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I get flood on my website , and i find on a website that use same IPB a flood control. Can anyone now what is this hook and how can i install him? Thank You verry verry much!! " alt="5e5njp.jpg">
Last reply by Cosmin Florian, -
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Deprecation Warning This is an old guide written for IPS 3.4.x and contains advice and recommendations that are no longer valid or compatible with IPS4. For IPS4 installations, please use the link below to access the latest Nginx+PHP-FPM installation guide. https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/424510-setting-up-a-secure-nginxphp-fpm-installation-for-ips4/ Setting up a secure IP.Board installation with NGiNX This is a guide for those interested in setting up an IP.Board installation using NGiNX as their primary web server. This guide will mostly just cover the basics. In the future, I plan to write …
Last reply by Saiga, -
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I did not find may topics about Cloudflare, so I wanted to see who is using it with their IPB install. All I see is some DNS changes that need to be made, but I'm wondering if it will actually bring in site performance. The security seems a good thing. I mostly want to serve my images a bit faster over maybe a cdn and speed up browsing but since the site is not that big, I don't want to pay allot for a cdn. I have about 23k pages views a month with 3k or so unique visitors, as far as my site traffic. Any suggestions?
Last reply by handsoffsam, -
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Hi, i have few questions about search-engine optimization. 1) As i understood in IPS bots(spiders), don't have separate group, but they use permissions based on guest group. So, if in permissions i set that guests can't read topics, it means that bots also can't index topic titles and tags for topics? Should i make specific group(permission set) for bots? 2) Sitemaps. Is there any step by step tutorial for newbie? 3) Meta tags. To separate them we should use commas? Like: blue yeti, white yeti, brown yeti? after commas we should use white space?
Last reply by wimg, -
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Ok I have contacted support about this and they can't help. I need to fix the auto_incresment in the members table. IPS support told me to contact my host and have them fix it. They had no idea on how to fix it. So I am asking here. How do I fix this issue
Last reply by Sinistra Sensei, -
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How do you link the site to your domain?
Last reply by Ae9803, -
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hi if i do the sql backup( which i do religiously) what does it save. i just use the standard settings as below. if i get hacked will i be able to restore all data including posts with formatting etc? member lists? in other words it will take me back to the day of my backup without any loss of data? the option for skiing non-essential data leave as yes. is that ok? MySQL 5.1.56-log Backup Simple Backup Add 'CREATE TABLE' statements? YesNo Skip non essential data? YesNo Will not produce insert rows for sessions, admin_sessions, captcha. GZIP Content? YesNo
Last reply by traderob, -
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This morning I was setting up my email client through godaddy/outlook for my forum. It failed because I accidentally configured it to ping my forum's URL...which I did over and over again b/c I did not realize the error. In an odd twist of fate, I've been unable to access my forum since this email setup failed. I cannot get on to any page on my forum, ACP and even File Zilla times out when trying to connect to the servers (I host w/IPS). When I couldn't get on with my deskptop, I turned on my laptop and it had the same issue; yet it worked fine earlier. Also, both computers are currently having zero issues accessing every other website on the planet. My site i…
Last reply by NewToAllThis, -
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Hi guys. Please advice optimal xcache config to run IPB on quad-core dedicated server with 8GB RAM. Share your config if you find it good enough if possible. P.S. I also heard that it's better to use memcached for variable caching. But if I set var_size=0 in xcache config I get PHP Warnings generated by IPB xcache module. Any idea how to combine xcache + memcached in IPB? Thx.
Last reply by AlexJ, -
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Hello Guys, I am quite a newb when it comes to optimizing apache + xcache, and I was willing to pay someone to optimize my server. I tried to send a message to Gary, but he has not been on in a long time.
Last reply by Ae9803, -
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The setting "Default 404 error page" in IP.Content is set to 404.html, and I have created a 404.html page in IP.Content that is accessible to everyone. However, the 404 is only being redirected to in IP.Content. For example, if visiting a non-existent page on the Forums or other apps, it just reloads the page. I had this in .htaccess: ErrorDocument 404 http://xr3x.com/page/404.html I then uploaded a 404.html to the root and tried the following for .htaccess: ErrorDocument 404 http://xr3x.com/404.html ErrorDocument 404 /404.html But same issue! Anyone know what the problem is?
Last reply by denis faucher, -
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Hello, for the past few weeks our forum has been booming with new members and since then, the site has been very slow and sometimes even offline, even during performance mode. After contacting both the host and IPS, turns out we've outgrown our shared hosting server. I quote: You have 250 users in 15 minutes, that is way more than a shared host can handle in most cases. You also have a peak of 775 users in 15 minutes as well, with numbers in that area, you need a dedicated server to handle the load. Not that I don't believe this, but this would mean going from a hosting package a couple of dollars per month, to something from +150 dollars per month, or at least at o…
Last reply by Enkidu, -
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Does any one know how to fix the issue of the template breaking when enabling minify JS/CSS?
Last reply by Dmacleo, -
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Hi evry body, my IPBoard DB is about 700mb of size with some tables with more than 100mb like "inline_notification" and "spider_log", i am wondering if i can truncate those tables to reduce the size of my db, can that affect my db and my community !?
