https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl en-us YaBB Development & Mods Sat, 8 Nov 2025 07:28:36 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss YaBB 2.7.00 Revision: 2044 30 https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1760591040/0#0 YaBB Development & Mods/Talk it Up https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1760591040/0#0 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (fd) Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:04:00 GMT Hi everyone.<br /><br />I run this forum:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl" target="_blank">https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl</a><br /><br />Starting a few days ago, it has been struggling to handle the bot load. The YaBB software is was saying 2500 "visitors" (I have the time period set to 15 minutes). This how now increased to nearly 4000. Rebooting worked briefly to bring the speed back up to normal, but I think the bots figured out that trick and are now back in higher numbers. That tricks does not work any more. The forum has 3,700 users, 117,000 topics and 3,400,000 posts. <br /><br />I am on a namecheap VPS Quasar hosting plan with 6GB of RAM. Would a "better quality" host deal with this better? I have been with them for nearly two years without issue, so I suspect this is a new advance in bot maliciousness, not a host issue.<br /><br />Namecheap contacted me and gave me some suggestions for robots.txt, but that made no difference. They made two other suggestions. One is that Perl is outdated and does not handle high traffic well because it "spawns a new perl interpretter for nearly every request." Does not mean that I would get around the problem by migrating to one of the php forums?<br /><br />They also suggested cloudflare. How painful is that to set up, and will the free version or the $20/month version solve my problems? I don't think I could afford the next one up. https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1759663263/5#5 YaBB Development & Mods/HTML5 and CSS https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1759663263/5#5 chimohe@gmail.com (TripAmillion) Sun, 5 Oct 2025 11:27:28 GMT <a href="https://tripamillion.com/ProfileCSS.html" target="_blank">https://tripamillion.com/ProfileCSS.html</a> https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1448736808/2#2 YaBB Development & Mods/Mods Wanted (New Mods) https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1448736808/2#2 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:43:11 GMT Hello https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1747410183/0#0 YaBB Development & Mods/YaBB 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 Support https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1747410183/0#0 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Tiny Tim) Fri, 16 May 2025 15:43:03 GMT Anyone had issues self hosting with their  own hardware with vsftp and apache?<br /><br />Anyone got any pointers or a favourite config?<br />cheers,<br />Tim<br /><br /> https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1747409913/0#0 YaBB Development & Mods/YaBB 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 Support https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1747409913/0#0 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Tiny Tim) Fri, 16 May 2025 15:38:33 GMT I am having a few issues with getting yabb installed. Hosting on an Opensuse powered laptop but using vsftp and apache.<br /><br />I have double checked permissions but cant get past this error:<br /><br />Can't locate -default-Other.template at (cgi dir) yabb2-Sources-Subs.pm line 3003.<br />(Had to replace slash with - to post the message)<br /><br /> <strong>Quote:</strong><br /><div>Cannot post quote or paste a code because i need to make 5 posts? </div><br /><br /><br /><br />Permissions are correct, figured it was looking for (slash)default directory from document root so i copied what it was looking for into what should be a discoverable url. Still have no joy  <img rel=";&#45;&#41;" src="https://yabbforumsoftware.com/yabbfiles/Smilies/embarassed.gif" alt="Embarrassed" title="Embarrassed" /><br /><br />Obviously i have missed something. Any pointers?<br />Regards<br />Tim https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1744811692/0#0 YaBB Development & Mods/General Board https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1744811692/0#0 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Normp) Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:54:52 GMT The problem below was resolved by my Hosting folks --- it was a Perl issue that they fixed because it was not handled by the migration. <br /><br />The URL Execution line is this:<br /><a href="https://www.poemtrain2.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/AdminIndex.pl?action=admincheck;username=4F6E736C716E010" target="_blank">https://www.poemtrain2.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/AdminIndex.pl?action=admincheck;username=4F6E736C716E010</a><br /><br />The error message below it is:<br />[an error occurred while processing this directive]<br /><br />I just migrated my forum to KnownHost and they've been terrific. But the only big problem I'm having is the "Admin" function within my form produces the error above.  The techs at Knownhost are looking into it if it is a migration problem but I don't think so? Any ideas how to resolve this? Thanks in advance. https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1719044192/4#4 YaBB Development & Mods/YaBB 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 Support https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1719044192/4#4 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (pyragony54) Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:53:10 GMT <span>@</span><!--color--> <b>Derek Bullock</b><br /><br />Please excuse the late message, I'm not here that often anymore. I don't just believe it, I know it. YaBB 2.6.12 works with all Linux versions, best with Debian and Ubuntu. I can't say anything about other Linux versions or Microsoft Windows Server. You don't have to lose any mods either. As you probably noticed, JetLi deleted all board mods after his inglorious departure. So if you have any old mods that we're missing, post them here. Dandello will definitely adapt them if asked. It shouldn't be a problem.<br /><br />If you have any problems, I'm happy to take over the installation. I'm a professional when it comes to servers.<br /><br />And what I forgot is that if you have a V-server without root access, you won't be able to upgrade Perl. That requires root rights. That only works with a root server or dedicated server. Otherwise the provider would have to do it and they usually don't.<br /><br />A friend and I have created a sitemap generator for YaBB, which I will publish soon. https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1700262868/18#18 YaBB Development & Mods/YaBB Administration https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1700262868/18#18 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Derek Bullock) Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:15:58 GMT Really odd.  Removed them all and it still backs up everything else but the Attachments and Avatars.  Was all good before the upgrade.  Not the end of the world as I can go in and zip them up every now and then but I just hate it when things don’t work as they should. https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1732917256/2#2 YaBB Development & Mods/General Board https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1732917256/2#2 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Dandello) Sat, 30 Nov 2024 02:24:12 GMT <img rel=";&#45;&#41;" src="https://yabbforumsoftware.com/yabbfiles/Smilies/grin.gif" alt="Grin" title="Grin" />