UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.classic UBB.classic 6 Support Today's Active Topics do not show latest topics

I am using the version 6.0.5, historically upgraded from 5 to 6.0, then 6.0.5.

The "Today's Active Topics" link, available at the Forums summary, do not list any topic.

However, the search by date 'since yesterday' works and return the expected topics ?

Any hint ?

Thanks.

It is difficult, if not completely impossible to properly diagnose most UBB problems without knowing which version of the UBB you are using, as well as the FULL URL to your ultimatebb.cgi file, (NOT a link to your webpage). Please provide this information. Thanks. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

A significant pourcentage of the BB are used inside the intranet of companies. Most of them will not, for safety reasons, be available from the internet.

Hence, what you are asking for, beyond the release number (6.0.5), is not possible to provide.

I can't diagnose the problem without viewing the issue first hand, unfortunately.

The only things I could advise would be checking the daily index file and the search indexes (within the noncgi/cache-######## directory)...

The daily index file is clearly not updated in a daily basis:

search_index- ls -l
total 224
-rw-rw-rw- 1 applrt g680 60 Sep 6 10:45 daily_index-2452159-main.cgi
-rw-rw-rw- 1 applrt g680 105339 Sep 10 11:23 forumindex.cgi

Delete the daily index file and make a new post. Is it regenerated?

No, the deletion of the daily_index did not force the recreation of a new one.

I believe that the daily index was more than 1 year old, ie created 6-Sep-2000.

No, the date 2452159 matches Sept 6 2001.

Unfortunately, we can do nothing more from here... <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> We'll need to look at the UBB directly to see what's causing it NOT to regenerate the file properly...

(You HAVE checked permissions on the search index directory, right? Just making sure...)

You are certainly right: By coincidence, the first install of the bb was 6-sep-2000.

Yes. Permission are okay.

As I said, I don't know where to go from here...

I have included debug information in ubb_lib_posting.cgi

As far as I can see, the following condition, in the sub-routine append_index, is FALSE. Hence, the logic to update the daily index is not executed.

unless ($_[2] eq 'private') {
....
}

Yes, private forum topics are NOT added to the daily index. You did not mention you were using private forums.

All my forums are indeed private but a couple of them, by mistake actually.

The fact that private forums are not taken into accounts in daily indexes is not documented I believe.
Which makes the feature useless as soon as at least one forum is define private: either this issue is fixed or you add a new setup option to hide the feature 'today's active topics' from the main menu.

If you are using private forums to hide the entire contents of the board, you may wish to switch the board into members only mode instead - that way users will need to be members before performing any function. That would allow you to switch the private forums to public forums (see this thread for important information on doing so) and get the daily index working again.

The only way to get rid of the link would be turning off searching entirely.

Yes, I believe that this option to switch the board only came with 6.0 and, at the time the bb was not set, in release 5.x, the only way I found was to make the forum private.

I had effectively some pbs in the past switching forum from public to private or the way-other. I alreay saw the thread you mentionned in the past, but I was until now reluctant to do this since I manage 40 forums.

Thanks anyway for your continuous help and support.

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