Security token problem: users idle for a long time?

[Ian Montgomerie]

So I occasionally get these "security token" errors, and they seem to be associated with occasional get MySQL "server has gone away" errors. I've had complaints that people get security...

[Ian Montgomerie]

In case anyone has this problem, here's how it's supposed to work:

1. You need to use the same .htpasswd file for all directories you want to protect. Very important.

2. Limit...

[Ian Montgomerie]

I exported users.txt from the database, and it's colon delimited (I just double checked by doing another export). It's possible to download a comma delimited .csv file via the same backup process that...

[Ian Montgomerie]

I have Discus 4.00.6PRO.

Here is a sample users.txt field:

wombat:EPF7gFSWCOf1A:[email protected]:scott oneill:1::1054476643:211.26.152.106:1074640234:/global/...

[Ian Montgomerie]

I'm running 3.61 and just tried to use the Discus 4.x tabfile importer to get my old discus board contents into a backup copy of my new VB board.

The import process claims that everything...

[Ian Montgomerie]

Yeah, yesterday I just had to raise my limit from 32 to 64 megs. I have a history forum and searching for "world war" with display as posts needed that much. Even though the first 200 results...

[Ian Montgomerie]

My problem was fixed by changing the PHP *memory* limit. Execution time limit was 30 seconds (plenty), but I had to increase the memory limit from 12 megabytes to 20 megabytes.

(The PHP...

[Ian Montgomerie]

I'm having a weird problem on my board (which I never saw before the 3.6 upgrade, but I have no idea if it's related).

When anyone searchs for certain words (examples being "america",...

[Ian Montgomerie]

I've manually run an extended check of all tables from the mysql command line. The "word" table was corrupted (interestingly, VBulletin's check reported it as OK), but everything else was fine....

[Ian Montgomerie]

I've been having a weird problem lately, every so often one of my users reports that their unread PM total has suddenly wrapped around. It seems to happen to someone every couple of days on a board with...

[Ian Montgomerie]

Problem resolved: I needed to uncomment "EnableSendfile Off" in the Apache config.

To anyone reading this, it turns out that if you're on a VPS, you almost *certainly* need to disable...

[Ian Montgomerie]

Hm, further details... if I turn mod_deflate OFF, then all of a sudden I can't see normal html files and images (but I can see the board). If I turn it off just for images, I can't see images.
...

[Ian Montgomerie]

I am having a weird problem. I just moved my board to a different server (which has newer versions of Apache and MySQL, but I took care to configure them as similarly as possible).

For most...

[Ian Montgomerie]

No, I'm actually getting the same problem, and the weird thing is it depends on who's accessing and from what PC.


After the 3.5 upgrade, I suddenly have a problem with my home PC where...

[Ian Montgomerie]

I want to change the post count display on my forum so that if a user has over 1000 posts, it displays as "Over 1000" rather than the actual number. I've been having some problems.
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[Ian Montgomerie]

As I said, it's guest-viewable (I confirmed by clearing my cookies), and Google does know about the site (I submitted it, and it regularly hits the forumhome and a few other pages, but it's never gone...

[Ian Montgomerie]

So, I have VBulletin (currently at 3.01) and Google has never spidered my board beyond the top few pages. In particular it never goes to the archive, even though I can get to the archive just fine as...

[Ian Montgomerie]

Excellent, thank you. That works.

[Ian Montgomerie]

No it doesn't, sorry. When I change this the "title" field in each post is blank, but it's still THERE in every post. (There is a blank area with a post icon on the left, even if I make sure...