When I run the rebuild_dscache.php script I get this error:

Starting to rebuild the datastore cache ...

Copying datastore_cache.php.new to datastore_cache.php ...
Warning: copy(./includes/datastore_cache.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/xxxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/forums/admincp/rebuild_dscache.php on line 96

failed

Line 96 says: if (!copy(DATASTORE_FILE_DIR . 'datastore_cache.php.new', DATASTORE_FILE_DIR . 'datastore_cache.php'))

Any ideas?

you simply forgot to chmod the file and add the datastore_cache.php.new to your directory... (so you did not followed the instruction completely.. ;) )

I did chmod the file and added all the files as per instructions.

:ogre:

Maybe your webserver hasn't the permission to overwrite datastore_cache.php? If that file doesn't exist in your includes-dir, then you need to chmod the directory to 755, 775 or 777 depending on your setup (777, if you're in doubt). If datastore_cache.php exists, it should be enough to chmod it to 644, 664 or 666 depending on your setup Assuming that file doesn't need to be executable).

This is prob one of the most "relevant" useful modifcations on vbulletin.org right now, can't believe I didn't get around to installing it until today.

Hope vbulletin fully implements this at a later date as stock code.

If you could maybe hold my hand and lead me through the process step by step please?

(I haven't the foggiest idea what you mean to do..)

Anyone have thoughts on the ongoing use of this in light of PHP 4.3.11 released.

I've upgraded to 4.3.11 but am keeping the hack installed... as it must still reduce the burden on the server to cache this.

arn

I'm using it because the connection between the database and the webserver is a bottleneck.

People should see for their own, if this reduces network traffic and/or speeds up connections significantly or not. If it doesn't, its recommended to uninstall or disable this hack.

Since I had no issues for a long time and since no further issues were reported I've bumped the Version number to 1.0 now. All files are unchanged from version 0.8.3 Alpha, so there no need to upgrade.

Could someone move this to the proper forum please?

Regards,
Christian Stadler

danke stadler!
is working like a charme on our vB 3.0.7 board having a 4MB forumcache!
rendertimes dropped from 1.2s+ to 0.3s and keeping the load at bay.

running:
apache 2.0.54
php 4.4.1
eaccelerator 0.9.4