Forum error Help PLZ

I have read all the topics out forum issues and recompiling lan files etc. My problem is the forum page doesn't load properly. Clicking the compile lan link does nothing because of the JS errors on the page. The footer bar doesn't display either. The loading gif just turns and turns and will never stop.  I upgraded so I thought it was an upgrade issue. I did a clean install and activated the forum and the same issue still. Firebug in FF shows 6 errors on the page. That is below. It worked before the stable release. Quite annoying because it was great on RC3.

syntax error
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">\n
bx_templ...702bf3.js (line 6793)
$ is not defined
$(document).ready( function() {
forum (line 19)
BxDolSubscription is not defined
var oBxDolSubscription = new BxDolSubscription({
forum (line 69)
$ is not defined
$(document).ready( function() {
forum (line 471)
Forum is not defined
var f = new Forum ('http://www.mysite.com/forum/', -4);
forum (line 663)

BxHistory is not defined

Quote · 4 Jan 2010

Okay, let's see what's going on here.

 

1.  Your system worked good before upgrading from RC3 to the stable version:

 

  • Did you upgrade to RC4 and then RC5?  These would be necessary if you we're upgrading.
  • You said you tried a clean install after your upgrade from RC3 failed.  This leads me to believe that you did not do the upgrades in between.  When you did the clean install did you delete all the files from your server and then upload or just upload the new files overtop the old ones?
  • Do you have a compressed js file?  Take a look at the js files that your page is calling up (just look at the url and then open the file for that page and look at what it's calling in the file as far as other files go and check all of them) You can check these by comparing the file sizes of what's on your server to what's in the Dolphin 7.0 zip file that you uploaded. 

This is where I'd suggest starting and if everything is okay on these items then we can begin to look closer.  Also, make sure your FTP Client is set to binary uploads only so as to avoid alot of problems.

Quote · 4 Jan 2010

to add to what mydatery has already said, you need to make sure you are the owner of the orca forums directory, there was a time that there were several server setups that were choosing to set owner as 99 and therefore where you would think you deleted everything for a clean install, the forum directory as well as others are not being deleted. please verify that all is empty.

also, since we can presume you are on a shared environment, which there is nothing wrong with that as long as the server is configured for dolphin functionalities and performance.

now one other thing is to make sure from your service provider that nothing has changed on the servers setup in regards to the php build and making sure that you have all of the components needed to run the orca forum.

you need to create a file to check your servers build <? phpinfo() ?> and see if you have xslt and xml as part of the build. these are needed to run orca.

Okay, let's see what's going on here.

1.  Your system worked good before upgrading from RC3 to the stable version:

  • Did you upgrade to RC4 and then RC5?  These would be necessary if you we're upgrading.
  • You said you tried a clean install after your upgrade from RC3 failed.  This leads me to believe that you did not do the upgrades in between.  When you did the clean install did you delete all the files from your server and then upload or just upload the new files overtop the old ones?
  • Do you have a compressed js file?  Take a look at the js files that your page is calling up (just look at the url and then open the file for that page and look at what it's calling in the file as far as other files go and check all of them) You can check these by comparing the file sizes of what's on your server to what's in the Dolphin 7.0 zip file that you uploaded.

This is where I'd suggest starting and if everything is okay on these items then we can begin to look closer.  Also, make sure your FTP Client is set to binary uploads only so as to avoid alot of problems.

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Quote · 4 Jan 2010

Thanks for the responses.  However no I'm not on a shared hosting, I use a VPS for testing. 2nd just to let you know I'm not new to SN scripts just to dolphin.  So yes I did all the upgrades in between. Dolphin's upgrade script will only let you do one at a time starting with the one's you haven't done. so I did RC3-RC4, RC4-RC5 and then RC5 to Stable. AFter that the forum broke. It DID work fine and I had already created forums and sub forums. So the upgrade broke it. So then I decided to do a clean install on the advise of the Boonex agent. I did delete everything. I deleted the entire root via SSH not via FTP. I use command line for many things, its faster. So when I did a clean install I uploaded the zip and extracted on the server via SSH. I then CHOWN the whole directory to my FTP user since the files were owned by root after the extraction. When through the install process again and same problem. Everything works ok when I install the module but the forum. I just get JavaScript errors and the loading gif just spins.  I saw another thread of the same problem other's were having. Its not just me. They are getting the exact JS errors firebug is reporting FireFox.

Quote · 4 Jan 2010

I did two things that seemed to make it work:

1) I put a copy of my php.ini file in the forums folder

2) I opened the forums page in IE7 first - clicked "recompile languages" and then it started working in all browsers!

Hope this helps

nosyguy

Quote · 4 Jan 2010

pjack did you find a solution? clicking the compile language button does nothing ... i got the same JS errors

Quote · 3 Sep 2010
 
 
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