I just installed 2.2.7, when I tried to upload a file, I got this eeror:

VB : 3.6.4

Was this working with 2.2.6?

The section of code that gives that error is trying to create a subdirectory in the directory you have told LDM to use for uploads (LDM/admin settings).

Depending on the server operating system, if you give an invalid upload directory name or if you specify a directory which does not have write permission (mode 777 on unix systems, I think), you'll have problems.

So - check your settings on ldm/admin/uploads
- check the read/write permissions on the directory you've told it to use

let me know if you still have problems.

I didn't try it with 2.2.6

the folder has 777, and I found created folde with the UserId (name).

I was trying trying to make the upload folder inside VB, so I created folder called (up) and under (Controls on File Uploads ) in the filed (upload_dir) I wrote :

/vb/up

after submitting I got this error:



Thanks

Both errors you've reported happen when the LDM code is not allowed to create a file or directory within the upload directory structure. Is the php control setting "upload_dir" set? (see LDM/admin pages down the bottom) - this sometimes prevents uploads from working.

Is there a way to add the rep scales under the user info?
Or would that be impossible to work with it?

:paranoid :cry

Uhoh!

Cool Andrew, thanks :)

I'll have a play once I finish playing this game of Poker .. :D

The VB reputation system is tied into the threads and posts system - in other words, you give rep points for a particular post. When I last checked this, I couldn't see how to make it work with 'non-posts', e.g. entries in LDM.

I hope anyone else has idea's on this. I think it would greatly enhance LDM even more.

Any timeline on when we can expect to see a new version of this andrew? :)

Andrew has been quiet... so it must be real soon.

Have you tried the alpha 2.2.7 release - see this post? I'm looking forward to reports. The second alpha is being tested by one of my happy users.

It will be a few weeks before 2.2.7 is absolutely complete, but I hope that the main code will be stable very soon.

When I click on the sub categories, it takes me to an error site.

404 Not Found
The requested URL /forum/local_links/links/21 does not exist.

Not sure why this is happening, anyone know how to fix it?

I think you have enabled the LDM 'seo_friendly' option (LDM/admin/settings) without configuring your web server (Apache?) accordingly.

It's explained in the manual:

http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...e_Optimisation

Andrew! Thank you! That's EXACTLY what I did!!
Fixed all up!

Andrew,

I found someting interesting that I dont know if you knew about. but if you set say a special section in the regular forums that is hidden, say for special downloads, that normally not everyone can see. and you try to set the permissions in LDM to that topic, you can't, because you can;t see the forum topic to set permissions, Also even if you went and set permissions in LDM, to try to do a overide itself with LDM, everyone can still get to that area of the hidden stuff in LDM.

I don't know if you knew about it or not, just thought that maybe you can look into that. because you know my site, and there are files that we wish to keep hidden from others. and only persons with special permission can access them.

again it's not working,

Now when I put the upload directory I got this error


Network Error (tcp_error)

===========
A communication error occurred: ""
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.
==============


and here's the info I have


local_file_root------------------> Enabled
local_file_root_prefix----------> (not set)
File uploads---------------------> Enabled
upload_dir-----------------------> (not set)


Is there something related to safe mode? ( as it's off here)

Hello AndrewD

Thank you again for this mod.

Lately I been having some problems with LDM. The problem is that the files I have link to are very large and when the user are trying to download, with a slow computer or connection, it will time out and stop the transfer. I read, in previous post, that the problem is MySql. Is there any way to by pass that? you mention that it is possible but you get some other problems?

Also, I just upgrade to 2.2.7 and I notice that there is no longer a "seo_friendly" option, I never got it to work when I had 2.2.6 and I was wonder if I may be able to make it work with 2.2.7.

Thanks

Hi, I hope my PMs have helped you sort out your problem with downloads timing out.

The seo_friendly option is still there - it may have moved to somewhere else on the settings page but it hasn't changed. However, in order to get this feature to work, you must also configure your web server, as described in the online manual.

HI, I'm sure that these problems are related to the way your web server is configured. Unfortunately, this is not something I can help you with 'from a distance'

Just to be sure I understand:

- If you define a forum as 'not active' in the VB admincp, then it does not appear in the drop-down list of forums which you use in LDM to protect categories/entries.

