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XMail Forum > Announcements > Moving of the forum to the new server


Posted by: atomant Jun 13 2005, 01:21 PM
During the day I'll move the forum to a new dedicated server with much larger bandwidth (courtesy of pierre-oord). The web address will remain the same but because of the IP change it will take up to 48 hours for DNS records to refresh. Until then I'll create a page with link to a new server.

Posted by: pierre-oord Jun 16 2005, 03:59 PM
QUOTE (atomant @ Jun 13 2005, 01:21 PM)
During the day I'll move the forum to a new dedicated server with much larger bandwidth (courtesy of pierre-oord). The web address will remain the same but because of the IP change it will take up to 48 hours for DNS records to refresh. Until then I'll create a page with link to a new server.

smile.gif

No change jet I see.

Just that you know: You can use the IP address too if you like. So set a link on your old webserver to the new IP address 217.148.191.82 , so the forum won't be down longer than needed! cool.gif

edit:
For example, create a PHP page index.php with the following lines:

CODE

<?php
header("Location: http://217.148.191.82/");
?>


That should do it very easy smile.gif

Posted by: gEoTa Jun 16 2005, 10:09 PM
Some browsers don't accept header redirections...
He should create the temporary page anyway with the destination ip inside a tag <a>. smile.gif

Posted by: atomant Jun 17 2005, 03:08 PM
Sorry folks, I was very busy these days. I'll try to do it during the following days.

Posted by: atomant Jun 18 2005, 03:52 PM
The moving went succesfull. The speed should be awesome now. image007.gif

Thanks to pierre-oord for hosting. master.gif

Posted by: atomant Jun 18 2005, 05:21 PM
Hmmm, I was to quick. wub.gif
We have a problem with viewing users info - blanc page. Will see what is causing it.

Posted by: pierre-oord Jun 19 2005, 03:16 PM
I fixed the problem smile.gif

Exept that the code from the invision power board is just crap and should be redesigned tongue.gif (lots of notices in error_reporting(E_ALL) ) this error occured because of PHP5 running. Fix is easy and I already applied it to the source:

Remove the first instance of "var $parser;" from both the UserCP.php and Profile.php files.

(Found that using google)

If you find any other problems just send me an email smile.gif

edit:
Just wanted to say I'm happy the forum runs now in both SSL and non-SSL mode
http://xmailforum.homelinux.net/

and

https://xmailforum.homelinux.net/

(Personally I prefer non-ssl biggrin.gif )

edit:
Also fixed the "The moderating team" page.

Make sure that in de SQL query all words "mod" are quoted using (back?)-quotes. That are these quotes: `
(On the key with the ~ character on most keyboards). in the file "stats.php"

I've also changed that file. I think now everything works. This error has something to do with the newer MySQL version on this server I think -> The word "mod" is reserved now, so should be quoted if you want to use it.

edit2:
I found one last error! Smilies are not working. like the : D (without the space) smilie. The address is https:// and with the old port on your old server. I don't know where the code of the smilies is placed, but please replace it, and use relative paths, so that it will work in both SSL and non-ssl mode smile.gif

(else SSL messages are still displayed if you don't work in ssl-mode )

Posted by: atomant Jun 19 2005, 06:05 PM
Great job. I am no php programmer so lucky you are.

I'll check about smileys. read.gif

Smiley biggrin.gif

Posted by: atomant Jun 19 2005, 06:26 PM
About smileys - there are no links for them in settings. I have just uploaded them with admin tool and activate.
BTW, My server is no more accesible and the smileys are working fine for me and I use Mozilla browser.

Posted by: pierre-oord Jun 19 2005, 06:56 PM
mm, they seem to work fine now, well, I'm using IE so maybe it's some caching problem.

I do see some smilies which comes from https adresses...

Try it out, view my message and then view the source of this website (HTML code) and search for "https:///". You will find some smilies then..

Posted by: atomant Jun 19 2005, 07:30 PM
I see. his is because I have make the post before transfer and I can't do nothing about it except change it with editing my post or in mysql directly. wacko.gif

Posted by: pierre-oord Jun 19 2005, 08:35 PM
Ah okay, but please check it, maybe upgrade to V2 of this forum software, of maybe convert everything to something like PHPBB of another board, if i'm right blackboard is a good one I'll check it out.

Because, if i'm right:
If someone posts something in SSL mode, the smilie link will be SSL. Then I view the board in normal mode, and have press yes because of the SSL smilies. (and vice versa)

So the engine of the board should make relative URL's of smilies instead of hardcode the link to the smilie... Maybe I can change the behavior of the board, but maybe an upgrade is easier (more fixes included?)

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Posted by: atomant Jun 19 2005, 10:41 PM
Well, upgrade to v2 is not for free. Since v2 you need to pay for the board.

Changing to phpBB is an option since they provide a converter from IPB to phpBB. You can experiment to see if it works and if good then we can change it.

Posted by: pierre-oord Aug 23 2005, 02:20 PM
Is everything working fine now? (ssl/nonssl mode).

Also, I created a login for you to view your datatraffic. Public may view too if they like tongue.gif

http://cacti.flexbouncer.com/

Username: xmailforum
Password: xmailforum

Note that you are using VERY little datatraffic... almost ungraphable smile.gif

Greetz

Pierre

Posted by: hschneider Aug 23 2005, 03:15 PM
Thanks Pierre, everything seems to work well now!

Posted by: atomant Aug 23 2005, 03:27 PM
Yep, It works like a "swiss clock". rolleyes.gif

Posted by: pierre-oord Sep 30 2005, 07:03 PM
Today I upgraded to apache2, php5.0.5. Everything seems to run smooth, if this old forum has any problems with it please let me know smile.gif

Posted by: pierre-oord Sep 30 2005, 07:04 PM
double-post

Posted by: atomant Oct 7 2005, 07:26 AM
There is a problem with sending confirmation mail and mail in genera. Can you check this?
The error when you try to send a personal message or email is:
QUOTE
Mail Error!

Could not send the email
Failed at 'mail' command

Posted by: pierre-oord Oct 7 2005, 09:32 AM
QUOTE (atomant @ Oct 7 2005, 07:26 AM)
There is a problem with sending confirmation mail and mail in genera. Can you check this?
The error when you try to send a personal message or email is:
QUOTE
Mail Error!

Could not send the email
Failed at 'mail' command

Fixed! Problem occured because of to strict permissions to the sendmail binary of xmail.

I'll now look at the GD problem.

Posted by: atomant Oct 7 2005, 10:02 AM
Actually, forum is set up not to use GD library. So it must be some other issue.

Posted by: pierre-oord Oct 7 2005, 03:47 PM
QUOTE (atomant @ Oct 7 2005, 10:02 AM)
Actually, forum is set up not to use GD library. So it must be some other issue.

Yeah, I saw how it works: The images are just saved as some PHP code which are converted back to binary code with some base64 function of something.

On line 470 of functions.php, there's a line with:
flush();

Before the header() function.
Just comment it out ( Place # in front of it) and it works!

I don't know what else I've edited to make the forum run on PHP5, but
maybe I should write a howto for people wink.gif

So, it works again, now the forum is even compatible for PHP 5.0.5 wink.gif

If you find any other strange things, please let me know! And sorry for the trouble, I don't think there will be upgraded soon to newer version, this upgrade was mostly because of the upgrade from apache1 > Apache2 (I can run a module on Apache2 which 1 doesn't have).

Pierre

edit:
Also fixed the email problem, users, you can send each other email instead of personal messages now too...

Posted by: atomant Oct 7 2005, 07:29 PM
You have earned a image005.gif

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