jhollin1138

1) www.jhollin1138.com 2) jhollin1138.com 3) My site to help me learn my new hobby of hosting a web page and learning HTML, CSS and PHP. 4) Personal site. Currently isn't a blog, but I am considering adding one in the future. 5) Done, on main page

Here is my desk at work, I couldn't get back far enough to get all the mess in.

Thanks for the heads up. Since I am running a few MODs, I find it easier to apply the updates by hand and not with cPanel. BTW, the update required from v2.0.12 to v2.0.13 is actually quite simple. Your just need to make a change to your "includes/sessions.php" and your "viewtopic.php" files. See this link for the instructions.

Thanks for the help. I figured it would be a simple thing to do, and it was until I remembered the JavaScript thing. I guess I might just have to go with plan B. Now I just need to figure out what is "plan B." EDIT: BTW, you cannot link directly to webmasterworld.com post. You need to use Google to help you out: Google Help.

I think it is Monday morning, because I am not thinking clearly at all. PIE, at least the version with Pocket PC 2002, does not natively support JavaScript. Is there any way to do it with HTML? How about on the server side?

Thanks, that looks like it will help. I knew it had to be easy to do. Now I just need to figure out how PIE is reported.

I'm still learning HTML by the old "trial and error" method. I need some help trying to do something. A few weeks ago I added frames to my website so I can add a frame for navigation. It works great with a full screen PC browser. The problem is that I host a "Pocket PC" forum for a program called "TodayPlus." (I didn't write the program and its history is an interesting story.) I get some visitors to my site directly from their "Pocket PC" and the frames make viewing my site nearly impossible. Here is what it looks like. I am not sure how to do it, but I believe you can determine which browser a visitor is using. I am assuming it is basically an "if...then...else..." statement. After making this determination, I can then change your layout accordingly. So if I can figure out how to do it, I can revise my frames to make a more Pocket IE (PIE) friendly site. So here are my questions. 1) What is the format for testing for which browser is being used? 2) Instead of determining the browser, can I determine the operating system? BTW, the version of PIE on my Pocket PC doesn't support CSS and that is another problem all together.

For me the problem isn't the bandwidth Google is using. It is the fact that Google was appearing as a "guest" on my forum about 70+ times, at the same time. All that activity was causing my forum and the rest of my website to run very slow.

Darn, I just upgraded to 2.0.11 and reapplied all my MODs. Well, I no what I will be doing next week.

I did some further research on the Googlebot and MSNbot problem I was having. It seems that the problem is due to Session IDs. At least in the case of the Googlebot, the Session IDs seems to cause the Googlebot to interpret each visit to the forum as unique causing it to continually crawl the forum. So the key is to disable Session IDs for search engine bots. I did find a few solutions out there, but they don't seem to be compatible with the latest version of phpBB, v2.0.11. While doing some further searching, I found a solution that appears to work. Note this Session ID MOD is only for phpBB v2.0.11. In your forum folder, edit "/includes/session.php" (Be sure and save a back-up just in case) Look for the section that looks like: >function append_sid($url, $non_html_amp = false) ... ... } Replace the entire section with the following: >function append_sid($url, $non_html_amp = false) { global $SID; if (!empty($SID) &&!preg_match('#sid=#', $url) ) { $agents = array('Googlebot', 'Yahoo', 'Msnbot'); $ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; foreach ( $agents as $agent ) { if ( strpos ( $ref, $agent )!== false ) { return $url; } } $url .= ( ( strpos($url, '?')!= false )? ( ( $non_html_amp )? '&' : '&' ) : '?' ) . $SID; } return $url; } After applying this MOD, I haven't seen 75 guests (68 of them being the Googlebot, 5 of them being the MSNbot and the remaining 2 being real guests).

I haven't tried to change my robots.txt file yet. However, if you read the next post after the one I linked to over at phpBB, it appears that the robots.txt are being ignored. I'll try and make a change to my robots.txt tonight and see if it helps. I plan on allow googlebot and msnbot back in at a later date. At this point they are killing my forum. My members or getting "page not found" errors enough to complain about it.

I am not sure if this is the right place or not but I need some help. The Googlebot and MSNbot have gone crazy lately. They have both been crawling my forum nonstop all day. At one time, the Googlebot was hitting my forum about 12 times a minute for about 5 minutes. As far as I can tell, I am not the only one having this problem. While doing some investigation on stopping them, I found this post over at phpBB.com. I am not an .htaccess expert, but I figured I would give it a try. After applying the changes, all I did was lock out my whole website. I removed the changes and get everything back to normal now but I still what to block these evil bots. Any suggestion on what I needed to do?

Thanks, I figured that is what I needed to do. I was hoping there would be a way to just it do it myself. I'll get around to asking their help on this one one of these days.

I upgraded my phpBB forum today to the latest version (2.0.11) manually. I did it manually because cPanel was reporting that I was running a newer version (2.0.8a) then I actually was (2.0.6). So rather then running into problems, I decided to just update it manually. Since I updated it manually, cPanel still thinks I am running v2.0.8a. Is there a way to update cPanel so it knows that I am running c2.0.11?

So that is what I was doing wrong. Makes sense now.

I was wondering the same thing. Now I am starting to understand this whole CSS thing.

James, Thanks for the tip. I went back to look closer at my HTML counter line. Although I didn't see the "%22" you found, I did find my problem. ><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img src=="/cgi-sys/Count.cgi?df=todayplus.dat|display=Counter|ft=6|md=5|frgb=100;139;216|dd=G"></p> Between the "src" and "/cg-sys/" I had 2 "=". Darn typos. Thanks again for the help. Thumbs Up

@hindixp: I didn't think changing the look of the counter would solve the problem, but I tried it anyways. As I figured, it did not solve the problem.

While looking around under cPanel I noticed that a web counter was available. I wanted to add a counter to my site, that is once I get it finished. I decided to add a counter to my temporary main page. Everything want without a hitch. (BTW, I called this counter "main") I also have plains for "another" main page in a sub-folder to serve as the home page for a forum I am going to host. I decided it would be nice to include a counter for this site as well. So configured another counter, with a different name then the one before, and added the HTML code to this temporary home page as before. All I get is a red "x", no counter. (see this site). Can I have more then one counter? What do I need to do to the HTML counter code to get it to work? I tried adding a ".." before the "/cgi-sys" thinking I needed to go back to main folder, it didn't work. BTW, if this is the wrong forum feel free to move it.

Don't do the "~username" http://<ipaddress>/cpanel

Thanks Lisa again. BTW, nice website! Thumbs Up

Lisa, Thanks for the idea. All I have are "gzipped" versions, will that work?

To make a long story short, a forum I was a member of has recently closed. The admin offered the forum back-ups to anyone that was willing to host it. Around the same time, he made this announcement I was looking for a new hoster for my company's website. I found TCH and was impressed with all I get for so little money that I switched my hosters to TCH. At the time I was setting up the website, I noticed that phpBB was included which was the same software that the old forum was running. I decided to finally register my domain name that I have been meaning to do for many years and host the forum. Well, I am trying to restore the forum back up and have been running into problems. I have been following this procedure I have found on phpBB's website without luck. I keep getting the following error: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/libraries/read_dump.lib.php on line 77 I must be doing something wrong? Do I need to setup my forum exactly like the original forum before attempting to restore it? Anything else I can try? TIA!