Topic Prefix - Cache time and where?!?!

[ayjayef]

Yeah yeah that's what we did.
It''s really easy for the browser mafia to demand that but it required a server upgrade as the old OS didn't support over TLS1.1
Took a few months to sort the...

[ayjayef]

Chrome: Version 83.0.4103.61 (Official Build) (64-bit)


Okay, so yesterday I renewed the SSL certificate on the server that the image was coming from and BINGO, it works now.
...

[ayjayef]

(same image, saved locally, uploaded via Maintenance -> Diagnostics)

Pertinent PHP Settings

file_uploads: On
open_basedir: None
upload_tmp_dir: C:\temp
upload_max_filesize:...

[ayjayef]

Versions installed are:
ImageMagick-6.9.11-12-Q16-x64-dll
ImageMagick-7.0.10-13-Q16-x64-dll

...but I've gone back to GD (to take imagemagick, imagic, ghostscript out of the variables)...

[ayjayef]

Search Result Cache Lifetime=0

Works. Edits made to posts happen in real time. Prefix changes "stick" without hitting the installation with an admincp "clear system cache...

[ayjayef]

Stored in the file system.

-- file upload diagnostic under Maintenance -> Diagnostics.
No errors occurred while opening the uploaded file for reading.

but, I also found...

[ayjayef]

No cloud hosting, this is just a standalone webserver.

[ayjayef]

(ouch - I'll wear that).

vB - 5.6.1p1
PHP - 7.4.1
MySQL - 8.0.19
Windows Server 2019 / IIS

Like I said, this problem happens using GD and default settings....

[ayjayef]

Search Result Cache Lifetime = 1
I really didn't expect that topic prefixes or post content edits would be affected by what I assumed was only "search cache"

Moderator is...

[ayjayef]

Any clues where to start looking?

[ayjayef]

(bump with more info)
This happens on editing a post too. The edit is done in the post but not seen until the cache clears at some point later which looks like it's 24 hours odd.

I...

[ayjayef]

Was using GD when I reported the problem on the weekend.
Then installed ImageMagic6 and got the same error
Then installed IMAGICK and still get the problem.

Interestingly, of...

[ayjayef]

When a moderator changes a topic prefix it doesn't "stick" and continues to display the previous prefix.
So far 18 hours and counting. I assume it will eventually clear the cache but...

[ayjayef]

https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vb...-patch-level-1...

[ayjayef]

Thanks for the reply Wayne.

Interesting, it seems all the images I tried previously gave the error.

Your avatar works fine:
https://forum.vbulletin.com/core/custompics...

[ayjayef]

If I URL link an image (Image Properties / Image info / URL) and select "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" I get an error:
This is not a valid image file.

It is...

[ayjayef]

Thank you very much AScherff

I understand the logic, a very clever way of dealing with the problem and will work through the code in a test environment.

I wish this post existed...

[ayjayef]

Yes Google does learn the new ones but the old ones "rate/score" better so they keep coming to the top of the google search.

Wow, that script would work well.
I would love...

[ayjayef]

We have gone from a VBulletin 4.2.x forum running VBseo to a VBulletin 5.6.x forum and love the new software.

Sadly (and we knew prior) all the VBseo links in google would break but we couldn't...

[ayjayef]

As did I but now we are up to 2 votes in 18 months.... not likely to be a priority (sadly).

VBSEO did a good job of that in VBull4, where you could change a word or phrase to something specific...