This seems to me to be correct? Do you think LDM should display all forums, regardless of whether they are active or not?

HI!!!
Please, Andrew, i need your help
For a moment to other, my website (with more than 2500 links to files) saids that ALL the links are broken (and the links works perfect)!!!!!
Please, contact me, i really need your help!!!!
I will give you all the information you may need!!!!
PLEASE, HELP ME!!!
Thanks a lot!!!!!!

Happy to help if I can. Send me a PM with site details and an account with VB admin privs.

Andrew, i need your help
check please pm
wbr

I keep getting this as the folders are chked at 777

The following setting(s) are invalid
file_icons_dir : http://www.mysite.com/forum/images/ldm_icons/
Cannot find http://www.mysite.com/forum/images/ldm_icons/

They are there;)

OK I fixed that as all you have to do is add /images/ldm_icons/ and not the full URL


sorry about the noob Questions but not sure if it is installed right as I followed everything to the T

Question One
Can you look at this and tell me what you think here and what should I do next

LDM (admin settings) 2.2.6
file_icons_dir images/ldm_icons/
local_file_root No
local_file_root_prefix (not set)
File uploads Enabled
upload_dir http://www.mysite.com/ldm_upload
thumbs_dir http://www.mysite.com/forum/images/ldm_thumbs
PHP (php.ini) 4.4.4
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes
open_basedir (not set)
post_max_size 8M
upload_max_filesize 2M
MySQL (my.ini) 4.1.21-standard-log
wait_timeout 100
Low value for MySQL wait_timeout
Can I change this or is this Normal in red

Question 2

In Controls on File Uploads under upload_dir I created a folder in the root of my site called ldm_upload and made it writable 777. I then added in the space there http://www.mysite.com/ldm_upload
should there be a trailing slash with it
Uploads enabled.........YES
Upload filetype ........left blank (if blank, all types in VB attachments table are allowed)

Upload MAX space left 0 for no limit unless you have or some has a sujestion limit.

local_file_root No
local_file_root_prefix (not set)

what do I set these too as there is no documentation for it in red.

Question 3
in the root of my site I created a folder called idm_upload, but my server created a file called http: .......In it there is another file called www.mysite.com open ldm_upload and in that there is (1)

Can I delete the one I created and keep the one my server created is the Question

Thanks in advance here is my site if you want to look and you have some time.
My site

Thanks Andrew

This is exactly what I am trying to do. See my pic below. I have figured out the column setting but cannot get the subcategories to show BELOW the category title. What am I missing? I have tried everything in the "How Categories & Entries Are Displayed" section. Do I need to edit a template to accomplish this? Thanks for your reply and great product. I am sending over some "support" for your work!

ST

You normally don't need to change the wait_timeout setting, and it requires system admin privileges on your server to make the change in any case. It's highlighed because under certain circumstances people have found that large downloads were failing. The connection to the sql database was being dropped before the download had finished. (Basically, when you download a very large file over a slow line, it's possible for the MySQL server to think you've gone away before vbulletin has a chance to close down properly.)

However, your uploads_dir and thumbs_dir settings don't need the full url, see below.

Trailing slashes should be optional ;)

local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix are described quite fully in the online manual at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nd_Server_Load. Basically, these settings give you the means to store files out of the way of prying eyes. By default, LDM treats a local filename (e.g. /mydir/myfile.pdf and without the http://yoursite bit at the front) as being relate to the base directory of your web site (i.e. http://yoursite/mydir/myfile.pdf).

If you set local_file_root, it will treat the same file as being held in a top level directory /mydir/myfile.pdf relative to your web server, rather than just your web site on that server.

If you set local_file_prefix, this gets stuck on the front of all local filenames, including the upload directory. It's a shorthand way of preventing people being able to link to files on your server which are held in other parts of the filesystem.

In essence:
- local_file_root allows you to *totally prevent* people from accessing LDM entries except through LDM
- local_file_root_prefix allows you to *block off completely* access to parts of your server except those that you really want to be accessed.

These are specialised settings.

