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Hello ! :) How did you get IPS to optimize your server ? Is your board hosted by IPS ? Can you tell us more, please. Thank you ! :)

ok ! I fixed it... Here is what I did : Two directories didn't have the correct chown, so I did this : chown myforums.nobody .htpasswds chown myforums.mail etc I did the same for the public_html directory and there is no more problems in 750 mode : chown myforums.nobody public_html Do you think this is ok regarding security ? Thank you ! :)

I tried chmoding the uploads directory 777 using WinSCP and 5 hours later it was not finished and it seemed like it would not... :( So, I used SSH. I made a few tests first and then it took only a few seconds to solve all these permission problems : chmod 777 -R uploads. :) Now I can upload files again on my board. :) Thank you very much rct2.com ! Your explanations did help me a lot. :) I still have this error message when I try chmoding the public_html directory to 750 : I didn't have this message before... Does someone know why ? Did it work before because the owner to the public_html directory was root (then it was changed to my account's name and I got the error) ? Thank you ! :)

I need to learn too and I like learning. :) In fact, as for the uploads directory, it contains a lot of files (thousands) and I use WinSCP to chmod the files (and not a FTP client because it won't see all the files). I used the FTP client to set the permissions as they were before in all directories (etc, mail,public_ftp, and so on) as wel as in the public_html directory . All folders are chmoded 755 and the files inside them are chmoded 644, except : - style_images, - style_emoticons, - style_avatars, - style_captcha, - cache which are chmoded 777 and contain files which are also chmoded 777. Is it normal that .htaccess files are chmoded 777 too ?

No :) , I only want to chmod 777 the upload directory, subdirectories, and documents because I have tens of thousands of files in these directories... Moreover, my board's members can no longer upload files... The error message is :

By using this command he chmoded all the directories to 755... Now I have to chmod my uploads directory and it's content back to 777... Some other directories too... I don't understand how such mistakes can be made by tehcnicians who pretend to be server experts... Perhaps should I have mentionned that some directories shouldn't be chmoded to 755, but I didn't know he would do that. Do you know which command I can run through SSH ? (I read this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod but it's not clear to me). Will this one do ? chmod 777 -R yforums Thank you ! :)

Here is what the technician typed exactly through SSH (yforums being the directories owner and group) : cd /home/yforums/ ls -l cd www ls -l cd ../../ chown yforums.yforums-R yforums chmod 755 -R yforums

If I do this, I get a white page with the Forbidden access error message... I've had a look at the directories and files in my new server's public_html directory and they are all chmoded 755. On my old server, the directories are 755 (a few are 777) and the files (php files) are 644...

Hello ! :) I could no longer access my public_html directory with my FTP clients. I believe it was a problem of owner : for the public_html directory, the owner was root and for the other directories, the owner was my account's login name (for instance "myforums"). The technician did this through SSH : When I noticed it was chmod 755 I tried to chmod it to 750 but nobody could no longer access my board and got this message : So I had to chmod it back to 755. Is this a problem (especially regarding security) ? Thank you ! :)

Hello ! :) I'm sending an email to all of my board's members using the ACP bulk mail tool. I've sent 79 750 emails up to now and there are still 2 949 emails to be sent (50 each minute). So it's nearly finished I think... But : - I received many emails saying "Mail delivery failed : returning message to user". - I also received emails saying : "Email queue size alert - The exim delivery queue size is 3013". Since I don't know anything about all this (I'm reading about it at the moment anyway), I would like to ask you a few questions : - Should I delete all the messages in queue ? - Do you think the messages in queue correspond to non valid email adresses ? - How can I get a list of all the emails which are not valid ? - Can you advise me about what I should do ? My server has got WHM/CPanel. Thank you for your help ! :)

It's done now : my board (still version 2.3.6) has been moved to a 64 bits server and it's very fast. Now I have to upgrade to version 3.0.4. :)

