reply message problems

[chris]

hello! i recently downloaded your guestbook and it's excellent - thank you!

trying to also incorporate your messageboard on one of my sites. i made sure i uploaded the proper file types and i changed the necessary settings and permissions. the board shows up (see link below), and i can post a new message, and i can even read those messages. the problem comes when i try to REPLY to a message - as soon as i click to reply, i can see that something isn't right already as the page doesn't seem to be reading the stylesheet and the text formatting is off. then after i type in my reply message and click OK, it takes me directly back to the main page (unformatted text again) and does NOT show the reply message. and then while i'm at that point (page), i am no longer able to read the original messages posted when i click on them. any ideas? (i'm guessing it's ONE thing that something isn't reading or that i didn't set properly which knocks it off track) your help is much appreciated - thank you for your wonderful work!

http://www.kevorkian.net/YUH/mboard/mboard.php

[chris]

URL: http://www.kevorkian.net/YUH/mboard/mboard.php
Version of script: 1.2
Version of PHP: 4.3.8
Host: www.webmasters.com
Have you searched for your problem: yes
If so, what terms did you try: reply problems

[Klemen]

Hello Chris,

The problem most likely is that you link to MBoard as
http://www.kevorkian.net/YUH/mboard/mboard.php
but the messages are linked to as for example
http://66.118.156.121/*kevorkian.net/ht ... msg/3.html

What have you set for $settings['mboard_url'] in settings.php?

Regards

[chris]

hello, and thanks for your quick reply!

ok, i changed the $settings['mboard_url'] in settings.php to
http://66.118.156.121/*kevorkian.net/ht ... mboard.php instead of the domain alias address, but still getting similar problems.

when i go to http://66.118.156.121/*kevorkian.net/ht ... mboard.php everything looks fine. when i click on one of the messages from there, i can read the messages (although you can see that it must not be reading the stylesheet for some reason, as all the fonts have lost their format). if i type in a reply message, it will go through, and then the "click here to continue" link/page will show. at this point, the browser shows the address http://66.118.156.121/*kevorkian.net/ht ... mboard.php which is what it also shows once it takes me back to the main page of the board (although this time minus the formatting, again as if it's not reading the stylesheet). at THAT point, if i try to open any message, it doesn't do it and just refreshes at the same main board page (w/o formatting) but every time i click again to try to read the message, it adds a msg/ directory to the address (i.e. http://66.118.156.121/*kevorkian.net/ht ... sg/12.html)

weird little problem. if it's just not going to work for me for some weird reason, then it's just NOT, so i understand. if you DO have any ideas or input though, i'd definitely be very grateful as the guestbook you have is excellent and i'd love to be able to use the board as well. and seeing that no one else is having any similar problems like this, it has to be something on my end (or the hosting?) that i can hopefully fix somehow?

thanks again for your time - much appreciated!
-chris

[Vibgyor]

I have the same problem. The url for my mboard is http://roygbivibgyor.host.sk/mboard/mboard.php. If I go to the first posthttp://roygbivibgyor.host.sk/mboard/msg/1.htm, the code for the page becomes <link href="http://roygbivibgyor.host.sk/mboard/mbo ... /style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">, so the pages don't read the css file and I cannot reply the post. Is there any way to fix it? My set the setting.php to $settings['mboard_url']="http://roygbivibgyor.host.sk/mboard/";.

[Klemen]

Hi,

Remove the / at the end of your $settings['mboard_url'] URL!

Let me know if that works.

Regards

[Vibgyor]

Thank you for your apply.

I tried the method you said to remove the / at the end of $settings['mboard_url'] URL, but it doesn't work still.

[Klemen]

Can you copy/paste your settings.php here? And replace admin password with ****

[Vibgyor]

<?php
// >>> SETUP YOUR MESSAGE BOARD <<< //
// Detailed information found in the readme file

// What type of server is your website on?
// 1 = UNIX (Linux), 2 = Windows, 3 = Machintos
$settings['system']=1;

// Password for admin area
$settings['apass']="****";

// Website title
$settings['website_title']="roygbiv";

// Website URL
$settings['website_url']="http://roygbivibgyor.host.sk/";

// Message board title
$settings['mboard_title']="請自重言行，注音文禁止。";

// URL to folder where message board is installed
// DO NOT a trailing "/" !
$settings['mboard_url']="http://roygbivibgyor.host.sk/mboard/";

// Allow smileys? 1 = YES, 0 = NO
$settings['smileys']=0;

// Send you an e-mail when a new entry is added? 1 = YES, 0 = NO
$settings['notify']=0;

// Your e-mail. Only required if $settings['notify'] is set to 1.
$settings['admin_email']="you@yourdomain.com";

// Display IP number of members posting? 1 = YES, 0 = NO
$settings['display_IP']=0;

// Maximum number of posts displayed on the first page
$settings['maxposts']=100;

// Keep or delete old posts? 1 = KEEP, 0 = DELETE
$settings['keepoldmsg']=1;

// File exstention for message files
$settings['extension']="htm";

/* Filter bad words? 1 = YES, 0 = NO */
$settings['filter']=0;

/* Filter language. Please refer to readme for info on how to add more bad words
to the list! */
$settings['filter_lang']="en";

// >>> DO NOT EDIT BELOW <<< //
$settings['verzija']="1.21";
?>

[Klemen]

Change

$settings['mboard_url']="http://roygbivibgyor.host.sk/mboard/";

to

$settings['mboard_url']="http://roygbivibgyor.host.sk/mboard";

NOTE: old messages still won't work, but any new messages should work OK.

Regards

[Vibgyor]

It works!
Thank you very much for your help.

[static1635]

That worked for me also! Thanks

(I have just dumped my phpbb forum in favour of your simple forum)

Justin

[Klemen]

Glad to hear it works for you

Well, my message board is good for some things, while phpBB can also be great for other uses (like this support forum). But yes, if you need a simple message board scripts like phpBB are way too complicated.

Please feel free to rate MBoard or even write a review at
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/37193.html

Regards

[static1635]

Yes I had the big phpbb forum which took up 2mb on my server (I pay per storage) and no one posted on it, so your simple forum is a great extra for the site incase someone wants to post!

shame I am not using my MySQL database anymore though

I have rated on that site

Justin

[Guest]

hello! i recently downloaded your guestbook and it's excellent - thank you!

All of that and I still dont get it.