Last reply by Janyour, -
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Some search engines resort url parameters. url 1: /index.php?showtopic=2&page=2 to new url 2: /index.php?page=2&showtopic=2 "url 1" redirected to /2-topic/2-page but "new url 2" not redirected to /2-topic/2-page problem: clones of pages How to solve this in ipb 3.4.5? Or may be some modifications in files...
Last reply by Aleksandr Sozykin, -
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Hi all, I create a test install of ipboard on a subdomain for my website. I install the board on the domain I wanted sub.domain.com the thing is because they dont offer support for test installations I need to ask here I want the members to be registered normally on the sub domain installation aswell so it wont feel as different website. I got the URL and Key from tools & settins -> Log in Management ( the ips connect is disabled on master ) and I put the info I got on the subdomain (ipsconnect is enabled) at this point Im stuck what exactly I must do now to syncrhonize the members ? thanks
Last reply by falafel, -
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Hey does anyone here use cloudflare? I just set it up for my site and I cannot tell if it is making my site faster or slower and if i should keep google pagespeed on. What cloudflare settings ( cdn, +basic, +full ) do you guys use for the forum.
Last reply by blair, -
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My forum does not work because of CHMOD issues. I have tried changing the permissions to 644, 755, 777 etc, but nothing is happening. I raised a ticket but would hope to fix this asap. Anyone have the answer for the fix?
Last reply by Rhett, -
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Hello, Has anyone had any experience moving their communities to Amazon Web Services? Right now, we have a dedicated Dell server co-located in Chicago. It's got a quad-core Xeon, 8GB ram, and RAID1 15,000RPM hard drives. We're nearing the 3 year mark, and I don't want to use our machine much longer than that. I'm interested in AWS for a few reasons: 1) High availability, 2) impossibly simple scalability, and 3) robust features, like the Cloud Front CDN. We'd likely want to use EC2 for our Linux instances, RDS for our IPS database, and S3 for our data storage. As you would know if you've experimented with AWS, it's VERY TEDIOUS to setup... Does anyone have…
Last reply by BikeHub, -
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NOTE: This is a review post for the PageSpeed web server module, not for the actual PageSpeed service by Google Now that ngx_pagespeed has improved a bit, and since I've seen a few members discussing the module recently, I've decided to give it another chance. I've spent several hours toying with the configuration and testing the results of various filters. Overall, I still don't find PageSpeed to be worth the hassle. There are a number of reasons for that. The idea/concept behind PageSpeed sounds pretty nice. It has filters that rewrite your forums HTML output. It can collapse whitespace, rewrite your CSS/Javascript and so on. These basic filters alone can shave ar…
Last reply by Dmacleo, -
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I'm currently paying a fair amount to host my forum, but I'm sure I'm over paying and don't need the amount I'm paying for. Forum stats: 750k posts 15k topics 150-200 average online I'm on a cloud server with 2GB ram with a daily backup, and its costing me over £100 a month. What do others use to host forums, what should I really need?
Last reply by Makoto, -
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Instead of using innodb, I've switched to tokudb as an experiment in a dev environment. Has anyone tried this? I ran into some strange behaviors so I was wondering if this was too wild a move. Ever since tokudb became opensource and after reading about it, I thought it would be an interesting option.
Last reply by Darvil, -
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I'm new to IP Boards and I'm trying to get it up and running. I'm using nginx and PHP-FPM. The site runs even with friendly URLs but the issue is users can't login to the public side. The page just refreshes and they are not logged in. I've tried wrong login info to make sure it was doing stuff and it works. I'm pretty convinced that it had something to do with my nginx configuration. The others I've tried were: try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri; try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri; I have been running WordPress, MediaWiki, phpBB and OpenX with the above config and they all work. My nginx configuration http:…
Last reply by Dmacleo, -
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I've been trying to implement friendly URLs to my community website, and I've been following this guide: http://www.devcu.com/forums/topic/262-furl-friendly-urls-with-ipb-and-nginx/ However I really don't know what I'm doing (I didn't set this up, only inherited this system) and I'm hoping to get some help. I want to achieve this: http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/page/index.html becomes http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/ http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/index becomes http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/forums/ Here is the config for NGINX for my subdomain http://community.pcgamingwiki.com: http://pastebin.com/HgiZSjY1 Any idea what I would need to do to c…
Last reply by Andrew Tsai, -
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Hello, for a long time i had due to convert my board to UTF-8, right now with MySQL data inside an SSD took >200mins, what i need/want to do is to truncate some big tables which i could not need, im posting here to ask which ones would you empty since im not sure about the user or impact of some tables being emptied right now i have something like this: ipb_reputation_totals ~958,917 ipb_reputation_cache ~520,415 ipb_forums_archive_posts 404,908 ipb_profile_portal_views 386,432 ipb_conv_link ~371,834 ipb_nexus_customers 357,627 ipb_pfields_content 350,084 ipb_profile_portal ~332,298 ipb_reputation_index 165,345 ipb_core_item_m…
Last reply by Luis Manson,
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