Perhaps I got an older version but I get a main::@check_filelock error on this mod.
As it seems somewhere deep down it uses old Gold file locking routines which are not found in Subs.pl.

Did remove them and made all open/close changed into fopen/fclose and now it runs.

Also I enhanced it a little using icons from the board in the topic headers
Check it out here

Great Mod Loony !!

hello again Looney

i was asking about this mod some months ago. not sure  if you remember but it was  a beta with a 1.1 board

i now have a 1.2 and have the 1.2.2 whoson mod

anyways... to make a short story long, i have been trying to get this to work for some time.  i contacted my  host and told them i wanted SSI. their response was  that my site would need to be reset.. well a few delays andfinally did that..for the sole intent and purpose of having this mod work.  While the site was down i upgraded to 1.2 and installed this mod.. i tried getting it to work but the 404 error. i go back to my host(who im not having a lot of faith in their expertise by now) and give them the test.shtml file url

their response was.. Quote:



So,, knowing a txt inc worked i thought there might be some sort of way around it but reading the last few posts im wondering if it is working. just that there is something else wrong

http://www.sanctuaryofthescarletcrop.com/cgi-bin/yabb/whoson.pl?info=ShowAll

is working

http://www.sanctuaryofthescarletcrop.com/cgi-bin/yabb/whoson.pl

is not showing any errors, however the page is blank

aslo the same for my test.shtml page where befre i was getting 404 errors i now have a blank page although it is picking up the html bg color

www.sanctuaryofthescarletcrop.com/test.shtml

if there is something you see that im missing.. id sure appreciate it. i have had my main page down since the site reset .

thanks in advance


ethanSSC

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that's right, it should do that. you are accessing the script, but you are not telling it to do anything, so it's doing nothing. it needs the ?info=whatever bit at the end. and when you do that, it works, so the script is working.

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if you look at the source code of that page, you will see that your server is not parsing the include comment (you can see it saying <! exec cgi....) and is showing it as a reqular comment. have you tried the other methods of including, that are detailed in the readme (include virtual... etc)? some hosts only use include virtual, I know mine did. if it

Going from there email that you quote, I don't think they allow any scripts to be called from a shtml file (i.e they just include the text of an include file, and don't run the code.) if you host supports php, try using the php method detailed in the readme, they said you can do it via asp, so I would guess they would allow it in php. the method is similar to the shtml mehtod, but you will have to rename your page test.php, and then put the code detailed in the readme into it.

hope you can get soemthing worked out


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thanks for the heads up about it not working. if you ever do get it working with chat, and banner ads, I would appreciate it if you let me know. have fun digging

you may be better off posting this in a different place starting a new thread would be a good idea. but to attempt to answer your question.

in YaBB, all data about the users is stored in a file called username.dat, every user has one, and it named with their username. this file has a structure (on the first line is your password, second line your username, thrid is your display name.. etc) and any converter for YaBB2 will follow this pattern. however, some mods add information to these files, by adding extra lines, and the YaBB2 converter will not know what to do with these, an therefore will just ignore them.

In recent times, mod writers have shyed away from adding information to these username.dat files because of problems like this, instead opting to create a brand new file, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. and the polls mod, and whoson mod do not add anything to these files, so your user data is safe.

hope this helps 8)

well, the mod does work, but there is obviously some problem with your host's implentation of SSI.... it's been a long time as you said, with no joy. I would suggest getting a decent host, but of course that's personal choice. there is nothing more I can suggest, the problem lies with your host, yet again. the mod works, you can see the information it outputs, but it cannot be included on your page, this is nothing to do with the mod, but a problem with your host.

I cannot understand why you are getting a 404 error with that.. I know you must have the correct path info. why don't you try including a plain text file, in the same directory as whoson.pl, using the same path as you used for whoson.pl.. see if it includes it. if it doesn't, and you still get a 404, the path is wrong. if however you get the text file included, then there is a problem...

I very rarely admit defeat

thanks LoonyPandora for the reply
, you're right it could have been done in a new thread but i primarily was asking b/c it's your mod that i was planning to add so this thread in dealing with *that* mod would best know the answer.
thanks for clearing it up

Hey, I've got whoson working for the most part.  However the =Recent (to show recent threads) doesn't seem to be working.  On my page it simply has "No Entries" above the header "Recent Topics" then nothing.  Am I missing something?

page: http://www.wpg-autox.org/index.shtml