[Forum] Unknown location forum.php after upgrade to 4.2

[Skyrider]

After I updated the forums today to 4.2, I keep seeing this:



On all the users the forum.php button at the top of the forums which I set to default. Any idea what's up?

[Lynne]

Is this on a totally default style and no modifications?

[Skyrider]

Happens on the default style (no changes) + all plugins disabled. Even when I revert all the templates back to normal, though no changes were made.

Oh, and I know this is off-topic, but would you be so kind to alter my forum name to Skyrider (If not in use). I asked someone quite some time ago, but nothing has been done about it.

[Lynne]

You need to put in a support ticket to get your username changed. I cannot change them.

Can we get a link to see the problem on your forum?

[Skyrider]

http://forum.esforces.com/forum.php is the forum URL.

[Mark.B]

My 4.2 does this as well, it's not default though, but I do suspect there's something amiss here.

[Lynne]

http://forum.esforces.com/forum.php is the forum URL.

I cannot see the online.php page there.

On my test site though, it shows the name of the forum and links to "forum.php" My Forum tab links to "forum.php{session.sessionurl_q}" (no slash in front of it).

[Skyrider]

I cannot see the online.php page there.

On my test site though, it shows the name of the forum and links to "forum.php" My Forum tab links to "forum.php{session.sessionurl_q}" (no slash in front of it).

An account is required to be able to view the online.php:

http://forum.esforces.com/online.php

I enabled it for Guests for now.

The only thing I can tell you is that the index.php has been changed to use:

require('forum.php');

And the target URL of the forum tab is also: forum.php{session.sessionurl_q}

So nothing has changed there.

[Mark.B]

It seems to work ok on this site so this issue is probably caused by an add on or change that is common to both our sites. I don't know what though.

I know I went back to the "old" way of using index.php and forum.php but having index.php as the default page, because the "new" way broke a modification and I didn't have time to troubleshoot that properly. I suspect that's the root cause. In which case it can be easily fixed with a simple plugin. When I fix this for my site I'll post it here, but it will be next week now.

[Skyrider]

Well, it's not a plugin issue that's for sure. I already disabled them all before I double-checked it. Thanks for your reply .

[Mark.B]

Well, it's not a plugin issue that's for sure. I already disabled them all before I double-checked it. Thanks for your reply .

My view is, (and bear in mind it also affects my site so I don't say this lightly), that is almost certainly the result of something you (and I) have changed. Simply because it works fine here. That's always my test, had it not worked on here I would have ignored the problem or manually fixed it. Since it;s fine on here, it means I've broken something.

There's no shame in this, it's how we learn things.

It doesn't massively bother me, but I would quite like it to work, although on my site nobody should be viewing via forum.php anyhow.

[Skyrider]

Well, I fixed it..

Viewing Index
Earth's Special Forces - Forums

Or rather, I bypassed the error/issue. I merely changed the forum.php to index.php and left a copy of forum.php behind to be sure. And also re-directed the forum navigation tab to index.php. It works just fine now. Though not the perfect solution, it's a good bypass. I also prefer index.php over forum.php seeing I use a forum.domain.com subdomain. So yea, forum.php is causing it.

Doesn't explain the fact why though. But, so far nothing broke down.

I'm pretty sure the same will work for you.

[S_E_A100]

Same for me. Any plans to release a patch to resolve the problem?

[Mark.B]

Same for me. Any plans to release a patch to resolve the problem?

As per the thread - this works fine on a default install, it's caused by modifications of some sort. Therefore no patch is needed.

[Skyrider]

As per the thread - this works fine on a default install, it's caused by modifications of some sort. Therefore no patch is needed.

How many people have adjusted the index.php file to use the forum.php file? Unless that has been changed in vB 4.2 to use forum.php at all times. I always had to edit the index.php file every time my vBulletin was updated to use the forum.php file which was rather annoying.

I wonder if this "might" be a htaccess issue, though I doubt it.