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work mule
Senior Member
USA
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 Posted - 13 April 2001 : 13:15:48
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Let me start by saying that most people running Snitz will probably never need/use this.
On the other hand if you're mod'ing and tweaking your forum, this could be useful. This file is independent of all other files, except for config.asp. Calling up this page will "force" the forum configuration to be reloaded by resetting the ConfigLoaded application variable to nothing.
Download Zip:
http://www.writermag.com/forum/download/admin_run_config.zip
[Last updated: Apr 17, 2001]
Let me explain what happened to me. First of all, I removed the setup.asp file from the production site and in the config.asp file I commented out the redirect and displayed an error message. (I don't want anyone else trying to run it or even messing around with it.) Okay no problem there.
Well I had recently added in a mod and I had to make a change in the config.asp file for the SQL to retrieve the config information. I had made a typo in the a column name, but of course, this wouldn't be found out until the config was reloaded.
So...of course this morning, someone else rebooted the server and when I went to visit the forum, I only saw my error message that I put in place of the redirect to the setup file. DOH! 
To keep this short, I eventually found the problem, but it was a pain trying to force the config to reload w/o having to run the setup script. Now with this page, I can edit the config.asp file and force it to run through the process of reloading the configuration settings.
Edited by - work mule on 17 April 2001 13:15:10
Edited by - work mule on 17 April 2001 13:15:33 |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 13 April 2001 : 13:18:44
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you can do this by using the check Installation link in admin options
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 13 April 2001 : 14:10:12
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At one point, the forum code thought that the configuration settings were loaded, but it wasn't. That was interesting.  So in this case, the ConfigLoaded variable had to be reset for it to reload the configuration settings.
I also had removed setup.asp from my production site so running Check Installation wouldn't have been an option (since it calls setup.asp).
Before you say that removing setup.asp was a bad thing, I have other users that are setup as admins and so would have access/rights to run setup.asp. These users have no knowledge of the forum code so the last thing I want them doing is running any setup scripts. (bad, bad thing...) I've also had to "hide" certain elements of the admin area from them, like email server configuration.
Also somewhat related is this topic:
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=4836
In that topic, one of Mike's replies was:
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brk.... forum security on those files is such that you shouldn't have to delete them... they are now safe in the latest alpha
So what's that mean? In prior releases they aren't? I don't know. I'm not that familiar with the setup files. So, for myself, I feel a whole lot comfortable by just removing the files. If by chance I need them, I'll copy them back. My thinking is that once the database is setup, I shouldn't have to make any changes anyways.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 April 2001 : 14:20:48
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That is very good thinking.
I was merely pointing out that it could be done with check installation, it did not prevent me downloading your Mod
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Brent Trevel
Junior Member
Canada
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Posted - 13 April 2001 : 15:23:26
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Work Mule,
I have noticed that when using the config.asp file to load colors into pages outside of the forum directory they do not always get updated properly because of the way the application variables are set. For example, if you change some colors they will show up right away inside the forum but will not show up in pages outside of the forum (ie. the Portal Mod pages), so in essence I created basically the same things as you have here. Just a file to reload the config variables.
However, all I did was edit the setup.asp page so that it could run from outside the Forum dir. Basically, what HuwR suggested, just check the forum installation, but outside of the forum dir.
I don't know if there are plans to change the way that the application vars are set, because I don't know how many people will be using the Forum DB as the basis for their entire site, but, any thoughts on this?
Sincerely,
Brent Trevel,
Combat Intelligence
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 April 2001 : 07:46:42
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small tweak to this MOD.
add this line
Application.Contents.RemoveAll ()
above
Application.Lock
This will remove the currently loaded variables before updating them
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work mule
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 17 April 2001 : 13:14:17
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Thanks HuwR! Didn't know that.
The zip file has been updated.
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