[Forum] vBulletin CMS Can't Configure Widgets

[wypman]

I have created some widgets in the vBulletin CMS, but when I click on configure in the Widget Manager Screen the browser window turns grey for a short period of time, then returns me to the Widgets Manager screen. I have tied this in both Firefox and EI and get the same thing happening.

How can configure the Widgets?

[PixelGal]

Same issue here after upgrading a site for someone else.

[Wayne Luke]

This is most likely a problem with your .htaccess files.

Try adding a line like this to your rewrite rules:

RewriteRule ^widget/config/([0-9]+) widget.php?r=config/$1&%{QUERY_STRING}

[digitalpoint]

I had the same issue, and it turned out it was because I had a CMS URL specified in the settings. Check your vBulletin settings under "Content Management" and see if you have "CMS URL" set to something other than blank (the default).

The problem is the Configure link is actually an AJAX request, and AJAX can't make requests to domains (or sub-domains) other than the domain it was started from. Since I had the CMS URL set to http://articles.digitalpoint.com, the underlying AJAX request was going to http://articles.digitalpoint.com/widget.php, which is illegal (as far as AJAX is concerned) since the AJAX request started from http://forums.digitalpoint.com

It's related to this bug report: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-6332

Ideally the vB_Route::getCurrentURL() method should not be forcing an absolute URL when it's using the call to build a URL for an AJAX request (maybe it needs a $aboslute_url = true) option in the function or something.

As a work-around, open up your admincp/cms_admin.php file, way down at the bottom, change this line:

$config_url = vB_Route::create('vBCms_Route_Widget', 'config/' . $widget->getID() . '/0')->getCurrentURL(); 

to this:

$config_url = str_replace(vB::$vbulletin->options['vbcms_url'], '', vB_Route::create('vBCms_Route_Widget', 'config/' . $widget->getID() . '/0')->getCurrentURL()); 

That will just strip whatever you have set in your CMS URL from the AJAX request URL.

[JimF]

Thank you, digitalpoint. Worked perfectly.

[lingstar]

Alas, this doesn't work for me. I have apparently the same scenario and made sure that the CMS URL is blank in my installation. Tried the .htaccess and the replacement code too....help?

[galerio]

It seems that developer team doesn't wont to resolve this issue soon.

Can someone help me to make ajax works on blog and profile page?

I have this situation: every user has it's own subdomain for profile page and blog. For example:

username.site.com (user's profile page)
username.site.com/blog (user's blog homepage)
and my website is on www.site.com/forum.

Can someone tell me what and where I have to change the code in order to make ajax works on every subdomain?

Thank you.

[digitalpoint]

Can someone tell me what and where I have to change the code in order to make ajax works on every subdomain?

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-6332

[galerio]

Thank you digitalpoint, but I have not enough skills to understand how to put the solution.

For exmple, in a js there is the line

    YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest("POST", "threadtag.php?contenttype=" + this.contenttype + "&contentid=" + this.contentid, {

and I have to change to:

 YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest("POST", window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.hostname + "/threadtag.php?contenttype=" + this.contenttype + "&contentid=" + this.contentid, {

with a slash before threadtag.php.

But when the line is:

YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest("POST", form.action, {

or

YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest("POST", 'online.php?do=resolveip&ipaddress=' + PHP.urlencode(this.ip), {

or

YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest("POST", desturl, { success: this.callback }, datastream + "&securitytoken=" + SECURITYTOKEN + "&s=" + fetch_sessionhash());

or

YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest("POST", this.vars.ajaxtarget + "?do=" + this.vars.ajaxaction + "&" + this.vars.objecttype + "=" + this.objectid, {

what should I do?
I counted about 53 js files with asyncRequest, and in the most of them it is simple to make the change... but there are others too complicated for me.

Is there someone that has already changed all js and want to share with us?

[galerio]

I have just modified some js files that contain

asyncRequest("POST", "some_file.php"

and that are loaded in blog section and now Ajax seems to work.

But ... my forum home is in a subdirectory "site.com/forum" and there are some ajax requests that are now for php files from root, for example:

site.com/ajax.php?do=editorswitch

and should be:

site.com/forum/ajax.php?do=editorswitch

The example above refers to the "Switch Editor Mode" to post comments on blog or to post in forum! So I have to put an htaccess rule in the root htaccess (not the forum's one):

RewriteRule ^ajax.php(.*) forum/ajax.php$1 [L]

and in this way it works. Hoping the rewrite rule is ok, I'm not an expert.

[The Rocketeer]

having the same pathetic problem

[barroca]

Unable do configure widgets! Same issue here
And not a fix

[Wayne Luke]

You need to open your own threads for help with your specific problems.

[billstelling]

hey guys, went though the same problem and it was an add on mod called all in one that was doing it. if you have that installed you will need to get rid of it. if you don't then you need to disable each mod you have one at a time and then check to see if the configure will work and then move on the the next until you find the one causing it. Once i figured out the one causing it on my site I was able to configure widgets. Keep in mind that I have allot of mods installed and it was not a quick task to do,
Also you need to make sure that you have everything configured correctly in your options as well as adding the line to the htaccess file.

[I]RewriteRule ^widget/config/([0-9]+) widget.php?r=config/$1&%{QUERY_STRING}[/I]

[Miss T]

I had the same issue, and it turned out it was because I had a CMS URL specified in the settings. Check your vBulletin settings under "Content Management" and see if you have "CMS URL" set to something other than blank (the default).

The problem is the Configure link is actually an AJAX request, and AJAX can't make requests to domains (or sub-domains) other than the domain it was started from. Since I had the CMS URL set to http://articles.digitalpoint.com, the underlying AJAX request was going to http://articles.digitalpoint.com/widget.php, which is illegal (as far as AJAX is concerned) since the AJAX request started from http://forums.digitalpoint.com

It's related to this bug report: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-6332

Ideally the vB_Route::getCurrentURL() method should not be forcing an absolute URL when it's using the call to build a URL for an AJAX request (maybe it needs a $aboslute_url = true) option in the function or something.

As a work-around, open up your admincp/cms_admin.php file, way down at the bottom, change this line:

$config_url = vB_Route::create('vBCms_Route_Widget', 'config/' . $widget->getID() . '/0')->getCurrentURL(); 

to this:

$config_url = str_replace(vB::$vbulletin->options['vbcms_url'], '', vB_Route::create('vBCms_Route_Widget', 'config/' . $widget->getID() . '/0')->getCurrentURL()); 

That will just strip whatever you have set in your CMS URL from the AJAX request URL.

tiny problem...

my code doest say

$config_url = vB_Route::create('vBCms_Route_Widget', 'config/' . $widget->getID() . '/0')->getCurrentURL(); 

it says

$config_url = vBCms_Route_Widget::getUrl(array('action' =>'config' ,'widget' => $widget->getID()), null, true); 

is that the same and can i still change it... i have the same problem with the configuration


EDIT: i tried it - and it didnt make a difference... i still cant configure widgets and i have no idea where to find the htacces - i know i have seen it before... but havent a clue where