Board and Domain technical issues unable to be fixed.

**griffin** · 9th June 2008, 12:45 AM

Originally Posted by Tober

On the plus side the board now has a nice little icon, so it doesn't look as noob sitting next to TFW, MacWorld etc in the address bar

Spent the entire day going through *every* possible option in the admin section of both the board and the server, to eliminate the board problems, but just can't see why this is happening. All the board functions appear to be active, allowing us to post links etc, and the server error logs don't appear to be registering a problem, so I have nothing left to try. And if I relocate to a new server, what's to say that this isn't just due to some corrupted file that I can't figure out, and we still have the same problems at the new home. Making the whole move unnecessary and a waste of money. If that did happen, I would probably have to re-install the entire board and database, which would erase everything, just to make sure this wasn't a corrupted or missing file problem. It's a last resort option, but is worth doing to get some reliability back here. More on that later. We have a public holiday up here on monday, so it will be tuesday or later before I can find a new home for our domain, and report back here with an update.

That 'favicon' icon in the address bar was something I added, because it was one of the errors in the server error log (it kept registering that it was missing, so I created one just to at least eliminate that 'unnecessary' error). Yes, it does give the board a bit of a status boost, but at this time, I feel it is the least of our worries if posting and messaging remain hampered.

**STL** · 9th June 2008, 12:55 AM

Originally Posted by Tober

On the plus side the board now has a nice little icon, so it doesn't look as noob sitting next to TFW, MacWorld etc in the address bar

Aye, I reallly love it. It was the first thing I noticed tonight and i love our little symbol.

Agreed tho that the site is loading much slower for me.

**kurdt_the_goat** · 9th June 2008, 01:09 AM

Have you tried logging into cpanel and checking the error logs? Might give some insight. Alternatively, if you can backup the files/db and pass them onto me, i could test the forum as is on a different server for you.

**griffin** · 9th June 2008, 03:35 AM

Originally Posted by jaydisc

There are two workarounds I've found:

1. Links can indeed be posted. You just cannot include the h t t p : / / . When you are posting URLs beginning with www, they are auto-detected and linked up. If you need to post a link that doesn't begin with www, just use the link button and omit the h t t p, e.g.

I don't know why, but every time I try it, the board auto inserts:

h t t p : / / w w w . o t c a . c o m . a u / b o a r d s /

before the link, instead of just the h t t p : / /

See: www.tfw2005.com/

**jaydisc** · 9th June 2008, 09:04 AM

Weird. As it works for me: www.tfw2005.com.

Regarding the isolation of the issue,

If you were to simply put up a plain html form like this:

HTML Code:

<html>
<body>
<form>
	<p><input type="text" name="test" value=""></p>
	<p><input type="submit" value="Continue"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

And then try to post the value h t t p in it, that will tell you if it's a host issue or a board issue.

**dirge** · 9th June 2008, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Tober

On the plus side the board now has a nice little icon, so it doesn't look as noob sitting next to TFW, MacWorld etc in the address bar

I've had a favico for OzFormers in my address bar for ages. Found a extension for Firefox ages ago that lets you add them yourself

I'm glad we've found the workaround for URLs.... now for inline images

**MV75** · 9th June 2008, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by dirge

I'm glad we've found the workaround for URLs.... now for inline images

I agree.
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**Borgeman** · 9th June 2008, 03:04 PM

just a little bit of anger shown by MV75 in the post above

George

**jaydisc** · 9th June 2008, 04:08 PM

Have you guys seen the way attachments blow up? It's quite nice and makes sure that those who don't want to see inline images are only bogged down by a thumbnail. I think it has potential. I've attached a larger image as a better example.

**roller** · 9th June 2008, 05:41 PM

is it just my comp? or is this place still malfunctioning?

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