yeah, sorry!

what with the upgrade to 2.2.3b, i lost a few evenings whilst i upgraded and re-applied hacks for the four boards i run.

i'm busy this wekeend, but i've booked monday off work specifically to add the final touches (the indexer), i'll open a thread in beta's and place a link to it from here on moday afternoon.

so you can download and try it then ;)

cheers

david k

cool

OK, I have created a thread in beta's.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...358#post228358

Having spent the day doing nothing that I wanted, but simply upgrading everything to 2.2.4 I am fuming at vb...
I hope to find time to finish this hack just as soon as vb can release a version that is stable!

I feel like a jackass...this hack used to work for me until I recompiled apache...

Now the index page pulls up the forums, but the archive pages end up with 404 errors.

I have tried:

-changing the httpd.conf AllowOverride All
-adding a special directory addition to my domain.conf file..
-restarted apache a bunch of times.

.htaccess is setup as
ErrorDocument 404 /archive/index.php

I dont use srm.conf or access.conf. Everything is in httpd.conf.

I recompiled apache and php last night. Maybe this has something to do with it? I doubt it though. I did recompile php without --with-apache flag and I stil ldon't know if that matters.

thanks.

i knew there's a reason i should use email notifications :o

how about having the ability to rerun a script to regenerate the static html files if you later change a public forum to private ? you could have a forumid setting in the script which you can edit to either

1. remove all static html files and recreate the static files based on new forumid settings

OR

2. remove only the static html files for the forumid which when private

would be nice to be able to have the option to set the path to where the static html files are to placed

You should really post on the thread in the beta's forum.
I hate to have hijacked this one, which is for someone else's release.

Anyhow, deleting by forumid, threadid, or time range is definately something that could be accomodated, since it would only really mean having to delete certain folders and their contents.

Though to be honest, this would be something built after the initial release.

Phase 1 will concentrate on generating the files.
Phase 2 can be the management of them, including deletions.
Phase 3 can be any advanced formatting and/or allowing multiple templates for cross-platform archives.

Cheers

David K

Hi,

I just installed the hack - and it works ...

however, there seems to be a bug in it .. Not all messages are shown. Eg. in a week with 10 messages, maybe 6-7 are shown in the archive ..

any clues to why I have this problem?

- draz Q.

Not really, it's hard to determine the reason why not all of the posts were generated... the following spring to mind:

The 7 day date range is too specific, and you calculation of 10 in a week is based upon a more broad range.
Some posts may be in hidden forums, that only administrators and mods could see.

I would really need to have a dump of your database and re-create the problem here to be able to debug thoroughly.

I have tested on a forum of 49,767 posts, and simply right click the archive folder, and the file count matched perfectly. That said, I do not have hidden forums... but the queries are based upon guest access so these should be excluded from any caching.

For a proof of concept, extend the days younger range to several thousand, this should act as a catch-all and generate for all posts ever (it takes a while!, make a cup of tea)... this way you can verify against the not-logged in users post count on the forum home page.

Cheers

David K

Well,

Just now I posted a new post in one of my open forums, and it didn't show up in 2002 - March - Week 3 or Week 4. It should be there right ..

- draz Q.

Those folks that have installed this hack, have you seen a significant increase in traffic coming from Google?