The following problem is fairly frequent on my two forums that I host on the same server.
Problem: Links to other pages (threads, faq, index, etc.) within the vBulletin installations on both communities sometimes do not load on the first click. The user clicks the link and they are taken to a blank page. If the user refreshes the browser session, the page always loads.
There does not seem to be a common denominator underlying this problem. It happens at random and to users with MSIE and Firefox. It happens to me fairly frequently because when I am on these communities, I am moving around quite a bit.
Server: The server is a Windows Server 2003 installation running PHP 4.4.0 and MySQL 4.0.24 with a SQL packet size of 16MB. Magic quotes are turned off in PHP and GZIP is not enabled.
I can post my full PHP config and MySQL config if necessary for troubleshooting, but I prefer not to do that if I can avoid it. The less about my server posted, the better for security in my mind.
Can anyone tell me what I need to look at to resolve this problem? I am on the verge of backing up all of my data and converting this box to Fedora Core 6 instead of Windows. But if I can avoid that for the time being, it would be better.
I do have full control and ownership of the server and host it on my own backbone. Any infrastructure changes that might need to be made could be done easily.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Problem: Links to other pages (threads, faq, index, etc.) within the vBulletin installations on both communities sometimes do not load on the first click. The user clicks the link and they are taken to a blank page. If the user refreshes the browser session, the page always loads.
There does not seem to be a common denominator underlying this problem. It happens at random and to users with MSIE and Firefox. It happens to me fairly frequently because when I am on these communities, I am moving around quite a bit.
Server: The server is a Windows Server 2003 installation running PHP 4.4.0 and MySQL 4.0.24 with a SQL packet size of 16MB. Magic quotes are turned off in PHP and GZIP is not enabled.
I can post my full PHP config and MySQL config if necessary for troubleshooting, but I prefer not to do that if I can avoid it. The less about my server posted, the better for security in my mind.
Can anyone tell me what I need to look at to resolve this problem? I am on the verge of backing up all of my data and converting this box to Fedora Core 6 instead of Windows. But if I can avoid that for the time being, it would be better.
I do have full control and ownership of the server and host it on my own backbone. Any infrastructure changes that might need to be made could be done easily.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
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