Turning off forums via a shell script

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Enabling gzip will save a lot of bandwidth, and will not increase CPU usage appreciably, if you use low compression levels.

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I'd be very interested to hear if you can figure out why this is. vB4 should serve considerably less HTML than vB3. Maybe it serves more scripts/styles/images? Are your caching headers set correctly...

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I hope this is optional!

This is definitely the right way to do things. I wonder why I didn't think of it. Having showpost.php?p=... and showthread.php?p=... 302 to showthread.php?t=......

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It's not a problem if guests can view the login form, as long as they can't actually log in. Maybe one of your moderators bookmarked the new secret location and clicked the bookmark after they had logged...

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No, but they have no reason to know how it works or exactly what it does (even if chances are they have a general idea of what it does). Modifications can have remarkably extensive effects sometimes....

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Well, SMF only makes money off of support, right? Jelsoft might annoy people slightly if they insist on people disabling hacks, but they probably won't lose many licenses. Every paying SMF customer...

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Skype should have no effect on browsing. Are you sure the problem didn't just incidentally disappear when you uninstalled Skype?

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Thanks! I thought I was subscribed to this thread, but apparently not. Won't this fail with APC, however? Would I have to run a command through PHP to actually update the datastore being used?

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I've adapted the shell script from here to turn off my forums before backup using

mysql -e "UPDATE setting SET value=0 WHERE varname='bbactive'"

The problem is that I have to somehow refresh...

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Okay, thanks.

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Okay, APC datastore is working fine, probably speeding up my forum lots (see apc.php; the vast majority of requests are to my forum, although there are a couple others running for the time being). I...

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My forum has a few plugins, but I disabled them and the problem persisted. It's a fresh 3.6.5 install, no modifications to the files. When (apparently) any user tries to add a new PM folder, the same...

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If your account has log pruning rights, maybe it was compromised and then the logs were just deleted. Otherwise, it would have to be some kind of compromise of FTP or shell access, or similar. Make...

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Okay, my forum specs are here, eva's opinion on what I needed was

So, I've been hunting around for the past few hours. My price range is $300/month max. Currently I'm looking at this...

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How is this relevant to vB? It doesn't allow Java by default, and allowing arbitrary Java is typically a fairly significant privacy/security risk anyway (although it usually can't install viruses without...

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Ah, thanks a lot.

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As far as I'm aware, passwords are stored hashed with the license or customer ID. If I have a vB database and want to import it into a new installation, will there be any problems?

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PNG will be better for screenshots of things like forums, though. And it's lossless, so you can always convert it to JPEG later if desired. Bandwidth is usually less important than artifacting anyway....

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I'm glad you're willing to consider it.

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Why not? Surely it makes sense that someone who owns seven or a dozen or two dozen licenses might need more than three or four priority support addresses?...