orca forum (yet again)

hi everyone,

i got a 100% fresh install ... first thing i do is install orca forum module ... (installed dolphin again in a different http_root just for testing) ...

i click the forum button ... and beside saying "loading" nothing happenes ... any browser just says "loading" for minutes and nothing happenes. what could be wrong? i installed php5_xsl and apache_xsl module ... something running into a timeout system wise? (yes i restarted apache several times)

(on the last dolphin test install i once managed to get it to the [L[FORUM ADMIN]] screen where nothing worked ... no parsing language file, no administration button ... just hours of a spinning ajax button and yes i got load_url thingy allowed in php)

i am using Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS and EVERYTHING else works perfectly in dolphin ...

any ideas?

thanks a ton,

kamel

ok after minutes of waiting i am at the famous [L[ORCA BUTTON]] screen and no buttom works ... just a spinning wheel ... browser makes no difference ...

compile language in the admin menu/module settings does not work either ... i mean it works ... it says "done" but forum does only show [L[CRAP]] buttons ... clicked the [L[Compile Lang:]]en and [L[Manage Forum]] a 100 times now ...

These would have been the 2 packages you would need.

php5-xsl
php5-xmlrpc

The spinning thingy in the forums on dedicated or vps server is usually one of to things.

1) Make sure php has the option allow_url_fopen=on

2) This one is common mostly on servers people setup themselves. Orca accesses itself(the server) via the domain name. So you will need to make sure the server is able to resolve its own domain. Not just localhost. From a command prompt (on the server itself not from another machine) do a nslookup on your domain both with and without the www prefix. Check your hosts file for any abnormal entries.

To get rid of the L[ ] brackets requires the forum be compiled from within the forums. The compiling from in the modules section is for a different language file. It will not get rid of the brackets. So until you resolve the loading issue, you won't be able to do much with it.

installed the xmlrpc module && restarted apache (yes with pkill to make sure no ancient threads running)

allow_url_fopen is on

server can resolve everything perfectly ... reverse also set ... www. sub is set ... even disabled my iptables for testing

forum loads but only shows non-working [L[<something here>]] tags ...

anything else i could check? and yes i did setup the server myself ... like i did set up 1000 servers before ;-)

thanks for your time!

even set

AddOutputFilterByType mod-xslt text/xml

for apache ... but i dont think that this is required anyway as php does the job

If it loads properly, without delay than while logged in as admin, go to the main forum page

yoursite.com/forum/ and click on the en link on the right of the forums index box and see what happens. If nothing happens then look for any javascript errors reported by the browser. If you get other errors, report them here.

as mentioned the [L[blabla]en] link does not work/trigger any action

firefox is happy with the site

IE 8.0.6006 says

Message: 'Forum' is undefined
Line: 1487
Char: 9
Code: 0
URI: http://<some host>/forum/


Message: 'BxHistory' is undefined
Line: 28
Char: 74
Code: 0
URI: http://<some host>/forum/


Message: 'orca_admin' is null or not an object
Line: 1503
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://<some host>/forum/

its a fresh install without any modification whatsoever

also the BoonEx News feed is not loading but only showing spin.gif ... (but that worked the other day when the forum showed the same issues)

thats probably a boonex site issue ... cant connect to "https:/www.boonex.com/payment.php" as well ... ssl/https version seems down?

<a target="_blank" href="https:/www.boonex.com/payment.php">Purchase a Dolphin license</a>

just checked the 10th time ;-) modules both installed

aptitude search xmlrpc xsl | grep php | grep "^i"
i   php5-xmlrpc                     - XML-RPC module for php5
i   php5-xsl                        - XSL module for php5

hmmm ... the rss feed should be loading tho ... page block properties for the boonex news block gives me that url and wget-ing it works

wget http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/featured_posts/?rss=1
... snip ...
06:09:11 (59.93 KB/s) - `index.html?rss=1' saved [8298]

so "Featured Modules" and the boonex news feed will show the spin.gif for hours and not loading anything allthough i can "wget" all that urls without no problem ...

forum still not working ... clicked th "en" button 20 times ... site errors still there ... why does dolphin not check certain things itself? can't be that enduser needs to investigate hours for a out-of-the-box install with 0 modifications :-(

one more thing: when i clear both "cache" directories (cache and cache_public) and click on the forum tab it takes like 5 minutes till it loads ... all other tabs load within a second or two