Hello ! :) My new server'name is ns6998.ovh.net and the hostname and DNS have been configured this way by a server management company : As for the reverse DNS, I know how to do it. But I don't understand very well what I'm supposed to do for the DNS. Regarding the enseignants-du-primaire.org domain, it is pointing to my server, and the DNS for enseignants-du-primaire.org are : ns6998.ovh.net sdns1.ovh.net If I understand well what the management company told me, I now need to register these DNS : ns1.enseignants-du-primaire.org 91.121.126.84 ns2.enseignants-du-primaire.org 91.121.127.84 I have a tool for this. This tool tells me that the DNS for the enseignants-du-primaire.org domain are: ns6998.ovh.net primaire sdns1.ovh.net secondaire So I think that what I have to do is simply adding this : ns1.enseignants-du-primaire.org ns2.enseignants-du-primaire.org below (and without removing) ns6998.ovh.net and sdns1.ovh.net ? Can you tell me if I'm right ? Thank you ! :)

Yes, I see it now. I would never have found it myself... Thank you ! :)

I only have this one and no others : ns4876.myhostingcompany.com. I can also use it to access my server, just as if I typed the IP in my browser, but in both cases, I get a kind of green page and it's written "Great Success ! Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server" etc. I don't own the myhostingcompany.com domain, so I don't know if I can change the prefix... I did once, it didn't work and anyway, the myhostingcompany.com people were not happy at all with what I tried to do... Yes I can access CPanel and WHM by typing something like ns4876.myhostingcompany.com:2086 or 2082. As for my websites, I have domain names, for instance http://www.bellepierre.info. All this is really not clear at all... I'll keep things like that, for a moment and I will contact the hosting company and ask them what I should do. Thank you ! :)

Hello ! :) When I want a new server secured and configured, there is something the technicians always ask me and I don't understand what it is for... What is it for ? My server already has a name which looks like ns4875.myhostingcompany.com. Why should I give it a domain name ? Is this really important ? Thank you ! :)

Thank you ! :) I can't see the "Forum led by" words on the IPS forum... As for my own board, I removed them because I found that there were too much information already in each row (forum name + forum description + sub-forums)...

Thanks you ! :)

OK. I will use a 64 bits server then. :) But I was also wondering if IPB was optimized for 64 bits servers and could benefit from these servers' advantages (I'm sorry, I don't know much about all this) or if it will just be as good as on a 32 bits server... What is it that will make a diff

Hello ! :) It seems to me I didn't post a topic in the good forum (too tired). So I wanted to apologize and tell a moderator about it so that he can move my topic to the good forum. But I didn't find an easy way to do it... I read the "Moderators team" page but it's not easy to find the moderator you need... I clicked on "Report this topic" but I read : "This form is to be used ONLY for reporting objectional content" etc. so I didn't use this form. So, considering that I'm a user with no particular skill in computers and IPB (like nearly everybody), perhaps the way to contact a moderator could be improved ? What do you think of it ? Thank you ! :)

Hello ! :) I'm going to change server and I wonder if IPB works well on 64 bits server or if it's better to use a 32 bits server... Can you tell me about it ? Thank you ! :)

Thank you ! :)

Hello ! :) What does a database consist in ? (how many files ? Location ?...) Is there something we should know about the IPB database or is it a database just like the others ? Thank you ! :)

Hello ! :) I've read the page, and some others too. It seems a little too complex for me. I will have to check this. I use Centos 5.3. So, I will have to choose 6. Some people reported that they lost data after running a query like this one : Some others said they had problems when moving the database to another server. I would have liked to know more about it... Anyway, I will first save the database and then try the query... Can someone tell me if running a query of this kind takes a lot of time ? Thank you ! :)

Hello ! :) I've ran a check on my database today. All tables status are ok, except that I found this message regarding the ibf_posts table : So it seems that a table can't be bigger than 4294967294 bytes ? Is there a solution ? Thank you ! :)

Hello ! :) I've just had my server transfered and many files were missing. So, now I have a 100 Mb error_log file... What should I do then ? If I rename it, I suppose the server will create a new one and it will be ok ? How can I fix a size limit to the error_log files ? I'm using Centos 5 + CPanel. Thank you ! :)