I lost weather again, and am getting the following error warning on my homepage:

Warning : fsockopen() [ function.fsockopen ]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/pkrwud/public_html/myvbindex.php on line 588

Warning : fsockopen() [ function.fsockopen ]: unable to connect to www.msnbc.com:80 in /home/pkrwud/public_html/myvbindex.php on line 588


Any thoughts?

Okay, this got worse. At some point this evening, my website could not be accessed at all, through the myvbindex page. It took me a while to realize that by redirecting traffic to the forum home page instead, you could get to the forums, but the myvbindex page still came back as data cannot be accessed from this address, or something similar. On a hunch, I went into my control panel, and turned off the weather option. Low and behold, after cancelling the redirect, myvbindex page now works again, just like old times, minus the weather.

Does this mean that weather is gone for good? Any thoughts at all?

That's really strange. The weather's working fine on my site and a few others I checked. Which version of mYvBindex are you running? If it's below 3.2, try uploading the weather.php file in that version, go to it, and click on "Force Update". If that doesn't work, try applying the fix lemarsu posted here in the Weather Mk thread.

I made lemarsu's change that same week (that it was posted), and all was well until yesterday or the day before, when the weather stopped working, and the error warning appeared above the header on, and only on, my myvbindex page. I am using version 3.1. I will find the upgrade, and do as you suggest. Thanks for looking into it for me.

:)

Uploading the weather.php file from the 3.2 download corrected the problem. I don't understand why, but that's why I'm an automotive mechanic, not a computer mechanic. lol.

Thanks again so much for your help!!!

Take care,
~Chris

Part of my news are empty which leads to No post specified. Everything was working normal until now. I tried to upgrade to 3.2 but that does not help either. :(

http://www.bmwclub.com.my/

Please disregard my last post. It is not fixed afterall. I got the same fsock open warnings, so I re-downloaded the new weather.php file, then uploaded it to my vBulletin folder, ran it, and selected forced update, and now I get this warning:

Warning : fsockopen() [ function.fsockopen ]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/pkrwud/public_html/vbulletin/weather.php on line 36

Warning : fsockopen() [ function.fsockopen ]: unable to connect to www.msnbc.com:80 in /home/pkrwud/public_html/vbulletin/weather.php on line 36

I am going to just turn off the weather in the cp before my myvbindex page gets blocked out again. If you can think of anything, please let me know.

pkrwuds@pacbell.net

question:

My version of myvbindex.php says 2.0 in the source code.

why upgrade instructions should I follow?

PKRWUD - Check your PMs. ;)

certify - That's really strange. Have you changed something to have it pull news posts from more than one forum? Have you installed any other hacks lately that could have affected it?

jjj0923 - There have been MANY changes since v2.0 of this hack. I would recommend uninstalling v2.0 (using the uninstall file included with that version) and then doing a fresh install of v3.2. Then once you install 3.2, go back to the install file and click on "Click here to update your news posts". That will update all your news posts, so as long as you do that you shouldn't have any problems.

The error your are getting is dut to your serve configuration, I´ve been trying and trying ten times and I had the same error, once the vbindex would work, later it woundt anymore.
I finally changed and trie on my hard driuve and it works perfect..