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[MagicalMaster]

It lets you onto the vault as if nothing happened.

 

1. Open My Computer
2. Click on the C drive
3. Click on the Windows folder
4. Click on the System32 folder
5. Click on the drivers folder
6. Click on the etc folder
7. At this point you should see a file called "hosts" (without the quotes)
8. Open the file
9. Edit the hosts by adding "69.10.25.55 nwvault.ign.com" (without the quotes) at the bottom
10. Save the file
11. Restart browser (may be able to skip this step)
12. Should be good to go

 

Your hosts file should NOT be "hosts.txt" it should just be "hosts"

 

Note for folks having trouble: Vista and upwards requires the program editing the hosts file to have elevated privileges. To do this, right click on whatever program you wish to edit the hosts file with and select "Run as administrator" from the context menu. From there, you can navigate to the location from the program's own Open dialog box.

[Squatting Monk]

Worked fine for me, and I didn't have to restart my browser.

Note for folks having trouble: Vista and upwards requires the program editing the hosts file to have elevated privileges. To do this, right click on whatever program you wish to edit the hosts file with and select "Run as administrator" from the context menu. From there, you can navigate to the location from the program's own Open dialog box.

[HipMaestro]

Worked fine for me, and I didn't have to restart my browser.

Note for folks having trouble: Vista and upwards requires the program editing the hosts file to have elevated privileges. To do this, right click on whatever program you wish to edit the hosts file with and select "Run as administrator" from the context menu. From there, you can navigate to the location from the program's own Open dialog box.

 

Finally! Sweet, El Squatto!  Perhaps MM could link your post into his since he listed the full sequence.  Running on XP I would never have realized this fact (but who knows what the future has in store for this ancient box).  Will certainly save non-XP users some teeth gnashing fer sure.

[MagicalMaster]

Done.

[omen_shepperd]

 

So are they going to fix it, kill it, ignore it?

 

Figures.  My kid had just gotten into PrC, for all the extra classes, and I had just figured out how the whole PrC3.5 - CEP2.4 system works, had found two mods to set up, two, wanted to put up many many more, and then *poof* gone like disco.

 

I looked through the whole router thing by FP, but that stuff is Greek to me.  I'm just a user.  I was a lawyer, not a software engineer.  Besides it looked a little legal.  Then again, I bought a better modem just for Napster, back in the day.  *evil grin*

 

When NWConnections died, it was a slow painful death, like cancer, and I know what that is like.  This was more getting hit by a truck.  The paramedics claim they can see a heartbeat, but anyone can see on the road that there's a lot of blood....

 

You can still get some of the PRC mods on the vault, if you need some links to some mods let me know I will gladly get those for you. I also Love using the PRC and CEP together and currently I am working on the old Legends of Chance mod which I will be including both the PRC and CEP into, I will be making an effort to get a team together to try and get this mod up and running sooner. But if i can help you get mods you want let me know.

Modifié par omen_shepperd, 01 juillet 2014 - 04:29 .

[MagicalMaster]

Reply from IGN an hour ago:

 

Unfortunately, the all the Vault sites have been shut down and redirected. Some of the information can be found in the Wiki, but that's all the information I have. Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

Regards,

Adam Klein

Community and Billing Support

[Proleric]

Well, that really sounds final.

Migrating files to the new vault has ramped up considerably, but there's plenty of scope for everyone to join in, before the files are lost.

Pick a favourite entry on the old vault.
Search for the title on the new vault (to avoid duplication).
Add Content > Project
Fill in the form, copying the old vault content

You'll need to download the old screenshots and files before uploading, of course.
The Advanced screenshot option lets you drag them in one go, like the files.
Description pasting in IE is bugged, so use another browser + ctrl V (or open summary, switch to plain text, paste, switch to html, correct line feeds).

[AndarianTD]

Reply from IGN an hour ago:

 

All he's doing is telling us what we already know, and admitting that he doesn't know what's going on. Moreover, some of it is also wrong, because the Vault sites -haven't- been shut down; they've -only- been redirected. It sounds like this isn't someone who really knows whether this was a deliberate policy decision, let alone was involved in making it. I'll wait for something more substantial in the way of an announcement.

That's not to say we shouldn't redouble our efforts to stand up the new Vault in the meantime. Even if this turns out to have been a mistake, it still emphasizes how fragile the availability of the old Vault is becoming with time. It will go away sooner or later, so better that we be ready for it sooner rather than later.


