Not at all :)

Can you please confirm that /includes/xml/cpnav_vboptimise.xml exists on your server?


Fillip

Yes indeed. It appears to exist, with the following contents (which I assume are generic -- posting anyway, just in case it gives any incite):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<navgroups product="_vboptimise_dbtech">
<navgroup phrase="vboptimise" displayorder="10">

<navoption displayorder="10">
<phrase>vboptimise_resourcestats</phrase>
<link>vboptimise.php?do=resources</link>
</navoption>

<navoption displayorder="20">
<phrase>vboptimise_mainsettings</phrase>
<link>options.php?do=options&amp;dogroup=_vboptimi se_dbtech</link>
</navoption>

<navoption displayorder="30">
<phrase>vboptimise_cachesettings</phrase>
<link>options.php?do=options&amp;dogroup=_vboptimi se_cachers_dbtech</link>
</navoption>

<navoption displayorder="40">
<phrase>vboptimise_miscsettings</phrase>
<link>options.php?do=options&amp;dogroup=_vboptimi se_other_dbtech</link>
</navoption>

<navoption displayorder="50">
<phrase>vboptimise_optimalsettings</phrase>
<link>vboptimise.php?do=optimal</link>
</navoption>

<navoption displayorder="60">
<phrase>vboptimise_systemtest</phrase>
<link>vboptimise.php?do=test</link>
</navoption>

<navoption displayorder="70">
<phrase>vboptimise_flushcache</phrase>
<link>vboptimise.php?do=flush</link>
</navoption>

</navgroup>
</navgroups>

working like a charm. Thanks

Question : What is filecache system

I'm looking for insight, rather. (I don't mean to incite anything -- that would be an entirely different situation.)

:D

Caches vB Optimise variables in the file system rather than memory - it's slower, but works on every host.

Are you sure you're looking in the right place in your AdminCP menu? Can you post a screenshot?


Fillip

vB Optimise v2.5.1
Feature: New Administrator Permission: Can Administer vB Optimise

Fillip

Usersgroups->Administrator Permissions

When I open it, I see everything, except that new line, and I see this error message ontop of the list:

Fixed, you can re-download and re-upload the files then rebuild bitfields via the AdminCP :)


Fillip

I didnt update yet, but since I installed this mod, my forum started going wierd;
sometimes one of my CPU threads locks on the max, and everything on my pc gets super-slowmotion, and the sound starts lagging.
after a while, if I dont close firefox or chorme (depends on which one I used), the browser crashes and then everything goes normal.

Now few min ago, I went to the settings for the optimise, and when I started browsing through it, my CPU got locked again. I killed firefox through taskmanager, and entered again to shutdown the optimise, then 2 of my CPU threads got locked to max.
I killed FF again, and then cleared my cache in forum, and on my FF.

While I was in the middle of all that, (while being in slowmotion mode), I went to "resource manager", and went to the disk tab, didnt see anything suspicious, then I entered network tab, and my FF was constant uploading 200kB/s to my website. Normal browsing now after I turned the optimise off, it shows me a peak (for 2 seconds) of maximum 55kB/s. and the rest is 600 bit/s.

Im using Filecache btw.
And also, I noticed that at the same time my FF crashed on my PC, another PC at another country (teamviewing) with chrome running, also crashed.

This mod does absolutely nothing in your browser - no new JavaScript or anything of the sort, so it cannot be the cause of this issue. This mod is 100% server-side.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help :(


Fillip

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

My optimal settings and system check both pass. I am using Filecache but I had to set the dir perms correctly to get system check to pass so I believe everything is set.

Hi Fillip,

I posted in this thread many months ago about how I could not run this plugin.

I'm after moving from nimbushosting over to wiredtree and now it works 100% fine. It must have been blocked somehow. The install and setup was a total breeze.

Inside of 10 minutes I saved over 4,000 requests :)

I'm going to run this for 1 month (maybe less) and then upgrade to pro and compare the difference.

I'm really impressed, a big thank you for creating a wonderful plugin like this!! Awesome :D

Have you also enabled the Resource Saving Statistics in the Main Settings?

Thanks for posting back and for your kind words, much appreciated :D


Fillip

Yes it is set to yes and my opcache operator is set to Filecache

Works Great. Good job

Great mod thanks dbtech!

Getting this error after flush cache

Fatal error: Storing of variables is not enabled within XCache in [path]/includes/class_datastore.php on line 533

What to do?

And getting this error on my forum home page:

Warning: xcache_isset() [function.xcache-isset]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /home/_____/public_html/vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo_cache.php on line 84

Ok it's working ok now no errors but i'm getting white pages when trying to change any of settings in admincp. What's wrong now

Looks like you'll need to contact your host and ask them to ensure that XCache is installed properly and configured properly.

You can also add directly beneath <?php in your config.php file to see if that displays an actual error message rather than just a white page.


Fillip

I've just noticed that when i choose xcache in Opcache Operator then i start getting white pages

for the past weeks without this mod turned on, there has been no crashes to my browser caused by my website.
Few minutes ago, after activating it and browsing (for 2 min) through the settings, my browser crashed.
I turned it off, and Im removing it. As you say that this mod does not do anything to my browser. so I guess its something to do server side.......

Please see my previous post in this thread which addresses this issue :)

That's correct, it doesn't do anything to your browser.

What browser is it? Have you tried another browser?


Fillip

vB Optimise v2.5.2
Feature: Improved logging details for Control Panel actions
Feature: Added DBTech Affiliate ID support
Feature: The resource saving statistics in the global footer can now be translated / altered via a vBPhrase
Fix: The resource saving statistics in the global footer should now be visible on all custom skins
Fix: The setting to enable/disable the per-page resource saving statistics in the global footer now works with Branding Free
Change: Changed the Branding display method to inject itself into the copyright footer (underneath vBulletin copyright) instead of the page footer.
Change: Changed the Branding Free Key to a more secure key.

Fillip

Thanks for your update, Fillip :)

Sorry if this is a silly question. :) Can I run this alongside the CSS Sprites mod? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=266696

I have a feeling that they'll work just fine together, I just want to make sure before I accidentally mess something up.

You can, yeah :)


Fillip

vB Optimise v2.5.3
Feature: Improved error messages for APC, XCache and eAccelerator when the extension is not configured correctly

Fillip

My resource stats work now!!! And they work going all the way back to the original install date!

Only question I have is how to read them. Is that number of saved DB queries per day? Some days the stat says over 16,000. Is that right?

Hi Fillip,

i just noticed, that vb Optimise adds two unnecessary brackets in the copyright footer. Can they be removed or do they have to be there?
Here a pic:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/
and the HTML-Code:
Thanks in advance

Greets Zohhak