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www.tourc.ca

05-22-2002 06:06 PM

I installed this hack at www.tourc.com for automotive forums..... I love it...

I'm just in the process of mirroring all the automotive groups...
it takes a while to catch up with the groups the first few runs of newnews.pl, but is super quick after that... I noticed very little bandwidth increase at all!..... barley enough to measure.... in fact the full mirror (I'm about half done, but I've done some huge groups with 45,000 messages per group and more) of all the automotive groups around 150 or 200 groups will be about 500meg of bandwidth.... (half gig) thats not much, and the runs of newnews.pl after the first mirror take almost no bandwidth....

the biggest problem I encountered was that I had so many groups and messages my searchindex table started getting out of hand... It reached about a gig, and I was only a quarter done, so I killed all the records and set the nntp options to not index the groups that are based on newsgroups and only index local groups.... no that that is done, my whole dbase is arround 40 meg as of may 22, but should be around 80 or so when done!...

the only bandwidth increase I can really see after the initial mirror is done, is all the newsgroup visitors coming to my site! :)

excellent hack or whatever... thanx!

NOTE: if you want to test the hack you can at my site www.tourc.ca and use the following username and pass

username: testuser
password: testuser

enjoy!

freeshares1

05-23-2002 07:23 PM

I love this hack, It seems to take hardly anyspace or bandwidth on my server however i do have 1 small question.

I have 2 newsgroups in a private forum but it has added all the newsgroups to the post count. Is there anyway i can have these 2 forums taken off the post count????

Any ideas????

Phil
www.gamblingforums.net

asarian

05-31-2002 05:49 PM

I hardly think my small addition qualifies as a hack, as I wrote it in about 3 minutes; but here is a very simple way to have users post via the gateway via their regular email address, and not one put together from makeshift message-id.

In gateway.php, search for,

Code:

$get_userinfo=$DB_site->query("SELECT signature,usertitle,customtitle FROM user WHERE userid=$newthread[userid] LIMIT 1");

$userinfo=$DB_site->fetch_array($get_userinfo);

$signature = "\n--\n";

$signature .= $newthread[username];

Replace it with,

Code:

$get_userinfo=$DB_site->query("SELECT signature,usertitle,customtitle,email FROM user WHERE userid=$newthread[userid] LIMIT 1");

$userinfo=$DB_site->fetch_array($get_userinfo);

$signature = "\n--\n";

$signature .= $newthread[username];

$my_email = $userinfo[email];

In gateway.php, search for,

Code:



if ($grouptype=='news'){

    $response = $news->post($cat . unhtmlspecialchars($newthread[title]),$group[newsgroup], "$newthread[username] <$msgid>", $message,"Date: ".date("D, j M Y H:i:s O",$newthread[dateline])."\r\nMessage-ID: <$msgid>\r\nOrganization: $settings[organization]\r\nUser-Agent: $settings[useragent]\r\nX-Newsreader: $settings[useragent]\r\nX-Originating-IP: $newthread[ipaddress]$ref");

Replace it with,

Code:

if ($grouptype=='news'){

    $response = $news->post($cat . unhtmlspecialchars($newthread[title]),$group[newsgroup], "$newthread[username] <$my_email>", $message,"Date: ".date("D, j M Y H:i:s O",$newthread[dateline])."\r\nMessage-ID: <$msgid>\r\nOrganization: $settings[organization]\r\nUser-Agent: $settings[useragent]\r\nX-Newsreader: $settings[useragent]\r\nX-Originating-IP: $newthread[ipaddress]$ref");

- Mark

System Administrator Asarian-host.org

---
"If you were supposed to understand it,
we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx

omniweapon

06-06-2002 02:27 PM

Forgive my being stupid, but where it says "Go into your database and modify the settings in the nntp_settings table." I don't know what to do. I don't know crap about SQL, and our host decided to disable Telnet for us because it's "safer." :p

omniweapon

06-06-2002 02:28 PM

Oh, and i use phpMyAdmin.

GameCrash

06-06-2002 02:41 PM

If you use the graphical interface (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=36475) you don't need to know any sql...

omniweapon

06-06-2002 06:22 PM

Thanks for the hack. Only problem is I don't know how to find a usenet group's server. Also, I keep getting an error saying that thread.msgid does not exist.

dost	06-08-2002 08:51 PM

It was working properly but now when I'd like to read a thread from a newsgroup, all users are displayed as if they were on my ignore list. What could cause such a problem?

jschefdog

06-13-2002 06:08 PM

I have been trying to get this hack to work for the last two days. I have read through every post in this thread, but could not find a solution. I have been using the admin interface supplied by GameCrash to setup newsgroug/forum details. I'm having the same problem that many people reported. Everything seems fine except that when I run gateway.php, I get nothing in the forum. After a few seconds I get the message:

Quote:

1 group(s) gatewayed. Logging in to my.newserver.com, group group.i.want

The IE windows says Done, but nothing was copied into the forum.

I tried some of the debugging suggestions here, including the error reporting line in gateway.php and the last nntp.php debug version that Gilby posted. With those I get

Quote:

Notice: Undefined variable: calledby in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_vb\gateway.php on line 21

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_vb\gateway.php:21) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_vb\gateway.php on line 23

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_vb\gateway.php:21) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_vb\admin\functions.php on line 1545

Warning: Failed opening 'nntp.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_vb\gateway.php on line 31

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_vb\gateway.php:21) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_vb\gateway.php on line 491
1 group(s) gatewayed.
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: net_nntp in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_vb\gateway.php on line 58

I have no idea what this means. My situation is somewhat unique since I am trying to import a company internal newsgroup, so there is no other server I can try. I can view the newsgroup just fine using Outlook Express with no userid or password setting, so I don't think it is a permission issue. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.

jschefdog

06-13-2002 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jschefdog
I have been trying to get this hack to work for the last two days...

I have been doing some more investigation and discovered that our internal news server is using something called NNTPCache (see www.nntpcache.org for more details). Could this cause problems for the NNTP hack?

I did a clean install of vBulletin 2.2.5 on a test system (PHP 4.2.0 and MySQL 3.23.49-nt). I installed NNTP hack 1.9 without installing the admin interface. I used phpMyAdmin to set it per the readme.txt files. Same problem. Everything seems OK, but no forum is ever created and no threads are imported.

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