Issues Since SW Upgrade [Archive]

Gr8snkbite

10-14-2012, 03:30 PM

This thread is for specific problems with the site since the recent 4.2 vB. All known previous posts were either moved here or copied here to help consolidate the info for the site techies research and resolve. If there is anything missed, or new issues discovered, please post here (w/o PW'ing) instead of making separate posts for each problem.

Also, my understanding (reading vB forums) since the upgrade is that the new "Articles" Tab is now suppose to be the "Home" Page.

Current Issues expressed since 4.2 upgrade.....

1. stangsunited.com link doesnt work, members get an error page. Reroute of stangsunited.com/forum.php was set up to allow access. The original link needs to be corrected (Joker needs to contact vB about this to correct as it is a SW issue). URGENT REPAIR!

2. Clinking on the Articles tab gives you an error page, vice our Home page, hence related to item 1 above.

3. Without our Home Page established, cannot link in updated News Feeds for members/registrants to read.

4. I don't like that the info that's pulled up when you hit the big "What's New" tab includes stuff that is posted in a persons profile page.

Example: I post a message on TG's profile page and it immediately shows up and can be seen by anyone when they click the What's New.

Anyway to change that?

5. Missing the "whos been on in last 24hrs data on the main forum page at the bottom.

6. We lost out Donate button for PayPal donations. Need to re-establish via PP (Joker)

5. Blog broken. Found a fix. It also will be fixed when the new version comes out. Known issue by VB.

Tommy Gun

10-14-2012, 10:40 PM

This thread is for specific problems with the site since the recent 4.2 vB. All known previous posts were either moved here or copied here to help consolidate the info for the site techies research and resolve. If there is anything missed, or new issues discovered, please post here (w/o PW'ing) instead of making separate posts for each problem.

Also, my understanding (reading vB forums) since the upgrade is that the new "Articles" Tab is now suppose to be the "Home" Page.

Current Issues expressed since 4.2 upgrade.....

1. stangsunited.com link doesnt work, members get an error page. Reroute of stangsunited.com/forum.php was set up to allow access. The original link needs to be corrected (Joker needs to contact vB about this to correct as it is a SW issue). URGENT REPAIR!

2. Clinking on the Articles tab gives you an error page, vice our Home page, hence related to item 1 above.

3. Without our Home Page established, cannot link in updated News Feeds for members/registrants to read.

4. I don't like that the info that's pulled up when you hit the big "What's New" tab includes stuff that is posted in a persons profile page.

Example: I post a message on TG's profile page and it immediately shows up and can be seen by anyone when they click the What's New.

Anyway to change that?

4. Missing the "whos been on in last 24hrs data on the main forum page at the bottom.

5.

You have 2 number 4's. :look:

Joker

10-14-2012, 11:33 PM

This thread is for specific problems with the site since the recent 4.2 vB. All known previous posts were either moved here or copied here to help consolidate the info for the site techies research and resolve. If there is anything missed, or new issues discovered, please post here (w/o PW'ing) instead of making separate posts for each problem.

Also, my understanding (reading vB forums) since the upgrade is that the new "Articles" Tab is now suppose to be the "Home" Page.

Current Issues expressed since 4.2 upgrade.....

1. stangsunited.com link doesnt work, members get an error page. Reroute of stangsunited.com/forum.php was set up to allow access. The original link needs to be corrected (Joker needs to contact vB about this to correct as it is a SW issue). URGENT REPAIR!

2. Clinking on the Articles tab gives you an error page, vice our Home page, hence related to item 1 above.

3. Without our Home Page established, cannot link in updated News Feeds for members/registrants to read.

4. I don't like that the info that's pulled up when you hit the big "What's New" tab includes stuff that is posted in a persons profile page.

Example: I post a message on TG's profile page and it immediately shows up and can be seen by anyone when they click the What's New.

Anyway to change that?

4. Missing the "whos been on in last 24hrs data on the main forum page at the bottom.

5.

Just sent you an email.

Cobra Drifter

10-15-2012, 12:21 AM

Joker

10-15-2012, 01:51 AM

Also replied to the email. #1 and #2 should be resolved with the change in the WHM console.