 

[MagicalMaster]

All he's doing is telling us what we already know, and admitting that he doesn't know what's going on.

 

Further conversation is certainly seeming that way...

 

Me: Will the redirected Vaults continue to be available in the state they are now?

 

Him: I'm not sure what capacity they're actually available in, but the goal is to have the information incorporated into the Wikis.

 

Me: The goal is to take projects that sometimes take up over a gigabyte of space (though most are under 10 MB) and are available to download and incorporate that into a wiki somehow?  We're not talking about web pages, we're talking about everything from new campaigns, new tilesets, new creature models, scripting systems, etc.  How does that work in a wiki?

 

Him: The downloads likely won't be transferred over, because they take up so much server space.

 

Me: So how is *any* information being "incorporated" into the Wikis?  The entire point of the vault is the downloads.
 

Waiting on a response, only been about 10 minutes.  I'm only hoping that news of the problem might catch the attention of higher ups but this guy doesn't seem to know what's going on.

 

Funnily enough, it turns out IGN DOES have a "NWN wiki" that's completely pathetic.  Presumably the NWN Vault was supposed to link to that instead of the MMO thing.

 

P.S. Oh, and thanks for moving that guy's comments on the IGN site, he's an idiot.  It's not about defending IGN, it's about not making us look bad.

[AndarianTD]

Further conversation is certainly seeming that way...

 

Funnily enough, it turns out IGN DOES have a "NWN wiki" that's completely pathetic.  Presumably the NWN Vault was supposed to link to that instead of the MMO thing.

 

P.S. Oh, and thanks for moving that guy's comments on the IGN site, he's an idiot.  It's not about defending IGN, it's about not making us look bad.

 

Or perhaps -- I hope -- the actual intent was to redirect that NWN WIki to the same Wiki that the NWN MMORPG is on, and whoever got assigned the task didn't know what he was doing and redirected the wrong subdomain. That's what it's looked like to me all along. As I wrote on another forum:

If they really did intend to cut the Vault off, the least they could do would be to make an announcement rather than keep us guessing. That's one of the things that still makes me think this was a server configuration error. My (optimistic) guess is it was some noob in website support was told to redirect some other page about the NWN MMORPG to the Wiki, and couldn't tell the difference between it and the Vault.  

 

And you're welcome about the page edit. I had to restrain myself from editorializing further. Your comments were right on target. I was tempted to go back and restore them as well, but I figured you could do that if you wanted.

[MagicalMaster]

Would be interesting if you're correct on the actual intent.  Considering how little traffic the NWN wiki on IGN's site likely gets I could easily see that getting killed.  And yeah, the lack of announcement does seem very odd.

 

Regarding the page editing, I did just respond to that guy's comments down at the bottom -- but now that the initial outrage is over I don't think the (gentle) rejoinder near the top is needed.  Mainly had it near the top initially to hopefully give people pause from writing something they'd (hopefully) regret and that would make us look bad.

[HipMaestro]

Is this contact (the one ladling out the misinformation, I mean) familiar to any of you folks who have contacted IGN in past years? 

 

Seems to me like someone who was thrust into a position that they are ill-equipped to handle.  Usually, when a client has trouble communicating very basic ideas to a representative (or that agent is stumped by simple questions) it means reorganization has occurred, along with the fumbling around that is intrinsic to that sort of conversion if poorly-planned (or just totally ignored).  He's probably wearing his fire chief hat right now and it doesn't fit right.  However, I wouldn't assume there is any motive behind the cryptic replies.  He may just have been given one responsibility too many and is faking it best he can to hold on to his job.

 

Question related to the mirroring effort:

 

With the Vault still accessible enough to allow us to grab content, has anyone tried to upload any new version(s)?  Not that it would make much sense to do so, but I am wondering how many contributors may still not know about the redirect and are assuming it is business-as-usual for them and their projects.  The Vault might be revising occasionally. The reason I am curious is that others have already reported that they never did have an interruption of Vault access because they had changed their hosts file during the previous fiasco. If they never visited BSN they may not know even now that there is a problem until the legacy Vault goes *poof* altogether.

 

If the Vault is still operating normally, I don't know how feasible it is, but is there a way to alert all NWN contributors globally of the status who may have been away on some sort of sabbatical while this whole thing was going down?

