Problems with Bulletin Boards

[david_harvey]

I use the cPanel on my web host and use the Bulletin Board feature. It installs it fine up to a certain point.
It creates the admin account fine and all other user accounts but the problem is not in the account creation but in the login.index. Several of my users including myself when trying to either Log-in or Logout get a "Cannont find " error. For example when logging in I would type in my information

ADMIN/ADMIN i.e and click login. It would act like its doing something then open a "Cannot find page" this is the link it gives me when trying to login.

http://66.90.73.208/~legends/forums/login.php?logout=true&sid=ecabbf402903f88df73b2fbcbee2d6da

But after it brings up the "Cannont find page" .. page you can press BACK and then click on the forums and it will show you as logged in. It's like its logging in but missing some sort of code that processes the redirection to the forums after login.

I am not quite sure wether or not this is a cPanel issue, a phpBB issue or a host issue. Any iformation that can assist me would be much appreciated,

Thanks

[massilia]

I got exactly the same problem.
After login as ADMIN, I got the same message "Cannot find page" error. This error do not occurs when logging as a simple user...
After loggin as ADMIN, I can check forums manually by typing http://xxxx/forums/viewforum.php?f=2 for example but impossible to see index.php which always return a "Cannot find page" error.

I also think that it's a phpBB problem.


Ps: the solution

I have just looked at your forum, and it shows the symptoms of the conflict caused by Zend Optimizer 2.5.
Did your host recently update his version of Zend Optimizer ?
This is a known problem caused by ZO ver 2.5.
If you have access to your php.ini file(probably not), you can experiment by trying optimization level 0
(you can do it by editing your php.ini:
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=0 )
or optimization level 1, and see if it helps.

Reports show that setting it to 1 or 0 has helped.

The latest phpBB package *may* help, see this announcement.
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=177594

[david_harvey]

Thank you very much, I will have to try this.

[damainman]

I wonder how long it'll take for cpanel to update phpbb....*Starts clock*

[raventec]

The problem is with Zend from what I understand. Had the same problem here and zend_optimizer.optimization_level=1 seems to work ok.
Zend is aware of the issue and will be releasing an update.... sometime

[damainman]

so if i make: zend_optimizer.optimization_level=1 .. it should work?

[raventec]

yes it should work 1 or 0

[damainman]

the problems went away slightly but i'm still experiencing some...

Would this fix it?

http://phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=177594

[Lippy]

Originally posted by damainman
the problems went away slightly but i'm still experiencing some...

Would this fix it?

http://phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=177594

This does not always fix it. Uninstalling Zend by either replacing the new php.ini with the backup Zend makes on install php-ini-zendoptimzer.bak will effectivly remove Zend from running.

I am still looking for a way of downgrading Zend from 2.5 to an earlier release that works with phpbb and allows use of the encoding and decoding of php in programs like modernbill. If you know of a way, please advise.

Thank you,

[damainman]

man this sucks.

Everything in my forums work, as long as it doesn't involve logging in. For example a guest user can post messages, in the forums i have set up so anyone can post.. but when u try to post in a topic where u need to log in.. you get a "The page cannot be displayed"

If you try to log in.. you get a "The page cannot be displayed"

If your logged in, and try to log out.. you get a "The page cannot be displayed"

[Lippy]

If you have Zend optimizer installed version 2.5 that is the problem. Try changing the php.ini back to the one before Zend was installed.

[dxer]

Beside problems you described I have additional problem with every phpBB installed on my box. Users can't reply to any posts. Did some of you experienced this problem too ?

I have installed Zend optimazer but I can't disable it because Modernbill is running on this box. It is no possible to downgrade as it is new server and there is no previous version.

[damainman]

if anyone keeps track of zend and remembers, it would be appreciated if you update this post, when zend comes out with a new update that supports phpbb

[Complex Logics]

Originally posted by Lippy
I am still looking for a way of downgrading Zend from 2.5 to an earlier release that works with phpbb and allows use of the encoding and decoding of php in programs like modernbill. If you know of a way, please advise.

Thank you,

edit /scripts/installzendopt

find the url in that script that points to zend.com and then find the 714 near the end of the url and change that to 548 on both lines. Save the file.

run the script!

Note that this is to get you version 2.1.0 for linux servers which didn't have issues like 2.5.0 and 2.5.1

[phpman]

pico -w /scripts/installzendopt

change line

my %urls = (
Linux => 'http://www.zend.com/store/getfreefile.php?pid=13&zbid=718&iagree=1',

for

my %urls = (
Linux => 'http://www.zend.com/store/getfreefile.php?pid=13&zbid=548&iagree=1',

Save and Exit

Reinstall Zend

/scripts/installzendopt

Best regards