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Hey there all, I presently use 1&1 for my hosts and have recently got on to them regarding the PHP memory on my server as I only get 120Mb rather than the 128Mb minimum required for the IPS 4.0 update when it becomes available to general release.. I am on the 1&1 Unlimited Plus and they say they are unable to offer me more than I presently get and don't understand why when most hosts are offering more that this and would have thought this would have been something simple for 1&1 to set, so I wondered if anyone else here has managed to get this sorted out, or am i going to have to change to new hosts? Cheers in advance...!
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Turn came of the next experiment! How to properly configure the Sphinx Engine? This is a standard configuration file. What to specify the database to my community: one that uses the IPS, or create a new one? /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf # # Minimal Sphinx configuration sample (clean, simple, functional) # source src1 { type = mysql sql_host = localhost sql_user = test sql_pass = sql_db = test sql_port = 3306 # optional, default is 3306 sql_query = \ SELECT id, group_id, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date_added) AS date_added, title, content \ FROM documents sql_attr_uint = group_id sql_attr_timestamp = date_added sql_query_info = SELECT * FROM documents WHE…
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The results I got using Varnish have been nothing short of stellar.. while I'm sure some drawbacks will exist overall I'm extraordinarily pleased with the results. Hopefully a few more people can try this technique and publish their own results to help improve this solution. First of all, mileage may vary on this technique and it can certainly be a part of your overall acceleration strategy. For me, I have a lot of IP.Content stuff as well as a huge amount of bounce traffic from search engines (ie. view one page then leave). For these viewers logging on isn't going to happen.. So to be clear, Varnish is a caching software that I downloaded from http://www.varnish-c…
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I'm having trouble getting IPB work on my digital ocean droplet. I'm curious if there are people who got it to work and what configs they used? The problem I have is that I get a blank page before install even starts. It does redirect to the install page tho so that works. I am also able to die and dump strings in the index file so HHVM also works. I'm still figuring out where it's going wrong. I have a feeling it has to do with my url arguments. But i want some feedback. This is what my config currently looks like: server { listen 80; server_name forums.animekyun.com www.forums.animekyun.com; root /home/forge/forums.animekyun.com; # Basic…
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I wanna disable hotlinking via htaccess, but i dont know how to merge that to IPB htaccess file. So how do i merge these 2? <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options -MultiViews RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule \.(js|css|jpeg|jpg|gif|png|ico)(\?|$) - [L,NC,R=404] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> Redirect 301 /foorumi/ / and RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?hoitajat.net [NC] RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ http:/someimageurlsfsdf.com/somefile.jpg [NC,R,L]
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Might be a slightly open ended question, but we seem to have a higher bot/member+guest ratio than other sites I see and I wonder if thats a nature of the way they are they up, or if we have an issue with too many bots? Obviously good SEO is key to new members and to people finding the site, but it is also all server load. We banned bing for a while, although have now un-banned it. Current stats are : 1343 users are online (in the past 15 minutes)67 members, 1271 guests, 5 anonymous users Of which maybe 50% of the guests are bots. Site: http://www.canalworld.net/forums/ Daniel
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Hey Folk's I'm having issues with MYSQL gone away errors with IPS4 - these errors are abundant when running the background processes manually (log I attached for IPS support was 19MB for one day, after running background processes manually). IPS say it's a setup issues I don't disbelieve them, however, I'm not having any downtime just slow loading on forum, gallery, downloads, I suspect it's to do with max connections and or timeout on queries? I also receive the following As well as "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'" I was not having this issue on 3.4.7 We are with Hostgator at the moment we have CENTOS 5.11 x86_64, 2 cores, …
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Before upgrading 4.0 I am trying to move my board to a better server (I am still on 3.4.8) Old server: Centos, Webmin New server: Centos, Cpanel I have tried to move with phpmyadmin, no success... I tried every possible way to complete the job, but no luck.... I am able to download the database, but when I try to upload to new server with phpmyadmin, after certain number of records, it does not upload anymore.... I have edited PHP post size and upload size on CPanel to 2047 Mb.... But somehow on phpmyadmin is not allowing after certain amount of records to be uploaded, anyone have a solution for this???? Only uploads about 2 gig and then stop without warning Anyone knows…
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Looking for tips on how i could improve loading times on my board. www.asiaforum.no Hyper-V server with 2x Intel Xeon 5520, 4GB ram. disks in RAID10. ~9.500 users ~600.000 posts Running IPB 3.4.6. The frontpage is the slowest to load, sometimes taking up to 10 secs or more to load. Please advise.
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Hello, I will wish to change the link name "forums" where do I go? Thx.
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I have an .htaccess file in my root domain something.com. I also have an .htaccess file in a sub folder: something.com/forum/ The root has wordpress and the sub folder contains IPB I want to ensure that the .htaccess rules in my root domain (wordpress) don't leak into the forum sub folder causing problems. How do I ensure the root .htaccess file doesn't place any rules on the forum?
