First off hello name is Rob, Webmaster for DieselRam.com. Recently upgraded from the stone age from 3.0 to 7.0 . My q's are this . Does the control panel have a REINDEX for the forums?

Some members experiance a 404 FORBIDEN TO POST in some of the topics.

And since the change I have lost crucial links to older threads when I was using 3.0

Any help is appreciated If one so chooses to call me send me a PM.

Wow, 3.0....that's back from like '99 or 2000

No reindex in the control panel as it's something that is no longer needed.

404 sounds like it can't find the page, possibly a link to an old script. Can you get them to post the full url that they are being sent to when they get that error.

As for the missing links. Are those links that were made within posts or from somewhere else?

As far as the 404 it is not an old script as it is in the new forum . Such as a new topic was created the another member will try and reply and it gives them a 404 Forbiden.

The missing links,some threads older than DEC 22 we are not able to find. It as if none of the internal links are working.

Oh and 98 was when the site was created. So yes older than dirt.

Here are some examples.


new url prefix
http://www.dieselram.com/forum/ubbthreads.php

new search results url
http://www.dieselram.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=192221&page=1#Post192221

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old link url
http://dieselram.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=005371

was from here: http://www.dieselram.com/forum/ubbthread...=true#Post43419

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test url did not return expected result. tried changing number, no dice.
http://www.dieselram.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=005371

In the importer zip file there are a couple redirect scripts. If you take a look at those and edit them, following the comments, then you can place them in your old install. For example the ubb/ultimatebb.php link. There is a redirect script called ultimatebb.php that you'll need to upload and that will redirect people to the proper post.

Ok good . What about the 404 message?

I'm not sure on the 404 yet. I have registered however on the site so if there is a specific one that's causing the problem then let me know and I'll see what I can find.

Noramally in the 12 valve Drivetrain section . It only happens to certain people but not all.

I just recieved a PM as one person can not due to 404 in the 3rd Gen NON drivtrain.

Hi Rick

vonTrapp here

0) The new UBB kicks arse as far as the interface goes! We sure did go from a Model T to a new Cummins Turbo Diesel!

1) The 404 errors are a little confusing. What we are getting is a 404 not found and a "permission denied" error. There appears to be no pattern as to WHY this is happening. For example, I was (and still am) unable to modify my signature. This is doubly ironic since I have admin access on the site

The following error is returned:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /forum/ubbthreads.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Apache/1.3.37 Server at http://www.dieselram.com Port 80

Other users are also getting the same error message, but this time it seems they are having trouble posting to certain forums.

2) Possibly related, and just FYI. Right after the upgrade, we had 6 new user groups created that I had never seen before. These are titled "OLD_FORUM_30", 35,45,11,12,48. I was about to delete them, but thought I'd mention them first. They appear to be garbage, although the moderators always seem to have appeared in the group.

3) You'll have to walk me through the zip file. Talk to me like I'm a kindergarten student! I know just enough about this forum to be dangerous The redirect script really needs to be run.

4) Also, seeing as the URL prefix is different, would results from www search engines be all messed up too?

Thanks

VT

I think the quickest way to get to the bottom of the permission denied 404 errors is if you can open a trouble ticket with ftp information as well as admin access to the site (preferably yours since you are getting the error when trying to update your signature). With that I should be able to do a bit of debugging to see exactly what's going on.

As for the zip file. Basically, the importer zip for classic had 2 files, ultimatebb.php and ultimatebb.cgi. If you open those up they are pretty heavily commented on what you need to change. THe ultimatebb.php script will go into the original ubb directory, and the ultimatebb.cgi script will go into your cgi directory that held the original classic scripts.

Once those are in place the search engines should redirect from the old links to the new ones as well.