6.04a : DANGEROUS - DON´T DO THIS AT HOME !
Warning to 6.04a-users !
on our site we have a 6.04a version running including the hacks Lastusertpost, Who´s online and ICQ-PopUp v1.5.
the counter hack could be included straight forward. but as we started the cp and turned the counter (just in the forum summary) on and changed to this site all what has shown up was a ugly and unfriendly error 500.
okay..we double-checked all files, had seen no typos , new upload in ASCII, cleared the cache and the problem changed to
Error including required files: No such file or directory in Ultimatebb.cgi and every bookmarked link into a forum has shown up blank sites in MSIE (Netscape said
"The server has sent an empty file. Please contact the webmaster.")
we tried to figure out what went wrong checked the files again and with 8 eyes - but nothing.
after a whole day trying to get this hack (and our board) back working, we considered that there is something incompatible in our hack-constellation. we tried to unhack our modified files but we had to found out, that this hack is causing to many changes in to many other files which we hadn´t modified by ourselfes - guess the hack did it while he was trying to work. that´s what he should do - but the result is, that we had to reinstall a ubb "out of the box" `cause our backup-files coudn´t solve that problem. okay..the Error-Msg disappeared - but all what came up was blank sites or an Error 500.
in our reinstall in a new DIR we included the same hacks again in that row : Who´s online, Lastusertopost, ICQ-PopUp v1.5 and then again this hit-counter.
I´m really sorry to say that - but after modifying the files for the hits-counter, who´s online was gone to hell and totally disappeared from our site and beside that - the hit-hack isn`t working at all. (Table appears but no # of hits.)
All in all I don´t wanna say, this hack won´t work in 6.04a - I haven´t tested it yet in a pure version without other hacks.
I just wanna give a feedback to all the other people out there with the same hacks in their ubb´s which are thinking about to install this hit-hack. THINK TWICE !
I only can recommend that any person who wants to install this hack should do it in a testversion of his ubb constellation with all the hacks in it, which are running on his board.
May be we´ve made typos - I don´t believe that by now, but it´s possible that we hadn´t seen the wood because of all the trees and haven´t noticed the error - but before someone runs into this problem, he should check it out in a safe DIR without threatening his complete board like we did.
JB, any ideas what happend to us ? Any suggestions?
[ April 20, 2001 02:11 AM: Message edited by: Marvin ]
