ok.. i am having problems big time.. i installed 1.5 and it does the same on 2.0... had the same problems..

Problem: I follow all the directions and everything but on main ubb page ultimate.cgi.. i see the private messaging forum but when i click it .. it goes back to the root domain name.. any thoughts or solutions plz help me

Sounds like you are getting an error, but your system reroutes you back to the page if origin, or index page. Hard to say without an error number. Do you have telnet?

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This is driving me crazy. We must be haunted. No matter how many backups of my entire cgi directory I restore, no loading of Ultimate.cgi will take place since this afternoon without '500' errors.

Approximately 8-9 hours after this hack was installed (and working just fine) this all occurred. If someone can figure out why this is occuring, I will give them free publicity.

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Aliens...

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I really need to get this working, I'd appreciate any thoughts you might have about it Allen.

I've restored a backup from 24 hours ago, a week ago, and even a month ago, and it will not display. In addition to refreshing the entire cgi-bin/* heirarchy, i've completely deleted any signs of the PM mod files, including the private directory, and the pmimages directory. I have no clue to what may be going on.

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Sorry, was just testing a mod to ubb_library2.pl in NS just now... what can I do to help?

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

I have noticed your forumdisplay, threads, and postings seems to be working well... and it's just Ultimate.cgi?

Very strange... and you weren't working on anything when it went kaput?

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Not a thing, I was on an e-mail run on my various accounts, it just started to malfunction completely out of nowhere. I was notified by a bunch of users that it was occuring, so I immediately worked on restoring backups with the mod not installed.

No luck. Now been 12 hours, and I still can't find anything out of place anywhere via Telnet or FTP.

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try copying your ubbcgi files to another directory and update paths...

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Okay, I got everything under control finally, thanks to a small brainstorming sessions with ukliam.

Not to mention some pointers "perl -w" gave me too!

Their was some conflicting code in my Ultimate.cgi that never showed it's ugly head previously. It was somehow tied to the "Accurate Posts Mod", which is pretty dated by now (but still works for the most part).

It's pretty odd that it all happened yesterday while everything was running fine for 8 hours. I still think we're haunted.

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i dont have telnet but.. i dont get an error cuz.. when i hover over the private messaging link to go into it.. it says my root address not the www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/privateview.cgi stuff .. just www.yoursite.com

check your code in the ultimate.cgi page.
Make sure you have $CGIURL/privateview.cgi

You may have lost a part of it..

Best thing to do is go thru the install step by step.

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Can anyone help me out with this? I'd really like the icons to display properly as soon as possible.

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<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by Alien on September 29, 2000 at 06:21 PM</font>

where would i put that "$CGIURL/privateview.cgi" cuz i dont see it in ultimate.cgi, i went through everything 4 times now step by step..

Never answer questions when you're half asleep..

Look for this in your ultimate.cgi setup.



$cgi_url/$viewprivate

Make sure it's correct. In private.cfg it converts it to privateview.cgi here:



Hope this helps..

Not having telnet will be a pain, escpecially when you need to track errors..
But you should be able to work it out without it.



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How come the username & password still show up in the url box when running privateread.cgi?

I thought this was fixed.

I'm running 5.39 if that makes a difference....

And privatedelete comes up blank, then I got this....

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : error in delete_records. unable to open db file:

I went back and refreshed the privateview, and the message was deleted. Privatedelete.cgi didn't redirect me back to privateview.

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The Cookie is writing UserName information improperly. It retains the + sign in multi-named usernames (e.g., 'Abc 123' is recorded as 'Abc+123') and this presents a major problem when users are going to post notes (the cookie is returned as an invalid UserName). How can this be fixed?

Please fix this ASAP!!

Kaelon

Likewise, it should be mentioned that there is no expiration date on the cookie, or no 'logout' mechanism. Consequently, one person is constantly stuck using the same cookie over and over again until they manually delete it.

Kaelon