Classic self-hosted technical help

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1. 

   What Control Panel Do You Use?

   November 4, 2007 by Guest djxcee

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   Just curious to see what control panel people use these days. As of right now I plan on using Lxadmin because it comes with lighttpd. I'm the only person using my dedicated server so no need for reselling features and etc.

   

   Last reply by kdinla, February 11, 2008
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   Invision board server specs

   February 4, 2008 by Guest Dens

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   • 384 views

   Hi, I'm thinking about installing my board on a dedicated server but really would like to know what the best specs are for the server. My forum have about a 800 visitors a day. any suggestions?

   

   Last reply by FrostedPopTart, February 10, 2008
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   Split mysql reads/writes to different servers

   February 7, 2008 by Guest Deco20

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   By the way that's my case. I've got a sports related website hosted in 5 servers. On of the future problems I will have is that I do load balancing with the static content, the scripts, etc. but the database of the forum is in a "big" server and I'm afraid I will not be available to use mysql cluster to make load balance because no software forum seems to be ready to split writes and reads.

   

   Last reply by bfarber, February 8, 2008
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   Server Resource Issues

   January 29, 2008 by Guest DrumCorpsFan

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   I've been having a number of issues recently on my server which normally result in the system (RHES Rel 4 - dedicated) starting to swap pretty heavily - then down that slippery slope into oblivion. Watching 'top' shows me that before this happens, it appears that mysqld is running at >100% CPU and multiple httpd processes have stacked-up. We were able to catch a snapshot of the mySQL process list during a couple of these incidents and they've all looked very similar. Here's one example: 73333 dcp_forumdb localhost dcp_dcpforum Query 35 Locked UPDATE main_topics SET posts=8,topic_queuedposts=0,last_poster_id=19738,last_poster_name='drummerdud 73335 dcp_f…

   

   Last reply by bfarber, February 8, 2008
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   If subdomain doesn't exist...

   February 5, 2008 by Guest Axel Wers

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   In my error log is lot of such logs: [Tue Feb 05 21:07:54 2008] [error] [client xx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /path/mydomain.com/root/subdomain_which_doesn't exist When a visitor types to address bar this: www.mydomain.com/subdomain_which_doesn't_exist he will get 404 error Is there way how can I redirect all unknow addresses to main page via .htaccess? www.mydomain.com/subdomain_which_doesn't exist --->>redirect to--->> www.mydomain.com :)

   

   Last reply by 440net, February 6, 2008
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   Saving bandwith

   January 24, 2008 by Guest alienshe

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   Any tips on how to save on bandwith? Is it true that clicking the "View New Posts" option uses up a lot? Is there any way to ban members from using this? Also, does embedding youtube vids use much up? Thanks.

   

   Last reply by bfarber, January 28, 2008
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   Topic prune tips please

   January 26, 2008 by Guest fineline

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   • 263 views

   For reasons I won't bother you with, we have a very large database with 100,000 topics and well over a million posts. Can't really see any benefit in that and presumably makes the CPU work harder during searches. I found that using the topic prune takes an age, about 1 sec per topic. I zapped just 2000 topics last week and took over 30mins so to half our db would probably take around 14 hours at best. Was wondering what others have found the optimum number of posts per cycle was, I used 50, and could keeping the forums running during a prune cause any problems? Would it make sense to start the prune at say midnight when traffic is light, go to bed and forget it? W…

   

   Last reply by bfarber, January 28, 2008
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   UDG Connection...

   January 25, 2008 by Guest bwyatt

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   • 267 views

   Regarding Brandon's Tutorial, it won't work for me :/ I get the following error: Error Number: 2005 Error: Unknown MySQL server host ':/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (3) Did anyone else get this when they tried to switch to UDG, is there a solution? Yes, I did ensure that I got the right path down and yes UDG is a supported transport protocol... any ideas?

   

   Last reply by bfarber, January 28, 2008
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   phpMyAdmin to know what's going wrong ?

   January 24, 2008 by Guest SecondSight

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   • 187 views

   Hello ! :) I was told I could use phpMyAdmin to know the server status and gather information to configure my server. Is it useful ? Can you tell me about it ? How do you proceed to gather information in order to configure your server ? Thank you ! :)

   

   Last reply by SecondSight, January 26, 2008
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    Linux or Windows for server?

    January 22, 2008 by Guest 3DKiwi

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    • 163 views

    Hi. I'm looking to change hosts for a number of reasons. I currently have my site / forum running on a dedicated Linux server with PHP3 and MySQL 3.23. I want to change hosts and are looking at a host offering either a Linux server or a Windows server. Both with the current versions of PHP and MySQL. I'm more comfortable working in a Windows environment but are there any pitfalls running on Windows? Any issues moving my db? Thanks Nigel

    

    Last reply by 3DKiwi, January 25, 2008
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    Very slow queries causing IPS Driver Errors

    January 24, 2008 by Guest PePiPoo

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    • 325 views

    Recently my board has been getting increasing numbers of IPS Driver Errors, to the point where it's virtually unusable for hours in the middle of the day. The problem appears to be that (some) search queries are taking extremely long times to complete, and all the other queries coming in are just backing up. I turned on MySQL slow query logging and a couple of examples are shown below. Can anyone suggest where the problem is and what I can do to fix it? # Time: 080123 13:48:39 # User@Host: pepipoo[pepipoo] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 392 Lock_time: 0 Rows_sent: 409 Rows_examined: 134607 SELECT p.pid, p.queued, t.approved, t.forum_id FROM ibf_post…

    

    Last reply by ErwinB, January 25, 2008
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    Modifying my.cnf and then ?

    January 24, 2008 by Guest SecondSight

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    Hello ! :) I've made changes to my.cnf and saved the file. Should I restart mysql now or the whole server ? Thank you for your help. :)

    

    Last reply by SecondSight, January 24, 2008
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    Fastest FTP Transfer Software

    January 9, 2008 by Guest Solomon

    • 10 replies
    • 429 views

    Which is the fastest FTP Transfer Client/Software ?

    

    Last reply by Lewis P, January 20, 2008
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    I P B: Optimizing Server Load Issues

    November 19, 2007 by Guest keiichi_merged

    • 16 replies
    • 622 views

    I need help. Apparently my database file is causing excessive loads on my webhost at Host Gator and I don't know how to fix the problem. I have Google Ads running on my forums but this is the email message I received. Anyone know how I could correct this problem? And would increasing the memory on my forums cause this problem as well?

    

    Last reply by loccom, January 17, 2008
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    How to .cgi errors

    January 12, 2008 by Guest DawPi

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    I am greeting, I would like to do logs of errors on my side. Yes how it is in IPB that he is writing logs and errors down to the file. cgi Would I be able to obtain more information for this subject? I am greeting, DawPi

    

    Last reply by DawPi, January 12, 2008
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    How to move db to new server?

    January 10, 2008 by Guest yacenty

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    My site is growing and growing so I'm thinking about dividing services into 2 servers - one for nginx and php and second one only for db. How can I do it? What should I edit? setup? or sth? Thanks in advance, BR YacentY

    

    Last reply by yacenty, January 10, 2008
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    Server overload caused by IPB SEO

    January 9, 2008 by Guest Lindsey_

    • 15 replies
    • 363 views

    Dear Lindsey, During the last 24 hours SiteGround has detected that an application hosted on your account ******.net has overloaded the server several times. This makes your account potentially dangerous for the other users hosted on our standard shared server. To protect the server performance and the customers' websites hosted on this server we had to disable the web access to the application creating the overload. This means that this application will not be accessible until the problem is resolved. The server log shows that the application called 'index.php' file and consumed more than 75% of the server's memory: PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S C…

    

    Last reply by AndyF, January 9, 2008
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    MySQL program

    January 8, 2008 by Guest Shawn Alain

    • 1 reply
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    Is there a program out there that lets you manipulate and contral MySQL as well as the MS ACCESS does for SQL?

    

    Last reply by bfarber, January 8, 2008
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    Blank board

    January 8, 2008 by Guest dsrbo

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    Hi, we recently performed a system upgrade on our servers and in the process of updating, we did upgrade to Apache 2.2.4, PHP 5.2.3, and MySQL 5.0.45. Now the board only displays a blank page from time to time. The admin area works without any issues. We do have the IpbWiki bridge installed, no other customizations. I now have tried with and without IpbWiki, but it does not make any differences. The board just ends up in a blank page, no error messages end up in the Apache logs, or in the PHP log files. I have seen other posts concerning this, but yet have not seen any solution. I am suspecting that the Apache configuration with Min/Max servers might be the reas…

    

    Last reply by AndyF, January 8, 2008
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    small error after upgrading mysql and php

    January 6, 2008 by Guest loccom

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    Hi Some members are having the following errors on very large threads. We never had this problem before the upgrade to mysql 5.0.4.5 and PHP 5.2.5 Does anyone have any ideas what i need to change?? the server has 4 gig of memory and plent to go round. thankx

    

    Last reply by bfarber, January 7, 2008
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    Backing up files on dedicated server

    December 21, 2007 by Guest FrostedPopTart

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    Here's the deal. I just got a dedicated server for a site that my friend and I are running. I had backup software called MyBackup that I installed on there. All worked fine on my shared server, but when I installed it on the dedicated server, it crashed. Repeatedly. So I am now hunting for some better software that will allow me to back up both my MySQL databases, as well as my web files; on a regular basis. It needs to have the above capabilities, plus: * Password protection (so that no one besides me and the other guy can run the script). * The ability to GZIP the files. * The ability to backup multiple file directories at once. * Etc. Any ideas?

    

    Last reply by Solomon, January 6, 2008
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    Ipb On Ipower.com Hosting Service

    November 28, 2007 by Guest klwebb

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    • 177 views

    If anyone is on ipower.com hosting and using IPB with them before october 1st of this year and has now been transitioned over to the new hosting control panel VDeck 3.0 - how what your transition? Where there any hic-ups when ipower moved all the files over to the new servers based on VDeck 3.0? If so what did you have to fix?

    

    Last reply by BlackDrag, December 19, 2007
23. 

    Google Adsense

    November 29, 2007 by Guest pattaya-live

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    • 254 views

    Just spent a few hours searching for references that will assist me with restricting the access to a board by the Google Adsense Bot. I have Adsense throughout the board, but wish to keep the adsense bot limited to the Guest areas. I understand that will reduce the relevance of the adsense 'ads'. All links and thoughts welcome. Thanks.

    

    Last reply by bfarber, December 3, 2007
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    Question About Assistance In Moving To Another Host

    November 28, 2007 by Guest RobVT

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    • 195 views

    I have been on Bluehost for a year and I have to tell you it has been horrible. The dreaded CPU quota error that so many complain about has bit me. Because of this I am being forced to go back to my old host. I did not like their Customer Service but I never got these annoying errors. So with that being said, I am not fully comfortable moving all these files and DB for my forum over to the other host. So are there any guys here that would be interested in doing it. I can tell you the site total is about 15gb to move. I am just not comfortable moving these files and something with the DBs getting hosed with my board. And the files on the current server that I need. …

    

    Last reply by RLPVT, December 3, 2007