I tried adding the slash to the 2nd part of the rule, unfortunately it didn't work.

I tried both in the site root and the forum root, does it matter which one the .htaccess file needs to be in?

What happens is I click on a category in the LDLM and it just says page not found.

I'm at a bit of a loss with this - the rules I suggested (with the /) work for me in my httpd.conf file and for another user in his .htaccess file - without the slash it would only work in the httpd.conf. mod_rewrite is (as has been said) voodoo. Its behaviour does change depending on where the rules are being read, i.e. in which directory the .htaccess file is placed. One really needs access to its log file to sort out what is happening - I imagine you don't have this possibility?

I'll see if I can dig any further.

I think you still have adminid on my board from last time. I'll pm you the info again if that's ok.

OK, I think I am misunderstanding the how the can_view_hidden setting works. I grant this permission to a user group. Then I hard code the link in a post like this:

When a user in this group clicks on the hyperlink created by the above code, I expect them to be able to download the file. But they get this error message instead:

How is this supposed to work? I don't want my users doing searches, I want every link to be hard coded in a post.

As you say, wrong permission - entries can be 'hidden' (explicitly or e.g. by post-dating them) - and *can_view_hidden* controls whether the usergroup can see these hidden entries or not.

I think the permission to use is *can_access_link* (with 2.2.9, or - required with earlier versions - the forums based permissions system)

Also your url in the forum should be ..php?action=jump&... to take authorised users directly to the download and unauthorised users to an error. Otherwise, users without the permission will simply get to see the usual LDM page with an entry with no hyperlink.

hi Andrew,
for some reason (which i don't know) i'm not able to edit any categories
getting this message:

ADD: this happens also when i try to add a category

have you got all the latest RC code and templates installed or have you patched any of the standard LDM templates?

The error is generated by the latest vbulletin code when a form does not have the correct CSRF security token. I added all these tokens in the latest templates.

oh thank you
problem fixed

Thanks!

For some reason my flv and xml links wont play in IE7, they only download when I click the link. Is there anything special I need to do to get it working in IE7? (works fine in FireFox)

Riki

This appears to be a great addon.

After installation I tried to access various sections from my ACP and was presented with a VB no permission error page specifically "Statistics & Searches" I'm logged in as admin. Any idea why this may be happening?

Many thanks!

Andrew, Im getting "Operation Aborted" Error on IE when pop-up comments are enabled on every entry page
Any solution?

Thanks

Sorry, I'd overlooked that.

Those acp commands take you to LDM pages that no longer exist, which is why there's an error message. Will fix.

According to a Google search, this may be a bug in IE, caused when Javascripts modify pages 'on the fly', which is the case with the vbulletin code that handles the comment pop-ups. I cannot reproduce the bug within LDM but I can easily generate the bug with a short test script (see attached).

Have you got other Javascripts embedded into your pages? Possibly, there's a conflict.

Hi guys, yesterday I upgraded to the RC 2.29 version with vB 3.6.10 to get around the security token issue.

Two days prior to this the server the site runs on was ugraded (with no issues) to MySQL 5.0.45.

Since these two changes I'm seeing:

1) MySQL errors:

I'm not seeing any similar errors from any other part of the system.

2) Also if I try and use the FORUMHOME patches to display the top downloads I get a error on line 20 of the code and the page will not load. Is this because I'm running 3.6.10? I've taken the steps obn removing all addins, and them overwriting the Mod and readding with no changes to the issue. So for the moment we're having to run without these.

Any ideas on either?

These'a similar report on vb.com:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...46#post1547346

They suggest increasing the mySql wait_timeout setting, which controls how long the database connection stays open for a script. This would make sense with LDM - the sql that you report is executed right at the end of vbulletin page generation. Particularly if someone has just done a download, then the database connection might have closed down in the meantime.

I'll test this and post a reply when possible.

Cheers Andrew, have requested that my host sends me a copy of the ini file for MySQL to I can take a look at it.

If you can come back on the errors that would be great.

I'd moved some code into a new file and forgotten to update the plugin.

Here are modified versions of the plugins for the patch-forumhome-newlinks and patch-forumhome-thumbs extras.

Okay those are now in and the error is gone - cheers for that.

Next problem is that he icons associated with the entries now showing hav an X for the image. Looking at the image properties the code is looking for the icons:

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/htt.../icons/zip.gif

instead of at:

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/images/icons/zip.gif

Any ideas if I can fix this one? This is with the 'hot' entries only)

Try this version of includes/local_links_vbafunc.php

And fixed :) Nicely done and cheers for the quick response!

Not sure - flvs and xmls are working fine for me with both IE7 and Firefox. Can you explain a bit more?

Hi Andrew another problem I'm afraid, one of my Moderators has just advised that the downloads are not working.

I've just tested one:

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/loc...d=8&linkid=167

When the link is clicked upon it opens:

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/loc...catid=8&id=167

And a blank page appears, but no download.

Any ideas (once again)?

Self fixed :)

I'd forgotten to add in the Extras for additional MIME types....

Apologies for the false alarm!

I must be missing the obvious :) How do you setup a link for your visitors to access the manager?

Solved :)

I guess Ill check my settings again, its strange, I click the link in IE7 and it just downloads it instead of playing the video.

On another note, in the category description, when I type in a link using html it seems to count the characters in the html and breaks the line because its too long, vbulletin doesn't seem to do that itself, so I think maybe its just a bug.

Thanks
Riki

Hi Andrew, here is the chinese translation for 2.9 RC1. Lot of phrases have been updated, inclusive some old translations.

Thanks. There may be just a couple more in the final release.

May I take a look at your site myself? Sometimes these things are browser/cache dependent, but if there's a real bug, I want to get rid of it.

You mean that you are including a url as raw html in the category description? You are using the word_wrap setting?

I'm having a weird problem - the daily accesses count is always 0 "0 Files during last 24 hours". But I know people have downloaded files.

I dont know how, but I think I got it working. If I find anymore out about this I will post it.

Yes, I include a link inside the category description like this:

And it seems to count all of theses characters and splits the line. For example,

instead of getting something like this:
For help with a list of options See our recommendations

I get this:
For help with a list of options
See our recommendations

I almost forgot, yes I tried playing with the word wrap settings and it didnt seem to effect it much.

AndrewD

In my site some users don't have access to all the links, they can see the links but they can click on it.

Question:

How can I add a icon (like a lock) at the end of the link just for the user that don't have access to the link.

Thanks!

I'll include this in the next upload. When an entry is visible but not accessible, the 'filetype' icon will change to a padlock.

Do you mean that the admin/allowances page is showing zero accesses or do you mean somewhere else?

I can't find anything wrong with the code, so I may need more help in understanding your settings.

Can you just check the following - edit the category and make sure that you have not inadvertently added a line break in either the category description or the extended category description at the point where the text is wrapping. These are easy to insert by mistake and impossible to see. If you are using the same extended description as standard description, it's worth clearing the extended description and letting LDM recreate it from the standard text.

Excellent!! https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/05/66.gif

Will this thumbnail pdfs?

Thanks for checking the code, so I went back and messed with it and simply removed a few extra spaces and it seemed to fix the problem. Sometimes I guess the wires just need to be wiggled a bit to get things working :)

Thanks again,
Riki