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Problems related to your server or other classic, self-hosted edition issues.
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Currently one of the largest issues I'm having on my forum at the moment is that when people add a signature they can make it any size they want. Putting in a max length/image size would be extremely helpful and help keep the size of people's images in their signatures down. At the moment the only thing I know to do is disable signatures, but at the same time that is not exactly fair to the others that have smaller signatures.
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I switched from Simple Machines Forum to IPB about 4 months ago. And I've see a steady decline in page views. Initially, I attributed most of the decline to Google having to re-index the site, as I didn't do any url redirection during the upgrade process, so pretty much all of my URLs were changed during the switch. However my rank for my main keyword is better than it was before and the amount of users is recovering, but the page views continue to go down. I am wondering if the way that IPB loads pages might be part of the reason for the drop in page views? I believe with SMF pretty much anything you do reloads the page, but IPB makes more use of Ajax calls. Does anyone…
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Google bot indexing calendar - events - downloads with a link type http://yoursait/calendar/event/27-name event/?do=download&csrfKey=8ab1eaa1a404d84d83464066fa2e7b8d But this csrf key is only valid for one session of this google bot. Every Internet user following this link receiving error page. Sorry, there is a problem The CSRF protection key did not match. This may indicate a plugin or theme is out of date. Please contact technical support for more information. Error code: 2S119/1 What should be added in the robots.txt to stop indexing event download?
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Is it not possible to install a theme to do custom work on it on the test install? I have installed a theme to do tweaks on my test install but it refuses to let me actually pick and activate it as my theme. I don't want to do this at all on my live site.
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Dear All I can assign how many reputation points a member can give in a day in the member group. Would it be possible to change this to a PER WEEK setting? Just to clarify - if members now have 10 point to give away per day, I would like them to have 70 per week - that is, members who only access once a week could use all 70 on Sunday if they wanted. Many thanks Bill
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I've moved to a new host but its only support mysql 5.5 and i used to be on 5.6. So i cannot import my database as it gives errors about full text not being supported.
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Im wondering if there is a way to force all activity streams into condensed view for all members by default.
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It was either add storage or mogrify the existing images. I chose mogrify to reduce all but the past 3 months. Now my question is how can I recalculate the user usage sizes? Example: my members are limited to 16MB of attachments. After reducing the image size at the Linux level, I want to recalculate the users to accurately reflect what they are using, so if they were using 16MB before, after mogrify they may be using 10GB, but their user record still reflects 16 right?
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I am getting alot of guest traffic I want to stop - Not posting, just failed login attempts I have added the IP;s to the ban list but as has been discussed before I am looking for instructions as how to upload an amended .htaccess file - I am hosted by IP board Do I download the file from rest api and add: order allow,deny deny from xxx.xxx.xx.xx deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx allow from all Or not? Help appreciated as always Regards
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Hey folks. I have a few questions regarding the transfer of my current site to a new domain. I found one post relating to this but it was dated in 2012 and the links in some cases were dead so here I am asking what I'm sure has been asked in the past. First the details: Host will remain the same as well as plan Domain name will be changing (diff URL) I wish to retain the site in it's current state without heavy modification. I back my site up weekly on Friday both file structure and databases. My questions: Overall, what do I need to make sure is done? What are the steps to transferring my current IPS licence to a new domain? …
Last reply by pilotguy, -
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Some of my users have usernames that look like this: http://screencast.com/t/TPD72lZIkBoZ Any settings I can change to prevent that? I'd like to force them all to select a username that's not an email.
Last reply by kar3n2, -
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Is there a way to setup it so they can view their own threads and not anyone elses besides theirs?
Last reply by Joel R, -
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Is there an easy way to make a file within Downloads private? Something like a radio button that toggles the ability to see a Downloads entry. Privacy on = seen by just the user that uploaded the file. Privacy off = seen by the entire community.
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I've heard nothing but greatness from sites who switched to Redis over Memcached. I'm slowly working on a migration that will take a while and since IPS supports it out of the box, its a possibility to switch to this. Has anyone seen any improvements of using it over mc?
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Is there any way to make a complete Member List available to Members or Groups? Of course a full list is available via AdminCP and through an dividual Member Search, but I can't find anything for Members to review a full list in some format.
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When I go into System->Search Engine Optimization in AdminCP and enable Rewrite Urls I get 403 HTTP errors after uploading the .htaccess file I am told to upload. This is on a test server, no real domain has been setup yet. So the sitename I use is something like: http://135.78.214.67/testsite.com And the content of .htaccess that I downloaded from ACP and uploaded to server rooth looks like this: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options -MultiViews RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /testsite.com/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule \.(js|css|jpeg|jpg|gif|png|ico)(\?|$) /testsite.com/404error.php [L,NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCon…
Last reply by dragonfly411, -
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Hi Guys... Im trying to implement SSO,, but when I put this code: /* Require the init.php file from the Community Suite root directory */ require '/path/to/suite/init.php'; /* Initiate the session to verify who this user is */ \IPS\Session\Front::i(); /* Print the user's name */ print \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->name; In a external php file...I'm getting a number instead a name. A number like this: 40aa697366aa1ecd341992ab13fad20U3 yes I have changed init.php path.... Any clue?
Last reply by Arasius, -
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Perhaps a stupid question, but is safe to empty the table ipb_core_log ? It is 5 gb in size and I want to prune the error logs it contains to free up space. Thanks!
Last reply by Ausy, -
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Hello, How get the user information (username, group...) on an external site? Like IPS3 require_once( './initdata.php' ); require_once( IPS_ROOT_PATH . 'sources/base/ipsRegistry.php' );/*noLibHook*/ require_once( IPS_ROOT_PATH . 'sources/base/ipsController.php' );/*noLibHook*/ $registry = ipsRegistry::instance(); $registry->init(); // Fetch details $member = $registry->member()->fetchMemberData(); // Print the display //print_r($registry->member()->fetchMemberData()); print $member['members_display_name']; //print $member['member_id'];Thanks
Last reply by Arasius, -
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Hello, I've got some javascript code that I don't want to show to Mobile devices. How would I code that? Thanks, George
Last reply by BostonBob, -
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Id like to add Font Awesome icons to my forums like this: http://i.imgur.com/XVNSJey.png How could I achieve this?
Last reply by The Skyforge, -
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I have a subforum dedicated to photo challenges. I use a discussion to collect submissions and don't want each participant to see the other participants' submissions. In IPB 3, I set the permission for the subforum so that attachments couldn't be downloaded. This way, people couldn't see the other submissions. In IPB4 this is not possible, as confirmed by the support. To you know of a workaround or hook to hide attachments from a specific member group?
Last reply by Nathan Explosion, -
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Is there a system wide forum setting we can make as the standard default to follow topics I start or post too? It appears the user only has that option in their profile direct. Maybe it is already the default... I'm not sure but just asking incase. Thanks
Last reply by Neej, -
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So I'm new to e-commerce. I bought the 'Commerce' addon for my community to handle donations when we upgraded to v4 and haven't really touched the store stuff much. So my knowledge is a bit limited. My use case is I have 4 packages (let's call them Packages A through D). I also have a 5th package that is a basic package that's free for an entry-tier item. All packages are of the same tier and reside in the same product category and all represent basically the same product, just different levels. Like hosting packages, except I'm not using WHM (just normal products). The way I'm envisioning how potential customers interact with these products is this: Purchase an…
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Under moderator actions, all I see is this.. https://gyazo.com/2236fe3f0a9f124c57debb5017d21355 How do I actually lock a topic?
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