Problem With Active Users

Are you using a free web host?  Many free web hosts set-up their servers so that everyone shares the same resourses, including application variables.  This means that the active users function in version 7.6 will not work properly on most free web hosts.

Although Borg will probably kill me for recommending this, but if you really want active users then you will need SQL and version 7.51a if you are using a free web host.

Here is a breakdown of who can run what:

• Access Database - Paid Webhost - Use WWF Version 7.6
• Access Database - Free Webhost - Active Users Not Available
• SQL Database - Paid Webhost - Use WWF Version 7.6
• SQL Database - Free Webhost - Use WWF Version 7.51a

I like version 7.6 better than 7.51a, so use that where possible.

I am not sure if version 7.51a is still available for download or not.

Hopefully Borg will give us the option of using the SQL Database option or using the Application variables option in future versions.  Or if that is not the case, hopefully someone will make a mod that will bring back the SQL Database option.

If you are using the Access version and are on a free web host, you are pretty much out of luck.  Active Users will not work on your server.

Ok.
What if i changed the vars
that make this work to something different?
would this help any?

I am also useing a free host.

wistex wrote: If you are using Access and a free host, you are out of luck because: Microsoft Access cannot handle the database updates necessary for the active users function if you use the database method.  Your forum database will be corrupted and you will lose data. (Version 7.51a uses the database method.) Most free web hosts share application variables between websites because of the way they have their server set-up.  This means that the application variables method of keeping track of active users will not work on these free web hosts because it will track all WWF users on that server regardless of website. (Version 7.6 uses the application variable method.) Microsoft Access + Free Web Host = No Active Users Feature You can run WWF without a problem on most free web hosts, but you will need to disable the active users feature in the admin forum configuration.

Hmm .... I am more than likely wrong here ... but if I was to be using a FreeHost (Bluugghh) and I changed the anme of my Application variable to something uinque, wouldn't that result in my variable only being used by me?