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Topic: Website Nightmare!

Posted By: mattysdad
Subject: Website Nightmare!
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 7:50pm

I wonder if any of you can help me.

I have 2 forums. http://www.room327.biz - www.room327.biz and http://www.room327.biz/ibiza - www.room327.biz/ibiza

I recently had a problem with the forum skins in so much the the admin area was 'cool-blue' and everywhere else appeared dark or white in the /ibiza forum, so, I thought rather than faff about trying to fix the issue, the quickest and easiest way for me being a noob, was to reload the forum via ftp so that it went back to how it was when 'fresh.'

But now it's worse, members from 327.biz appear in the active user display for /ibiza as do new posts and it happens the same way for 327.biz in that the /ibiza users appear in the active user display on the other forum, BUT when you click on the topic they are looking at, if it is in the OTHER forum- although it is displayed in the other, I get a 'not in the database' error.

What a buggers muddle, Can ANYONE help?

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 11:21pm

the skin issue, i assume, is because you was using my Multiskin Selection mod - which doesnt cover the admin area. The Admin Area uses what ever you have set on the Skin Config page inside the admin area.

The 2nd issue is because you need to edit the values in the Settings file in the include folder. because you are running 2 forums on one domain, you need to set different prefixes for the Application Array.

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Posted By: mattysdad
Date Posted: 27 July 2008 at 6:07pm

I am sure that when WWF set up the /ibiza site he told me I had a spare database on my account so it was set up on that one.

I must admit I am downhearted by the whole thing.

It wasnt your mods that messed it all up it was me faffing about with things I should have left alone.

The problem with the 'cross-user' issue only started happening when I re-uploaded the forum software the other day to /ibiza.

I think i may have copied the databaseconnectionasp from .biz to /ibiza in error, could that be the cause?

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 27 July 2008 at 6:28pm

Okay matty

I had a similar issue trying to "smartly" share two forums on one host, and like you it screwed up bits and bobs
Very simple and quick answer just to get things back and running, is to delete the second forum you uploaded, because the two are conflicting

The second answer takes time but hang on a mo Thumbs%20Up

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 27 July 2008 at 6:50pm

The annoying thing here is that I know this happened to me, but I cannot find the damn answer Angry

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Posted By: StarDust
Date Posted: 27 July 2008 at 6:54pm

mattysdad,

Scotty32 has already provided you some solutions/explanations.

mattysdad wrote:

I recently had a problem with the forum skins in so much the the admin area was 'cool-blue' and everywhere else appeared dark or white in the /ibiza forum

An explanation to this is:

Scotty32 wrote:

...i assume, is because you was using my Multiskin Selection mod - which doesnt cover the admin area. The Admin Area uses what ever you have set on the Skin Config page inside the admin area.

mattysdad wrote:

But now it's worse, members from 327.biz appear in the active user display for /ibiza as do new posts and it happens the same way for 327.biz in that the /ibiza users appear in the active user display on the other forum, BUT when you click on the topic they are looking at, if it is in the OTHER forum- although it is displayed in the other, I get a 'not in the database' error.

And the solution is:

Scotty32 wrote:

...you need to edit the values in the Settings file in the include folder. because you are running 2 forums on one domain, you need to set different prefixes for the Application Array.

Let me explain a bit easier way. How to solve the second issue? Follow this:

1. Open setup_options_inc.asp from includes folder in a text editor

2. Around line 41 find this:

Const strCookiePrefix = "WWF9"

3. Around line 53 find this:

Const strAppPrefix = "WWF9"

4. For one forum change both values to "WWF9biz"

5. For the other forum change both values to "WWF9ibiza"

This will fix second your issue.

And if you are looking for a skin, i you may also try http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=24279 - this .

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 27 July 2008 at 6:59pm

Well done Stardust Thumbs%20Up

Hopefully he didn't follow my lousy advice Unhappy

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Posted By: StarDust
Date Posted: 27 July 2008 at 7:01pm

mattysdad,

I forgot to tell you another issue. you also need to change another variable to get rid of cookie related issues for the second forum (www.room327.biz/ibiza). Do this:

1. Open setup_options_inc.asp from includes folder in a text editor

2. Around line 46-47 find this


strCookiePath = Left(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_URL"), InstrRev(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_URL"), "/")) 
'strCookiePath = "/" 'Uncomment this line if your forum has issues with cookies

3. Change this as below:



'strCookiePath = Left(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_URL"), InstrRev(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_URL"), "/")) 

'strCookiePath = "/" 'Uncomment this line if your forum has issues with cookies



'strCookiePath = "/ibiza/"

Do NOT forget the new ['] at the beginning of line 46

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Posted By: mattysdad
Date Posted: 27 July 2008 at 8:07pm

Scotty! Stardust!

Problem Sorted!

A MASSIVE Thankyou to you BOTH!