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Congratulations! As a responsibile website administrator, however, you should always remember to keep your scripts (in this case, your forum) up to date. The most recent version of phpBB available in cPanel may be a lower version than is currently released. For example, some cPanel versions only have phpBB 2.0.18 to install, but the phpBB group released 2.0.19 at the end of December. The 2.0.19 release included a security patch (affects IE users only) and bug fixes. You'd hate to have your forum compromised because you were using an out-dated script. So once you find a forum you like and want to use, it is time to roll up your sleeves and figure out how to update your forum installation to a newer version. You'll be glad you figured it out in the end. And if you have any questions, be sure to ask. We love to help. No really. We love it. Best wishes,

Welcome to the forums. I'm glad you got it working. I think it was the /public_html/ with both slashes that probably was the clincher here. That was what I was about to suggest as I read through this thread. Then I saw that Andy had you covered. Hope you enjoy the forums. Come back and ask lots of questions. We just sit here waiting for people to ask questions. (In the mean time we break our own sites, so we can ask more questions...) Best wishes, and again, welcome.

You could try swearing a bit more. I don't know if it would help solve the problem, but you might feel better. Good luck! Hardware problems are lousy!

I've not personally used any lind of link exchange, because I feel it would clutter my site for not much benefit. As I understand it, if you are doing it to boost search results, then link exchanges aren't the best way to go. The best way to boost search results is to get great content, and then get linked to from a FEW GREAT sites, rather than many mediocre sites. But, of course, YMMV. Just because it doesn't float my boat doesn't mean it can't float yours. Happy sailing if that's what you choose to do.

Refresh didn't help. Neither did clearing the cache or using a different browser. It just isn't there yet.

Rob -- Congratulations on the new position! That's great! I'm sure you'll do a great job at the help desk. Every encounter I've had with them has been fantastic, so you have big shoes to fill, but if Head Guru believes in you, then I do too! Welcome and congratulations!!

Same thing with my accounts on server 35 and 336; they are listed in this thread as completed, but there is not a visible change in cPanel. Is it just a "wait and it will be there" or do you expect that it should be available to us already?

Curveball: level 6, 16635 points on first try. Took me a while to figure out what was going on, since there was no documentation.

Congrats Dave! I thought I heard some crying from your side of the valley... So, does that mean that your newest son is "Crazy Cousin Cooper"?

If you were wanting something really simple, it seems that you could have all of your sponsor links point to a php page with a specific variable. The recieving PHP page could check the incoming variable to know who the sponsor was, update the database, and then redirect the user on to the sponsor's homepage. All of this would take less than a second, and you could impelment it right now. So lets say I had two sponsors: Acme and Emca (Acme backwords). For the sponsor link, when somebody clicks on the acme logo, the target page would be something like "http://www.mysite.com/redirect.php?sponsor=acme" A link to Emca would be: "http://www.mysite.com/redirect.php?sponsor=emac" Then you would create the redirect.php file which would 1. connect to the database. 2. get the value from the database of the previous number of clicks for that sponsor. 3. Add one to that value. 4. Restore the value in the database. 5. Disconnect from the database. Then you would have an if statement for each sponsor. The basic structure is: >if sponsor="acme" {redirect code to redirect to acme's website} else if sponsor="emca" {redirect code to redirect to emca's website} It seems like this process would take less than a half an hour to set up completley. Then when you wanted to check the number of clicks to a sponsor, you would just go to your database and look. When you wanted to reset your counter, you would just go to your database and reset it. Its a quick-n-dirty way to do it, and I'm sure the other sites you've looked at have more features/etc. But this is a simple way you could get it running today.

Of course! According to Forum Rules you are allowed to post links to sites that you've created that are hosted by TCH. A good place to do that would be in the Web Site Reviews forum. Glad you got it working!

When you see this error, try running a traceroute to see if you are able to access your site. To run a traceroute, if you are using windows, 1. CLick on Start 2. Click on Run 3. In the box, type: [tt]cmd[/tt] Press enter 4. A Dos-like window will appear. Type tracert ****** So to do a tracert on Google.com, you would type tracert google.com If the tracert is able to successfully contact your server, then you probably aren't currently experiencing a routing problem. If the tracert gets stuck along the way, then that is the computer where you are having your routing trouble.

Here is a thread that shows the specific command that I use for backing up my databases using the mysqldump command: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...showtopic=10022 This one is simple, and doesn't require that you add any extra php files to your site.

