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[jaydash]

HI, as per the title. Have had the forum for years, is only used for a couple of months per year though. Just suddenly noticed that I hadn't had any notification of replies to my posts for around a week....

[jaydash]

Hi all,

Server was fine... main site (not specifically forum) got hit with a sustained DDOS attack... offline for a week... server moved, new Host.... site running fine but getting this...

[jaydash]

Just checked: when I view my site and check the encoding via the 'view' menu, the 'Western European (ISO)' option is selected. When I look at any other site, the 'Western Europen (Windows)' option is...

[jaydash]

Hi ,

We have a problem whereby some site visitors are just seeing gobbledegook on our news page. We had a problem before when we implemented an advertising ticker and established that all...

[jaydash]

We've just changed servers and the web host moved everything over for us. Everything was fine apart from a few settings in CGI had changed. Site is running okay.

However, our forum is switched...

[jaydash]

What's the best way? I saw a thread on this before where someone has some good ideas.

[jaydash]

Thanks, I've seen it now that you've confirmed it's there! I think I'm tired...

[jaydash]

I have just asked the forum to creat a mailing list. I filled in none of the options, so that it would bring up everyone basically. However, it only returns around 30 names, not all 500 members. Why is...

[jaydash]

Can I:

i. Manually change members names.

Our forum is seasonal and has been switched off for 6 months. Because it is related to a TV show, they might want new names when...

[jaydash]

We have a very seasonal site and previously, have hard-coded some banner rotation Java onto our pages. This has been fine before, but we can't accurately know how many ads have been served. This is no...

[jaydash]

We've just had 88 e-mails with the following errors:

Database error in vBulletin: Link-ID == false, connect failed
mysql error: Can't connect to MySQL server on '62.169.130.18'...

[jaydash]

Many thanks Eva...it's just we don't know how to get this info to be frank.

It might sound a bit dumb but like I said, we're used to just programming html/java sites and we're not even...

[jaydash]

Thanks Ed... but we don't know how to do that! Talk of Telnetting into the server blah blah is pretty much wasted on us. This is the first time the web programmer has used mysql/php - we genuinely didn't...

[jaydash]

Last night and this morning our forum just wouldn't load. However it wasn't like the last couple of times when the whole dedicated server crashed, instead it would just hang and do nothing when you clicked...

[jaydash]

I've just had around 40 e-mails in 5 mins with the following message:

Database error in vBulletin: Link-ID == false, connect failed
mysql error:
mysql error number:
...

[jaydash]

Thanks, and I take your comments about not programming mysql, but what can a layman do to fix it, to prevent it from happening again. Or should I take that up with mysql?

[jaydash]

I do not insinuate, I don't need to...I am quite capable of saying what I think.

No, merely that it doesnt answer the question. In the same way that your answer didn't answer the question...

[jaydash]

BTW we have v2

I have just seen the same problem listed below asn the developer replied:

"I suspect that this error message is genereted due to the bad web-space provider...

[jaydash]

Hi, our board has been running for around a week or so and at the weekend we got the following e-mail:

Database error in vBulletin: cannot use database bigb
mysql error: MySQL server...

[jaydash]

Have just got v 2.0 up and running and customised to our design (took 3 days , NOT 5 minutes as someone suggested!) It's our first board ever so we're a bit naive, but think we want to:

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