I think this is because you have set upload_dir as what you thought was a full url. However, LDM thinks you've told it to use a subdirectory called http: then a subdirectory called www.mysite.com, and so on. These are perfectly valid directory names on some systems. The solution is to set upload_dir without the url part. (I suppose LDM should have caught that, so I need to check.) Reset upload _dir to the local directory name.

One other small question (I hope), is there a way to add a custom field for the Links area? I like to show the Phone Number of the local businesses in my links directory. How hard would it be to add a phone number field to the link entry point?

ST

Hi, I can't be sure but I guess that the site you are linking to (www.se-tool.net) is refusing access from your site. This seems to have begun at around 18:00 yesterday.

When I downloadedand installed your database on my server, all the "broken links" validated correctly and work properly. On your server, they all fail to validate.

I took a look at your downloads table - you have had a quarter of a million hits since mid November, all directed at www.se-tool.net - so it wouldn't surprise me if they've put a block on you.

If you're still using version 2.2.6, you've not missed anything. I added the code for the alternate layout in version 2.2.7, which is still in alpha testing but available on this board.

You set it by going LDM/admin/settings/how categories are displayed, then template_catbit=>brief; cat_sub_display=>1; cat_cols_display=>2

I've been meaning to do this for a couple of years, but never got round to it. Let me think about it some more.

How do I enable these features. I have upgraded to the alpha version but do not see a place to enable these features???

Maybe I should ask another question first, does this feature allow for an automatically created thumbnail of a website link that is submitted, meaning does it go out and capture a snapshot of the homepage and create a thumbnail upon submission?

ST

They are supplied in the 'release/extras' subdirectory in the zip file you downloaded. There's a whole set of extras, each with a 'readme.txt' file which briefly explains how to use it.

The webthumbs extra uses Joshua Eichorn's web thumbnail service (http://bluga.net/webthumb/), which autocreates images of web sitesfor entries in LDM.
You need an account, which is free for less than 250 webthumbs a month, and very cheap for more than that, and you (currently) have to edit the account details into the 'extra'. When enabled, it does precisely what you say - goes out, grabs a thumbnail image of the site, and displays that in the LDM linkbit.

The snap plugin hooks into the www.snap.com search engine. It works in a slightly different way, replacing the LDM entry url with a new url which displays a pop up image over the url, usually with the thumbnail.

The two approaches have their strengths and weaknesses. I added them over Christmas in response to a request, and I'm looking for feedback to see if they work as people expect.

Hey Andrew I have a Low value for MySQL wait_timeout in red. Now I can't change this unfortantly due to the host will this cause problems to my downloaders? I have up to 64mb files on a different server which I link to will my users get disconnected?

If so is there anything I can do to stop my users from get disconnected?

Cheers

installed ,, thank you,,, works fine.

If you have time could you tell me how I would make it upload an excel or a visio file

Thanks, I see an area where I can enter this but it sounds like I might be overriding all the other ones that it uploads,,, sorry to be a pain, I am a novice here

You just have to try it and see. When the files are on a different server *and* are large, you will quite likely run in to problems.

If you do not mind that inquisitive users can find out the location of the files, you can overcome the problem entirely by setting the LDM setting *force_redirect* to 1.

See my answer to your question in the vb35 forum

Hi there,

I am getting the following error message while trying to add a thumbnail. Would someone be able to help me out?

Warning: fopen(/home/stamkcom/public_html/images/thumbs/37971169467226.jpg) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /includes/local_links_resize.php on line 166

Thanks so much!

Sherry, hi there. This was the reply I posted in the VB35 forum:

Two things to check:

a) Maybe you need to give your web server write access to the /images/thumbs directory (mode 777)

b) Maybe your web server is running php with a restriction on the 'open_basedir' setting. You can check this by going to any of the LDM admin pages and taking a look at the box down the bottom left of the screen. If this parameter is set, you are only allowed to access files in the part of the web server's directory tree that are explicitly authorised in the setting of open_basedir.

Get back to me if you need more help.

Thanks Andrew!

I thought I had performed the chmod operation already yesterday but when I went back in to check after your suggestion, it had somehow reverted back to mode 755.

I think I need some sleep. All is well again. Thanks for helping me out! :up: