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Greetings,
we are trying to keep a backup of our vbulletin web board, in "read-only mode".
The backup forum, located on another server, gets in sync with the original once in a while. So if the original goes down, we change DNS and people gets redirected on the backup forum.
However, we do not want people to be able to post on the backup forum (since we are not committing backup forum changes back to the original), so the best solution would be to keep the backup forum in read only mode (users would only be able to browse the forum without making modifications like making posts, editing profiles, and so on..)
Sadly, it seems there's no read-only mode feature in vbulletin, right now.
Am I correct?
So we created the read-only feature by changing the permissions of "registered users" group with a SQL command, like this:
UPDATE `usergroup` SET `pmpermissions` = '0', `forumpermissions` = '4103', `calendarpermissions` = '0', `genericpermissions` = '1', `genericoptions` = '8' WHERE `title` = 'Registered Users' LIMIT 1 ;
This is automatically launched in a script, after the database sync, but there's a problem:
the forum permission cache would need to be rebuilt in order to make these changes effective. But since this is intended as an automatical operation, we can't go in admincp and update the permission every time.
If there's not a read-only mode available, is there some way to rebuild the cache using a shell script, without going in the admincp?
Regards.
we are trying to keep a backup of our vbulletin web board, in "read-only mode".
The backup forum, located on another server, gets in sync with the original once in a while. So if the original goes down, we change DNS and people gets redirected on the backup forum.
However, we do not want people to be able to post on the backup forum (since we are not committing backup forum changes back to the original), so the best solution would be to keep the backup forum in read only mode (users would only be able to browse the forum without making modifications like making posts, editing profiles, and so on..)
Sadly, it seems there's no read-only mode feature in vbulletin, right now.
Am I correct?
So we created the read-only feature by changing the permissions of "registered users" group with a SQL command, like this:
UPDATE `usergroup` SET `pmpermissions` = '0', `forumpermissions` = '4103', `calendarpermissions` = '0', `genericpermissions` = '1', `genericoptions` = '8' WHERE `title` = 'Registered Users' LIMIT 1 ;
This is automatically launched in a script, after the database sync, but there's a problem:
the forum permission cache would need to be rebuilt in order to make these changes effective. But since this is intended as an automatical operation, we can't go in admincp and update the permission every time.
If there's not a read-only mode available, is there some way to rebuild the cache using a shell script, without going in the admincp?
Regards.
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