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Has anyone here been able to use UBB on prohosting.com? I can't get it (any script for that matter) to work. I'm pretty sure it's nothing I'm doing wrong. I know the location of the perl & how to chmod everything (I've installed UBB on virtualave, hypermart, & more).

Yep my friend got his working on it, I tried but I gave up becuase they where to slow

The only problem with prohosting is that the scripts cant me chomd any higher then 755.

Ya, weird, that's what they say on their site, yet I always chmod to 777 and it's always worked.

I had some problems installing it on free.prohosting.com...

well, I just got an email from prohosting at midnight stating that affective immediately (it hasn't happened yet though), they will be placing banners on everyone's pages, they said
but they said that with the money from the banners, they'll be able to "upgrade" accounts, coming soon they say will be upgraded space, 50 megs they say, front page extensions, and enhanced cgi capabilities, whatever the hell that means.

I didn't get that e-mail...

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Hmm......hehe I remmeber receiving this later?
Do they have Sendmail?
Coz my friend said they didn't,...........

No, I don't think the have sendmail.

Test

Well. The banners appeared on MY bbs TODAY.

And I'm not happy. I just signed up on free prohosting, and had the BBS working perfectly with a few hacks on it.

Now that the banners are appearing, they are screwing up all the messages in my forums. Screwing up the HTML code, by the look of it.

Who, Mail and Edit icons are not appearing sometimes, but just in ONE message in a thread. Sometimes the icons are linked together, so they don't offer the correct services. Some messages are appearing in the wrong color/size text. Post New and Reply buttons are moving around the bottom of the screen, and more. Heck, I had one thread showing some raw html code!!!

I'm really pissed. Anyone else having this trouble? I sent a message to the folks at prohosting...have to see what they say.



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Tony

Ya, that's happening to mine too, that's what they get for not fully testing it out before releasing it. The banner only appears on .html pages though, not on the .cgi ones.

How long does it take for it to work again?
And did every one get a 500 internal server error?

now you can use
and you'll get a popup banner instead...
I got an email from them today about that...

I knew about that. Still getting problems, and I get a huge blank space at the top of my HTML pages.

They sent me an email saying they were aware of the problem and that it had been resolved.

It hasn't been. My html threads are still getting screwed up. SIGH.

Ok....what happened to the disable html check box?? Can someone put that hack back in??

Or can't you since interserver got a hold of the board....

Well it's not good service really, all I would recommend is backing up all your files now, try and save them all and then if nothing improves then you still have a backup at the end of the day.

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