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Title: Forum problems
Post by: on March 04, 2007, 01:33:02 pm
Chocadmin, I am experiencing problems with the new forum. I cannot upload images from my hard drive.  Holding down the control key makes no difference, I don't have a pop-up blocker.  Also I can only see half of some people's posts, they just finish in mid air.  I have a Netscape browser and it migjht not be compatible with the new forum.  This means that I can't read what people are saying and will not be able to reply.  I can do it from work but not very often.  So it's bye bye Bounty.   bounty hunter2007-03-04 13:38:05
Title: Forum problems
Post by: smurfboy on March 04, 2007, 01:51:12 pm
See you in a few days disguised as a lesbian then!
Title: Forum problems
Post by: on March 04, 2007, 03:35:29 pm
I notice now that some posts are condensed into their own window with a scroll bar.  Perhaps, I'm not done after all.  I'm not going to do the lesbian thing again.  I'm a reformed character.  Chocadmin doesn't want any naughties.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: chocadmin on March 04, 2007, 05:17:37 pm
Well I don't mind a bit of naughties as long as it's in good taste Wink
I'll compare the differences between the old version of the forum and the new and see if I can hack something in between.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: kevvosa on March 04, 2007, 09:58:23 pm

What sort of images do you want to upload bounty?
kevvosa2007-03-04 21:58:37
Title: Forum problems
Post by: smurfboy on March 04, 2007, 09:59:36 pm
Perhaps it's best we don't know...
Title: Forum problems
Post by: on March 05, 2007, 10:00:59 am
Relevant ones like the lunar eclipse. I told you I'm a reformed character
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 05, 2007, 10:02:15 am
Its Big and RED Wink
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on March 05, 2007, 11:17:56 am
Quote from: bounty hunter
I cannot upload images from my hard drive. Holding down the control key makes no difference, I don't have a pop-up blocker.



 

That's the problem I was having. I am at work (a university) and we have IE not netscape.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: on March 05, 2007, 11:24:26 am
No, I have Netscape that's the problem. But why wasn't it a problem with the old forum.  I'm really pissed off that I can't partake in the forum properly.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 05, 2007, 11:32:34 am
fire fox can't do it nirther
Title: Forum problems
Post by: kevvosa on March 05, 2007, 12:20:26 pm

Quote from: bounty hunter
 I'm really pissed off that I can't partake in the forum properly.


Patience is a virtue.

Anyway I'm sure there's plenty of other forums where you can post pics of the eclipse.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: chocadmin on March 05, 2007, 04:42:54 pm
It's probably the IFRAME in the image upload that's causing problems (it enables you to view images you've previously uploaded). I'll take it out later tonight.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 05, 2007, 09:54:20 pm

You can upload pic and everything else But THIS can only be done Via the EDIT Buttom

M

6230582007-03-05 21:55:29
Title: Forum problems
Post by: chocadmin on March 06, 2007, 12:06:01 am
Ok I've removed the image preview bit, mebbe that'll help things?
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on March 06, 2007, 08:25:08 am
Unfortunately still not working for me, I get:
 


HTTP 500 - Internal server error
Internet Explorer


Is it talking about the server here (my work) or the server there (in chocolate review) sorry I don't really know what it means Confused
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 06, 2007, 12:31:27 pm
nope
but yuo can still do it via edit

Title: Forum problems
Post by: chocadmin on March 06, 2007, 12:58:48 pm
Strange. OK I'll get the Mrs to give it a go. Must be a permission issue or something. Ermm
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 06, 2007, 12:59:53 pm
does your wife control the forum> Smile
Title: Forum problems
Post by: smurfboy on March 06, 2007, 07:05:31 pm
I think he means there are certain things admin can do that general users can't - therefore if Mrs Choc can do something using her account, the rest of us should be able to.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: chocadmin on March 06, 2007, 09:51:42 pm
Absolutely right smurfy.
She's getting the 'no permission' error so I'll try and track that down.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: chocadmin on March 06, 2007, 10:36:48 pm
OK, I've worked out some of the problems - I think.
There may still be issues with editing/deleting posts.

First - it seems the hosting provider is using clustered servers - this is good for performance but because some of my code is rather old it doesn't check that this is going on so in effect you can be instantly logged out. That's the cause of the occaisional permission error, only solution is to refresh the forum page (or depending on how you've setup your login you may need to relogin to the site).

Second - for some reason the author of the forum software changed the path that files were saved in (i.e. they weren't 'per user') I switched this back but because the author also added saving to a temp folder first this caused problems where a user hadn't previously uploaded anything. There were also some general issues mapping the path to files.

 

Long story short I think/hope the image upload is usable, if you get the permission error I'm sorry I'll try and come up with a quick solution to that problem over the coming weekend.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on March 07, 2007, 08:13:39 am

Yay!
Thanks Chocadmin Cool

 

[BTW that image was loaded from my hard disk not from a web adress]
Cherry_Ripe2007-03-07 08:14:21
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on March 07, 2007, 02:04:42 pm
Chocadmin, do you know why the forum deletes pound signs from posts?
Title: Forum problems
Post by: goldencup on March 07, 2007, 06:42:10 pm
It's 6.40 pm and I've now tried to post three times without success.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: goldencup on March 07, 2007, 06:42:54 pm
Quote from: goldencup
It's 6.40 pm and I've now tried to post three times without success.

 

Yet that particular post went through instantly! Confused
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 07, 2007, 07:06:51 pm
I now get this repile!


 
 
 
 
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Title: Forum problems
Post by: chocadmin on March 07, 2007, 09:15:36 pm
Probably due to the server clustering thats going on. I don't know why the forum is affected (perhaps its because of my login code which isn't written to cope with server clusters). gc did you get the access denied message like 623?
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 07, 2007, 10:05:26 pm
and what this all about??/

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Title: Forum problems
Post by: loulou on March 07, 2007, 10:42:03 pm
I think it's a recipe 623.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: goldencup on March 07, 2007, 10:42:44 pm
Chocadmin already explained what that was all about.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: loulou on March 07, 2007, 10:47:11 pm
Yes a recipe for a pie.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 11, 2007, 03:38:42 pm
A quick Reply can;t do it

BUT clicking on the POst reply buttom can?

Title: Forum problems
Post by: goldencup on March 13, 2007, 01:14:57 pm
Not really a problem but just wondered why we get so many more guests on the new forum?  As I write, I am the only member on here but there are 17 guests!  I find it quite intimidating.
Title: Forum problems
Post by: chocadmin on March 13, 2007, 10:40:50 pm
It's probably search engines. They were always there on the old version of the forum but it didn't list them as such. I've added a file to the site to tell search engines not to index the forum but it could take as much as a month for them to realise this and stop indexing it.
If the number of guests hasn't gone down in another week or so I'll look up how to get the offending search engines to specifically reindex the whole site, which will force them to look at the file that tells them not to look at the forum - if that makes sense.

Also we do have plenty of guest users who browse the site and may or may not have an account (the 17k+ page views per day can't all be those of us with logins Wink).
Title: Forum problems
Post by: goldencup on March 14, 2007, 08:43:58 am
I appreciate there were always lots of guests browsing and I wouldn't like to put anybody off from joining our happy throng but at the moment there are 23 of them and I feel like Big Brother is watching me, just waiting for my next post!  
Title: Forum problems
Post by: chocadmin on March 14, 2007, 09:22:53 pm
Consider that your audience Tongue (most are still search engines tho)