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I was doing some webgrind profiling and saw that when loading a topic page, the second most time of any function was in a hash comparison function: From a quick glance it seems like the app is reusing a hash comparison function from the login password checker to check other various data. The issue is that the hash comparison function is purposely constant-time. This makes sense for checking a password hash since it lessens the chance of a side channel attack from a hacker spamming lots of password checks and carefully timing how long it takes to complete. But it's somewhat less useful for checking hashes of other, non-sensitive data. I experimented with cr…
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Hello! My phpinfo says It´s enabled and running but not my board. I wonder why?
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Hi, unfortunately we had a bad database crash one week ago, and since then, we are totally offline for our community. We don't really know what happend. We operate on Ubuntu, PHP 5.6 and MySQL in a Docker framework with nginx and Apache. Latest IPS version was 4.1.15. We updated the software 1 day before the crash, also the plugins some hours before the crash. Then suddenly during the (crash) night, the server got slower and slower and finally wasn't available anymore. Apache produced log files > 100GB in size during the night, and the forum, that has been working the day before, first produced an error message on frontend (EX1146), then denied access to…
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i was reading the ips4 guide about grid and layout is it possible to create the columns like this
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So I am looking at trying to do hot backup with percona so that tables arent locked while we are running our backup. The question I have is that since all of my tables are Innodb except core_search_index. Is it safe to exclude that table from the backup? Will it be rebuilt if I have to restore the database?
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Recently I try upgrade to 4.18, after change all ips path owner of root to currently user(use chown R- ), I can upgrade it by sftp automatically, but durint the process the site is stoped and appear "Access Denied", after that I try return the owner to root, but nothing.....
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So recently I found out that my host moved away from TCP/IP ports for their memcache, and went with a socket (apparently its faster). Basically I have a path to put in now. Will this work with IPB? I went ahead and put it in, uploaded the new constraints file to the root. Is there anyway to test to see if memcache is actually working? I just want to clarify that IPB will work like this, and if there is a way to actually see if it's functional. Thanks.
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I'm trying to setup ips connect. Link below should give a json reply but instead it returns an error. I couldn't make other methods work either. login fetchSalt method returns a bad_key error. But key is correct. What am i doing wrong? This is the error i get REPLACE INTO `ibf_core_ipsconnect_slaves` ( `slave_url`, `slave_key`, `slave_last_access`, `slave_enabled` ) VALUES ( NULL, NULL, 1486142310, 1 ) IPS\Db\Exception: Column 'slave_key' cannot be null (1048) #0 /var/www/html/system/Db/Db.php(839): IPS\_Db->preparedQuery('REPLACE INTO `i...', Array) #1 /var/www/html/applications/core/interface/ipsconnect/ipsconnect.php(110): IPS\_Db->replace('core_…
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While beginning the IPS4 installation, I get one error: Your PHP memory limit is set to 32 MB but should be set to 128M or more. You should contact your hosting provider or system administrator to ask for this to be changed. So I checked my php.ini file and it is set to 128M and then I ran phpinfo.php and scrolled down and found 128M. Why is this and how can I correct it?
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I have a server running vesta cp which has a roundcube web mail application included. It was working fine but now it's not all of a sudden. I think Dovecot is messed up. I get Connection to storage server failed. when trying to log in. Anyone willing to try and help me out? Thank you in advance.
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Hi, Looking to get some help in locating the source for a file on our server, which seems to be dumping its log: The problem with this is it is now 92gig and growing at a very fast rate, it seems to log every single MySQL statement made by our website/forum. Yet, I know that is to do with MySQL/Maria, but there is nothing in the my.cnf that points to this log file at all. I would really like to turn this off as it is slowing down our forum, but I am at a loss where this configured. Cheers,
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Hello, i read somewhere that this Unpublish urls (when deleting topics) with a 301 redirect or another kind of redirect is a must . Is it, and if yes how can this be done? we have certain sections that are used as diaries for pregnant moms (and other daily chatforums), that get deleted every 3 months. they gather up aprox 300.000 posts, which generate ofcourse many links. The whole forum has about 1.700.000 posts, so those 300.000 -400.000 posts everytime are a large sum/percentage. for seo reasons i would like to know if this is possible, if anyone has done it, if you think this would make a difference and if yes if you know anyo…
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I have a problem using logging with external user database. Login and registration work. There is a problem when I want to change the nickname or e-mail user. Both variables example $oldEmail and $newEmail have the same new! value. Variable $member also it has a new value, and I can not appeal to an external database to change email.
