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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…
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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in the ACP it will be only updated on a single server (the server I'm currently on) and the other 3 will keep an outdated cache file forever.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.
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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?
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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}
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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?
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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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Recently installed XAMPP for my local host and installed ipb test board onto it. I have activated my license on it and included the -TESTINSTALL at end of it. I need to make sure my local server is able to communicate with IPS license servers. Is this something that needs to be set manually or does it do it automatically when installed? I have the newest version of XAMPP for Windows and IP.Board 3.4.6 Any tips here would be very helpful. Thanks
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My understanding is that CDNs offload the serving of static files to other hosts, reducing server load and hopefully increasing loading speed because of parallelisation as well as hopefully serving files geographically closer to users. I would love to hear from people using CDNs and/or Google's PageSpeed on their experiences. I think this would be a good move for my site, but I am finding it hard to compare options. Cloudflare and MaxCDN both look good, and PageSpeed I'm still trying to figure out -- their test claims it would decrease our load time by about 0.3s, although the video playback looks better than that. If you are using or have used this kind of serv…
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Hi, When opening our forums (http://forum.clubedohardware.com.br) I see a five-second lag between hitting "Enter" and the page actually start loading and displaying. I think it should open instantly (whether the page will render instantly is a different history). I'd like to fix this, but don't even know where to start looking. Thanks, Gabriel.
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Hi guys I have a site that averages around 150 at anytime, maybe 300 twice a week for around 45mins at a time. My host keeps telling me that i need a performance professional because the site keeps going down. I have cpanel etc and optimise and repair the tables almost daily it seems. I have gone from server 1 to 3 and now 4 of these specs https://www.siteground.com/cloud-hosting.htm What could a performance professional do additionally to my forum. http://forums.cfcnet.co.uk
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Not sure if this is correct forum but I was hoping to get some suggestions. I have been on a VPS for my site for a year now and until recently the standard SPAM filtering under the basic CP Panel was fine using the standard Spam Assassin and and bogofilter settings. I recently have seen a large uptick in volume from spam and some is getting through even though I have marked them as spam in the control panel. When I was under shared hosting I had a much more robust way of block based on key words in the emails and blocking at the domain level of the email address, I have nothing like that now. I am not a VPS expert at all so I though maybe some of you guys might ha…
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Hi there, are there any threads, or guides on good server/admin security and issue prevention? Thanks!
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Would this work for IPB? http://www.igvita.com/2008/02/11/nginx-and-memcached-a-400-boost/
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Hello folks, I hope I am in the right area. We recently purchased and installed the IPB software into our public_html folder in a sub-folder named "forums". This public_html is also occupied by a Joomla site we are building. The idea is to have our main landing page site www.widgets.com which we are developing with Joomla, and then we are going to insert a navigation tab on our main site to our IPB forum that will have www.widgets.com/forums. Are there reasons in the realm of SEO that this should not be done? My thinking was if we kept the two sites partnered up, it would be best for both, and also easier on me to administrate. Just to throw out to you what we hav…
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Hi guys, We have a high-traffic forums at the moment with: Queries per second avg: 189.481 I'd like to know about aggressive caching techniques for IPB. We've just came from vBullletin, and on that platform we used a terrific product called vb Optimise: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/product/1-vb-optimise/ The savings with this product were phenomenal (traffic on MySQL server came down to 20% of what it used to be), and I'd like to know if there is any similar product for IPB. I've already enabled Xcache with $INFO['use_xcache'] = 1; but at this moment I still can't figure what it exactly caches (the var_names it uses are random letters and numbers, I'd h…
Last reply by Gabriel Torres, -
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Hello, I have recently taken over the management of a forum and will be moving it over to a new server. Before committing to the transfer, I have been doing some trial runs to make sure everything will wok correctly the day I make it official. With that in mind, and with me being relatively new to managing the forum, I was hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction with a problem I am having. After completing the file and database backup and restore, I am able to visit the front page of the site and login on the new server, as well as visit the admin CP as well. However when I click on a forum to view it, I get a 404 not found on any thread I lo…
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