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Topic: forum closed

Posted By: carloshgo
Subject: forum closed
Date Posted: 07 March 2005 at 1:31pm

hello im carlos and hope someone can helpme with this

im having a problem with my forum, is apear like someone closed my forum and i dont know how to reopened, i logon into my forum as admin and tyi to unlock the forum but i cant,

how can i reopen my forum with oput loosing my data and prevent this to hapen again ?

im hosting my forum on 1asphost

my link is http://www.auto-trueque.com - http://www.auto-trueque.com is a free used car advertise for tijuana, bc. Mexico

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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 07 March 2005 at 1:39pm

wjem licking the link i can't get anywhere it times out.. but being a free host its know to happen.

make sure you have the lite version of the application.

you should only have to login to the admin area and unlock forums.

as its a free host (i take it is ).. else i would change host.

or you can download the database and uncheck the forum via the table view (i think its the field "Closed" )

make sure you have the lite version else you are usoing application veriables that will mess your forum around.

or best of all get payed hosting , there are some cheap good hosters around... like the site sponsor for one.

Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 07 March 2005 at 2:59pm

I got a forum closed page. Like dj said, download the database (if Access) and look in the tblConfiguration for the check to remove the lock.

As a side note, on some sites, I've implemented the following code to "close" a database driven area. This stops the site before the database connection is opened. Potentially, locking the database using the database means it it still getting "hit" and could result in corruption if you are doing maintenance while it is getting hit for the lock message. The downside to this method is that you have to FTP the unlock file.

Note:

This assumes you have a page called unlock_message.asp which alerts the user that the site/area is locked. Also, in this code, I am killing the session variable which you may/may not be using depending on your implementation.

If you were to use this on the forum, I would suggest placing it in the /forum/includes/header.asp so it is encountered before any database connections are made.

Based loosely on http://www.webwiz.net/asp/sample_scripts/database_login_script.asp - WWG's login script .



<%

'Lock access to the Admin Module

'Declare variables not in common.asp



Dim strLocked



strLocked = "No"        'Change this to yes or no



If strLocked = "Yes" Then

    Session("blnIsUserGood") = False  'Kills session variable if used

    Response.AddHeader "Refresh", "0;URL=Lock_Message.asp"

End If

%>

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 March 2005 at 3:09pm

The problem is that you are using the full version which doesn't work on free hosting accounts from 1asphost.

You need to download the 'Lite' version of web wiz forums for free web hosts and install that, you will then find that you can unlock the your forum.

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Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 07 March 2005 at 4:15pm

-borg- wrote:

full version which doesn't work on free hosting accounts from 1asphost.

Good safety point -- which I overlooked. LOL

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Posted By: carloshgo
Date Posted: 07 March 2005 at 5:58pm

thanks a lot for all your help

so the problem is free asp host with shared servers

if i want to avoid this kind of problems i need to find a better place to host my forum.

i donwloaded the ../db/ez.mdb and tryed to change locked to unlocked but i was unsucessfull.

Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 07 March 2005 at 7:26pm

did you uplaod the "lite" version of the forum?

i think you can just replace the files with the liteversion as the database is still the same.

i would suggest a payed host.

they are so much more reliable (most).. and you get a better hosting packages and they aren't very exspensice these days.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 March 2005 at 5:02am

If you are using ezASPsite then I don't know if they do a version with the 'Lite' version of web wiz forums.

You will have to check on ezASPsite to see if they do a version that will work on free hosting accounts.

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