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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #180 - Jan 21^st, 2016 at 2:49pm I upgraded my mail server last month and forgot to update the server name in the forum configuration. Let me know if you guys see any e-mail related weirdness. -b0b (...thanks for letting me know Stewie!)
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Reply #181 - Mar 30^th, 2016 at 10:11pm

As a heads up, the web server VM that runs the forum and the FTP is getting really flaky. It's about time to rebuild anyway on a more recent server OS anyway. I've started building the new VM and I'll take the forum down for a few hours later this week (maybe tomorrow?) to migrate everything. The FTP will also be down during this window.

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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #182 - Mar 31^st, 2016 at 8:56am FYI - I've got a bunch of stuff uploaded to your FTP. I'll hold off until the FTP is back up. Thanks! X
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #183 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 4:08pm The web forum is back online, now running on a shiny new VM. I think I've got all the kinks worked out, but please let me know if you run into any trouble. -b0b (...so fast!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #184 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 5:12pm The web forum is back online, now running on a shiny new VM. I think I've got all the kinks worked out, but please let me know if you run into any trouble. -b0b (...so fast!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #185 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 5:27pm The web forum is back online, now running on a shiny new VM. I think I've got all the kinks worked out, but please let me know if you run into any trouble. -b0b (...so fast!)
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Reply #186 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 5:32pm

Had to fix a PERL issue.

I couldn't find the solution anywhere else on the Internet. Just in case some other poor bastard is googling this, YaBB kept generating a 502.2 error when attempting to post a message. Newer versions of ActiveState PERL x64 generate an error message when calling a particular single name parameter. I edited out lines 399-407 in CGI.pm (by default, located in C:\Perl64\lib\CGI.pm) to prevent the warning message (and with it, the IIS 502.2 Bad Gateway warning) and get it working again.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #187 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 5:33pm The FTP might be back up. It works locally, but I don't have an external network connection to try it right now. Let me know if it is borked! -b0b (...crosses his fingers!)
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Forum Stuff Reply #188 - Apr 1^st, 2016 at 6:14pm FTP seems to be working after updating the certificate. X
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Reply #189 - Apr 2^nd, 2016 at 2:47pm

Here's another PERL issue I found with YaBB 2.6.1 running on ActiveState Perl 5.22.1 with Server 2012 R2 and IIS. Posting it here in case some other poor bastard runs into the same problem, since I couldn't find the issue on Google. When running Setup.pl on the new version of YaBB, I got another lovely 502.2 Bad Gateway message...

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HTTP Error 502.2 - Bad Gateway

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are "[Sat Apr 2 13:09:56 2016] Setup.pl: Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/ { <-- HERE yabbbr} / at Sources/Subs.pm line 1861. HTTP/1.0 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang='en-US'> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>YaBB 2.6.12 Setup</title> <style type="text/css"> html, body {color:#000; font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size:13px; background-c...

The error message was incredibly long and was obviously mostly HTML bullshit. I fixed this by breaking out the left brace in line 1861 of Sources\Subs.pm. It originally looked like this:

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$message =~ s/ {yabbbr} /\n/gsm;

I put in a leading backslash before the left brace, to make it look like this:

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$message =~ s/ \{yabbbr} /\n/gsm;

All fixed.

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