Will look into #4

#4 - 2: This is an AddOn so we should check that its enabled and also that there is not compatibility issues with it and 4.2 or if there is an update of it to work with 4.2

#5. Fixed :grin: :look:

5. LOL

As for the WHM issues. There is not an option in our's to change it. Hence the email. I spent about 4 hours today trying to get the home page working. :banghead:

As for the other stuff, it's on the list.

Joker

10-15-2012, 02:29 AM

5. Blog broken. Found a fix. It also will be fixed when the new version comes out. Known issue by VB.

Cobra Drifter

10-15-2012, 04:07 AM

4. I don't like that the info that's pulled up when you hit the big "What's New" tab includes stuff that is posted in a persons profile page.

Example: I post a message on TG's profile page and it immediately shows up and can be seen by anyone when they click the What's New.

Anyway to change that?

Done! :grin: Visitor message posting is no longer being tracked for the "Whats New" activity stream.
Is there any other types of information you wish to exclude from it?

Joe G

10-15-2012, 04:08 AM

Done! :grin: Visitor message posting is no longer being tracked for the "Whats New" activity stream.
Is there any other types of information you wish to exclude from it?
That's awesome, thanks CD. :wtg:

68fastback

10-15-2012, 04:16 AM

Done! :grin: Visitor message posting is no longer being tracked for the "Whats New" activity stream.

Is there any other types of information you wish to exclude from it?

:wtg: , CD!!

...not sure what else (if anything) should be excluded from 'new-posts' ...what's presently included (besides posts)?

Cobra Drifter

10-15-2012, 04:19 AM

4. Missing the "whos been on in last 24hrs data on the main forum page at the bottom.

Done! :grin: I dont know why but the built in feature was turned off. Now I know we had an AddOn that provided this feature but its disabled by the 4.2 upgrade. Not sure if the built in default was to have it off after the upgrade but nothing indicated that anyone turned it off manually.

Looks like it used to now, I believe. Not a whole lot of options to configure for it but hope they way I have it set works for everyone or the majority ;)

Cobra Drifter

10-15-2012, 04:21 AM

:wtg:

...not sure what else (if anything) should be excluded from 'new-posts' ...what is presently included ?

Everything else: Blog entry, comment, rticle entry, comment, forum post, album and comment, groups and post etc. You get the idea. Probably easier to determine what we WANT to show in the activity stream
The more that is tracked in this feature the more resources and performance will be degraded. So lets go with a basic minimum and see what we may want to add, Si?

68fastback

10-15-2012, 06:01 AM

Everything else: Blog entry, comment, rticle entry, comment, forum post, album and comment, groups and post etc. You get the idea. Probably easier to determine what we WANT to show in the activity stream
The more that is tracked in this feature the more resources and performance will be degraded. So lets go with a basic minimum and see what we may want to add, Si?

Ok, I'm thinking just posts -- lets see if others feel similar.

Blogs were turned off because we had over 4,000 spam blogs in one week a while back and they're a beatch to delete. Maybe we'd not want anyhting besides posts indexed.

Cobra Drifter

10-15-2012, 06:31 AM

Forum Post and Forum New Thread are the only two items being searched and returned for the Whats New search tab

Tommy Gun

10-15-2012, 09:59 AM

Done! :grin: I dont know why but the built in feature was turned off. Now I know we had an AddOn that provided this feature but its disabled by the 4.2 upgrade. Not sure if the built in default was to have it off after the upgrade but nothing indicated that anyone turned it off manually.

Looks like it used to now, I believe. Not a whole lot of options to configure for it but hope they way I have it set works for everyone or the majority ;)

:wasntme:

The Bone

10-15-2012, 11:36 AM

Joe G

10-15-2012, 02:43 PM

Is there any reason that the site has to do the upgrade in the first place. The older version eventually won't be supported by VB, meaning we either need to update to the latest (we actually didn't go to the "latest" as we don't want to be part of the normal problem solving that goes on with new editions) or we'd have more and more issues with the older version that no longer gets attention from VB (ie: security patches etc).

Orf

10-15-2012, 03:10 PM

I took a look at the second #4.

The people with issues viewing it had an additional secondary user group check in the ACP. Not sure why, but I think that was what did it for those 3.

If it still isn't working, log out and back in, just to be sure.

If it is still an issue, I'll dig around a little more.

