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Great.... now it doesn't seem to work, AT ALL... Any PHP developer here who could look at the code and provide a fix?

Again? I've been updating V-Webmail to v1.5 for 4 times now in the past 2 weeks... The first version of 1.5 came out on the 14th or 17th of april if I remember correctly... the rest are minor changes and bugfix. None solved the login/authentication problem so far. I'll try to update with this one again though. Never hurts to try... By the way, I found this post in the support mailing list: ----- To: "Gilles Levesque" <glevesque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<v-webmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [v-webmail] Re: RE : Can I use v-webmail to connect to remote email servers? From: "David Collantes" <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:38:45 -0400 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I Don't know for yahoo but witch pop or imap server will you supply to > connect to Hotmail? > > Can I use v-webmail to connect to remote email servers? For example, to > check mail on my Yahoo or Hotmail account? No, you can not use v-webmail to accesss your Yahoo or Hotmail accounts (is anyone using those free accounts for anything serious?). There is a problem, whether on Apache, PHP, v-webmail or a library that makes v-webmail unusable on RH7.3/8.0 systems (the one's I have at hand to test). It seems to be related to sessions and authentication, but that is just guessing. Falling back to Squirrelmail... sorry. Love the way v-webmail looks, just does not works under my current configuration. ----- I wonder if the "unusable" part refers to the login/authentication problem?

Thanks guys. Any luck with it so far?

Heheheh... had some initial trouble installing it myself too... Luckily I managed to got it up in the end though. It seemed to be quite a good one too, with the added perk of a slideshow function. Mine's here.

Since the Horde web mail interface provided by TCH was blocked by my school, I've installed another web mail software for my web site. The software is V-Webmail (http://www.v-webmail.co.uk) recently gone open-source). I've tried squirrelmail, but I don't quite like the interface. V-Webmail also has some extra feature in functionality. For some reason, the software would work for some time, but upon returning to it another day, it would be down. Waiting out for a few more days and logging back again, it would work. The problem occurs at the login screen. When the software fails, I would get Internet Explorer's "Cannot Find Server or DNS Error" error message. Sometimes the screen merely refreshes. In both cases, the URL shown in the titlebar shows: "http://email.alphainitiative.com/htdocs/login.php?vwebmailsession=" (You'd realise the sessionID is missing from the URL, compared to when it was working). Could it be a session problem? Strangely, when I checked the error logs in CPanel, the log is empty. Thanks in advance.

Wait, if I remember correctly, wasn't Greymatter's scripts were supposed to be banned on TCH servers due to excessive hogging of CPU cycles? This thread comes to mind: Banned Scripts

I'm assuming you meant running the conf.pl file? Along with others I too had encountered similar errors. Some guys from the board said that conf.pl has to be run from the command line (as in Unix or Linux), or at least from a shell. You can get one from TotalChoice for a small fee. Personally I just edited the config.php file manually. It still works.

All the pages looks fine to me, loads really fast too. Tested on IE 6 SP1 and Opera 7.

Yes! It is now working just like before. Mail was received almost instantaneously. Are these changes to PHP you mentioned on Totalchoice servers only or PHP in general? If you don't mind, Bill, could you point me where I could read up on these changes? I'm still learning PHP as I go along. Guess its high time I use this: TCH Rocks

I've already sent a support ticket, but Support seemed to have misunderstood my problem. While I've sent another ticket to clearify, I would appreciate it if I could get other's comments too. I've written a system RSVP system where I could specify and event and a list of people, and then by selecting them I could send the RSVP invitations to them using PHP's mail(). The script was finished about 1-2 months back ago, and when I tested it then, it was working well. Yesterday while I was demonstrating the website to one of my supervisors, I sent out invitations to different email addresses, (hotmail, dogmail.com, email.com, my school mail) and realised that I could not receive them at any of them. Later on in the day I did some tests, and found that all external emails could not receive the invitations. However, if the invitations were sent to my own account at totalchoice (i.e. christian@alphainitiative.com), i would be able to receive it almost instantaneously. I'm thinking there's something wrong with either php's mail(), or the sendmail program (which from what I read up on, is what mail() uses). Any one has any experience (or better still, a solution)? I'm scheduled to have another demonstration soon, so it's kinda urgent. Thanks in advance.

I find ws_ftp more intuitive... but it tends to crash on me when my hard drive is low on space...

I'm not so sure about mySQL v4, but when I downloaded Firepage's phpDev for development use on my machine (I'm still a newbie now), it was on their web site that Apache 2 was out but not as stable as 1.3... perhaps that could be a reason... not sure about now though.

I can't seem to run the Conf.pl file... I get an Error 500.

Heheheh... I'll second that! Same here, I find the best way to learn even when you know absolutely nothing about it is to dive in, tinker around and see how things work.

Sandy: Tell you what, look through the documentation at the Invision web site, as well as their forum (both links were posted above), and see if they could help u out. If not, post your questions at their forum, or back here (e.g. "I can't seem to set up a new forum, how do I do it?") and us Invision Board users will try to guide you through. Also, the best way to learn about such things is to try it out yourself. Tinker around with the settings and refresh your forums to see what has changed. Hands-on is the best way to learn, IMHO. That's what I did, just 5 months ago. Now I'm installing mods as well as implementing my own minor changes to the board code too!

