Feedback

[chris-san]

Well you wanted feedback so here goes...

First of all, considering the fact that you did it for nothing for what you guys do is commendable and you seem to have produced a forums with many features that conforms to the latest styles and layouts of the bbs of today...

However if you want this forum to appear on more sites and be used as widely as perhaps UBB or some of the other boards out there, you are going to have to get a better technical support systems sorted and you are going to have to iron out many bugs in the forums.

I have spent the last 3 days trying in vain to get your forums to run on a Unix Server, everything went find with installation but basically my users canot stay logged in and I am unable to access any of the admin special areas.

An expert PHP m8 of mine has assessed that the problem is due to the fact that the program is not saving cookies to my system correctly, now I have read all the messages relating to this and carried out every solution but still it will not fix the problem.

Since my friend then went to install the forums himself and then acquired the same problem he believes it may be something related to the install process that happens only at a certain point for only some people, I can assure you it has nothing whatsoever to do with IE or Netscape security levels so don't even go there...

Well you can blast me all you want for the negative side of the comment but you wanted feedback and the fact is I could have just left without saying anything because for me this forums is now not an option, the thing has eaten up too much of my time and I will now look else where for a forums to use.

Maybe this could be why your forums are not blazing the frontend of every website out there.

Thanks for the work you do and keep it up!

Incodently Yabb1 would not install and I even had my hosts insert the correct Perl extension themselves it kept on coming up with a " 500 configuration error"!.


Cya

Chris

[Jeff Lewis]

While we appreciate the feedback, you were unable to install both the Perl version of YaBB and the PHP version of YaBB?

I've been looking into the cookie problem and it appears to be working fine.  Works fine on the four sites I've installed YaBB on now, one I had to clear cookies as it says in the FAQ.

If your PHP friend said it's not saving correctly, did he say what he felt was wrong about it (because it works here).

[kadoka66]

Well somehow we managed to eventually install Yabb1 gold some days ago, but still no luck with getting the cookies problem sorted in Yabbse...

It is so weird but if it helps we both used Windows 98 and Internet explorer 5.5 , we emptied our cookies tray many times and tried and tried to stay logged in and access the admin areas but to no avail.
Security settings were set accordingly to recieve cookies and allow the pages to function properly.

Oh and we also tried changing the cookies username and password vars in settings.pl but still nothing , and yes we again emptied our cookies and went straight to the browser window without opening any other Yabb boards.

We have literally tried everything, except actually changing the cookies names but we could not do this cos we canot get into our admin sections.

Error message "You canot access this area"

Login - visit a page - come back - you are logged out


chris

[alexrolko]

You can edit the Settings.php, Settings.pl manually. by opening them in Notepad. You just them overwrite them in your webspace.

And Your friend is welcome to try and solve the problem with the code (if thats the case)

[andrea]

Well somehow we managed to eventually install Yabb1 gold some days ago, but still no luck with getting the cookies problem sorted in Yabbse...

It is so weird but if it helps we both used Windows 98 and Internet explorer 5.5 , we emptied our cookies tray many times and tried and tried to stay logged in and access the admin areas but to no avail.
Security settings were set accordingly to recieve cookies and allow the pages to function properly.

Oh and we also tried changing the cookies username and password vars in settings.pl but still nothing , and yes we again emptied our cookies and went straight to the browser window without opening any other Yabb boards.

We have literally tried everything, except actually changing the cookies names but we could not do this cos we canot get into our admin sections.

Error message "You canot access this area"

Login - visit a page - come back - you are logged out

Please provide a link to your board. So one could test this cookie problem. I had cookie problems myself, but none that could not be solved by browser settings. I would like to check your board.

[chris-san]

Sure I will set it up again on my server and send you a link