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Hi folks. Would appreciate your insight. A few years ago I added the following lines of code to the first lines of all my PHP/Xhtml Transitional based web pages (nothing to do with IPS Suite). <?php ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' ); ?>I also renamed by CSS sheets to end in php file extention and added these lines of code to them, so that they would be gzipped as well: <?php ob_start ("ob_gzhandler"); header("Content-type: text/css; charset: UTF-8"); header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate"); $offset = 60 * 60 ; $ExpStr = "Expires: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", time() + $offset) . " GMT"; header($ExpStr); ?> These 2 actions gave some great compression and speed redu…
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I started getting Error 406's today (Mod Security). I started getting them after adding some custom profile fields via the ACP and then when I went in the front end I noticed that although they were set to not required, they were in fact, being required. I went to ACP, checked require, unchecked require and went to front end and edited my profile. Now I am getting this error: Error 406 - Not AcceptableGenerally a 406 error is caused because a request has been blocked by Mod Security. If you believe that your request has been blocked by mistake please contact the web site owner. I am not sure if this is a bug with IP4, or something else altogether, but could really use …
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We have a forum that is/was well established. It received roughly 4-5k hits per day. At one point in time we had nothing on our root domain and the forum was simply housed in /forum/. Oct of last year we installed wordpress on the root domain along with woocommerce to house our online store. After the launch our traffic in the forum dropped considerably. I chalked it up to nothing much and figured it would balance itself out. As of this month we are now still at 50% lower traffic than previously and I have no idea why. There are tons of marketing companies out there but we're simply looking for someone who can come in, take a look at the stats as well as our configuratio…
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Hello, I'm trying to use Maxcdn with IPB Community Suite 4, ( in order to put my css, js and images files on it ) but i really don't know how to process ! Thanks!
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Hiya On IPB 3.4.8 Just moved to a new server, the server is pretty meaty so performance is there. However, On the forums when i go to post a new topic as soon as I click post new topic it takes ages for the post new topic page to load. Then when I go to post the new topic it takes 30 secs. Posting a reply is fine. Just posting new topic. The servers my.cnf is still standard with no optimization. I did set php memory_limit to 256mb but still slow. Anyone have any ideas where to look? thanks
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is this a problem on my end, or is it down for everyone? I can't access it at all. http://www.animeregion.ipbhost.com/ Don't know if something went wrong with my end, or if it's a host problem. But i didn't even do anything, yet, that's for sure. ._.
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My forum is, I believe, pushing 4 million posts. IPS has suggested moving from MyISAM to InnoDB. That sounds reasonable... but memory is a concern. Does anyone know of a good way to estimate the memory requirement to have such a large table set to InnoDB? My understanding is that InnoDB generally requires a lot more free RAM to play with.
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Hi guys, in the process of converting to 4.0.x, i had to manually migrate some apps (ex: classifieds, company directory, etc) to my own IP. Pages databases. In the process i had some FURLS that had punctuated characters (including the € symbol) and the records were not opening. So i had to convert them to non punctuated characters. If you find the problems, i have here a small script to share: #Convert accent characters #a update ibf_cms_custom_database_7 set record_dynamic_furl = replace(record_dynamic_furl, '%c3%a1', 'a') where record_dynamic_furl like '%\%%' update ibf_cms_custom_database_7 set record_dynamic_furl = replace(record_dynamic_furl, '%c3%a3', 'a') where r…
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I found this, and it worked perfectly when I did not use CloudFlare: https://rtcamp.com/tutorials/nginx/fail2ban/ However, I am currently using CloudFlare. I did some re-search and I found that these two commands would work to ban and unban: actionban = curl -s "https://www.cloudflare.com/api.html?a=ban&key=<ip>&u=<account>&tkn=<token>" actionunban = curl -s "https://www.cloudflare.com/api.html?a=nul&key=<ip>&u=<account>&tkn=<token>" Does anyone know how I could use https://rtcamp.com/tutorials/nginx/fail2ban/ configuration, with CloudFlare API? I will obviously replace the toke and account my self. Note: - I am…
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Hello. After export and import the database of my site ІPS, first I get an error 503 (during imports), and then - working function incorrectly ІPS (frequent error window), also does not work diagnostic tool (in terms of support). What am i doing wrong? Thank you! php.ini realpath_cache_size = 16k realpath_cache_ttl = 120 memory_limit = 256M post_max_size = 128M; upload_max_filesize = 128M;Database size - 18MB
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I'm running IP.Board 3.4.7 with CloudFlare. Some users are reporting that since switching to CloudFlare, sometimes when they submit a post, the page refreshes to the same page. The post gets submitted but they're sent to the page to submit it, so we end up with double posts. I suspect this is a caching issue, but I'm not sure how to fix it. I don't want to turn CloudFlare off completely. Thoughts?
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Who tested the behavior of the IPS 4 (betas) ?
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Hello, Someone turned on the site include the Rewrite URLs with a secure connection (https)?
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I do not know how to put together a windows, apache, with php and mysql to work with 4.0 ; I have been running IP3.x for a few years now, been working flawlessly. Decided to do the 402 release upgrade, that's when I start having problems. HTTPS stopped showing CSS, so all I saw was text. I was getting weird errors in commerce that were only on certain clients. And the background rebuild/postupgrade tasks were frozen. When I talked to support via ticket, they claimed that not only my database was then corrupt, that my installation was also bad too. Even though before upgrade, it gave me all greenlights, and even during it said everything was okay. Was wondering if anyon…
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