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Enable compression and Leverage browser caching are the two main recommendations in red on my forum in google analytics. My home page only had a score of 49 The main things it tells me is things such as this under Enable compression Compressing http://www.mysite.co.uk/…0e4317516f62ad1849cd4fc1.js?v=36beede563 could save 244.4KiB (76% reduction). The above link goes to forums/uploads/javascript_global/root_framework.js.f5fd60b20e4317516f62ad1849cd4fc1.js?v=36beede563 How come this isn't compressed, is it normal for it not to be? In 3.4 I know we have minify js options etc, does that still happen? For leverage browser caching I have lots of messages for…
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Hi, to be honest, i just run non-commercial websites not using sensitive datas, just userlogins, so i never cared about SSL. Now, google warns users on http:// sites and i moved some of my sites to https:// to play around. Everything is fine, but i found some situations/sites, i don't get that green padlock.... I configured IPS like discribed here: I use "Full https://" and the imageproxy, but Chrome shows me an "i", no green padlock. Clicking on the i is useless, because it don't provides detailed informations. I tried https://www.whynopadlock.com for e.g. https://www.adminarena.de and got : Looking good so far, but why i don't get that green padl…
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I think I'm good. Great software Invision
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Hi my forum is getting loads of unwanted traffic from Russia and I am currently showing 39000 guests, whats the best way to block the whole country the amount of unwanted traffic is causing my ibf_sessions table to fill up, I am using ipb 3.4.9 Any help would be appreciated
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Hello, I am wanting to backup my whole forum and the mysql databases that is in one database to a remote dedicated I want What is the best solution?
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Hello, new database size is 15gb whereas the vbulletin db size was 3gb it seems the difference is due to the existence of full text indexes files for some of the tables we're using the innodb mysql engine for the new database is there any way we can claim back the disk used for the full text indices ? any tips?
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Hoping someone can help me narrow this down. There is a feature in cloudflare that is breaking the templates on my site. I've turned a few things off but don't want to risk messing around without any ideas while the site is up. Here's what it looks like broken (I turned off all minify and cleared cache) and now it's back to normal.
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Hello, I had members saying that they are getting 404 errors at there end, And after getting down to the bottom of this, it turns out to be an SSL problem. So when I click on the link, and some other people also they go here www.baysidegamers.com for me it goes to http and yet others https? https://www.baysidegamers.com/ Yes I do have SSL but It's not installed since I got it. So Redirecting settings that I need to setup so that it goes https to http. It's not the server side since that was tested all good. So, I just added ErrorDocument 404 /index.php on the last line into the .htaccess file in the public.html folder
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Hi, how it's possible to serve pictures from IP.Gallery outside the main domain? I mean to get img.domain.com to get pictures cookie less, longer expiration time, and to put them other host (than www.domain.com) to make page load time much faster. Any ideas?
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Hi all, I am looking for some guidance regarding the mysql (mariadb) config. I am on a cloud server with 4vCPUs and 16GB of ram. My IPS4 db is about 7gb and my members love to use the new content button Can someone please help with configuration sample for this type of server? Thank you
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Hello. I added a CDN option to my dedicated server, like Cloudflare. I will use a DNS offered by my web host. As a cloudfare, but more suited to my need. And most importantly, I can handle what needs to be cached. I need to define cache rules. What extensions or files can I cache? All the "uploads" folder? Extensions in .ccs and .js? What can I create as cache rules please? Sincerly, Théo.
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I run a forum for a small community, running Invision 3.4.7. (We can't update to 4 just yet, but will eventually). We've got a few hundred active members. Roughly only 15-40 members online at a time most of the time. On special occasions up to 100. Our database is pretty big: 2.8 gb (1.4 million posts, 9,000 total members). Our server is a VPS. Ram: "up to" 8gb (guaranteed 4gb). 200 gb space (we only use about 9). Linux w/Centos 6 and Plesk 12. Apache/Mysql/PHP. We've been on this one for about 2 years. When the site is busy, the board loads extremely slowly. It doesn't take much. Maybe 40 or more members actively posting and refreshing topics. Note: Paral…
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