sheryltoo

That's probably very wise advice so I'm not sure what I'll do. Sheryl

I have a few questions regarding my database for a forum. First of all, is there a way to check and see what language my database shows and if it's showing English-utf8, can I change it to English? Second, can you create a new database for a working forum and transfer all content into the new database? The reasons for my questions is because I have a forum set up on SMF. I orginally did this using Fantastico and it set everything up using English-utf8. I recently upgraded the program and did it all manually but I'm not sure if my database changed to the correct language. My forum says I'm using English but I added a mod and it's showing utf8. Sheryl

Are you saying I should change my database password from time to time? I thought that had to be done through the help desk. Is that right? Sheryl

Ok, that's something to think about. Sheryl

I've created a few databases and each time I create a new user. Is this necessary? Can I use the same user on different databases? Sheryl

Thanks for trying to help me. Someone actually got back to me at the smf site after I posted this so I wanted to let you know what's going on. I've been dealing with this problem for over a week now which is why I got desperate and thought I'd ask here. Anyway, someone suggested I create a temp folder in my package folder and I "think" that might have done the trick. I was able to install a mod without getting a fatal error. I'm still not home free because something needs to be manually changed in my themes folder, but I think I can get that figured out or rather find someone who will tell me where to put some codes. But thanks again for trying to help me. Sheryl

I know you don't support smf, but no one there seems to be able to tell me anything so I'm hoping someone here might be able to help or point me to a place that can give me help. I've searched high and low at the smf site and searched this site for some similar problems and may have found some, only people ended up fixing their problem and never said how so that doesn't help me. So this is my problem. First of all, I'm trying to install a mod on my smf site and get this fatal error: >Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/domain/public_html/subdomain/Packages/temp/./install1-1.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/domain/public_html/subdomain/Sources/Packages.php on line 556 I don't know what that means or how to find that exact line but after I try and install the mod, this is the error I get on my error log for smf: >2: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource File: /home/domain[/color]/public_html/subdomain/Sources/Subs-Package.php Line: 1908 My permissions for sources/subs-package.php was 755. One of the messages I found in my search led me to believe I needed to change that permission so I changed it to 644 since that's what's set for the same file on another version smf in my primary domain folder. That didn't help so maybe that had nothing to do with it. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Sheryl

Just wanted to tell you that it looks as if I got this all figured out and working. My error page is working. I've been getting some other file doesn't exist errors for smileys and I'm not sure if this takes care of it so I'll have to wait until my error log clears out and see if I'm still getting errors. Thanks again for your help. It really turned the lightbulb on in my head. Sheryl

Thanks for explaining what I needed to do. It's all sinking in now and making sense. Sheryl

I'm back again and need I seem to have gotten rid of the robot and favicon error but I'm getting a lot of 404.shtml errors and want to try and make a custom 404 error page only I have no idea what I'm suppose to put on it. I've found some tutorials that tell me to put this line on a 404 .htaccess error page: ErrorDocument 404 /404-error-page.html It also suggest that I put a link back to my site but I don't know what codes I need to use to do this or if it needs to be in a certain place. It then sounds as if I have to add a file like this to my site..... notfound.html . Do I have to set up and html page using starting html tags, closing tags, title, head, and body opening and closing tags? Do I put something on this file or just save an empty file using notfound.html for the file name? Getting back to the .htaccess file, do I need to edit the one that's already on my site? Here's a copy of that file with my personal information x'd out: # -FrontPage- IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* <Limit GET POST> order deny,allow deny from all allow from all </Limit> <Limit PUT DELETE> order deny,allow deny from all </Limit> AuthName www.XXXX.com AuthUserFile /home/XXXXpublic_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd AuthGroupFile /home/XXXX/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp I don't know what any of that means. If I have to add to it, where do I put the added lines and what exactly would I put if I want to show a link back to my site. Sheryl

Thanks for letting me know. I may disable the option to upload files but for the time being, I changed the permission to 777 and it seems to be working. Sheryl

