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Jimster what is the version of WWF that you were using?


I need to take a look at your database myself. Is it possible that you PM me a copy?

Jimster wrote: Hi There, I've got a problem, I hope someone can help me. I am using version 9.06. Users can create new topics, but if they try to post a reply they get the error message Error This function has been disabled. This Forum has been locked by the Forum Administrator.     I've checked the settings, and nothing is disabled??   I've changed nothing on the server (that I'm aware of for months, can anyone help me sort this out?   Thanks   Jim

Bruce

Even to me in my state that sounds like double dutch, and I couldn't even begin to think how to sort out that
However, since you are the Web Wiz king, I bow to your intelligence which makes a lot of sense, and are you saying that if Jimster removes the old forum, then the new one will work? Or does he still have to edit the file?

For performance reasons and to reduce database hits, Web Wiz Forums caches allot of common data such as configuration data in the web servers memory in application variables which are shared across your whole web site.

This is usually fine unless you are running multiple copies of Web Wiz Forums on the same site as all the Web Wiz Forums installations will store the data in the same application variables and therefore the configuration settings for each of the installation will interfere with each other.

The way to prevent this is either only run one installation of Web Wiz Forums on the web site, or edit the includes/setup_options_inc.asp file and set a different application variable prefix for each Web Wiz Forums installation.

If you set each installation of Web Wiz Forums to have it's own unique application variable prefix then each installation will store it's configuration data in different application variables and therefore will not interfere with any of the other Web Wiz Forums installations running on the same site.

Hope this makes it a little clearer.

Jimster sure Bruce is lot more experienced than me and the solution he gave you should be correct.

But from my opinion it could still be a database issue. Do the following things:

1. Make sure the database is right.
2. Start with an empty database. That is, Install a fresh copy of WWF right after downloading WITHOUT any other copies installed on the server. If the error still persists, the error could be a server issue.

StarDust wrote: Jimster what is the version of WWF that you were using? I need to take a look at your database myself. Is it possible that you PM me a copy? Jimster wrote: Hi There, I've got a problem, I hope someone can help me. I am using version 9.06. Users can create new topics, but if they try to post a reply they get the error message Error This function has been disabled. This Forum has been locked by the Forum Administrator.     I've checked the settings, and nothing is disabled??   I've changed nothing on the server (that I'm aware of for months, can anyone help me sort this out?   Thanks   Jim