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My site started getting 500 server errors. Checking on things I found VERY high server loads 40+ I tried to see what was driving it and it was mysql hogging up all of the CPU I tried restarting mysql and the loads continued, I tried rebooting the ENTIRE server and the loads continued. Finally I put the IPB website into maintenance mode and the loads dropped to 1 Any ideas on what is going on and how or how I can fix it? Thank you in advance!! 🙂
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I have converted some tables from MyISAM to InnoDB, but some table conversions fail. Error: #1709 - Index column size too large. The maximum column size is 767 bytes. Contacted my hosting provider. Because I am on a shared hosting account (MySQL 5.6) a change of MySQL config is not possible. One recommended option was to reduce the index per column. E.g. with From: KEY path_segment (path_segment(255), uid) to: KEY path_segment (path_segment(185), uid) Anyone knows, what the exact implications of this would be? Does someone has experience with it? The second alternative option was to upgrade the hosting plan using MariaDB which has the neede…
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Hello, I have a server running a fresh install of CentOS 8 with apache 2.4.37, php 7.2.24, and mysql 5.7.32. I downloaded IPS 4.5.4 from my client area and uploaded it to my server. However when I attempt to browse to my site/admin/install it doesn't work. I receive http error 505 and nothing loads. I know the URL is fine and files are accessible because I can drop in a random .php file and access it with no problem. The ready check file shows my mysql version is not compatible, but it looks like it should be? Anyone have any ideas what may be wrong?
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Hi all, We are a large image-sharing community and are looking into cheaper options for Storage. I've started to float the idea with the other administrators of storing images off-server and onto Amazon S3. Is this a good idea? And if so, what storage settings should be on the S3, and which should be server-side? Thanks, Nowe
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I can address most problems with our board but there seems to be some glitches that I can't seem to resolve. Could you please recommend an honest independent IPS helper. Years ago I met and used a wonderful former IPS employee but I cant get him any more. Many thanks in advance
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Hello there, I'm using nginx fastcgi caching with php-fpm with great success (in terms of performance), the only problem is that the cache is not purged automatically after a member create or update content. For example: someone creates a new topic and no one can see it because nginx is serving a old cached version of the home. If you try to enter in new topic directly, by the url, no problem. But anyone else can't see it until you purge everything. Any ideas? My virtual host conf: server { server_name XXX www.XXX; root /var/www/XXXX; add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload" a> index …
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I want to upgrade but I wonder if there is a plugin or way for my members to sell their photography.
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Hello, i'm developing an app which has some IPS sources extension that are not listed in Developer Center. I'm creating an extension in sources directory which has ActiveRecord. Everything works fine but there is a problem while i'm telling IPS about database table name. IPS needs making database name as appname_tablename formula. My problem is i can't use appname_tablename but tablename instead. This is how it works fine: public static $databaseTable = 'myapp_tablename'; <-- this is working but i can't use that prefix This is how i need to do it: public static $databaseTable = 'tablename'; And of course tablename without m…
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Hi everyone, I've had excessive resource usage warnings coming in a lot and have gotten used to it. Mainly with spamd. After updating to PHP 7.4 the warnings are now constant, one or two every minute with lsphp now taking first prize in resources. Does the resource usage in my screenshot look normal? If it is perhaps I can reduce the warning emails, if it is high, does anyone have any suggestions on how to lower the resource usage? Thanks
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Hello everyone, We have tons of historical content we want to publish. The content: won't be posted in order could be hundreds of articles\pages, etc But we want to: display it on front-end in chronological order at a later date. I am told that articles use a database and can be sorted any way one wants. Haven't yet done that, because Im a noob and my understanding of the connection between articles and databases is a little vague at the moment. We have LOTS of content that will need to be displayed in chronological order - the entire history of a certain niche of paranormal. In addition, we have 3 small SQL databases we want to import…
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Hi, we use ips hosted solution 4.5.x Noticed that theres not a "sent" folder in messages. Just to play I added a "sent" folder by typing in the name, but do not see anything. Is this standard? Thanks! Keith
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Hello , how in the heck can I edit a page while on a mobile device ? It says to modify the page, visit it...but when I do I don't see any edit or custom blocks option. Thank you, Keith
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We have been running our current server on Cent OS 6 from last few years and now we are in a process to migrate to a bigger server and possibly Cent OS 7 as support for Cent OS 6 is finishing soon. Is there any preferred, recommended or advisable OS for IPB - only website or it doesn't matter? Debian, Ubuntu Server, CentOS 7, CloudLinux 7, Gentoo, ArchLinux, OpenSUSE Thanks in advance.
