I think I broke something...

[Woloi]

Well, i think the easiest way to show you what happened is to give you the link to my forum.  I made it for my boy scout troop, originally in YaBB Gold, and then just today upgraded it to YaBB SE.  the link is:

http://www.myspace.d2g.com/yabb/index.php

it's yabb because i used the old folder, so it was less to change for all the users.  now, everything copied over as oerfect as i could have hoped for, and everything was working great.  then, i gave my friend the link, told him to check it out, and he IMed me back saying that my forums had "gone Ka-BOOM!".  so, i went to go and check, and lo and behold, my forums had a major error.

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

That's the entire error.  Now, i was still able to access the main page, but anything else i tried to do seemed to give me that error.

before you jump to any conclusions, let me tell you something else.  ni the process of converting the above forum, i made a brand new YaBB SE forum, to make sure that i knew what i was doing, so i wouldn't screw up the conversion.  that forum as of now still works fine.  the url for that one is:

http://www.myspace.d2g.com/yabbse/index.php

i haven't altered anything on that, if that helps anyone.  on the first forum, i did try to make the file attachment system work, but i was unable to make it work for some reason i could not figure out.  before i was able to fix it, the strange error above occured.  so, if someone could please help me, i would greatly appreciate it.

also, both boards are version 1.0.0, not the newer beta, cause i literally learned PHP and MySQL today, as i was building/converting the forums.

thanks,
woloi

[alexrolko]

seems to be working now...  

I was thinking maybe that the CGI binary of PHP may have caused that error not YaBB itself.

[Woloi]

are you sure it's working?  i just tried it, and i still got that same error  :-/.  i have it running on my own server, and i set everything up properly (like it was in YaBB Gold), and it worked, but then all of te sudden, it just crashed.  now, you say it's fixed, yet i still can't access anything but the main page.  strange...

just an idea, but do you think that putting versio 1.1.0 on instead would help to posibly solve the problem, or just make it worse?

[alexrolko]

your board works fine with me. this problem has nothing tp do with YaBB as i said already.

so a hard refresh on the page. cause i bet your cache is getting in the way. press CTRL + F5 for IE or CTRL + the Refresh button for NS

[Woloi]

err, i'm either a complete moron, my computer is not working, or i completely don't understand you.    onwe question, are you going beyodn the first page?  when i go to the first page, it loads fine, but when i try to go anywhere else, it screws up, and gives me that error.  so, unless my computer (and my friend just tried it again) is screwy, i think either YaBB is broken.  i'm not sure what even happpened, because it seems like just out of the blue, it crashed.

[alexrolko]

sorry mybad... but i do see the problem. your board URL is incorrect its supposed to be just this... http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb/ not http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb/index.php  as you have it.

[Woloi]

that's what i thought it would be, yet when i do that, i just get another strange error.  i think it's because i either have two boards, yet they're under different folders, or because i converted that board.  my old url, before i converted it, was exactly that, yet after i converted it, it only worked if i added "index.php" after it.  please tell me, be brutely honest, what the heck am i doing wrong?

[John R]

The problem lies with your settings.pl file, you have some of the settings set incorrectly.  When you try to go to any link it gives you an incorrect url.  For instance, if you click on the home button in your menubar it gives you the following url.

http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb/index.php/index.php

You will notice that it has entered index.php twice instead of just once.  I suspect that you have probably entered your board url as http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb and the board dir as something other than just a '.'  If you post the section of your settings.php file that deals with your directories and url's I will point out the error for you.

cheers.........

[Woloi]

ok, i have to go onto another computer (my server) to look at the files.  i think i see what your talking about, so i'll try and find the error, and fix it, but if i can't, i'll post it.

[Woloi]

ok, i guess it's the fact that i'm new to php, but i couldn't find the error, so here's what i think you needed...

Code Select Expand

C:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Inetpub\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\wwwroot\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\yabb";          

   # The absolute path to the board's folder (usually can be left as '.')
$sourcedir

= "C:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Inetpub\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\wwwroot\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\yabb/Sources";           

      # Directory with YaBB source files
$facesdir =

"C:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Inetpub\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\wwwroot\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\yabb/YaBBImages/avatars";   

         # Absolute Path to your avatars folder
$facesurl =

"http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb//YaBBImages/avatars";            # URL to

your avatars folder
$imagesdir = "http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb//YaBBImages";         

   # URL to your images directory
$ubbcjspath =

"http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb//ubbc.js";                           # Web path to your

'ubbc.js' REQUIRED for post/modify to work properly!
$faderpath =

"http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb//fader.js";            # Web path to your

'fader.js'
$helpfile = "http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb//YaBBHelp/index.html";   
i think that's what your talking about, but if it isn't, feel free to smack me  

[alexrolko]

WOAH....  

[Woloi]

it's ok, don't go crazy.  i'm a #$%@#$ moron.  i fixed the problem.  i ws just sitting around, then all of the sudden, i understood what you guys were saying.  so, i ran upstairs (to my server), and changed one thing, and it works now.

http://www.myspace.d2g.com/yabb/index.php

apparently, i'm a moron, and put "24.186.169.57:88/yabb/index.php" as my board url, but the correct thing was "24.186.169.57:88/yabb", because with the "index.php" at the end, it added the index.php to everything, screwing it up.  sorry to cause you trouble, but you have to remember, i've been working with PHP and MySQL for less than uh, 24 hours here.  

[alexrolko]

it's ok, don't go crazy.  i'm a #$%@#$ moron.  i fixed the problem.  i ws just sitting around, then all of the sudden, i understood what you guys were saying.  so, i ran upstairs (to my server), and changed one thing, and it works now.

http://www.myspace.d2g.com/yabb/index.php

apparently, i'm a moron, and put "24.186.169.57:88/yabb/index.php" as my board url, but the correct thing was "24.186.169.57:88/yabb", because with the "index.php" at the end, it added the index.php to everything, screwing it up.  sorry to cause you trouble, but you have to remember, i've been working with PHP and MySQL for less than uh, 24 hours here.  

dunno why John repeated what i had already posted.

anyway your settings should look like this.

$boarddir = "C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/yabb";
$sourcedir = "C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/yabb/Sources";
$facesdir = "C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/yabb/YaBBImages/avatars";
$facesurl = "http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb/YaBBImages/avatars";
$imagesdir = "http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb/YaBBImages";
$ubbcjspath = "http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb/ubbc.js";
$faderpath = "http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb/fader.js";
$helpfile = "http://24.186.169.57:88/yabb/YaBBHelp/index.html";

not as you have them.

[Woloi]

Once again, thanks.  I wasn't understanding you guys at first, then it hit me like a ton of bricks.  The problem was exatcly what John R. said.  But, now my forum works perfectly, so thanks a whole lot, and keep up the great work.

[Jeff Lewis]

He repeated it because it was the problem and he wanted to make sure it got across...