$TBT and $TBB are, as I recall, table border top and table border bottom, as defined in your style settings.

si, found in the public_common.pl template.

Thanks for all your help guys. To make a long story short, after countless trials and tribulations, I've fixed the problem. I can't tell you what the solution exactly was though--- I was so desperate, I was changing many things at once, but having the member directory in the same path as the cgi's, as well as zapping vars_config and starting fresh seems to have done it.


BUT


I now have a new error. This error is more minor, since the board still works with it.

All the URL's are appendede with a =nfx when a user is logged in. According to CC: http://www.ubbdev.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/181552/page/110

"nfx == No File_eXists, meaning that the currently logged in user's profile is missing."

I assume CC means missing from the cache?

The board works fine, its just that the cache hit is reduced by almost two thirds.

I'm thinking you have a pm from someone that doesn't exist or a post by someone that doesn't exist.

navaho, this can be very insightful. I did have some corruption in the pm_users directory... had complaints of PMs in users inboxes that didn't belong to them and incorrect pm counts. The problem was fixed by deleting the improper PMs from their pm_users file. I never figured this to be related to my problem(s) though. Even accounts that have no PMs show the nfx.... and the big reduction in cache % leads me to believe everyone is having this issue.


This could be off topic, but while we're here.... can someone explain Cookie_Number? I see it in the vars config and in the pm_users files.

Cookie_Number is a unique postfix given to all of the cookie names. It's assigned randomly to the board during initial install, and is used to allow multiple installations on the same domain name. Without the postfix, there'd be some pretty interesting cookie conflicts.

As for the PM funkyness... there used to be a utility that can rebuild PM indexes, but I dunno if it's still available. However, the very fact that there was corruption present tells me that your board has some bad mojo...

Thanks for the info. Any idea what the PM index utility was called or who wrote it? Maybe I can google the file name or track down the original author.

The corruption is very old... it was due to an early RAID controller that corrupted data when the box froze. I ran a file * | grep data to find the corrupted files, but I never bothered with anything more than that. A real PM rebuild utility would be great.

I wish I was more active with other ubb users half a decade ago. It would have saved me hours of time spent reinventing the wheel.

I believe CC wrote it, but it'd be infopop ware and a lot of that seems to be missing now since converting to groupee (including the yaml files it'd seem).

I know we had several discussions on file corruption here at ubbdev a couple of years back, so your best bet is searching for "corrupt" or something and weeding through the results...

Why reinvent the wheel when you can get CC or Rick to do it for me

It's not missing, nor are the yaml files. In particular, the PM rebuilder was never, ever on the website.

All you need do is just what you've always been able to do. Put in a ticket and ask. Ask, and you shall receive. The PM rebuilder was never on the website to my knowledge. The downloads page is still there (http://www.ubbcentral.com/downloads), though very very out of date. Still in the same place as always. The rebuilder is not listed. Has never been. I seem to recall there being some issues with it therefor Charles never wanted to make it widely available. I quite honestly do not remember what the issues were. I haven't messed with some of this stuff in 2 or more years now. Make a complete backup before you run it is all I can tell you. Put in a ticket and we'll get you a copy.