UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? "Problem" with ubb accelerator

ok, I did the test for the accelerator and it passed, so I enabled it.

I'm not having any functionality problems with it, but whenever I use "../ubb/ultimatebb.php" it changes to "..cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?&r=npwm"

Does anyone know if this is a problem?
Thanks for any help

Always link to your cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi file. It will switch to the php file as needed.

once I enabled the php accelerator it automatically made my banner link to "../ubb/ultimatebb.php"

I guess that means I'm fine though, thanks.

Yes, it will change the links within UBB.classic to the php file as it is needed. You just need to remember to always link to cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi.

ok, thanks

ok, this is still happening. now all the links on my board are ultimatebb.php?=blah and it changes it to ultimatebb.cgi?=blah&r=npwm . It would be nice to know how to fix this, because I see it works here on ubbdev, and I don't know what the &r=npwm means

anyone?

I did the accelerator test and it said I was fine, I don't know what could be wrong with it.

There's nothing wrong. The r=whatever stuff is a random string to ensure that stupid browsers won't cache the resulting page / pull it out of a client side cache. RTFC.

ok, I feel better now. but why does it do that for my boards but not other boards I visit?

also, what does RTFC mean? I'm still new to all these net abbreviations. I just found out what AFAIK means

RTFC == Read the Frelling Code.

As it turns out, I'm wrong about the r= stuff, and there may actually be something wrong with your board.

There are two possible r= codes: nfx and npwm

nfx == No File_eXists, meaning that the currently logged in user's profile is missing.

npwm == No PassWord Match, meaning that the user password check failed. That's the one you're getting.

I suggest hitting the clearcookies page a few times in a row, then logging in and trying the request again...

while logged off, it works fine. when logged in, it does the error thing. when I upgrade to 6.6 beta, will it reset the cookie stuff so that I could redo it? when I started hacking my board, I wasn't good at looking at code, and probably messed something up there.

oh, and while I have you looking here, where is how many PMs a member has stored? a member was banned as while I had a PM from him, and now it says I have 1 PM, but I don't.

Ah, but you really do have one PM... the sender profile is probably screwy. FTP into Members/pm_users, and grab the file with your user number. Inside, you'll see a reference to a PM topic in the form of X-00000007, where X is the directory in Members/pm_topics, and 7 would be the PM topic number.

You can open that file up to determine who the sender is so you can determine if the profile is b0rked or not.

As for the cookie mess... having it work when not logged out makes quite a bit of sense, as the error only occurs when profiles are being authenticated. %)

Upgrading to 6.6 will remove all of your hacks, which may help with the problem.

it was the guy who I banned. the PM was actually him insulting me. Do I just delete it? (the file)

nm, found out how to fix it. Thanks for all your help.

Charles, I just installed a fresh 6.6 board and am getting the same php error. Are there any other known causes for this?

This is the first time I've ever seen npwm in the wild..

well I always was good at finding things first... just never anything good