Did I mess something up or are these bugs?

[ttp]

I just got my board up and converted.  It is at www.atrakehner.com/yabbs.

When I am in the administrative area, I am not able to access the Forum Preferences and Settings part.  I get the message "An Error Has Occurred!" with no other info.

When I, logged in as admin or as a user, try to edit the profile area, underneath the blank for "Personal Text" is a box with an error message:  

An Error Has Occurred!

2: OpenDir: No such file or directory (errno 2)
(/home/httpd/atrakehner/yabbs/Sources/Profile.php ln 159)
 

There are no buttons to edit the profile settings.  

Did I foul something up in the installation?  Thanks

[alexrolko]

CHMOD the directory your board is in to 777.

[ttp]

It is chmoded to 777, and so are all of the files inside the directory.  Still have the problems.

[Joseph Fung]

I just got my board up and converted.  It is at www.atrakehner.com/yabbs.

When I am in the administrative area, I am not able to access the Forum Preferences and Settings part.  I get the message "An Error Has Occurred!" with no other info.

When I, logged in as admin or as a user, try to edit the profile area, underneath the blank for "Personal Text" is a box with an error message:  

An Error Has Occurred!

2: OpenDir: No such file or directory (errno 2)
(/home/httpd/atrakehner/yabbs/Sources/Profile.php ln 159)
 

There are no buttons to edit the profile settings.  

Did I foul something up in the installation?  Thanks

re. your first problem - it's the auto-backup thing.

either chmod your dir to 777 (so it can create the Settings.bak file) or create a Settings.bak file and chmod it to 777

your second proablem is a probelm with faces dir - check your Settings.php

[ttp]

re. your first problem - it's the auto-backup thing.

either chmod your dir to 777 (so it can create the Settings.bak file) or create a Settings.bak file and chmod it to 777>>

Got this.  Already had a Settings.bak file, but it changed its chmoding at some point.  Refreshing the info and looking at the dir showed only settings.bak had changed.  I chmoded it and got in to the Preferences section.  Will this be a regular thing, the spontaneous changing of the chmoding?  I hope not--that is why I got rid of Y1G....


<<your second proablem is a probelm with faces dir - check your Settings.php >>

What IS "faces dir" and where do I find it, and what am I checking on Settings.php?  The chmod is 777.

Thanks for the tips!

[Joseph Fung]

If your server has a nasty chmod mask it'll happen regularly.

A chmod mask prevents you from chmodding things easily - it's a security restriction some hosts have.

If you don't care about the backup - just comment those lines of code out - I'll post ht exact line of code once I get back from dinner...

[ttp]

Is THAT what the problem is with this chmoding business?  Huh.  Anyway to fix that?  Thanks for your offer of help.

Also, what is this "faces dir" thing?

 

[Joseph Fung]

sorry - $facesdir in Settings.php  - it sounds VERY much like you've accidentally set it incorrectly.

Re. the chmod mask - usually there is nothing you can do about.  It's possibly you could convince your host to change it, but I've found (from experience) hosts who feel they need to set it are very anal about it

[ttp]

Found it--thanks!  For some reason, the default setting in there sticks an extra "html" in the path for YaBBImages.  It works now.    Just have to wait and see how it all holds up to traffic!

Is there a way to avoid the chmod problem on the software end?  

[Joseph Fung]

like I said earlier -you could comment out the lines where the backup is attempted...

[ttp]

And these would be which lines, and more importantly, in which file?  

[Jay Silverman]

Code Select Expand

if (!copy("Settings.php", "Settings.bak"))
      fatal_error($txt['yse1']);
In Admin.php?