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Hello,

We just upgraded from 5.47d to 6.02 freshly downloaded about 10 minutes before 6.03 magically appeared (yeah, what timing :0). We got everything in place and running, or so we thought. As soon as we tried to access the BBS we got the following message:


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malformed header from script. Bad header=CHARSET: /var/www/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi
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Apache/1.3.3 Server at www.battlefront.com Port 80

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We have not screwed around with any of the new 6.0 features. In fact, we don't even know what these Templates and character stuff is yet. All we know is that this is the same error that was reported with the pre-Friday version of 6.02. So we downloaded 6.03 and the problem persists.

We are dead in the water after two experienced hands have spent about 6 hours (on the phone long distance no less) trying to do this upgrade. We have been using UBB since version 2 and this is the first time we have been stumped like this. Our BBS has 5200 users and 250,000 messages so you can see people are not going to be happy with the state it is in right now <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Please help ASAP!

Steve

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You should go to the General Display Settings page in the CP. Make sure the "Board Character Set" option is set to the standard english charset: ISO-8859-1

Then go to the Style Templates page in the CP. If you just recently installed you should have two templates, Standard and MyUBB. I'll assume you're currently using MyUBB for all your forums. Choose MyUBB and submit. Scroll down the page until you find the Character Set option. Make sure it's set to ISO-8859-1 and then submit the page. Clear your cache (not sure if this'll matter) and then your board should be working.

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Hello Bryan,

ISO-8859-1 was already in both places, but I confirmed each of the settings in any case. Still get the same error. So we are still very much SOL...

Steve

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Did you submit the General Settings page and the MyUBB Style Template page? You have to submit those pages regardless if the charset number is already in place.

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Hi Bryan,

That is what I meant by "confirmed". Sorry for not being clearer. I went to each of those sections, saw that the correct value was there, and then submitted/confirmed the settings. As I said before, we are still SOL.

Steve

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Honetsly, we do not have time for this. 12 man hours already wasted on this and we are not in a position to invest more right now. Is it possible for us to downgrade back to our previous version, or will we risk screwing up threads/messages by doing so?

Not happy...

Steve

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Nope but you will have to re-update all of your threads to build all the HTML pages again after you put the old files back.

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OK, thanks for the answer. We are going to downgrade now and get our BBS back online (longest blackout in 2 years...) right away.

The main reason I don't want to screw around with this any longer is that in a few weeks we will be saying a happy GOOD BYE to LINUX and moving our primary server over to Win2000. So additional hours of effort to get 6.03 to work with LINUX is a waste of time in that light.

Thanks,

Steve


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