Willing to pay good money for this mod to be updated and optimized for vB 3.7.x & future versions.

If anybody interested please contact me.

Hemanth:

This looks like the best possibility at the moment: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=184344 by Kerry-Anne. I hope that she is working on updating this mod. She always does a first-class job on her mods.

-- Rik

Just thought I'd share this useful mysql query by Wayne Luke that I found on vbulletin.com that finds duplicate posts within each thread. You can then easily delete those dupes.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=285501

If you've ever had 2 instances of the NNTP importer running on the same newsgroups by mistake, you'll really benefit from this. But it works just as well finding dupe posts inadvertently posted by your own vb users or from Usenet users.

The first time I ran it yesterday, I found thousands of dupe messages that have built up over the years connecting to Usenet. Now that they are all cleaned out, I'm going to run it on an regular basis before each build of our sitemaps.

I hope that you find it useful in conjunction with this mod. -- Rik

Thank you for the link, really usefull!

I've had this script working for a long time, changed the php version in December and it stopped. I finally figured out the time out was not set correctly in my.cnf and was able to get things rocking again.

Until today.

Today, the hosting company had to move my site to another box. The linux box the site was on was hacked. No problem. Except there has been nothing but problems with this new box.

I cannot get the script to run in the browser. I can, however, get the script to run at the CL when I ssh to the box. I can run #php /path/to/gateway.php and all is fine.

However, the scheduled task craps out as well as gateway.php?debug=1 in the browser.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look?

Maybe you have to run the setlastmessage.php again?

Thank you for the suggestion but the gateway script runs at the CL as root but not in the browser. After changing some of the messages in nntp.php file, I see fsockopen fails in the browser but works at the CL. However, I am unsure how to fix the permissions to get this to work.

Update: The above statement is probably not accurate. The fsockopen fails for the nntp.php script but works for a little test script I wrote:

http://technologyquestions.com/technology/testfp.php

Update: After 5 days of the hosting company insisting something was wrong the script - they found the problem. SELinux was blocking the port. The script now operates as it did for years ;)

Glad you got your's going!, i still get db errors since the php upgrade and can't seem to get anyone to sort it! :(

Has anyone made modifications to the Gateway so that embedded YouTube videos (specifically the AME Media Embedding mod code) can be converted to normal URLs to export on Usenet?

I assume it just requires simple additions to the array in the includes/functions_nntp.php file. But I'm not so sure how to accomplish it?

If anyone has done so, could you please share the code?

Thanks. -- Rik

Exactly what does the ISP need to do to get rid of the UTF-8 garbage in the user name? Edit the php.ini, install something? They say i need to edit my php file... when others asked y'all sat they need to do something.