Ok, then it is safe? Sheryl

It seems as if all of a sudden people can't upload attachments to a message in my smf forum or add an avatar to their profile from a file on their computer. They get an error saying: The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved. I didn't make any changes to the settings so I'm not sure why all of a sudden there's a problem. In searching the smf site, I found some messages saying this had something to do with the host site so I'm hoping someone here can help me out. I have the permissions set to 755. Someone suggested I change it to 777 but I thought that was dangerous. Sheryl

Thanks for the link. I did make that txt file and knocking on wood, but it seems to have stopped that error from coming. Is there a way to clear out that log with the past 300 errors? Sheryl

It all of a sudden showed up today but the favicon was smaller in the sub domain. I thought perhaps I uploaded my original 16x16 ico to the sub domain so I deleted it and installed it again making sure I picked the 32x32 ico but it didn't make the favicon any bigger. And now it's appearing smaller in my main folder and at my main forum. It seems to have a mind of it's own. In any event, it looks as if it's gotten rid of the error regarding no favicon.ico file found so that's one good thing, but I see I was also getting errors saying no robots.txt file found so I found some instructions telling me to create a robot.txt file which I did so we'll see if that helps. My main concern was getting rid of the errors. If my favicon wants to show up that's great, if not I don't think I'll worry about it unless I decide it would be a nice feature to have, lol. Sheryl

I'm making some progress. I decided to start all over again and used a different on line ico generator and now the favicon is showing on my main site and forum but not on my sub domain. BTW, it seems to have worked because this generator made the ico 32x32. I read on one of the sites I found when trying to research how to do this that someone else couldn't make the ico work using a 16x16 ico. They had to use a 32x32. But now do you have any suggestions on how I can get this to show for my sub domain? Thanks. Sheryl

I believe I followed the directions correctly for making a favicon.ico 16x16 image and uploaded it to my public html folder. Was that where it belongs? If so, it's not showing up. Do I need to do something else? And what if you have a sub domain? Do I need to put something in that folder? Sheryl

I know this is an old thread but I'm seeing this same error regarding the 404 error and file not found and would like to straighten it out only I'm not really sure what these instructions are telling me to do, plus since this thread is old, I was wondering if there were any updated tips on fixing this. I've read a bunch of old messages and some of them talked about using an favicon icon. Is that necessary? So about these instructions. I know how to write a html file but I don't understand how to write a .htacess file since I don't see that I have any in my public folder. Do I just use notepad? Is .htacess the extension like html? If so, do I need to give it a name, then .htaccess? I noticed in my cpanel under Advanced, there's a tab for error pages. I clicked on edit 404 and it brought up what looked like a text editor. Can you create your html file there and the .htaccess file? If so, how exactly do you do it? Sheryl

Ok. thanks. I'll look for it. Sheryl

I was trying to make some changes to some smileys I installed at my SMF message board and got this database error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'LENGTH(code) DESC' at line 2 File: /home/database name/public_html/sub domain/Sources/ManageSmileys.php Line: 654 Note: It appears that your database may require an upgrade. Your forum's files are currently at version SMF 1.1.7, while your database is at version 1.1.6. The above error might possibly go away if you execute the latest version of upgrade.php. It looks as if I was able to make the changes but I don't know what that means or what I'm suppose to do. I've also noticed that my error log shows numerous errors for the smileys I was installing. It says "file not found" and I'm not sure why since they appear in a drop down list on my message board. Sheryl

Thanks for explaing all that. I don't really understand it but it sounds as if I don't have any problems that I need to deal with, right? Sheryl

It came back up but now it's down again. I'll submit a ticket. Thanks. Sheryl

I was trying to post a message on my forum and ended up getting a blank page with this message: Connection Problems Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later. What would cause this to happen? I haven't used up my bandwidth. What else would cause it? Sheryl

Thanks for answering me but I may not do anything. I wanted to change my password on the message board I set up and thought I had to do that by changing the password for the database. I know now that's not the case so I just may leave it alone. Sheryl

I'm not even sure I have a ftp program. It says "0" under the Ftp accounts. Does this mean I should install one? I'm able to upload files to my site but I don't know what ftp program does that. Sheryl