[OldTimeRadio]

Is this contact (the one ladling out the misinformation, I mean) familiar to any of you folks who have contacted IGN in past years?

The person MagicalMaster posted that information from is unknown to me.  I haven't gotten a response from my contact yet.  Honestly, I usually give these things about a week before I ping them again although they've usually responded in a few hours.

[Nick The Noodle]

Is it possible to host a public FTP file server or something like that with all the old vault files? A lot of vault entries are not cached and therefore the download link cannot be accessed.

 

Perhaps I'm doing it wrong. I messed with host files before and I simply can't get it to work. Does adding the line let you go onto nwvault as if nothing happened, or does it just let you download from the download link at the vault entry? I saved the changes and restarted my browser but it did not work.

I can't get it to work either.

My hosts file has the fix, nut I still get rerouted to that MMO game.

I would be happy to just have NWN revamped with new graphics, and sold as such.

It was the peoples own modules that made the game a blast after all.

[Carcerian]

I just posted a ton of classic ones on new vault before the final failure of vnfiles.ign.com 

[HipMaestro]

Ummm...

 

I hope this is just my own personal gremlin acting up again, but I just tried to start my mirror-assist efforts and am getting http://nwvault.ign.c...ms/Download.php as currently unavailable (the first clue was that the background of the main frame was not loading).   The search and navigation seem okay but DLing isn't there.

 

I sure hope this doesn't mean what has been anticipated the last few days 

[werelynx]

If the Vault is still operating normally, I don't know how feasible it is, but is there a way to alert all NWN contributors globally of the status who may have been away on some sort of sabbatical while this whole thing was going down?

 Admin panel is dead and has been 1-2 weeks before the redirecting. As far as I know it is dead for Rolo as well.

Point: no news on the main page and NO NEW approvals of content, but we can try to monitor updated files and comment/migrate them.

[Fester Pot]

File hosting server has been shut down. Almost at the last gasp.

 

I'm not able to modify my home PC's hostfile right now. Anyone want to try this and add it to their hostsfile?

 

69.31.20.10 vnfiles.ign.com

 

FP!

[HipMaestro]

File hosting server has been shut down. Almost at the last gasp.

 

I'm not able to modify my home PC's hostfile right now. Anyone want to try this and add it to their hostsfile?

 

69.31.20.10 vnfiles.ign.com

 

FP!

 

Nada, FP.    Even more of if the background frames images are missing now.  It seems it is being shutdown piecemeal as of this AM.

 

The exact diagnostic I get is:

 

Service Unavailable - DNS failure
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.

Reference #11.6141f45.1404311755.543acd9

 

Sounds like DEAD IN THE WATER to me.  Rats!

[Proleric]

...Anyone want to try this and add it to their hostsfile?
 
69.31.20.10 vnfiles.ign.com
 
FP!

Good thought, but, unfortunately, it doesn't work.

I can get a text-only view of the main pages (albeit with very slow response), but downloads still fail.

I've put a link to the new vault on the wiki page that appears when hosts is unmodified.

[AndarianTD]

I'm seeing the same thing now as others. I agree that it looks like they're starting to dismantle the Vault infrastructure a piece at a time, and that prospects for its survival are taking are taking a turn for the grim.

 

I hadn't checked my email last night, but it looks like I got the same response from Mr. Klein to my IGN PMs that MagicalMaster did. Word for word. I'll probably try sending a response as well, though given current developments I suspect it may not be fruitful.

[MagicalMaster]

Yeah, I never got a response from him after

 

"Me: So how is *any* information being "incorporated" into the Wikis?  The entire point of the vault is the downloads."

[icywind1980]

Well that just sucks >_<

[NWN_baba yaga]

Why cant they just be HONEST and dont act like innocent idiots. It´s crystal clear that they screwed us all so why all this nonsense and just say how it is. That they give a ups yes we understand now and so we all know they just suck atm. Not the first time someone screwed the community so why not just end this childish humbug!

 

If we would be all little random kids from kindergarten ok you know kids are like that but not adults! It´s just a big big facepalm to me right now what ign does nothing more. Kiddy stuff for stupid people!

[AndarianTD]

I'm writing to Mr. Klein now. After that, there are other options. I'll keep everyone posted.