Randy Calvert

ACP - System - Applications Click on the star next to the application you want to be the default.

The newer versions of IPB don’t have older support for PHP7. If you’ve not already upgraded to a version of IPB that supports PHP8, you’ll need to do a manual upgrade from the client area.

That’s generally it. You might need to rebuild your system cache from the ACP support area.

Yes, a cloud feature. Based on what has been said previously in the video sessions… users would be able to comment/chat during a live event. Afterwards it would show as a forum topic so the conversation can continue. It sounds something like a Facebook livestream where users comment/chat during a stream, but afterwards it’s turned into a forum thread with all of the messages being made replies. I’ve not seen it first hand. Only describing what I’ve heard about it so far.

There is nothing built in any longer. However there are some different third party resources such as a few found at: https://invisioncommunity.com/search/?&q=Chat&type=downloads_file&search_and_or=or

It's absolutely possible. If someone else on the same VPN is attacking a CiC site, the IPS firewall would block the IP address. Does the action still happen if they temporarily turn the VPN off?

The message says it was attempting to drop a table that does not exist. It's not needed, but apparently did not exist in your install, so there is nothing to worry about.

Did you rebuild the ranks as Nathan noted above? That will fix the Newbie issue. There is a guide that explains how these work more at:

You can try turning off suppression of PHP errors to see what PHP is specifically choking up on. Try adding something like the following to your htaccess: php_flag display_startup_errors on php_flag display_errors on php_flag html_errors on

If your hosted on AWS platform, you can send 62K emails free per month. My site is on Invision's CiC now, which is on AWS. As a result, I can use their free tier for sending email. (This site averages around 10K emails per month.)

By the way... I use Amazon's SES to send email via SMTP. In order to connect to it, you have to use TLS as the protocol and 587 as the port. But that can vary from provider to provider. That's why you may need to check with your hosting provider to see what settings they require.

What is your domain's MX record set to? That's what I would enter into that field in the majority of cases. Your host would be able to confirm if that's correct. Are you using cPanel? If so, it might help you find your settings. https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/email/how-to-find-email-settings/

This is a configuration issue. I'm almost willing to bet it's an issue with the SMTP Protocol and/or port. Most mail servers today don't allow "Standard/Plaintext Authentication" for example. Many other servers also require different ports outside of 25... for example with Google, the port would be 587. IPB can only submit a request to your mail server. It does not control the response from it.

If its working for you and for everyone else... it's very likely something localized to that user. Either they have a local firewall blocking it, their cache has a bad copy of the file, or something similar.

It looks like he edited his post to say that it works now. 🙂

One thing I might suggest is turning off all 3rd party resources (applications/plugins) and creating a new default theme. Switch to that theme, and test creating an account using a different browser not logged in.

I assume you've done the basics of disabling all of your 3rd party applications/plugins to make sure one of those is not interfering with the operation?

I don’t think one exists. It would need to be created.

Manual queries are not OFFICIALLY supported by IPS. If it matters that much, it may be worth having a third party plugin created to do this.

From the support section of your ACP, try clearing the system cache. It should force the theme files to be rebuilt.

ACP - Customization - Appearance - Themes Edit a theme… the Font Scale tab is what you want.

That most likely means the post was moved somewhere non-public or was hidden. The folks in the community won’t know why.

All of that can be done using pages, etc. That includes adding images.

I've never used Lightsail. But from what I read, it runs on the same platform as EC2 and is just a stripped down version of it. If you DO use Lightsail, you would want to make sure to choose just the Amazon Linux 2 OS template (not a LAMP instance) if you're going to use the script above. If you're going to use one of their LAMP stacks, you will want to need to confirm it meets all of the system requirements as I don't know if it has all of the required PHP modules. If you're not familiar with SSH, I would suggest Google for some tutorials and videos. There are plenty out there. I don't know what OS you're using, but the following guide has some info: https://www.clickittech.com/aws/connect-ec2-instance-using-ssh/ Also there is no such thing as just "hosting" on Amazon. If you're not comfortable managing a web server, database server, etc... you're most likely better off not using AWS. There is no technical support and if/when something goes wrong... you're on your own. For example changing from PHP7 to PHP8... if you don't know what you're doing and how to upgrade it, how are you going to maintain it long term? If you don't know anything about managing servers, SSH, FTP, etc... you might want to consider having IPS host it for you with one of their cloud offerings.

It’s just like any other blank server. You just need to setup services like Apache, PHP, etc. I made a script to help me automate setting up a web server that could run IPB. (I had MySQL, Redis, etc running elsewhere.) You’ll need to use SES or another SMTP service as AWS blocks those ports to EC2. The above would be run via SSH from the ec2-user account.