Randy Calvert

If an app is only flagged for version 4.5 it won’t show in ACP for 4.6. You would find it in the IPS marketplace website but it won’t let you install it and instead just give you info about the file. The only way to install it from marketplace is for the file to be flagged as being valid for the release you’re running. When (if) version 4.7 is released and folks are running it…. It will once again disappear from the marketplace for those users until it is flagged as being compatible with that version. For users that already have the app installed, it will remain installed. You just can’t install a new app that is not known to be compatible with your current version whatever it is.

I’m not aware of a comprehensive list of each permission. However to answer your questions… The messenger option controls allowing someone to edit the default permissions for notifications. (Email, push notifications) and allows an admin to specify if a member can edit their own settings from the default. The mobile app settings are no longer used. I assume you’re not running the latest version of IPB as that option would not appear any longer in the new versions of the software. Logs/Settings/Diagnostic tools all apply I believe to the resources in the support section. Regarding permissions… there are more permissions to grant than what you showed in your screen shot. Check along the top as there should be things like Forums, Converters, and options for other apps you might have like Commerce and Pages. It might be worth upgrading to the latest version and then checking to see what permissions you have available to grant a limited admin has changed also. One question I might pose is what are you wanting someone to be able to do in the AdmincCP specifically? It might be easier to approach helping that way.

Hey @Jordan Miller… a crazy idea here… I loved the interview you did with Charles earlier. As a follow up, what about a session around IPB’s CiC offering? Maybe with Lindy or someone else who is familiar with the CiC architecture. The idea would be to: Show the value of having a fully hosted solution and all of the work that goes into making it a premium offering. (It would be a great response to the “well I can host it with X provider for only Y per month”) It would show the work that goes into developing an enterprise class solution and show the thought that went into various areas around those key areas such as redundancy and availability that others don’t have to think about with the hosted solution. It would provide thought leadership around best practices on things self hosted customers could take if they wanted to put in the time/effort to do things themselves. The idea would be to promote better and more secure communities for everyone which is in all of our interests. I understand that a video might be difficult, but this could also be a series of blog posts as well. Would love to collaborate on something if you’re interested.

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Hi folks! I wanted to start a topic to discuss best practices around scaling a website in the cloud. Today my IPB site runs on a VPS that I have full root level access to. All of the system services needed run on the box. (A full LAMP stack along with DNS and email.) I’m looking at building out a new cloud-based design that I’m hoping will allow for Better availability Improved performance Increased security My initial thought for the deployment would be the following: Initially deploy 2 cloud servers to serve as the web tier. (This would be scaled up as needed) These servers would only allow traffic on 80/443 to the internet. Server to run only Apache and PHP. (Disable all other services) Limit SSH to internal network which would be accessed via VPN. Load balance requests between all of the web servers equally. Deploy one master RDB instance with a read only shard. Create firewall rule to only allow MariaDB to communicate over MySQL port. Deploy a cloud server to handle Redis and ElasticSearch. This server would not have public IP address and only be accessible from within the VPC. Only Redis and ElasticSearch ports would be allowed to access web tier. Setup SES to handle outbound email sending. I would use a 3rd party service to handle inbound email. Use Cloudflare as WAF and bot protection in front of the site. Limit LB to only accept requests from Cloudflare IP addresses to ensure someone does not bypass security controls. I’m struggling with how to handle storage. I could attach an EBS volume and use it for the entire home directory. This would simplify updates so that updating one instance updates all web instances. However it would also mean if an update goes south, it takes down all of my instances at the same time. I could also instead only use EBS for things like the uploads folder and other locations in the file system settings. Then simply take a server out of production, update it… then add it back to the pool once complete. I’m trying to think through the pros and cons of each approach. One challenge I see is that even if I went with the second approach, the IPB updater may make changes to the DB. This may more than likely break the site while the update is occurring on the server not in production. Does anyone have any thoughts on the best approach to handle this? Are there other areas I should be considering as well?

You could do something similar by using the group promotions feature. Make a “Newbie” group that has more limited permissions (such as no ability to post links, must be moderator approved, no PMs etc). Then use the group promotion feature to automatically upgrade them from Newbie to Member after X posts. I *think* you can also do it after X days but I’m at lunch right now and can’t look. Basically develop the conditions you want them to meet to be promoted from Newbie to Member.

Your host should be able to tell you what the absolute path is for your website. On cPanel servers, this is /home/username/public_html/ If that is your absolute path, you would just add /forums/upload to the end of it. (Making the assumption all of your IPS files are in the forums directory. Once you know your correct path, edit your conf_global.php file and correct the entry in it referring to the bad location. If you moved hosts as well, make sure your file permissions are set correctly on the uploads folder and the files/folder under it to prevent other issues that might happen after the board is back online. 🙂

IPB is compatible with 7.4. I’ve been running it for months without issue. My guess is when you upgraded your PHP, you missed adding a few of the required PHP modules. Run the system requirements script and it will tell you what you’re missing.

