# RPA wiki down/gone?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rpa-wiki-down-gone/79601>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 16, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rpa-wiki-down-gone/79601 "2006-12-16T22:47:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeremy_McAnally)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rpa-wiki-down-gone/79601/1 "2006-12-16T22:47:06Z")

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I just tried to get onto the Ruby Production Archive wiki, and it  
appears to have been removed or disabled somehow.

I knew they were having spam troubles for some time…does anyone know  
what happened? There’s a lot of good information on there, so if  
anyone happens to have a backup, I’d at least like to snag a copy of  
that from you. 🙂

Thanks,  
Jeremy

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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeremy_McAnally)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rpa-wiki-down-gone/79601/2 "2006-12-17T11:40:06Z")

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On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:46:15AM +0900, Jeremy McAnally wrote:

> I just tried to get onto the Ruby Production Archive wiki, and it  
> appears to have been removed or disabled somehow.
> 
> I knew they were having spam troubles for some time…does anyone know  
> what happened?

I recovered all the nodes I could, got rid of all the spam and made the  
wiki  
read-only some time ago, but…

> There’s a lot of good information on there, so if anyone happens to have a  
> backup, I’d at least like to snag a copy of that from you. 🙂

For some reason the UseModWiki CGI (/wiki/wiki.cgi) has been deleted (or  
maybe  
lost in one of Rubyforge’s frequent crashes?). It seems the wiki nodes  
are  
still there, but the webserver refuses to run the new CGI I just  
uploaded  
(or, for the matter, other CGIs that used to work before); looks like a  
change in Rubyforge’s configuration. I’m contacting the admins;  
hopefully you  
won’t have to wait too long.

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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeremy_McAnally)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rpa-wiki-down-gone/79601/3 "2006-12-18T01:11:41Z")

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On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:39:31PM +0900, Mauricio F. wrote:

> > There’s a lot of good information on there, so if anyone happens to have a  
> > backup, I’d at least like to snag a copy of that from you. 🙂
> 
> For some reason the UseModWiki CGI (/wiki/wiki.cgi) has been deleted (or maybe  
> lost in one of Rubyforge’s frequent crashes?). It seems the wiki nodes are  
> still there, but the webserver refuses to run the new CGI I just uploaded  
> (or, for the matter, other CGIs that used to work before); looks like a  
> change in Rubyforge’s configuration. I’m contacting the admins; hopefully you  
> won’t have to wait too long.

The wiki is back. Kudos go to Tom C. for his quick response.

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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeremy_McAnally)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rpa-wiki-down-gone/79601/4 "2006-12-18T01:19:43Z")

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Hey Mauricio,  
I had referenced a few pages a while back, but when trying to access  
them again while doing some work, I couldn’t get to them. Thanks for  
getting it back up and running!

–Jeremy