, but the text was unique.

Shows how destructive robots.txt can be, if used in the wrong place

Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:15 pm**

Check out this thread: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=11927

Posted: **Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:06 pm**

bjorn98009_91 wrote:Check out this thread: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=11927

Okay, that worked, I got the PDF. Thanks!

It would have worked even earlier had Dropbox not been down for hours (I don't know exactly how long it was down, but it sure felt like hours). So much for the "cloud".

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