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1Feb/1016

Forums are broken

Not only the Infinity Ward forums are broken, but so are the ModernWarfail2.com' forums. After both VPSes crashed yesterday, the forum hasn't come back online correctly, thus displaying the following error:

Notice: Undefined variable: sourcedir in /srv/www/forum/public_html/index.php on line 56

Warning: require_once(/QueryString.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/www/forum/public_html/index.php on line 56

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/QueryString.php' (include_path='.:/opt/mw2/lib/php') in /srv/www/forum/public_html/index.php on line 56

I'm just letting you guys know we're aware of the problem and looking for a solution. Personally I would like to upgrade to vBulletin because I've totally had it with SMF and all it's gateway errors and stuff, but we need to look into the options of converting the current forum database to vBulletin, as I don't want to see any data go lost in the upgrade process.

I will keep you posted.

UPDATE: Aonic, our server booster and magician, managed to get the forums back up in just a couple of minutes.(Thanks !!). He also suggested that instead of upgrading straight to vBulletin, we should first try to upgrade to a newer SMF version (SMF 2.0 RC2). If that doesn't work, we can always upgrade to vBulletin later. The downside of upgrading to vBulleti,n is that all user passwords will go lost, thus you will have to reset your password via your email, which is annoying.

-KingOfTehInternets

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  • s0ul
    God damn you people... I have no idea what ya talking about
  • DoNtOnY
    Forums are broken again it says

    General Error
    SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

    Host 'vps.modernwarfail2.com' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' [1129]

    An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.
  • zombojoe
    The reseting of passwords won't really be an annoyance if given enough days notice.
  • Brad
    The bad gateway is a server error. Has nothing to do with the SMF software. I'd suggest you think twice about switching from SMF. It has a better security record than phpbb and vbulletin if you look into it. Just my $02 though. I was wondering what theme you were using here, so I took a look at the source code. It's unfortunate you've taken the copyright off from the author.
  • aonic
    The way some common things are done in SMF are really bad for performance. It seems the DB queries arent all that optimized, and some things are just plain fail. When you post an image in the body SMF actually opens a socket to the 3rd party server, downloads the image, and then uses imageGD to get the width/height of the image!

    All these performance hits lead the php requests piling up and php-cgi falling over leading to bad gateway errors.
  • Anarchy
    What he said
  • KingOfTehInternets
    Well, that is what Aonic told me and I can see a bit why. Aonic has modified the forum software to run on both VPSes so it's not just the average SMF forum, it has been modded a bit and I guess the 1.1 version of SMF doesn't really like it though.
  • Draakon
    Go for PhPBB3, its more secure and open source then VBUlletin.
  • KingOfTehInternets
    Thanks for the suggestion. I will discuss it with Aonic
  • Anarchy
    At least they didn't take 4 days to fix like the IW forums...
  • ShEsHy
    4 days??? Try over 2 months, their forums haven't been working correctly from the beginning :p
  • Anarchy
    I mean their SQL errors
  • ShEsHy
    Thought so, but still, I've seen inactive forums fixed faster than IW's.
  • never used smf myself, but i'm a huge fan of PHPBB3 forums, because of the simplicity and yet so complexity (sorry a tad philosophic there :p )

    ff int nederlands

    phpbb forums zijn heel gemakkelijk te modden, zoals een shoutbox enzo, dus ipv naar vbulletin zou ik phpbb nemen, is trouwens vbulletin niet betalen? phpbb is gratis :p. Als je hulp nodig hebt met phpbb, ik heb zelf ooit 2 fora opengehouden, dus als je vragen hebt die je niet aan een expert kwijtkan, stel ze maar aan de idio.., ik bedoel mij :p

    anyway, ik neem aan dat smf een mySQL database heeft? als je wil kan ik eens kijken of je de users table kan omzetten naar een phpbb users table

    sorry voor het nederlands, maar ik kan het niet zo goed uitleggen in het engels

    mvg,
    Sebastiaan Jansen, AKA Whitebird
  • KingOfTehInternets
    Thanks for the suggestion. I will discuss it with Aonic
  • McKillem
    Good news :)
    Hope that switching to newer SMF will help, personally don't like vBulletin :)
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