Gr8snkbite

10-15-2012, 07:02 PM

great work everyone....gotta love team work....:grin:

Joe G

10-15-2012, 07:09 PM

great work everyone....gotta love team work....:grin::uwelcome:

Tommy Gun

10-15-2012, 09:40 PM

great work everyone....gotta love team work....:grin:

:uwelcome:

Cobra Drifter

10-15-2012, 10:13 PM

great work everyone....gotta love team work....:grin:
:uwelcome:

Cobra Drifter

10-15-2012, 10:17 PM

Is there any reason that the site has to do the upgrade in the first place. This one caused more problems than it solved.
Thanks to Robert and C.D. we would be in the toilet. I wonder how many other sites that run V.B. are down because of this.

There are other reasons too like security fixes and prevention. There was an older exploit on older versions where one could take control of the admin account and do whatever they wanted. vB puts out patches ASAP as exploits are found. so its always beneficial to be near the newest version plus you get new features and bug fixes so its a real hard case to argue against upgrading.

4.2 was rough on us because of many reasons but things are working their way out so we are seeing hte light at the end of the tunnel and its not the light of death either ;)

68fastback

10-15-2012, 10:23 PM

Great work!!

Alloy Dave

10-17-2012, 11:27 PM

I have no idea what you guys are doing, but thank you! I'm glad someone understands all this stuff and helps take care of it...I for one appreciate it.

Dave aka goatboy

Cobra Drifter

10-18-2012, 12:30 AM

I updated teh list with a strike out of what I know is complete.
If there are any more updates of other new issues please post up or edit the list in the first post.

Orf

10-18-2012, 01:54 AM

I updated teh list with a strike out of what I know is complete.
If there are any more updates of other new issues please post up or edit the list in the first post.

You can cross out #5, as nothing is taken care of.

Wait. That didn't sound right....

Cobra Drifter

10-18-2012, 05:33 AM

Joker has an issue for #5 so I added it to the list as an item to watch for either the fix or the next update and validate that its fixed.

Joker

10-18-2012, 05:59 PM

Please try and now view the articles tab. It should take you to the home page! I just got confirmation that our host was able to change the values that I requested. The issue is now solved and we are back in business with our home page working.

I am now going to sleep as I just got off work!

Gnite all!

P.S.

Please cross #1 off the list! :tease2:

Joe G

10-18-2012, 06:07 PM

Orf

10-18-2012, 06:35 PM

The Bone

10-18-2012, 06:53 PM

So Robert what you are saying it Stangsunited.com is working

Joker

10-18-2012, 07:01 PM

So Robert what you are saying it Stangsunited.com is working

Art,

yes that is what I am saying. You should now be able to go to www.stangsunited.com and view it like you used to be able too.

Cobra Drifter

10-18-2012, 07:40 PM

Great! :) So what was the exact WHM setting they needed to increase and to what?

Takes a long time to load.

Cobra Drifter

10-18-2012, 07:41 PM

Updated the list in the first post as #1 and #2 fixed. Is #3 also verified as fixed now too?

Gr8snkbite

10-18-2012, 09:22 PM

AWESOME work TEAM....:wtg:

sleep well deserved.....:grin:

i will send out a mass email to inform everyone they can use the normal link....:tiphat2:

Gr8snkbite

10-18-2012, 09:25 PM

Updated the list in the first post as #1 and #2 fixed. Is #3 also verified as fixed now too?

that will be determined when i/we try to update news items to the page....learning how to do the rss feeds for it...if anyone knows as well, chime in..i have a bunch of email news info that george used to add the content from...we get them via our gmail routinely...

Cobra Drifter

10-18-2012, 10:00 PM

Yea thats much easier to set up a rss feed so its automatically posting the news in that designated forum.
I did it once before on another site but its no longer around but I will try to see what I can find

Tommy Gun

10-18-2012, 10:30 PM

Tommy Gun

10-18-2012, 11:11 PM

Art,

yes that is what I am saying. You should now be able to go to www.stangsunited.com (http://www.stangsunited.com) and view it like you used to be able too.

I don't see a "Home" button anymore?

Orf

10-19-2012, 12:24 AM

Stang Mafia is still around? :look:

Dunno.

I'm still on permanent ban...

