i cant figure out this Beyond Compare thing. i have alot of hacks i just installed in the last 7 days. i know i dont have to upgrade, but i want to keep up with the newest version.

anybody wanna do this for me?

QUESTION: are ALL the files that are in the upgrade file NEEDED for the upgrade???

[ 11-01-2001: Message edited by: DJSharp ]

DJ, you might want to wait on upgrading as many hacks are still in the process of being updated for UBB v6.1.0.2

I'm screwed. I tried to trim my member files with newstrip.cgi and I get this error:

Can't continue after import errors at newstrip.cgi line 12 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at newstrip.cgi line 12.


Now what? I can't upgrade because of the hacks adding fields to my member files and now the program that fixes it won't run!! AARGH!!

Do I have to start clean and have my 2000 members reregister or is there a way to import messages and members from the old to the new version??

Here is the start of newstrip. What is in line 12 that is causing the problem all you CGI literates??

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# UBB Member Field Stripper, 2.0
# Copyright 2001 Infopop Corporation
#
# WARNING: This is an EXPERIMENTAL BETA SCRIPT.
# Use this script at your OWN RISK.
# We offer NO official support for this script!

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);
set_message(&ErrorHandler);
use vars qw(%in @memberslist $memberspath);

%in = map{$_ => param($_)} param();

my($vc, $us) = ("./vars_config.cgi", "./UltBB.setup");

if(!-e $vc && !-e $us) {
&StandardHTML("Error", "Sorry, I was unable to find either a
<tt>vars_config.cgi</tt> or a <tt>UltBB.setup</tt> file.
Please make sure that you have placed this file in the UBB's
CGI directory!");
} elsif(-e $vc && !-e $us) {
open(FILE, "<$vc") or die "$! opening $vc";
my @lines = <FILE>;
close(FILE);
foreach(@lines) { chomp; }
my @pathline = grep(/MembersPath/, @lines);
$pathline[0] =~ m/=>(.+)$/;
my $closer = $1;
$closer =~ s/^s+//g;
$closer =~ s/s+$//g;
$closer =~ s/,$//g;
$closer =~ s/['"`]//g;
$closer =~ s/^q+~//;
$closer =~ s/~$//;
if(!-e "$closer/memberslist.cgi") {
&StandardHTML("Error", "The MembersPath I detected, '<tt>$closer</tt>',
does not seem to exist. I could not find the memberslist
file.");
} else {
$memberspath = $closer;
}
open(FILE, "<./vars_misc.cgi") or die "$! opening vars_misc";
my @misc = <FILE>;
close(FILE);
foreach(@misc) { chomp; }
my @closedline = grep(/BBStatus/, @misc);
$closedline[0] =~ m/=>(.+)$/;
my $thiscloser = $1;
$thiscloser =~ s/^s+//g;
$thiscloser =~ s/s+$//g;
$thiscloser =~ s/,$//g;
$thiscloser =~ s/['"`]//g;
$thiscloser =~ s/^q+~//;
$thiscloser =~ s/~$//;
if($thiscloser !~ m/OFF/i) {
&StandardHTML("Error", "Your UBB must be OFF before this

[ 11-07-2001: Message edited by: Rinkrat ]

Make sure it's in your UBB directory, then change the

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);

line to read:

use UBBCGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);

I guess they tweaked the install file so it would allow me to install without running the member file trimmer. I'm up to date now and ready to reinstall all my mods!

Thanks for the help guys.

Does anyone know if Version 6.1.x will allow NO BACKGROUND's in the message cells (table headers, footers, columns, etc?
(I'd like the html page background, a graphic, to show through, but the Style Templates page in Version 6.05 .doesn't allow it.---it requires that an html color be specified...)
Thanks eversomuch....

My 6.1.02 is finally installed but it is so slow that it just hangs half the time. I pretty much uploaded nearly every file from a full copy after upgrading to same my members and conferences but it is so bogged down that the pages won't even load.

If I delete vars_config.cgi then refill in the data on the opening screen it will run fast for 5 minutes then bog down again. I even deleted nearly all of the vars files and filled them in one a time but it still hangs after a few minutes. I rebuilt all the stat and forum and member files but it still as like a snail.

Any ideas what the problem is?? THe rest of my site is fine so it's not the servers,

Does UBB 6.1.0.3 come in php and cgi versions? Im gonna buy a license soon and just wanna know if 6.1.0.3 is available in both forms.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by SomeGuy:
Does UBB 6.1.0.3 come in php and cgi versions? Im gonna buy a license soon and just wanna know if 6.1.0.3 is available in both forms.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

It's just 1 version. With the option to turn on the PHP accelerator.

No only in CGI, but it loads faster when the php accelerator is turned on via Control Panel > Configuration Settings

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