Major Additions - Links and Downloads Manager

Version 2.3.0 of LDM is now the official release. This works with both VB3.7 and VB3.8. You can obtain it here

Version 2.2.8 remains available here, with limited support.

04.02.08: patch-cat.xml 'extra' uploaded - see first post for information

27.10.07: Version 2.2.8-post1 uploaded
French translation of product installer uploaded (other language translations are in the main release zip)

Remember to back up your current database tables before upgrading.

What this is and does

LDM is a general-purpose link and file manager, which handles user uploads and downloads in a flexible way. A range of media players is integrated into LDM and others are included as plugin extras. LDM is described below in the first post of this thread, which also contains a brief list of the currently-known bugs.

This release of LDM works correctly with all VB versions 3.6.x and recent versions of vbadvanced.

Documentation, screen shots, etc, are provided as a Wiki at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

Thank you to everyone who has tested, given suggestions, helped with the translations, etc.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by femsawyer

I tried with IE which I haven't used in months, cleared the cache anyway and when I click on the edit button, I get a IE cannot display the webpage.

OK. Sorry about this.

I cannot quickly check this upgrade from vb 3.0.x, as it requires me to reinstall sql 4. I can try this at the weekend.

Alternatively, you might let me check your site - in which case, send me a PM with details and an account with vb admin privs.

[Alfa1]

Never mind. I found the problem and fixed it.

[femsawyer]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

OK. Sorry about this.

I cannot quickly check this upgrade from vb 3.0.x, as it requires me to reinstall sql 4. I can try this at the weekend.

Alternatively, you might let me check your site - in which case, send me a PM with details and an account with vb admin privs.

Actually, I just found this happening elsewhere in the new upgrade to 3.6.8 so I'm thinking that this might be an issue with my vb upgrade and not ldm. I'll get back to you as soon as I figure it out.

Thanks for being ready to jump right on it though!

[auddi]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Uploads are placed in a temporary directory by the server/php system, then moved by LDM to the directory you have specified. The error message comes from the system function that is trying to do this file move.

I thought that I had coded all the necessary checks on this - but

- Is your server running php in safe mode.
- Does your server have restrictions on the php open_basedir

(You can check both of these on the left column of the main LDM admin pages)

Thanks a lot AndrewD.

> Is your server running php in safe mode.

Yes

> Does your server have restrictions on the php open_basedir

how to find this?

The LDM admin panel says:

local_file_root Website
local_file_root_prefix
not set
File uploads Enabled
upload_dir
/vbb_ldm_upload
thumbs_dir
not set
file_icons_dir
not set
PHP
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes
open_basedir /home/httpd/vhosts/bcsq.org/httpdocs: /tmp
post_max_size 8M
upload_max_filesize 2M

i just created a dir named tmp on the server root
/home/httpd/vhosts/bcsq.org/httpdocs
and set its perm to 777.

However, still getting the error.
our site is:
http://bcsq.org/vbb/

Part of our need is for the site to serve as a file pool, so any users can upload files into a pool and downlad with search titles, description, etc.

We'd appreciate any hint you can give. Thanks.

[Alfa1]

My LDM works now, but somehow LDM can not find the files. It displays all categories and lists all files correctly. LDM displays thumbs. When I click a link that leads to a external file (like a movie on youtube for example), then that works perfectly. But when I click on a link that should lead to a file on my server, then that does not work. LDM gives the message: "Sorry - link is not currently available"
I have checked the download folder and it is correct. All files that should be in there, are in there.
What am I doing wrong?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by femsawyer

Actually, I just found this happening elsewhere in the new upgrade to 3.6.8 so I'm thinking that this might be an issue with my vb upgrade and not ldm. I'll get back to you as soon as I figure it out.

Thanks for being ready to jump right on it though!

Just to let you know - I rebuilt LDM 1.6 on vb 3.0.7/mysql4 and ran through a complete single step upgrade to vb 3.6.8/ldm 2.2.8. Everything works fine.

When you get blank screens with vb 3.6, you should go to the main vb/admicp/options/cookies and http headers and turn off gzip compression. That way, if there's a site error message, you'll get to see it.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by auddi

Thanks a lot AndrewD.

> Is your server running php in safe mode.

Yes

Part of our need is for the site to serve as a file pool, so any users can upload files into a pool and downlad with search titles, description, etc.

We'd appreciate any hint you can give. Thanks.

The problem is almost certainly that you are running in safe mode. Uploads are very hard to get working (not sure if it's even possible) with this in force.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

My LDM works now, but somehow LDM can not find the files. It displays all categories and lists all files correctly. LDM displays thumbs. When I click a link that leads to a external file (like a movie on youtube for example), then that works perfectly. But when I click on a link that should lead to a file on my server, then that does not work. LDM gives the message: "Sorry - link is not currently available"
I have checked the download folder and it is correct. All files that should be in there, are in there.
What am I doing wrong?

Did you have local_file_root and local_file_root prefix set on your old server, and have they been set to the same values on the new server?

For local files, the database stores the file location relative to these two settings.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Did you have local_file_root and local_file_root prefix set on your old server, and have they been set to the same values on the new server?

For local files, the database stores the file location relative to these two settings.

Old server:
local_file_root Website
local_file_root_prefix
/forum/links/downloads/

New server:
local_file_root Website
local_file_root_prefix
/forum/links/downloads/

Both local_file_root_prefix are correct, though my new server does not have a normal url yet, but is using IP~mydomain.com/
http://35.125.65.123~mydomain.com/forum/links/downloads

Can this have an adverse effect?

I do not know if local_file_root website is correct for the new server, as I don't understand the meaning.

[Nam]

Andrew, I'd love to have a small window player that pull randomly, or manually choosing from categories that I like (youtube supported.) Right now the only way to do it, I guess, it pass directly the YouTube HTML code to LDM front page template.

I don't see the New and Most Popular column like previous version, may be you have made those features become Add-on?