Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged server

New feature: Add a multi-select option in challenge-maps (to allow selecting multiple states within 1 country)

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:06:51 +0000

Hi, my specific issue was discussed back in 2023 at Map of Challenge Checkers hanging in some cases when requesting all of United States - PGC freezes when asking for a maps of challenge caches from the entire U.S. The only way to get the entire U.S. is to do 51 separate state-by-state searches. A couple of us discussed possible solutions, including:

Activate the multi-state selection capability on the map page, to allow me to click on more than one state at a time. If I am traveling to one part of a country, I would like to be able to do one search covering multiple states (rather than 10 or 20 separate searches). If one can create multi-state maps, anyone can can keep all searches under the current server capacity limits.

While this capability is a critical need in the U.S., it would also be very valuable for any cacher traveling through their own country or to other countries. [For the US, a very inelegant and single-country stop-gap measure would be to create a somewhat arbitrary country of "United States (Western States)" and "United States (Eastern States)" to essentially divide the US into two pieces.]

Would love to get a sense of whether others would value the multi-state capability. Thanks, bejs

Map of Challenge Checkers hanging in some cases when requesting all of United States

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:34:34 +0000

Hi, I travel lots and have for a number of years kept track of essentially all challenges in the U.S. Every 6 months or so would use the Map of Challenge Checkers to download GPX files of 1) caches without checkers, 2) caches with checkers where we fulfill the requirements, 3) caches with checkers where we do NOT fulfill the requirements, and 4) caches with checkers where the map is not sure one way or another (exclude is checked for both fulfilled and not fulfilled). Today, I have been able to run 1) and 4), but whenever I try to run 2) or 3), the server just hangs with a blank screen. I have attempted this on Windows, MacOS, and Android devices, with various browsers. Once I received a 500 error from the server, but every other time, the screen just hangs.

Does this reflect a issue with the server, and if so, where is the best way to report what could be a real time server issue? Or, possibly, does this reflect a new capacity limitation on the number of challenges that can be mapped? In the past, I have done exactly what I am trying today, and there is no error message, so it seems more likely to be some server issue? Any info would be appreciated

internal server error

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:23:43 +0000

Startconditions: Browser loads "https://project-gc.com/"

Now if the "Inbox" link is cliked (https://project-gc.com/User/Messages) while the session is in unauthenticated state, the server throws an "Internal server error { ....... }"

The error is reproducable.

Internal server error (5acf835e08ff51.46178701)

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:06:56 +0000

I am getting an internal server error on every page with the exception of the QA forum.

Internal server error (5acf835e08ff51.46178701)

The page loaded and asked me to authenticate my geocaching account. I clicked to do that, which took me to the geocaching site. I then clicked agree to authorize it. After that, I get a server error on the project-gc main page and any other project-gc page I try to navigate to through a google search.