Website FAQ

There are multiple reasons why you may be having problems logging in.

• This site is hosted on two distinct servers and it is very difficult to synchronise user databases across multiple hosted webservers.
• www.gps.org.nz is hosted in New Zealand
• forums.gps.org.nz is hosted in the United States
• We use a number of different open source applications on the website - including Drupal, phpBB, Mediawiki and Gallery2. These serve different purposes, they have different user databases and not all users need to sign up to all applications. Indeed, most people will only need to sign up to the forums, and maybe the main Drupal site if they want to add comments to the articles, post weblinks etc

The website has a number of RSS feeds available.

The main website has two feeds that cover the new articles posted to the front page of the main website. These are accessible by the icons on the Terms and Feeds page. This also has links to other feeds available for the forums and wiki.

20061013: Corrected to reflect new website

The forums contain a wide range of links to external sites, starting from January 2003. Since those links were posted, many websites have been upgraded, changed or have otherwise disappeared and the link now longer points to the correct page. This is a problem that is mostly beyond our control.

Two sites that deserve more mention: -

• Stuff has a policy of expiring content after a few weeks so they can sell access to their archives. For this reason we recommend not linking to Stuff articles if you can find the content on another site.
• The New Zealand Herald maintains their articles online and is a preferable source for linking to news articles in the forums. Note that recently the Herald has updated their website so old links in the forums will turn up the Herald home page. The article still exists, so you may be able to find it by searching for keywords suggested in the forum posts.