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Hello everyone, Today when a user registers to my community via GMAIL/FACEBOOK, his photo automatically sync and appears on the user forum profile. Can I disable the photo automatic sync? I think it's a little too much Invasion of privacy.
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We crashed the other day. There was a burst of traffic that caused out of memory errors which forced the server into 'read only' mode and then nothing worked, and when I tried rebooting the server it simply died. I'm back up and running now, but the site seems very slooooooooow much of the time. I involved my web host, and he tweaked a bunch of things, and said under normal circumstances I should be fine with our current VPS plan, but that he recommends I add CloudFlare to my site. I've done some reading about CloudFlare, and I am trying to wrap my head around what it actually does. It sounds like it serves cached static content straight from it's servers instead of …
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Hello, there. My ibf_core_search_index table has 4gb. Since I already rebuilt the index (without affecting it's size), can I simply clean the table to start from scratch? "Why" you ask... Imagine my surprise after discoverying my daily backups folder occupying a copious amount of space. Another pain was doing a simply database migration to another server (4gb for one table, there's the rest). Any help would be appreaciated. Thank you for your time in advance.
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In this topic, @ASTRAPI made a detailed description of what is and what the first byte contains, for which I thank him. For a few months now, I've been doing a lot of first byte analysis and testing in my installation. Here are the results I get - pay attention, these results are when tested with a Chrome browser developer tool and I only look at the waiting time, ie. real time in which the server started to work after request, and produces source code. Sorted as my stats, the results (probably over 1000 test) look like this: 70% - waiting time in the interval 90 - 150 ms 20% - waiting time in the interval 150- 400 ms 8% - waiting time i…
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Gday gents, I'm doing a rather straightforward migration of an IPS between 2 accounts on the same host (so no DNS update needed, just move the files and databases and update config). After importing the database to phpmyadmin on the new account, I receive the following: -- -- Database: `singap08_trznet` -- -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `trznetbbcode_mediatag` -- CREATE TABLE `trznetbbcode_mediatag` ( `mediatag_id` smallint(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, `mediatag_name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL, `mediatag_match` text COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL, `mediatag_repla…
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Hello, there. I'm about to migrate my forum to a new server and this is always a pain. To minimize downtime, what do you guys do during the migrate? My only plan was to close the board until the DNS pointing to the new server propagates. This always generate complaints. Is there a better way?
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I am completely dumb when it comes to server admin however I could do what I needed when I had cPanel/WHM installed on a standard dedicated server running CentOS. Back then I was running Xenforo which is also easy to manage...very much set and forget. I went to IPS and with IPS being more resource hungry I got a new dedicated server and got a Server Admin guy to set it all up for me and he setup CloudFlare, nginx and CentminMod however I now have to completely rely on him as I know nothing about any of this and it costs me dollars every time I need something done. The server guy says that he wont put cPanel or any other server contriol panel on the server nor will he…
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Hi, What is the best practice integrating google analytics with the ipb system? Thanks.
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Hi, how can I restrict you from connecting to the forum via VPN? I just want one IP to be used I really appreciate the help.
Last reply by Rhett, -
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I put different rights to files, upload files, does not work. Any ideas how to solve?
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SendGrid allows to send 100 e-mails per day if on the free plan. I am not sure how SendGrid handles this limit, if a Bulk Mail is sent/scheduled to reach several hundred subscribers. Will SendGrid send 100 mails/day until all Bulk Mails are sent? I fear this is not really possible and SendGrid would attempt to send all mails at once. I could also try to limit the number of mails to be sent via the task cycle...but this would make it somewhat complicated. Any suggestions on this? Or would it be best to upgrade so the daily mail limit is lifted?
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Hey fam! So, I just switched to 4.5.3 this week and it appears most of the kinks / bugs are worked out now. I also upgraded to PHP 7.3 and changed the caching method to Redis. I've noticed my forum loads slower than before the upgrade (when I was on 4.4 and using memcache). I've also had member complaints about it. I checked out a few other IPS forums and noticed they load lightning fast. Mine... not so much. It takes a few seconds for the pages to load. https://www.breatheheavy.com/exhale/ I have ads on my forum for non-subscribers, but even when viewing the forum with an ad-free account, it doesn't load quickly. Additionally, I visited so…
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