UPB1 Common Problems

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Users who are receiving errors/have problems, should read the following to find a solution before posting it on the forum. We ask you to do this so we don'™t have to answer the same questions 5,000 times

Contents 1 Status Bug: (upb 1.90) 2 More Smilies Bug: (upb 1.9x) 3 Missing Border Image Bug: (upb 1.90) 4 Moderator Functions Bug: (upb 1.90) 5 Note to All Users using Window Servers: (upb 1.x) 6 When Posting your Problems and Errors: (upb users) 7 Installation Errors: (upb 1.x) 8 Chat Room Bug: (upb 1.9x) 9 Note to new upb users: (upb 1.x) 10 Missing Game Files (upb 1.9x) 11 Profile Error: Submit (upb 1.x) 12 Profile Error: fread (PrivMsgSys) (upb 1.9x) 13 New Forums not showing on the Index.php: (upb 1.9x) 14 E-mails not being sent: (All upb versions) 15 E-mails not being sent: (upb1.96x)

Status Bug: (upb 1.90)

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In your forum, each user is given a status, in the viewtopic.php it is located below the users name and avatar, and each status varies from user to user depending on the number of posts they made. You may notice when an Administrator posts, all posts following that post will retain the Administrators status. This can be fixed by downloading the above file and replacing the necessary files in your website with the once in the zipped file.

More Smilies Bug: (upb 1.9x)

When a user is posting a topic or replying to one, he/she may feel they wish a more broad selection of smilies then the ones given in newpost.php, so they click on show more smilies, but instead get a list of errors which look similar to this:

If this is the error you are getting, then this is easily remedied.

1. First login to an administrative account
2. Go to: Admin Panel -> Config Settings -> Add More Smilies
3. Click on 'Create List' and that's it! That is if you have smilies in you moresmilies folder located in your smilies folder.

Missing Border Image Bug: (upb 1.90)

If your forum is missing the image shown in this picture. Then all you need to do is open your copy of upb, go to forum.name/skins/default/images/ go to the image named 'cat_bottom_bg.JPG' and rename it to 'cat_bottom_bg.jpg'. Notice the decapitalization of JPG.

Moderator Functions Bug: (upb 1.90)

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If your Moderators are unable to Delete/Edit/Close/Open Topics, download the file provided and upload them into your upb folder.

Note to All Users using Window Servers: (upb 1.x)

When using UPB on a Windows Server. UPB may not work correctly. This is because Windows uses read/write permissions instead of using the chmod function. Check back when UPB 2.0 comes out, it might support Window Servers

When Posting your Problems and Errors: (upb users)

Please do the following information:

• Tell us did you Edit any of the upb Coding? (if so, which files, if you remember)
• Tell us what type of server are you running on? (ex: Windows. Lunix.)
• Tell us if you applied any modifications?
• Create a file called phpinfo.php with the contents <?php phpinfo(); ?> and provide us with a url.

Installation Errors: (upb 1.x)

If you get the following errors on install of UPB don't worry, its a bug in UPB 1.x not your fault. Just use your forum like normal

Chat Room Bug: (upb 1.9x)

Users who have noticed the chat room kicks users out every 5 minutes should be informed that this is because the chat room doesn’t have a reliable way of logging people out of the chat room. But don’t worry; we plan to re-write the chat room script for UPB 2.0.

Note to new upb users: (upb 1.x)

If you have installed your upb forum and are unsure of what the admin login information is, this is your login information:
Username: Admin
Password: admin
Note: username and password is CaSe SeNsItIvE!!

Once you login, change your password as soon as possible to provent other users from gaining administrative access to your forum.

Missing Game Files (upb 1.9x)

Click here to download a zip file with the game files. Upload to games folder

Profile Error: Submit (upb 1.x)

This affects UPB owners who have users complaining about not being able to "change" their profile settings. If your forum has this problem, do the following:

1. Open your copy of profile.php.
2. On the second line, make sure it has no text on it and copy/paste the following code on to that line:

Profile Error: fread (PrivMsgSys) (upb 1.9x)

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If you are recieving the following error below the avatar:

Then replace your profile.php with the one provided.

New Forums not showing on the Index.php: (upb 1.9x)

This happens when the Forum's ID did not get added to the category's Sort Forum List. Fix this by going into your Admin Panel >Manage Categories. Find the category you added the forum to, click edit. Add the forum's ID to the Forum Sort List.

E-mails not being sent: (All upb versions)

If you're e-mail is not being sent, it could be that the reciever's Filter system caught the e-mail and put it in the Junk or "bulk" folder.

If you have a non-windows server, it could be that you have a "\r" in your header. Virus scanners working on mail servers will refuse to deliver any mail containing the "\r" character in header (your mail will probably bounce off with "Disallowed MIME characters found in headers" comment). This is true for Qmail-Scanner, F-Prot Antivirus for Linux and for others as well. Therefore you should only use "\r\n" in headers ONLY when you send you email using the mail() function via Windows-based SMTP server - otherwise just use "\n". If you feel you are experiencing this problem, open up the send.php and remove all occurances of "\r".

Thanks to Fraser for bringing this subject to light

E-mails not being sent: (upb1.96x)

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If you are not using a Windows Server, in other words if the problem mention in the post dirrectly above does not effect you, it probably means your server does not have the ability to send e-mail. An alternative is provided. Download file provided and apply it to your forum.