UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 6 Version 6 Support Trouble with Uploading Images and Disappearing Forum

Hi guys:

6.32 at http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php

OK, I'm going to combine two issues here.

The first is that I have a forum that keeps disappearing. It's my Talk To Webmaster forum, which is intended for technical dificulies, and wouldn't you know it, it's the forum that's giving me trouble. I've tried the Check last forum script. No good.


The next issue is that the upload images function does not work. I've created the directory and set permission at 777. I've tested it in control panel, and it passes. I entered 105,000 in the bytes window, and I checked php.ini, and it is set to 2M. Users, including me, get a message that says files must be smaller than 105,000. Yes, I have tried with much smaller images, in approved formats (.gifs). DOes the same thing every time.

Why the two issues together? Welp, I used the Jump To feature to bring up my lost forum, and I posted a tester post. The forum is back, but who knows for how long. As part of the tester post, I tried to upload a very small .gif, and I got this:

Warning: Unable to create '/home/httpd/vhosts/24hourcampfire.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads/member_images/193241-http://www.24hourcampfire.com/images/rickbuck2002thumbnail.jpg': No such file or directory in /home/httpd/vhosts/24hourcampfire.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads/addpost.php on line 794 Warning: Unable to move '/tmp/phpWGKCvJ' to '/home/httpd/vhosts/24hourcampfire.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads/member_images/193241-http://www.24hourcampfire.com/images/rickbuck2002thumbnail.jpg' in /home/httpd/vhosts/24hourcampfire.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads/addpost.php on line 794 Warning: chmod failed: No such file or directory in /home/httpd/vhosts/24hourcampfire.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads/addpost.php on line 795 Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/httpd/vhosts/24hourcampfire.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads/addpost.php:794) in /home/httpd/vhosts/24hourcampfire.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 235

This is much different than the "Files must be smaller" message I get in all the other forums. Here must be the key ....

Help please.

Rick

I don't know why in the unable to create message there is a URL. There should not be a URL there.

/home/httpd/vhosts/24hourcampfire.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads/member_images/193241-http://www.24hourcampfire.com/images/rickbuck2002thumbnail.jpg

In the browse box? Are you entering a URL? If so that's wrong. You click Browse when you are making a post and select a file off your local harderive for upload.

As for the missing forum.... that should have been licked. If you upgraded from a pervious version, I'd make sure you updated all the files.
Under the old bug It seems forums sometimes disappear if the user holding the "last post" in the forum is deleted. So if you avoid doing that, then there shouldn't be a problem.

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Josh:

It's weird because I just changed servers. I was running 6.2 and I transferred over then upgraded to 6.3. What should I do now in terms of checking to see if all files were upgraded? Should I go back and repeat the changed files routine?

As to the image upload, maybe the URL in the image box is why I got the mysql error language this time. It was late when I tried it. But that still doesn't explain why I can't upload files that are much smaller than 105,000.

Any thoughts on what to do for either issue?

Rick

105,000 - You didn't actually use a comma, did you? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

Regarding whether all the files were correctly uploaded: I periodically download all the files, and compare them (using BeyondCompare) with the contents of the disctribution .zip, to make sure everything's in synch. It gets messier when you have hacks, but as long as you have a record of all your installed hacks, it's still feasible.

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[This message was edited by Dave_L on September 13, 2003 at 12:21 PM.]

Dave:

Ahem, well, the upload iamges issue is fixed (is there a red-eared smiley?).

I'll comapre files next. No hacks, just the checklastpost.

Thanks. I'll report later.

Rick

I just had two forums disappear... did the "jump to" and placed a post.. now it's back.

I'm running 6.4b1

I have one more forum that's still gone that I need to do the same thing with.

Only thing that's happened tonight is a php.exe error that popped up on my server.

I have this in my event viewer about ten times, one after the other.

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 10/29/2003
Time: 9:56:17 PM
User: N/A
Computer: VINOCELLAR
Description:
Application popup: php.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x100ce805" referenced memory at "0x500d5804". The memory could not be "read".

Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program


This W3SVC error goes error happened about 1 minute before the one above:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 16
Date: 10/29/2003
Time: 9:55:20 PM
User: N/A
Computer: VINOCELLAR
Description:
The script started from the URL '/forums/addpost.php' with parameters '' has not responded within the configured timeout period. The HTTP server is terminating the script.
For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.


I have about 12 occurrences of this, each on a different .php file. All of them happened within a one hour time frame.

I'm assuming one of these failed transactions affected my forum from showing up.

Any other clues?

(****, just got another php.exe memory read error) Maybe my server is going bad. Had a "bugcheck" reboot as well that I just found in the event viewer.

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The script started from the URL '/forums/addpost.php' with parameters '' has not responded within the configured timeout period. The HTTP server is terminating the script.

Looks like the scripts aren't being given enough time to execute. This is probably either server misconfiguration or PHP configuration issue.

Most likely if the addpost.php script isn't being allowed to finish running, that'll cause he "last post" info on the main index to not get updated, and thus the forum will disappear.

I'd report the problem of php timing out on your scripts to your host.

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I am my host...

Any php config guides I can follow specific to ubb.threads?

anyhow... i'm definitely having memory issues. I believe this is the root cause of my problems.

Thanks for the reply joshpet.

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Sorry - kind of out of my realm... sounds like a windows server too, which is even further out of my realm. When my clients have windows servers issues, I generally get someone to examine the server setup and setup some logging so that we can see where the bottle necks are, then get MySQL tuned correctly.

I'd recommend Astaran from ThreadsDev.com unless you have a server tech you regularly use. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

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