Tommy Gun

10-19-2012, 12:39 AM

:look:

Gr8snkbite

10-19-2012, 01:37 AM

I don't see a "Home" button anymore?

and you wont...Articles is the Home button...it was changed as part of the upgrade

Tommy Gun

10-19-2012, 01:44 AM

Ah, okay

Joe G

10-19-2012, 01:44 AM

AWESOME work TEAM....:wtg:
:uwelcome:

68fastback

10-19-2012, 02:16 AM

Awesome job, everyone! Great team-work too!

Cobra Drifter

10-19-2012, 07:58 AM

Stang Mafia is still around? :look:

:ban:

Tommy Gun

10-19-2012, 10:40 AM

:oops:

Tommy Gun

10-19-2012, 11:48 AM

Another question about our new version. I'm not sure if we have an app for this site, but I don't use it. Wondering though if having the capability effects using this site in basic browsing mode?

What I'm getting at is I have problems w this site while on the iPad and iPhone that I don't have on other sites?

is there a specific area in the new version that allows tweaking things used in apps? Or when using a mobile connection in general?

Orf

10-19-2012, 01:31 PM

Wondering though if having the capability effects using this site in basic browsing mode?

I doubt it effects the site. It might affect it, though...

:eyesinmailbox:

Tommy Gun

10-19-2012, 01:43 PM

:groan:

Cobra Drifter

10-19-2012, 06:19 PM

There is an "App" by vBulletin but its not free and expensive. $199 and $99 renewal each year.
It is possibly better to use the Mobile Style when viewing the forums from your phone since the Mobile Style is free.

Tommy Gun

10-19-2012, 08:58 PM

Could any such thing effect my keyboard not working properly "just" on this forum?

Gr8snkbite

10-19-2012, 09:09 PM

Could any such thing effect my keyboard not working properly "just" on this forum?

:no:

On my iPad now...no issues whatsoever and using normal style

Cobra Drifter

10-19-2012, 10:06 PM

Curious, does the Manage Attachments button work for you guys on iphones?

Tommy Gun

10-20-2012, 12:49 AM

Curious, does the Manage Attachments button work for you guys on iphones?

Where is that, never seen it.

68fastback

10-20-2012, 01:04 AM

...you have to be posting and in advanced mode, then there's a Manage Attachments button in the additional options area just below the text window you're keying into.

Gr8snkbite

10-20-2012, 01:11 AM

...you have to be posting and in advanced mode, then there's a Manage Attachments button in the additional options area just below the text window you're keying into.

correct....

Tommy Gun

10-20-2012, 01:18 PM

Ah, okay.

i just use Photobucket so don't know.

Alloy Dave

10-22-2012, 02:19 PM

Ah, okay.

i just drive GM products so don't know.
:oops:

Tommy Gun

10-23-2012, 01:32 AM

I'll miss ya Dave...

Cobra Drifter

10-23-2012, 07:02 AM

So with the exception of #3 everything is fixed now?

Orf

10-23-2012, 11:15 AM

So with the exception of #3 everything is fixed now?

I believe you are correct.

Gr8snkbite

10-23-2012, 10:22 PM

it appears so....but i see someone is adding new news feeds to the homepage..not sure who, but it aint me...

HSURB

10-23-2012, 11:23 PM

it appears so....but i see someone is adding new news feeds to the homepage..not sure who, but it aint me...

It is most likely the RSS Feeds automatically populating content.

HSURB®

Gr8snkbite

10-24-2012, 12:24 AM

It is most likely the RSS Feeds automatically populating content.

HSURB®

copy that...didnt know we had that set up...always thought George manually did all the feeds on the home page..

68fastback

10-24-2012, 02:50 AM

It is most likely the RSS Feeds automatically populating content.

HSURB®

copy that...didnt know we had that set up...always thought George manually did all the feeds on the home page..

What Tim said.

The Ford Newsroom RSS on the left side is automatic. I think all the tech article stuff on the "Articles" (home) page George did manually. The Ford Newsroom stuff on the lower right hasn't updated sunce August and seems linked to an oddly-formatted Ford location ...possibly that was something George did manually or possibly it's to a link that Ford changed and has therefore since stopped updating (dunno), but the date of the last item sure makes it seem like George must have been doing something manually.

