Randy Calvert

Replying to a question I asked on who can ask questions. When you click on a question in the sidebar... It filters the display to just that question and answers to it, but it does not set the reply to automatically be to the question. It instead is a generic comment.

Is there some sort of way to flag which posts were questions vs which were just chat?

Why would someone ask a question versus just type it into the chat?

Can you control who can ask questions or who can answer questions?

Is there any plans to easily schedule live events? (Have it tied with the events system, RSVPs, reminders?)

When creating a live event with video, what platforms are supported? (Zoom, Webex, Google video, Facebook live?)

Here's what I would do if I were you: Disable all 3rd party applications & plugins. Switch to a default non-customized IPS theme. Switch your server to PHP 8. Use the compatibility checker script to confirm you have all of the required PHP modules installed in your PHP8. Manually upload the files of the new version from your client area to your server. Visit yourdomain.com/admin/upgrade and follow the prompts to do the upgrade. Check if any 3rd party modifications require an update (there's a button to manually check in the applications page). After you apply the updates you can safely re-enable those modifications. Go to your Support Page in ACP and fix any remaining issues listed on the page. If you still have disabled applications and/or plugins after the above steps, re-enable them 1 by 1 to make sure they are compatible with PHP 8.

Take a look in core_javascript. Again, it's highly recommended you make a backup of your database and understand these modifications are not directly recommended or supported by IPS. So if something breaks... 😉

Also... I just tested this by pasting this into a block and adding the block to the page. It worked fine like that. Also testing uploading via the editor instead of the file attachment system. This is a test.... 4_file_example_MP3_700KB.mp3

Where are you putting that code into? Are you pasting it into a post or are you making it part of your raw pages template?

The only way to make this work if you're using your domain for mail today (meaning like Office 365, Google, or some VPS running mail) is to use multiple mail servers. So you might have me@mydomain.com, noreply@mydomain.com, etc all pointing to mx.mydomain.com (Google for example). That stays as-is so as not to disrupt existing mail. Anything related to the IPB community could be noreply@SOMETHING.mydomain.com. Basically a vanity address pointing to something controlled by IPS. something.mydomain.com could point to a mail server that is controlled by IPS that could receive the bounces and maybe even forward inbound to me@mydomain.com. Or instead of forwarding inbound email, possibly pipe it into Commerce into a ticket queue.

Your Font Awesome icons are not showing. I would start by going to the ACP support section and rebuilding your system cache.

Just make it inaccessible for two minutes. For example, password protect the site or just rename index.php long enough for the check.

OK. Let's go to the basics. Have you uploaded the IPS compatibility script to make sure the new host meets the requirements? Since you said you're not changing domain names, have you confirmed your original URL is properly routed to your new host's DNS?

It is used not just for uploads, but anywhere that bucket is called. For example, if that bucket is set to be used for your themes, the JS and would use that custom URL. Now... remember when you change the bucket where your theme is served out of, you might need to rebuild your system cache from the ACP so that it starts using the new custom URL in any locally cached output.

There is no way to limit a category only to images. I actually renamed “images” within the language string to change it to “content” to better accommodate promoting images and videos.

As Marc noted... this is most likely because you have not assigned your Admin group as having access to Moderator privileges. ACP > Members > Staff > Moderators Make sure the Administrator group is added.

Let’s start with what video are you following and what step are you failing at. That would let us understand what exactly you’re doing here.

What you're failing to understand is that IPS basically has a HEAVILY modified version of CKEditor that is used. It's not possible to just "drop in" a new version of CKEditor without breaking a TON of different areas of the core IPB software. Those functions are based on CKEditor 4.x and dropping in CKEditor 5.0 code will break existing IPB code when it starts interacting in ways it was never intended to do. Think of it this way... the editor is most likely the most commonly used component in the entire suite. You use it virtually EVERYWHERE. Anytime you touch even a very small component of this is very dangerous and can cause unintended consequences. Now we're talking about replacing it basically with a new from the ground up code base. Just dropping in a new set of code is going to break 100 different things that no one would ever think about. That's like saying can you just swap out the foundation of your house. Is it possible? Sure... but it's a heck of a lot of work, potentially dangerous, and something that needs to be very CAREFULLY planned/executed.

I don't mean to butt in, but one thing to check is that /tmp/ on the server that is extracting the file has sufficient space and/or permission. If installing other plugins is working, it might be something with the upload.

Yes. Typically it's targeted only to show to people impacted though. For example, it had an Elasticsearch message in it once, and another during the PHP7->PHP8 time. 🙂

This is highly dependent on your specific Apache/PHP setup. I would recommend disabling anything one by one and letting changes bake a few weeks so you can catch any unexpected/unintended consequences. In general, I would recommend reviewing: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/ This will tell you what a majority of modules do. You can then evaluate your conf file folders and see if those directives are used in any way. (If so, they'll stop working.) Some general thoughts on the module list you provided are below... again, I don't know your specific server setup so don't take any of this as gospel. What is good to disable for me might be required for you based on your host entry setup, how PHP is compiled, etc.

4.5 introduced support for the marketplace. However that version is nearly 3 years old. My guess is the specific resource you’re looking at is not flagged by the owner as being compatible with that version of IPB. I would highly recommend you upgrade to the latest version. If you’re running it, you’re running a version of PHP that gets ZERO security upgrades and there have been several versions of IPB that have had security bug fixes since then.

There is not a log of emails sent by the contact us form. If it was not logged by the mail server itself, it’s lost.