MacrossWorld

Wanted to chime in and say we too were hit with 30+ registrations this week who spammed hundreds of posts, which required a lot of manual cleanup.

Definitely look forward to anything for Invision can provide to help us out, the interest is there

Thank you!

Ditto with this same issue. This last week I'm getting multiple emails daily from .RU accounts
I could block their IPs if I knew WHERE their IP was being logged at in the software.

I guess I could scan the html access log for any URL with the contact us page and sync it up with the spamming requests

It would be nice if this contact us action was logged somewhere in the forum software.

Perfect thank you
I'll give the existing queue process another day or two to complete...I don't want to break anything else
I'll reset the image sizes back to the normal ones above
I'll upload the OLD small.xx and large.xxxx images to fix all the old broken links
and then post to tell people NOT to use those images in any links within posts

Thank you for your support, it was very helpful.
Shawn

Do you recall the default sizes of the thumbnails and large images so I can set it back to normal?

Ok thank you.

Did my regen action also do something odd to the gallery itself?
https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/gallery/album/35-shawn39s-macross-collection/

The thumbnails are blurry when I do 'show as thumbnails'

And when I click the middle option, 'Show large preview', the picture is zoomed in and cut off
I thought it would show a larger version of the pic where you could still see it all

So all these large images from all the year month subfolders are now possibly unlinked by the method for how the user may have linked the pictures into the posts? There are potentially thousands and thousands of unlinked images now.
What is the point of changing the hash at the end of the files on regen?

So now I either have to restore from a backup, or write up a script to create thousands of symlinks that link the old pic name to the new. Sorry for venting, a bit frustrated.

How do I prevent a user from linking one way vs the other if a URL is assumed to be static? How does this not happen again in the future?

Have users load their pics into their gallery, then they link to those pics in the forums

I yesterday I changed the size of the default thumbnails and Large Pictures size (pics tend to be larger now, so was adjusting), and clicked YES to the rebuild, but going into older posts the links are now bad

Here is an example page:
https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/48119-macross -magazine-for-anime-and-hobby-fan-ariiimai-booklets/#comment-1520310

That first image in that post shows this now

The URL which gets a 404 is this
https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/uploads/monthly_2020_04/large.20200418_210013.jpg.6f1da44b1c20ba39e3db91ce9cd31dec.jpg

On the server, the rebuild deleted the old large pic, and then created this large image. Same base name, but different temp suffix, but it never went into the Post and updated the link.
large.20200418_205443.jpg.9445a7b9eaed3ef434f7bf100cd5606e.jpg

How do I fix the links in the posts?

I have older backups with the older and smaller "large.20200418_205443.jpg.5ea656fa799ae9ed81ec69813d654a2b.jpg" that would fix the 404, and could re-upload, but I have 120GB/475k of images and those extra unused new larger pics generated last night are going to take up extra disk space and never get used. 

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Shawn

I am running current board and gallery
I do see this error. There are no logs, and when I click Run Now
Is it still rebuilding images and THEN goes in and updates the posts? Or did it fail?
How do I get this to complete if this is the problem?

Just to close this out...was under a bot attack from Iran, and the firewall rule I had in place failed to do a successful block.
It was consuming all the resources, and causing forum emails to fail.

Once I adjusted the firewall rules, the errors promptly went away. 

I am a little embarassed about this being something so simple...
Thanks!
 

thanks, will check the servers email logs next.
Yes-if you would not mind moving me to the community forum that would be great, thanks!

Forums/email were working fine, I must have done some sort of system update and now getting a lot of Email Error Logs
Everytime a followed post gets saved, it takes 20s+ seconds for the save to complete, so I've disabled all the email alerts and it is fast again.

Are there any common areas to check? (dedicated host/linux)

Support teasm was able to get into my instance and fix so I could complete the update.

I also needed to enable UTF8MB4 and convert my db.

Thank you for the quick responses!
 

I don't see any ticket area, just a support request option, which opens a chat window...is this the ticket area now?

Getting this error when updating the latest security patch, can't continue. Any ideas?

Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x8E\x89 Y...' for column 'word_default' at row 5
..../system/Application/Application.php::2140
INSERT INTO `ibf_core_sys_lang_words` ( `word_app`, `word_key`, `lang_id`, `word_default`, `word_default_version`, `word_js`, `word_export` ) VALUES ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ), ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `word_app`=VALUES(`word_app`), `word_key`=VALUES(`word_key`), `lang_id`=VALUES(`lang_id`), `word_default`=VALUES(`word_default`), `word_default_version`=VALUES(`word_default_version`), `word_js`=VALUES(`word_js`), `word_export`=VALUES(`word_export`)

Thanks for the info,

If I enabled "Serve images from local" does it retroactively go and grab/download everything, or is just items from that point forward?

I guess I will just try the https conversion and see what breaks (existing links within the forums, external google search indexes, etc)

Worst case I can switch back to http and tackle the items one by one, and if the https switch does anything to the db, restore from a snapshot before the conversion.

Hi,

Would like to convert my forum from http to https (self hosted)
Is there a definitive guide for how to do the conversion, with specifics on how to fix the http over https images being served without errors? (which I read a lot about)
For posts that reference other posts, do I need to do any SQL work to change the paths?
How do you handle existing search indexes from say google, that have http but the server is now https? Does it automatically redirect?

There is a lot of uploaded content, about 16 years and over a million something posts.

Thank you for any information you can provide
Shawn