Personally I wouldn't have a problem with the restriction most of the time since I do my mail checks manually only every couple of hours. But matt, you do seem to be forgetting the needs of us PHP script developers. Some of us do, during periods of development and testing, need to check our mailboxes multiple times in a short while, to tweak and make sure our scripts are working well. (Just about last month I was upgrading my website for my Corps, a division of a non-profit uniformed brigade, and I needed to check my mail to see if my new Feedback Form, Volunteer Registrations, as well as RSVP system are working well -- all were custom developed, one of the reason why we chose PHP and a host that supports PHP) The sooner we can get it right, the sooner we can move on to other scripts and not need to test the mail functions that much. Then again, spammers don't check mail that often; they send them. They're not the problems when it comes to setting a time limit for mail check. It is the people who bogs down the server continually by checking mail that's causing a problem. On another note, I see you have Bucky Katt as an avatar... I absolutely loves Get Fuzzy! I read the comics everynight on their web site. My favourite character's Satchel Pooch though... He's so naive at times its adorable...

I think generally that would not be a problem. It would be however, inconvenient when we develop and test scripts such as feedback forms; where a test form would send the collected data to our emails, and we would have to wait 5 minutes in order to retry the script (after modifications, assuming we're only making slight changes). Is the "abuse" frequent or regular? I would prefer restrictions to be made on a case-by-case basis.

You're welcomed!

Welcome, Paul! No need to worry about a thing here. TCH's staff and customers will be there for you if you ever need anything. It's a big family here! I myself got a bad host last year before I moved over to TCH. It wasn't FeaturePrice, but it was quite bad too. First 15 days was quite stable and fast, but after that I kept seeing downtime. sometimes it would go down for more than 12 hours per day! Their technical support kept insisting it was a problem on my end, but checking it from online webmaster services revealed otherwise. I was wary about moving to TCH, seeing the low prices made me think about my old host. But they sure proved me wrong! Great price, great features, great community! You'd see!

blackhood: You should find a link in CPanel called "Manage MySQL" under Databases. Click on that. Look for a textfield marked "Db:" and enter a name for the database you want to create for your forum. e.g. "forum". Click on the "Add DB" button. You should now have a database called yourcpanelusername_forum (e.g. "blackhood_forum") If you want to create a new user for the database, you may do it via the "Add User" textfields. Otherwise, you may use any existing users that you may have. Once you got your user, you have to add it to your account. Use the "Add User to Db" drop-down boxes to add a selected user to the selected database. In the Invision Board installation, the Database name would be the name of the database you created for it, e.g. blackhood_forum, the username and password are those that you have added to the blackhood_forum database. It should look something like this: Database Name: blackhood_forum (cpanel appends your cpanel username to the front of the name you specify) Database User: blackhood_theman cpanel appends your cpanel username to the front of the name you specify) Database Pass: abcdefgh

Actually, I've sent 2 support tickets, but both suggestions failed to work. Like I said, what puzzled me most was that even on removing all references of the custom error messages from the .htaccess files (from my home directory, public_html as well as a sub directory), my custom 404 File Not Found STILL shows up. Hopefully someone has a solution to this. Meanwhile I'll keep trying.

So, Li... any news on why my custom error docs don't work, and seem to work somewhat *independantly* from my .htaccess files??

Yes, Seancb. Do share your source of information about this alleged scam... Strangely I live in Singapore and hasn't heard about a big scale CC fraud in recent years. I'm rather surprised, to be sure. Lianna, kw >> Actually I did look into the .htaccess files and in fact tried to edit them and see. I tried that in the directory I was trying to protect, the root web directory, and even the root home directory. Amazingly, it appears that even if ALL the .htaccess files were EMPTY (I removed all references to the custom ErrorDocument files), I would still be able to get my custom 404 page when i enter an invalid URL, and still apache's error messages regarding the 401 errors. The other errors (400, 403, 500) I'm unot sure how to trigger, so could not test them. I came to a conclusion that the ErrorDocument directives may have been saved elsewhere that I can't access... is that even possible?

Got problems in 3 areas: 1) I'm recently remaking my website, and decided to change my custom error pages. I had the various SHTML error pages to redirect to my formatted PHP files (e.g. 404.shtml redirects to 404.php). But only my 404 error page seems to work. All the others show Apache's messages, something about the error, as well as failed ErrorDocument request?? I'm thinking it may have been caused when I tried to save the SHTML files in CPanel, since most of them would come up with errors when i try to save it, but when i check it, it has been saved. 2) Some subdomains I created could not work, such as board.**** and chat.****. Internet Explorer would give me a "Cannot find server or DNS Error". UPDATE: Nevermind question 2... I think CPanel doesn't like it when I have already have stuff in the directory when i create the subdomain... 3) My friend's brother who's also from Singapore said that when he tried to register a new domain name from TCH, he was told that Singapore's credit cards were not accepted at the moment. Could you clarify this? Anyone??

Index page took about 10 seconds to load, but the images apears one after another continuously so it looked okay. File download took about 7 seconds total, averaging about 180kbps.