If you’re asking if IPS has a wiki application, the answer is no. You can create much of a wiki’s functionality using the Pages application, including creating databases that allow your members to create and update content, track changes etc.

Yes. I’m using the latest stable version. No problems on 4.6.9. So it’s not that. There would be a lot more people posting in this thread if it was a version compatibility issue. 🙂

No problems for me. It looks like a bucket permission or credential problem from Google searching. Have you checked your config to make sure your credentials did not get goofed in your upgrade? You might just make a new Wasabi API credential and use it to make sure it’s not a problem with the account itself.

I would recommend editing your posts above to remove your phone number for privacy sake. Instead I would make sure your contact info (email and phone) are updated in the client area. Also FYI… there is an announcement posted that IPS offices are closed from the 24th-27th. The announcement says to use the Client Area with the word “Urgent” in the subject line for urgent issues.

The idea is you disable ALL plugins and test. If it happens with ALL plugins disabled, you know it's not the plugins causing the problem. If it starts working, you turn on the plugins one by one, testing each until you find the one causing problems. You figure out which is broken by process of elimination.

You could create a rule which promotes anyone who has more than X content into a new member group. Then give that group permission to create clubs. Search the ACP for Group Promotion Rules for the area to set this up. I do something similar for new members. They actually can’t post links until they have more than 10 content items. Once they do, they’re moved from the default group (I call it Newbies) to the group “Members” which does have permission to post links.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! I greatly appreciate all of the hard work from our marketplace developers and those who are smart enough to customize code so that I don’t have to try to slap some half-baked code together that might or might not have a million security holes in it.

IPS staff don’t generally spend much time in this forum as it’s meant for peer to peer assistance. If you can’t post in an officially supported forum, I would recommend using the Contact Us page and asking the Sales or Account staff to move the ticket to the appropriate place. https://invisioncommunity.com/contact-us/

Anytime. It was a learning experience for myself... so I appreciate the chance to pickup something new. Also for your own reference later... once you create the block, the embed code will give you two snippets you will need to use: The "boot loader" which will need to be added to your Wordpress global template in either in your <head> tag, or just before the </body> tag. (I would suggest putting this in the global template so that you only have to do it once and can embed IPB blocks on ANY page on your Wordpress site.) This handles loading the CSS and other template stuff needed. That code will look something like: <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.YOURDOMAIN.COM/applications/cms/interface/external/external.js' id='ipsWidgetLoader'></script> Wherever you want the block content itself to appear, add the embed block code that will look something like: <div id='block_SOME_MD5_HASH_PROVIDED_BY_IPB' data-blockID='YOUR_BLOCKNAME' class='ipsExternalWidget' data-inheritStyle='true'></div>

There are two scenarios that I've seen trigger this previously; mod_security blocking the request Using a WAF that is intercepting/blocking the request I would suggest start by checking if you're using a WAF first. If so, for testing purposes disable it long enough to confirm. If that does not do it, move onto checking mod_security. https://ubiq.co/tech-blog/how-to-disable-mod_security-in-apache-using-htaccess/ The above URL has some guidance on various ways of how to do this.

Ahhh I see now. I had to actually go back and do this myself. Once the block is defined, back at the main block selection screen in the drop down is an option for external embed. I learned something new today! Thank you very much!

Hey Mark... just to clarify... using blocks would allow a user to embed the code into a 3rd party system such as Wordpress? The way I was reading the OP's request... she wants to take the calendar or other areas from IPB and have it embedded into a Wordpress instance that obviously would be outside of IPB. The only way I could think to do that would be to export the IPB content via RSS and have Wordpress import the RSS feed. I was not aware of a way for the block system to be used outside of the IPS framework itself to display content in something like Wordpress or Joomla, etc.

The only time I saw this happen was with a browser cache issue. As a test, try making the change with a different browser. If that works, try popping the original browser cache.

IPB uses the default php mail function which should work with Sendmail. You should be fine. If you have problems with this, IPB also supports sending mail via other methods such as SMTP or with other big 3rd part mail delivery services.

One thing that I’ll point out is that disabling these functions is RECOMMENDED and not REQUIRED. These functions are not used by IPB, but they might be used in other scripts. In a shared hosting environment, each administrator must juggle what modules to support to balance security with functionality. Saying they have support for IPB means they meet all of the minimum requirements. They can meet that requirement list without those modules being disabled. Think of it as more of a good idea than “it must be done”.

Yea!! @SeNioR- make sure @Jordan Miller sends you a cookie! 😄

This depends on the settings of the community. Some individuals allow posting from guests, or have it so that someone can START posting a topic, but be forced to complete the registration before the post actually appears. As a result, it would not be good to just “default block” that path. 🙂