ok, I have the mod turned off for a while, lets see how it goes. I still have the caching method through .htaccess enabled.

Sure thing. Here are three (including captions), portraying my testing process after installing vB Optimise 2 on a test installation of vB4.

1 - http://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/...ps97926a84.jpg

2 - http://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2b326dd9.jpg

3 - http://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/...psb9a9772c.jpg

As you can see, no menu is appearing after installation. I'll be happy to post additional product installation logs or such for you, if you're able to give me a location in which to look for them.

Alternately, if installation logs aren't present/helpful, is there a parameter in vBulletin that I can set in order to make the plugin display some information before dying? Right now, it seems to just be failing silently. (PHP-level error reporting is already on.)

Excellent Mod.

The cpnav parsing is a native vBulletin feature, so vB Optimise doesn't interfere with this.

Can you please try disabling all other products on your forum, in case there's any conflicts with other products that manually append to the admincp menu?


Fillip

That appears to have maybe done the trick. We now have a vboptimise menu (after disabling/re-enabling the "miserable users" plugin), but I want to check one other thing. The new menu has asterisks around it, so it looks like this:

*[vboptimise]*
*[vboptimise_resourcestats]*
*[vboptimise_mainsettings]*
*[vboptimise_cachesettings]*
*[vboptimise_miscsettings]*
*[vboptimise_optimalsettings]*
*[vboptimise_systemtest]*
*[vboptimise_flushcache]*

Do you know if these asterisks signify anything -- an incomplete installation, for example -- or are they just a nice way of framing the menu?

Thanks again -- I think we're making progress!

A bit more detail that makes us pretty sure we still have some work to do: In addition to the asterisks mentioned above, we get a couple errors in the admincp interface. For informational purposes:

-- Hitting the "vboptimise_systemtest" link brings up this screen:

http://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/...ps656b2302.jpg

-- The "vboptimise_optimalsettings" link brings up this screen:

http://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/...psc5db7fed.jpg

All of the other control panel screens appear to be fine, (though the resource-saving statistics page is not graphing anything -- possibly because I haven't reached some sort of metrics reporting cycle yet). Has anyone seen behavior like this before?

I installed this a few days ago but my vB Optimise: Resource Saving Statistic chart is still just blank.

An update: Switching from css-as-files to css-as-database (via AdminCP > Settings > Options > Style & Language settings ) and allowing overwrite during installation (even though I had theoretically uninstalled all previous versions of VBO via the "uninstall" option) appears to have at least removed the asterisks and given me usable error messages.

Now the problem is as follows:

-- I go to vB Optimise > Main Settings

-- I hit the "Yes" radio button in the "Online / Offline" area. I hit "save" at page bottom.

-- The page reloads, showing my desired settings

-- The "system test" screen, however, says that "vB Optimise is currently offline. Please enable and configure vB Optimise to run a system test."

If I log out and back in, the main settings screen still shows VBO as being on, and the system test still complains about it being off.

For context, here's what the "Optimal Settings" test results look like: http://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/...psd4125f3d.jpg

Are there any common steps to take from here?

Can you both ensure you have selected a cacher from the Cache Settings? If you don't have any of the other cachers available, you can always opt for using Filecache, providing you followed the instructions in the readme.txt file for CHMODing the folder it needs.


Fillip