hi all.
loooong story made short (kinda).
my web host (horrible easyspace.co.uk) has gotten bad these past months since they were taken over by another company.
my board has been down since last thursday with the "file locks" software error you can see at
http://www.multimadrid.com/cgi-bin/jersbbucgi/ultimatebb.cgi i finally got through to the fools today after 6 days of having my board down only to be told that they have "improved" their servers across the board and that the new system does not accept the file locks command (does not support "flock"). this is shared hosting on a unix server.
so, they say that your software (UBB used by millions of people) is no longer compatible with their servers (their servers no longer support the file locks command) and that i will have to change software to one that does not use file locks. apparently, they did not screw it up, i did (NOT!!!)
i have not touched a damn thing!!! they changed the server and made the server incompatible with your software, not the other way around which they would have me believe. UBB is fine, it was working on their server for 3 years before they began changing things.
sorry for venting, to the point.
i am out of there (as soon as i solve my problem) and am going to change to Eve hosting but i will not be able to even visalize the board nor my control panel as they refuse to put things back the way they were, even temporarily.
i need to know if there is a way to disable the file locks commands in the UBB classic so that their server will not show the file locks error and will execute the gci scripts and i can see my board and most importantly, my control panel.
if there is no way to disable file locks in the UBB code, does anyone know another solution so that i can see my board again (even temporarily).
i have thought of just uploading it to another unix server that does support file locks but that would be costly as i would have to pay for the new host which i really would not use for more than a few days.
also, is there any way to see the style settings for the UBB forums via the files themselves. i would like to copy the code for the headers and footers that i have now for when i get onto Eve hosting since the export to Eve does not conserve them.
much appreciated.
saludos,
jer...
