Update >>>>>
OK. I managed to restore all relevant files from a week old backup and my site works again for now. I'm still keen to know what the problem is though as I would really like to have this mod installed.
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Hi Zoo, Dot-Com or anybody that would be willing to help please.

Installed v1.95

This is certainly a mod that would work well for my board. I thought that I would try this beta mod and as I now have so many existing mods I update the files manually. Up to now I have been pretty successful considering I know almost nothing about perl.

As normal I check to see what files are being overwritten and make a backup of these before adding the mods. I did this and uploaded the files. Created a new user before making any changes to the 'Forum Settings' then tried to delete the user. The user couldn't be deleted. That isn't the main problem though.

When I went into the 'Forum Settings' and selected my options and the pressed save, the forum immediately went into error 500 or something like that. What appears to have happened is that the permissions on the Yabb folder (I called mine Forum) were reset to 000. I managed to get the forum back by re-chmoding the files. When I open the site I got a message that said:

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Software error:
syntax error at ./Variables/Settings.pl line 34, near "= ;"
syntax error at ./Variables/Settings.pl line 35, near "= ;"
syntax error at ./Variables/Settings.pl line 36, near "= ;"
syntax error at ./Variables/Settings.pl line 37, near "= ;"
Compilation failed in require at YaBB.pl line 53.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (webmaster@eulogia.co.uk), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
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When I added the values in the file manually then my site came back up but with errors. Because of this I decided to remove the mod and restore the original backup files. However now I still have errors that make logging in or out impossible and when you register the verification code is missing. In its place is just an error icon. I'm assuming that these errors are chmod related but I have checked and updated any files that didn't look right. Would you mind looking at the following error codes that I now get.

On a pc all ready logged out, there is now this message at the top of the page that wasn't there before:

Status: 200 OK Set-Cookie: Y2User-93438=; path=/; expires=Thursday, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT; Set-Cookie: Y2Pass-93438=; path=/; expires=Thursday, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT; Set-Cookie: Y2Sess-93438=; path=/; expires=Thursday, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT; Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

And on this pc I am already logged in, I get this message at the top:

[b]Status: 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1[/b]

I'm just wanting to get it back the way it was but would also love to get the mod working at some point to as I can't see me going up to v2.2 for a while. I have put the board into Maintenance Mode for now but can take it out if you need to access the forum.

Any Help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Charles

Thanks Dot-Com. This sounds hopeful. I just assumed that I must have made a mistake when adding some other mod or that I had set chmod permissions wrong. After restoring my backup files I had to delete the test-user manually.

I don't know but this may be relevant: I only manually mod but if someone uses BoardMod then they may get an error at the profile.pl step where it is looking for:

     if ($row_gender || $row_age || $row_location) {

I don't have that line for some reason. I have:

     if ($row_gender || $row_age) {

Obviously related to another mod. If you need to see the code around this area then here it is.

			</div>
		</td>
	</tr>
  ~;

	if ($row_gender || $row_age) {
		$yymain .= qq~
	<tr>
		<td class="windowbg2" align="left" valign="top">
		$row_gender
		$row_age
		</td>
	</tr>
	~;
	}
	require "$sourcedir/ExtendedProfiles.pl";
	$yymain .= ext_viewprofile($user);

	$yymain .= qq~
	<tr>
		<td class="catbg" align="left">
			<img src="$imagesdir/profile.gif" alt="" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;
			<span class="text1"><b>$profile_txt{'819'}</b></span>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
 

Sorry Zoo, this is obviously more work for you but at least I know that I don't have to give up with this one. Really appreciate all your hard work.

Thanks Guys

Charles

Zoo

Thanks for the update but I am still getting the 500 Internal Server Error.

What I did was update the relevant files and copied them to my server, overwriting the originals. Checking the chmod's as I went.

Once uploaded I went straight to the 'Form Settings' in the Admin Center and clicked on save. Then immediately got the following server error:


Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@eulogia.co.uk and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/1.3.37 Server at www.eulogia.co.uk Port 80

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When I checked the folder chmods they had been reset to the following.

Forum = 0
        Templates = 0
                      Defaults = 0

Even when I change them back again they reset them selves back to '0' each time I click on a web page.

I don't know if this is just a problem with my server or not but I have restored my backup files again and everything is working again.

Thanks again
Charles

For the newbie "not so technical" Yabb admins, could you folks post instructions for how to install this registration mod?  I followed the FAQ, used BoardMod, but no dice. Got the Internal 500 error. Reverted to saved copy of old board.

Would be willing to pay someone to do it, unless this mod will be part of new version (as suggested it might this summer). Problem is, we need it now.
Moderator approved registrations is a must have for our organization. We have kids coming to our board and the p*rn registers are killin us. Without moderated registration, we will need to switch board software, and we don't want to have to do that! We like Yabb!

Hi,
thx for this Mod!

One Question:

This code:

$memberwaitcount .= qq~<a }: <b>$waitcount</b></a></b><br />~ 

direct to adminindex.cgi. But we have an adminindex.pl, so it doesnt find the object.
Same when I rename admindex to pl. What I have to change in this code?
Thx
Mick

Edit:
Forget it. I take the easy way and change
"$yyext" to "pl".

Spikecity wrote on May 18^th, 2007 at 11:19am:


When will this be released?  I don't see it on the Yabb site.

I am in the same boat as mac ! I have a succesful yabb forum that is being held back by not being able to pre approve new members. When we were using yabb 1.3 we had a mod called registration options but lost this when we ugraded

How about "How can I help?" 
I ran the BoardMod software but the mod didn't take, it errored out (as mentioned above).  Well, it might be a moot point anyway if 2.2 comes out SOON, and None Too Soon for us.

Editorial: I applaud the free and open nature of Yabb/BoardMod, but it could be a little easier and less obtuse to work with for those of us doing it on the side or infrequently. Most of it is pretty easy, but not the BMods IMHO. Not all of us are hacker-experts (and some of us would probably like hire such from time to time). I design educational game software ...and SADLY... just don't have time to become an expert at everything.  Yet there are several mods that interest me.