Hello

Anyone had issues self hosting with their  own hardware with vsftp and apache?

Anyone got any pointers or a favourite config?
cheers,
Tim

I am having a few issues with getting yabb installed. Hosting on an Opensuse powered laptop but using vsftp and apache.

I have double checked permissions but cant get past this error:

Can't locate -default-Other.template at (cgi dir) yabb2-Sources-Subs.pm line 3003.
(Had to replace slash with - to post the message)

Quote:




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 

Obviously i have missed something. Any pointers?
Regards
Tim

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.

The URL Execution line is this:
https://www.poemtrain2.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/AdminIndex.pl?action=admincheck;usernam...

The error message below it is:
[an error occurred while processing this directive]

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.

@ Derek Bullock

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.

If you have any problems, I'm happy to take over the installation. I'm a professional when it comes to servers.

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.

A friend and I have created a sitemap generator for YaBB, which I will publish soon.

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.

Here is what you need. Place the directories in their proper place - yabbfiles on the same level as the cgi-bin and yabb2 inside the cgi-bin.

Make sure setup.pl, yabb.pl and admin.pl are CHMOdded to 755. Also Convert2x.pl
Run setup.pl - that will tell you what required Perl mods are missing.

Once Setup has successfully run, You should get a prompt to run the converter.

The converter as not been tested on the most recent Perl. If you get errors, save the error text and we can do fixes.

If your old forum was working you'd copy BoardConvert.pl into your OLD yabb2 folder and run it from there on your OLD forum to get a converted forum.control.

Since your old forum isn't working, you can't. Which means your boards may be messed up on converting. These CAN be fixed by hand.

Yeah, don't know who that slipped past.

In the SVN download the 'trunk" - that's 2.6.12 and I last night I did a fix to ManageTemplates.pm