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Hey Lee I have been getting Database errors when opening the site just incase it is linked, I assumed it was due to an update. but you have bigger things to deal with by the looks of it. Take care and I hope its a quick recovery. Thanks Rob.
Yes, me too for the last 2-3 days(?). Seems intermittent. Working now - nobody move suddenly!!
Thanks guys, will be sending an update out soon via email, thanks for baring with me, they are the only pics I had on my phone I could use to test attachments... But quite relevant, I need to send you all at least 2 different emails, one about me and then one about the site...
Just to give you a bit more info etc, the forum gets influxes of "bot traffic" we've also had some denial of service attacks previously that I managed to iron out thanks to Clive letting me know there was a problem etc...
But, generally the "ddos" type database errors we get/see regularly are what's known as kind of false-positives, we're still getting bots, search engine's and normal traffic to the site, and these all count as a slot or more accurately a session in the "session" table of the forum database, however these numbers are manageable and not in the HUGE numbers we would typically see from an orchestrated DDOS type attack.
For instance, Alibaba likes to hit the forum with anything from 10k - 20k visits at a time on occasion, these "visits" can go on for days sometimes, and on the last really big one Clive helped me with, i ended up just blocking the whole of Hong-Kong as a country from visiting the forum in the end and as the long term "fix".
There is a couple of problems now going forward:
1.
The forum software is now well and truly out of date and way over 10 years old, the way the forum software works is that there is a special bit of code in the footer of every page, as YOU as individuals (including me) visit the forum, that special bit of code triggers when the footer for each and every page is loaded, here is the code:
...When this some actions behind the scenes known as cron jobs, they're not cron jobs in the typical form that you get on a linux-based operating system (aka Scheduled Tasks) where you have the ability to set them up to run based on times and dates, but rather The ones related to The forum are similar in nature that they carry out whatever tasks you would like however, they rely on....Code:<!-- Do not remove cronimage or your scheduled tasks will cease to function -->
<img src="https://www.mycncuk.com/cron.php?rand=1750788613" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />
<!-- Do not remove cronimage or your scheduled tasks will cease to function -->
great i just spent 40 mins typing, used some formatting in my text so hit "Preview Post" to see how it looked and got a 403 page error resulting in me losing half of what i had typed out....
I'm fed up with the forum software now, i'm not re doing what i typed, i'll be in contact with you all in soon, i think i'm just going to make a video and upload it as i have quite a bit to say etc.
regretfully, Lee :dispirited:
Lee, send us DM/Email if you want.
Cheers m_c,
Quick heads up then: If you’ve experienced any issues accessing the forum lately (especially database connection errors), I’ve posted a full explanation of what’s been going on and what I’ve done to fix it here:
Link: Forum Access Issues – Explanation & Fix Update
In short, we’ve been dealing with a flood of automated traffic that caused the session system to clog up, but I’ve now implemented DNS-level filtering and a proper hourly server cron task to keep things running smoothly from here on out.
Thanks for sticking with it, sorry for the messy post above I was trying to use my phone and under pressure from something else, more exciting updates coming soon.
All the best,
Lee
For Lee:Quote:
As for the photos, that's what I did but it obviously doesn't work for me
I get it working if the image is hosted on another site/forum with using "From URL" AND with the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" box uncheked. In this case I get an IMG tag + the URL of the image in the editor. If this box is checked, I get "error: Upload failed due to failing writing temporary file".
example with this image hosted on my website.
http://www.atelier-des-fougeres.fr/C...ZTPFE4axes.jpg
Nice !Quote:
I have my answer about the board from Doddy who had some photos from 2020 when he did a mod for me.
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David
Attachment 32696
Test
Hello
Attachment 32696 still give an error: "Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"
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David
I’ve moved @dh42’s post here to keep the other thread clean, as this seemed the most relevant place for it.
Hi David,
Sorry I missed your post at the time, I’ve just worked out what’s going on with some attachments failing while others work fine.
It seems to happen when you try to add images via the Quick Reply box. If you hit the Go Advanced button instead, you’ll get a new page with an Attachments section below the message box. There’s a Manage Attachments button there, and using that to upload (or manage previous uploads) works fine for me - tested in Chrome on desktop.
As I mentioned in another thread, this has been a long-standing quirk. I’ve got bigger upgrades coming, including a proper migration to a new platform, and I’ll share more on that soon.
In the meantime, to try and reduce the confusion for new members when their images don’t appear, I’ve removed the attachment icons from the quick reply header for now. Not ideal, I know but at least it should save people from hitting the same frustration until the proper fix is in place.
Thanks, again for your patience and for sticking with it.
"It seems to happen when you try to add images via the Quick Reply box. If you hit the Go Advanced button instead, you’ll get a new page with an Attachments section below the message box. There’s a Manage Attachments button there, and using that to upload (or manage previous uploads) works fine for me - tested in Chrome on desktop." (sorry, can't find the "quote" button on the "advanced" editor )
Test in advanced mode (and "insert InLine")
Attachment 32697
seems to works !
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David
Nice, you can use the "Reply With Quote" in the lower right of said post:Quote:
Originally Posted by dh42
Ok, nice using bbcode tags directly seems to works ;)
[ code]Code:' setting menu clicked - open the form
Public Shared Sub DimArrow_set_clicked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
'menu settings clicked
'show the settings form
'attach the tool windows to the main cambam window, and open it
Dim f As Form = New ClassDimArrow.DimArrow_settings
ThisApplication.TopWindow.AddOwnedForm(f)
f.ShowDialog()
End Sub
' setting menu clicked - open the form
Public Shared Sub DimArrow_set_clicked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
'menu settings clicked
'show the settings form
'attach the tool windows to the main cambam window, and open it
Dim f As Form = New ClassDimArrow.DimArrow_settings
ThisApplication.TopWindow.AddOwnedForm(f)
f.ShowDialog()
End Sub
[ /code]
the space after [ must be removed for the tags to woks. I use it only to show the tag text (seems code tags must not be used into another code tag, because the appears as nested code instead to show the tag text)
[ quote]Nice, you can use the "Reply With Quote" in the lower right of said post: [ /quote]Quote:
Nice, you can use the "Reply With Quote" in the lower right of said post:
Size:
[ b]Size:[ /b]
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
[ size=1]VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm[ /size]
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
[ size=2]VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm[ /size]
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
[ size=3]VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm[ /size]
good night ;)
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David