At least you're now up and running.  and a thumbs up.

Dandello wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2024 at 11:33pm:


FYI, I had to do this in AdminIndex.pl also.

Thanks for your assistance Dandello. I hope you get a chance to resurrect this software one day.

Namecheap have resolved the permission error by doing this:

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Looks like I am up and running now.

Dandello wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2024 at 11:33pm:


Thanks. This one fixed the issue with finding paths.pl. It's just the permission denied errors now. I suspect this must be some kind of setting on the server that affects perl accessing files.

I have fixed a few lines in Extended profiles, so I can view the posts again now, after I change permission. But I am still getting permission denied errors. Is it dangerous to change all permissions to 777? I think I would have to do it to all the files in boards, members, messages and variables. Also, this allows me to reply to existing threads, but not start new ones, so it is probably not a workable solution.

For the alleged Paths issue try:
in Yabb.pl find

      push(@INC, "./Modules"); 

just before it add

use lib '.'; 

The use of the '.' to designate the current working directory is no longer automatically added to the @INC list and has to be added in by hard code.

Thanks Dandello.

What am I getting myself into here? Would I be better asking for an older version of perl?

This is due to Perl deprecating some iffy code structures.
in ExtendedProfiles.pl find:

                elsif ( $group =~ m/^NoPost\{(\d+)}$/sm ) { 

and make it

                elsif ( $group =~ m/^NoPost\[{](\d+)}$/sm ) { 

As I recall this issue comes up in a number of places in old versions of Yabb. If you see the 'Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex;' you need to find the line, then find the '{' and change it to '[{]'

That's odd. Yesterday I was able to view a thread where the ctb file permission had been changed to 777. Now when I try to load the same thread, I get this error:

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Thanks for taking a look Dandello. I have attached a bunch of the pl files.

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I don't have a copy of YaBB 2.5 on my current machine. Could you post lines 41 to 57 of your YaBB.pl? (or just zip up a copy of your YaBB.pl and attach it here?)

Hi, I am switching from hostgator to namecheap and they are having trouble getting the yabb forum up and running. They got the wikis and the php forum running no problem.

The forum is at: ozpolitic - com/forum/YaBB.pl. I am running yabb 2.5.2. The new server is at 162.0.230.155.

They initially had some problems, which they resolved by moving the Paths.pl file into the Modules folder (see quote below). The forum home page now loads OK, so long as you are not logged in. If you are logged in (the login must have transitioned from the old server) you get a partially loaded page with this message: "Unable to open ./Members/***.vars : Permission denied" where *** is the user name.

If you are not logged in, you can navigate to a board, but if you click on a thread you get another error message: "Unable to open ./Messages/1705792099.ctb
Verbose: Permission denied." Namecheap fixed that one by changing the file permission to 777, but I suspect it is a bad idea to go changing all the file permissions.

Any idea what is going on? I checked the file and folder permissions from the installation instructions and they all seem correct, except that a lot of pl files have 755 instead of 644.


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