I have 6.04e.I read the instructions of install.txt and I cant find the part which says
# *****************************************************
# ubb_news.cgi
# *****************************************************

>>>Find:

my $your_site_base_url = qq(www.sjanet.com/);

>>>Replace: (www.sjanet.com/) with the name of the parent directory to the file you call ubb_news.cgi from.

I dont have any of that text in the file which is in the zip.What do I have to do? Also should I use the instructions of ubbnewsupg1.1 ?? What do I have to use? ubb_news.cgi or ubbnews.cgi?

Thanks

That's another bug in the documentation. You don't have to change or find that anywhere. Just try the hack after you finish the last step that actually is there.. it'll work.

http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/ubb_news.cgi?

Remember to set all your settings in the control panel > UBB News Settings. enjoy.

Thanks for the info.I installed it corectly but ..
I cant see the news in my shtml page and I tried it everything.
I used the perl path of the ubb scripts and still nothing.
To give you a hint ,I installed also newspro and I used the command <!--#include virtual="news/news.txt" --> and it worked fine. So I did this,I moved the news.txt to the cgi-bin directory and I write in my shtml the command <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/news.txt" --> .I also wrote it without the slash / .In both cases the result was
[an error occurred while processing this directive] !! So I can see txt files but now cgi ??And how my forum is working fine? I have tried it all.Maybe someone can give me a hint

ask ya host, something with the SSI config on their end.

Is There anyway to just make a table code and put the title of the topic and their links in that table without the description?

yeh, you could just edit the template that is included in the zip and remove some of the coding to make it work.

I'm currently at work, so i forget the code pieces you need to remove.

how come Im getting this error after I activated UBB news in the control panel?

Undefined subroutine &main::set_vars_ubb_news called at /www/greenarcher.net/cgi-bin/cp.cgi line 259.

Thanks

I cant get any news to display at all. When UBBNEWS is switched off, it displays "News Off", but when switched on, it just displays a blank page. It doesnt matter what forum I try, it still displays a blank page.

What can I do ?

Regards
Paul

Hey I ran into the same problem you did -- for me, it happened right after I rebuilt the forum stat files in the CP.

However, to "fix" this, I simply re-uploaded the cgi and template files -- this seemed to do the trick.

Hope this helps!

Two issues:

1. ubb_news.cgi is pulling from the right forum, but the forum name displayed is incorrect! (e.g., I've specified that the news be pulled from forum #13, but its displaying the name of forum #12).

--> UPDATE: When building the news, the hack seems to be pulling from FORUM NUMBER X (which is good), but its taking the forum name from FORUM ORDER X when displaying the news items. (I guess this isn't an issue if your forum number and order number is the same.)

2. The link color of the name of the news poster is not using the specified style template.

Example: http://www.bfn2k1.com

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ June 12, 2001 10:23 AM: Message edited by: Mike ]</font>

Temporary workaround to this is to manually update the order number for the forums in the category that contains your News forum.

e.g., if you created a new forum specifically for UBBNews, and it happens to be forum number 13, then re-order the forums in the category from:

1, 2, 3, 4

to:

13, 14, 15, 16

The intent of this is to match up the forum number and order number.

Mike:

Maybe you could help me out here:

how come Im getting this error after I activated UBB news in the control panel?

Undefined subroutine &main::set_vars_ubb_news called at /www/greenarcher.net/cgi-bin/cp.cgi line 259.

Thanks

Hi,

anyone out there who can tell my how I ad a template to ubbnews so that it doesn´t just show the news but also fits into the site when you have a layout with a navigation on the left ?

I put it in the template file on almost every place, but I get an error or it is shown in every news...

Thanks
Dennis

My guess is that you did not correctly hack the cp.cgi file -- I would recommend restoring backup files of your board from before you attempted to install the news hack, and to try going through the process once more.

Yup! I was able to fix it but there are some problems still.

http://www.greenarcher.net/cgi-bin/ubb_news.cgi

How come the title of some forums is different with that of the post? (ex. Sports and Games should be UAAP Action but the post belongs to UAAP Action)

If it cannot be fixed is there a way to remove the forum title?

Btw. how do you change those blue links into green?

Thanks

This has to do with how the hack treats the Forum Number and Forum Order Number - to get around this, read my earlier post above.



Wish I could tell you - guess we need to wait until a new updated version that properly looks up your style templates. (Or you can go directly into the code and hardcode a color scheme in yourself.)

Regards,
Mike

Sorry, but I wanna ask...

What is the use of it?

arg... there's sooo many fixes people made in this topic, it'd take a year to do it! Can anyone make a new install file and get it to me?