I'd point you to two posts first, then to the cPanel forum here at TCH: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...7&hl=cron+setup http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...4&hl=cron+setup http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...hp?showforum=21 Best wishes!

I think one trouble you are going to have is that if you get too many records from the DB, your table will get really wide, really fast. I think that what you may need to do is to have one parent table row with a different subtable in each column. Then you'd let your <for each> command set up your master table columns with sub tables inside of them. So your master table would look like: ><table> <tr> [here is where you put your FOR EACH code] <td><table><tr><td>Car $i</td></tr><tr><td>$model</td></tr><tr><td>Stock $stock</td></tr><tr><td>Price: $price</td></tr></table></td> [end your FOR EACH code here] </tr> </table> But remember, you're going to get really wide pages unless you limit the results fetced from the database.

Geosword, you might consider doing a nightly backup cron job of your database. I have eight cron jobs for a particularly important database: 1. runs daily at 12:00 noon. Saves the backup file to the root directory with "daily" in the filename. 2. runs on Sunday morning at 3:00 AM. Saves the backup file to the root directory with "sunday" in the filename. 3. runs on Monday morning at 3:00 AM. Saves the backup file to the root directory with "monday" in the filename. 4-8 run once a week on Tuesday - Saturday at 3:00 AM. Each saves the backup file to the root directory with the day it was run (like 2 and 3). That way, if something happens to the database/site, I have DB backups for each of the last 7 days. I'm on my site often enough that I would notice database trouble before seven days has gone by. But you could add some cron jobs to happen every 1st or 15th of the month or whatever. If you wanted, you could create a back up for every day of the month. Then you'd have a backup for each of the last 30 days. That would be more extreme, in my opinion, but if your data is important to you and you are afraid you might not see DB trouble early enough, then you could have the MOST RECENT info before the site got into trouble. Just a suggestion for the future. We live and learn, no?

<warning> I think I feel a movie quote coming on! </warning> <movie quote> "The line must be drawn here! No further! And I will make them pay for what they have done!" </movie quote> Anybody remember which movie this comes from?

Updates to phpBB are pretty easy to do manually. I'm sorry to hear that your forum got hacked. That is a bummer. You might try porting to Simple Machines Forum (SMF). I don't personally love it, but there are some HUGE SMF fans out there. The benefit, in your case, for SMF is that they apparently have one-click installs where you can update your installation from within your control panel. The trouble with phpBB forums is that because of their popularity, they get attacked more often than les popular forums (kind of like the virus trouble that Windows XP has, opposed to the virus trouble that Mac OS or Linux have). Best wishes. Sorry you lost data. That's really lousy.

You might try zipping up your files and uploading one zipped file to the server, then unzipping it on the server. I've found that when I upload updates to my blog, if I try to upload all the files individually through FTP it takes more than 10 times as long as uploading one compressed file which I can unzip in File Manager. I know it doesn't SOLVE the problem you're experiencing, but it may be a way to get around it, especially when you're uploading 400+ files.

Redsavior, Welcome to the forums! When you are having server-specific trouble, the best thing to do is always to submit a help desk ticket. (There is a link to the help desk at the top of the forum in the menu.) Give the help desk all the information you gave us, and they will do their best to track down the trouble for you. Most the forum members are other hosting customers, some of whom are moderators of the forum. The techs don't frequent the forums much, and even if they did, they would need more information from you in order to be able to pin down the trouble. But even though we can't answer this specific quesiton for you right now, be sure to come back and let us help with any other questions you have in the future.

A free alternative is Dodo's Mail. It is a script that I use on one of my sites, and I like it quite a bit. Version 2.1 has been secured from header injection. You can get more informaiton on it here: http://regretless.com/scripts/scripts.php#dodosmail

Brent, There is a great article explaining click fraud on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_fraud Hope this helps...

Amazing. Reminds me of the time I saw a guy that juggled 3 running chain saws. He actually used all three to cut a board on stage before he juggled them so we would know that they were real chain saws with sharp chains. That guy was nuts. I also saw him juggle a bowling pin, a bowling ball and some person's coat (audience donation) all together. It was quite amazing. I can't even hold on to my keys.

Thanks Bruce. No problem. You had a better guess at what to do than I did!

Thanks everybody for the help. I've repaired the table. I tested a cron job, and I didn't get any messages, so I guess it is fixed. I'll verify when my daily cron job runs tomorrow morning. If I'm still having trouble, I'll get back to you!