Gr8snkbite

11-06-2012, 12:59 AM

new discovered issue added to post 1 based on info from CD.....:groan:

thx Robert....:grin:

Tommy Gun

11-06-2012, 01:39 AM

Do you put new stuff in the first post because you know I don't read back? :doh:

lol

68fastback

11-06-2012, 02:07 AM

:wow2: Look at that ...it's gone!

Cobra Drifter

11-06-2012, 02:10 AM

I believe its just the menu item no longer appearing in the drop down menu but I'll look for the link so we can at least still have it to give out when needed

Gr8snkbite

11-06-2012, 08:45 PM

I believe its just the menu item no longer appearing in the drop down menu but I'll look for the link so we can at least still have it to give out when needed

thanks...but it was never in a drop down menu....it was a link in the grey header in blue font..."Donate"

Gr8snkbite

11-06-2012, 08:46 PM

Do you put new stuff in the first post because you know I don't read back? :doh:

lol

:yes:

:haha:

time to read back....:tongueflap:

better to keep data consolidated......

Cobra Drifter

11-06-2012, 10:21 PM

thanks...but it was never in a drop down menu....it was a link in the grey header in blue font..."Donate"

Oh yea u r orrect. Its my allztimers acting up again lol

Gr8snkbite

01-04-2013, 02:03 AM

Oh yea u r orrect. Its my allztimers acting up again lol

this still needs resolved....item 6 of post 1....

members wanting to re-up their membership are coming due soon.....anyone talked with joker lately....:waiting:

he's the only one i gave access to our PP acct to do this...

edit.....i sent joker an email...hope to hear form him soon

Shelby-Don

01-04-2013, 01:27 PM

I thought the button disappeared because Keith graciously decided to pay to have everyone as a lifetime memember .......... my bad ! :doh2:

Gr8snkbite

01-04-2013, 09:11 PM

I thought the button disappeared because Keith graciously decided to pay to have everyone as a lifetime memember .......... my bad ! :doh2:

:gun:

Joker

01-08-2013, 06:24 PM

this still needs resolved....item 6 of post 1....

members wanting to re-up their membership are coming due soon.....anyone talked with joker lately....:waiting:

he's the only one i gave access to our PP acct to do this...

edit.....i sent joker an email...hope to hear form him soon

Got your email and I'm checking in. I'm going to look at it right now.

Sorry I'm not around much. Life has kind of gotten in the way of everything. Weird...:tease2:

Joker

01-08-2013, 06:52 PM

PayPal donation button is back and working. If someone with the PayPal account access can verify my donation made it then it's working correctly and everything is good again with it.

Boston Mike

01-08-2013, 07:17 PM

PayPal donation button is back and working. If someone with the PayPal account access can verify my donation made it then it's working correctly and everything is good again with it.

Did you link it to my Paypal as we discussed????? :shades:

BTW, can you at least set up an autopost to post for you at least once a week so we get to see your avatar regularly? :faint:

Joker

01-08-2013, 07:32 PM

Did you link it to my Paypal as we discussed????? :shades:

BTW, can you at least set up an autopost to post for you at least once a week so we get to see your avatar regularly? :faint:

Sure did! :shades:

At least I'm missed for something! :ninja3:

Cobra Drifter

01-08-2013, 07:41 PM

Good work! :thumb:

What was the issue?

Also, I wanted to mention that it takes me about a minute to get to the site the first time. Its been very sloooow lately

Joker

01-08-2013, 07:46 PM

I just had to update the PayPal widget. The latest versions were not supported.

I don't know why the site has been slow. Today it only took about 2 seconds for the forums to load for me on my first visit in a few weeks. But I did notice that sometimes today the next page I would click on in a thread would load slow.

I'm guessing it's host related. Maybe they are either having issues or overloaded.

I also updated the site to the newest security patch, PL3.

Cobra Drifter

01-08-2013, 08:26 PM

Widget? You mean the vb addon?

Its been slow both at home as well as at work so I know its not my connection

Gr8snkbite

01-08-2013, 10:57 PM

PayPal donation button is back and working. If someone with the PayPal account access can verify my donation made it then it's working correctly and everything is good again with it.

PP confirmed.....thanks Robert...:tiphat2:

life happens....stop in when you can...your missed....hope the holidays were splendid...:grin: