Elliot Marx

Anyways please Invision Board cancel my membership. This software is way too high maintenance for me. I wanted to make this a full fledged forum but it's been impossible to get off the ground. The software is so picky that if I want to upgrade, I need to make sure the upgrade happens every two weeks or so or I run the risk of doing an upgrade that will crash everything. Forum topic reference formats have changed several times making it difficult to create external links. This time I went from 4.7.1 to 4.7.4 and got punished for it. The only thing I've been able to use the forum successfully is doing my own posts with pictures. I can do the same with my own website design and there are plenty of social media options as an alternative. 15 years of this. I figured give this a new start, got excited that the hCaptcha was supposed to allow guests posts while blocking spam but then my whole forum got infected with Cialis this gof--kme that etc. so I had to stop. Good luck to whoever is still using this service. It's just not for me.

That's only one of the problems. I clearly have plenty of memory on my host provider. If you guys want to keep saying it's my problem and my stupidity, good for you. I'm an engineer with 30+ years of experience. I've built the rest of my website and databases to go with it and it has zero issues. I redid my entire website to work with PHP8.0+. And any time I did run into an issue, the web host worked me through exactly what I needed to do to fix it. In my 15 years of dealing with Invision Power Services, all I get is you're stupid, you did this wrong, it's someone else's problem. And not even the courtesy of a phone call. Sorry I'm DONE DONE DONE!!!!

Between the host iPage and Invision Community, each side is saying it's the others responsibility... Great.

@Randy CalvertI'm using PHP Version 8.0.19. That should not be the problem. And for #2 I have no clue how to do what you're saying there. @Marc Stridgen Yes I'm still having issues. I also got the admin login wrong so got locked out from the upgrading process for 14 minutes. But I managed to update my access details for FTP so let's get started there ASAP please. Now when I try to recover my password I get the following error: An error occurred (500 Error) We're sorry, but a temporary technical error has occurred which means we cannot display this site right now. Error writing file '/tmp/MY12Y0t4' (Errcode: 28 - No space left on device) You can try again by clicking the button below, or try again later.

This is the response I got from my web host: "I have checked your website and I did not find any server-side issue. The error you are seeing in your website is not caused by any wrong server configurations. It could be a website design/coding issue. The best option is to contact a web developer to get this checked." And this is the page they referenced which shows the settings. This particular page loads fine: https://www.audioinnovate.com/forums/info.php

My forum stopped working after I did the upgrade from 4.7.2 to 4.7.4. This is the error I get: An error occurred (500 Error) We're sorry, but a temporary technical error has occurred which means we cannot display this site right now. You can try again by clicking the button below, or try again later. Try again Seems nothing I do at this point can fix it. I've tried to go back to previous working versions and even tried installing a clean forum with zero data and I still get the same error. Checked the host name, user name and password, everything seems to check out.

Marc, All I did was run the firmware upgrade and the entire forum went down. So I tried restoring both the backup and doing a fresh installation and neither work. Terabyte - system requirements all checked off green.

Database and backup are from version 4.7 I've tried installing version 4.7 and 4.7.4 as clean installations and even a blank forum doesn't run. Where do I find the server error log? I just keep seeing this one error message. And if I continue to wipe out the directory and reinstall it keeps happening. I've made sure it points to a database with the correct username and password too.

I have backups of the forum and database and tried to go back to an earlier version but even restoring these doesn't work now. It's really hard to track down what's broken now...Hopefully someone here can help! I imagine it's something obvious that I'm missing.

I've started a fresh installation and this is the error I get: An error occurred (500 Error) We're sorry, but a temporary technical error has occurred which means we cannot display this site right now. You can try again by clicking the button below, or try again later. Try again

Hello Marc, Perhaps you have some idea here?

Hello Randy, Thanks for explaining but then that means the "Post before register" function is useless for my forum. It just makes things so difficult for people who want to interact with me that most won't even bother and will just go straight to social media like Facebook and Instagram or email / call us directly to interact. The issue is social media posts and threads are all "here today gone tomorrow" blog style posts, and email / phone calls are all 1-1 communication only so I need to recommunicate and repost this info. I want to pull customer interactions over to our own forum so I can pin Q&A style interactions and easily reference them from our main website. The product I'm trying to sell is already difficult and complex, so this style of interaction will allow customers in the know to help customers who are struggling, and sometimes even present us with useful tips we can easily share with others. For me a more useful guest function is "Let the admin know I want to post this" along with the contents of the actual post. Then I could log into control panel, see a notification at the top when this is happening, and reject or approve the posts one at a time. Please do something about this. I'm getting weary of not being able to get good use of a true "forum" for over a decade. The forum still just functions for me mostly as a basic non-interactive website.

Yes I have post before registering set. In order for this to really work, I'll need to get email notification or I'll have no idea if someone is trying to post. Is this possible to set up? Elliot

Yes I believe for sure it is stopping some posts but it is a real nuisance. I can only try to do a better job at getting people approved more quickly to post. The email verification for sure weeds out spammers much better than before. Elliot

I posted about the exact same problem. hCaptcha is useless for filtering these out...