newly installed forum problems
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Forum Name: Web Wiz Forums
Forum Description: Support forum for Web Wiz Forums application.
URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=26172
Printed Date: 03 April 2026 at 9:37am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: newly installed forum problems
Posted By: misbehave
Subject: newly installed forum problems
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 5:51pm
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Being new to this i did a lot of reading but i'm obviously still green so please bear with me. I've just installed web wiz forum on my site, while the rest of the site is under construction i wanted to at least get the forum running to keep members happy. The website is www.misbehavin.info but to get to the forum ya need to enter www.misbehavin.info/forum. I am having lots of problems and cant figure out which thing is responsible for what. New users cant register, it says that registration is blocked, its not blocked in admin. Forum categorys and sub forums are not showing up in the forum onlly in admin. Now i currently cant get in to admin or even get the forum to show up, wont load. This didnt happen until after i logged out, i havent changed anything at all before or after logging out to the server, database or any of my hosted files. Anyone have any idea on where i can start to resolve this big pain in my butt? |
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Posted By: Putz22
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 6:26pm
| Seems to be working just fine the way I looked at it.. don't forget when you are in the Admin section you have to update when you create a Category.. also if you can not get back into the Admin section that is because you changed the password on there and if you can not remember the password I would suggest deleting the forums and starting over from scratch as you may have messed with the Admin Password and section that does not allow you to login in as Admin |
Posted By: misbehave
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 6:38pm
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totally weird ! for over an hour i was trying to get back in lol but......... new registration is still suspended and none of the forum categories are showing up, i dread to think what else is going wrong that i havent got to yet lol |
Posted By: Putz22
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 6:51pm
| Did you reupload the who Forums again? |
Posted By: misbehave
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 7:38pm
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i'm in the process of reuploading them and seeing if that helps thanks for your help so far  |
Posted By: misbehave
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 8:06pm
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ok everything all uploaded again, now it just hangs loading the page while i'm in admin. Cant change anything. Logging out, closing down my browser and reopening doesnt help. |
Posted By: Putz22
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 8:14pm
| I hope that you either override or deleted the first forums that you put on your server.. Make sure that your Server does support ASP.. I tried to register an Account with your forums and it seem you have registration closed.. if you open up your registration people would be able to assist you alittle better.. but from what I can see I notice there is nothing wrong with it as of right now |
Posted By: misbehave
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 8:28pm
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i deleted the first forum on the server, removed them from my host then reuploaded everything from scratch. I checked the server and it supports ASP. I've been trying all day to open registration but no matter what i did it wouldnt change. Since i've reuploaded i cant do anything in admin except log in, it just continually hangs while loading the page, i didnt have this problem the first time round. I'm beginining to wonder if this is really worth the hassle as i have more problems now than when i first started.....grrrr |
Posted By: misbehave
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 8:31pm
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i'm gonna delete and reupload again, fingers crossed its third time lucky |
Posted By: misbehave
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 2:30am
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Okies it was an ODBC problem which after trying to solve for a few hours i gave up and deleted all the forum. I set up a new mssql database and now the darn thing wont recognise my login when i try to use server_setup.asp. I'm definitely using the correct login details and i've repeatedly checked the database_connections.asp and alls good there but still I get : Detailed Error Message: Login failed for user 'misbehavin'. Error Details: Login failed for user 'misbehavin'. I'm now at a total loss. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 8:33am
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I've had a look and seems to be working fine for me. Make sure that you do not delete the built in Admin and Guest accounts and groups or you will have issues like some you mention. Also if you run multiple Web Wiz Forums installations on the same website you need to edit the includes/setup_options_inc.asp file in notepad and set different cookie and application veriable prefixes so that the forums do not interfer with each other. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: misbehave
Date Posted: 29 August 2008 at 2:44am
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Thanks, didnt realise about the cookies and prefixes so have checked them out. Not sure what happened but i ltried again a few hours later after throwing in the towel and it let me log in no problem. I think i had a gremlin that just got bored at my stubborness and gave up messing with me lol |