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New Server - week of 4/4/2022
_luke - 4/4/22 at 10:09 AM

A heads up that we'll be migrating this site to a new server at some point this week. Expect some glitches.

Simon - 4/4/22 at 07:10 PM

Cheers for the notice

perksy - 4/4/22 at 09:51 PM

Thanks for the update and for your work on this

nick205 - 6/4/22 at 08:11 AM

Ditto - thanks for the update and efforts with keeping this forum going!

_luke - 8/4/22 at 08:52 AM

We've moved! The things I've tested have all worked. Post any issues in this thread.


[Edited on 8/4/22 by _luke]

coyoteboy - 8/4/22 at 11:19 AM

Certainly feels a little more spritely!

nick205 - 8/4/22 at 12:57 PM

Indeed, feels a bit more responsive.

Good work!

gremlin1234 - 8/4/22 at 03:20 PM

only thing I noticed was, I had to log in again, thanks, and Well Done

nick205 - 13/4/22 at 07:23 AM

Only thing I've noticed is the site seems to run a bit quicker.

I usually log in / out each time I post / reply so not seen an issue there.

In any case thanks again for the time and effort put into keeping LCB running and FREE (so many other sites & forums have started charging (and lose my attention)).

40inches - 15/4/22 at 04:58 PM

The for sale section is no longer working.

_luke - 15/4/22 at 06:49 PM

If you can be a bit more specific about what's broken I'll get it sorted out.

David Jenkins - 15/4/22 at 06:50 PM

quote:
Originally posted by 40inches
The for sale section is no longer working.


It seems to be a space issue, or size of posting anyway. A few words will work, or one picture, but anything more will fail.

_luke - 15/4/22 at 07:20 PM

I did a longish test post in the for sale section and it worked - if you can explain what you're doing when it fails it would help as I don't use this forum regularly. thanks!

David Jenkins - 15/4/22 at 08:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by _luke
I did a longish test post in the for sale section and it worked - if you can explain what you're doing when it fails it would help as I don't use this forum regularly. thanks!


I've tried various things: First was a mixture of text (a small paragraph) and a link to a picture from the photo archive - just saw some of the text. Deleted the link to the picture, substituted a link to the thumbnail of the picture ( pg - /pg ) then plain text. No success. This was when trying a preview of my text - I didn't bother to post anything when the preview failed.

I usually use Firefox on Linux, but I also tried with Chrome - same result.

I have tried several times, with assorted permutations...

Strangely, I can post stuff in other topics, which is odd - although I haven't tried pictures.

Could it be something to do with a local cache, following the server upgrade? I might try clearing the cache for this site...

[Edited on 15/4/22 by David Jenkins]

gremlin1234 - 16/4/22 at 10:33 AM

quote:
Originally posted by _luke
I did a longish test post in the for sale section and it worked - if you can explain what you're doing when it fails it would help as I don't use this forum regularly. thanks!

this thread suggests it may be a https problem...

https://locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=219266

_luke - 16/4/22 at 04:59 PM

I've fixed a few old http redirects but there are no significant errors in the logs.

David Jenkins - 16/4/22 at 05:40 PM

Still getting the same result - only the header is showing in preview.

_luke - 16/4/22 at 05:42 PM

in all threads?

David Jenkins - 16/4/22 at 06:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by _luke
in all threads?


Looks like it - I tried 3 or 4 just now.

obfripper - 24/4/22 at 10:27 AM

There seems to still be some weirdness with the for sale section, there are multiple blank or photo only posts, and several posts with no headers which can only be clicked by the blue arrow within the for sale section, they can't be clicked from the frontpage at all.

There are also a couple posts in other sections with the same problem, it appears preview is ok, but the text is disappearing once post is clicked.

Dave

_luke - 24/4/22 at 10:41 AM

I'm keen to help to fix this but at this stage I'm not able to reproduce a problem. If someone can help by describing exactly what they are doing when this happens I'll have a better chance.

Right now there are no errors in the logs.

_luke - 24/4/22 at 10:42 AM

quote:
Originally posted by obfripper

There are also a couple posts in other sections with the same problem, it appears preview is ok, but the text is disappearing once post is clicked.

Dave


Could you help me with examples? even if it is just the thread ID (tid) that you see in the URL bar. Thanks!

wonderfulweasel - 24/4/22 at 11:32 AM

I get the same as David. Only the heading shows, no body. Same in U2U messages.

obfripper - 24/4/22 at 12:07 PM

I can see you've edited the heading of one blank headed post, this is the other one.

https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/34/viewthread.php?tid=219298&page=1#bottom


Blank posts or replies, not all are in for sale section

https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/34/viewthread.php?tid=219308
https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/34/viewthread.php?tid=219297
https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/34/viewthread.php?tid=219289
https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/63/viewthread.php?tid=219288
https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/26/viewthread.php?tid=219280

Dave

obfripper - 25/4/22 at 12:03 PM

It's just got me on the following post, using the same browser as usual, no other changed settings, and https enabled. The posted message disappears on preview, and on posting, and can't be edited to appear either.

I will try to recall the message i posted in case there are any symbols etc that are messing with the bbcode etc.

https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=219295&page=#pid1826907

Dave

ETA

It appears the degree symbol is what is blocking that post, i will try without.

[Edited on 25/4/22 by obfripper]

_luke - 25/4/22 at 01:35 PM

Current temperature is 12°C

^^^that should work now. It looks like any special character in the text would have triggered this.


!"£$%^&*();@#~'<>

[Edited on 25/4/22 by _luke]

_luke - 25/4/22 at 01:38 PM

This looks better now

obfripper - 25/4/22 at 02:05 PM

Certainly looks back to normal now.

Dave

wonderfulweasel - 25/4/22 at 02:30 PM

Yes, seems to be working for me now!
Thank you!

_luke - 25/4/22 at 02:42 PM

Excellent - I'll keep an eye on it for anything odd.

Thanks to all of you who have tried to point me in the right direction!

obfripper - 29/4/22 at 07:18 AM

There may be some problems with the password reset email function in the following link:

https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=219321

Dave

_luke - 29/4/22 at 07:41 AM

Thanks - looks like it is working again now