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Alfred
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 Posted - 06 February 2010 : 01:30:39
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I have been using a very old version of this forum for almost 10 years now, and long forgotten how I managed to write all the code for the modifications I made then. A couple of days ago all icons suddenly had broken links, and did not show. Since I had not made any changes to any files for a long time I naturally blamed the server and entered a support ticket. As is typical, they denied any wrongdoing, and referred me to the forum developer.
Can anyone guess what happened here, and possibly help me fix it?
http://www.ggholiday.com/bg/FORUMS/default.asp |
Alfred
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Davio
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Alfred
Senior Member
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Posted - 06 February 2010 : 10:54:01
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| Yes, I noticed that as well, but how can this happen all by itself, without me doing anything to change files or codes? What I mean is how did the ",%20images" get into the code, after many years of not being there? |
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Edited by - Alfred on 06 February 2010 11:12:29 |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
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Posted - 06 February 2010 : 16:08:04
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| I wonder if you could also explain why the Snitz copyright notices have been removed from your site |
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Alfred
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 06 February 2010 : 17:12:21
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Yes, I tried to find how and when those links got lost, but couldn't. I suspect that that happened years ago during all the modifications we went through, but was never intended.
I even had trouble making a new one on the bottom of the default page.
If I can put that link in the inc_footer.asp file it should show up on most pages, shouldn't it? |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 February 2010 : 19:42:12
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| it is also the copyright metatags which should be in the inc_header file that are missing |
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Alfred
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 06 February 2010 : 20:19:58
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I found a text file of it in the backup folder: http://www.ggholiday.com/bg/FORUMS/inc_header.txt
So, if I copy the below code and paste it into my inc_header.asp file, it will make things right?
'## START - REMOVAL, MODIFICATION OR CIRCUMVENTING THIS CODE WILL VIOLATE THE SNITZ FORUMS 2000 LICENSE AGREEMENT
Response.Write "<meta name=""copyright"" content=""This Forum code is Copyright (C) 2000-02 Michael Anderson, Pierre Gorissen, Huw Reddick and Richard Kinser, Non-Forum Related code is Copyright (C) " & strCopyright & """>" & vbNewline
'## END - REMOVAL, MODIFICATION OR CIRCUMVENTING THIS CODE WILL VIOLATE THE SNITZ FORUMS 2000 LICENSE AGREEMENT
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 February 2010 : 04:57:39
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| yes, thankyou |
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Alfred
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 07 February 2010 : 11:37:59
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Okay, Huw, I shall proceed with that as soon as my server has restored my files. This is the last response I got on my trouble ticket:
"Thanks for this update but this is what we have already discovered, your links to images were broken. As the permanent solution in this case, we may try to restore your domain from the server back. If you want to proceed with restoration then let us know the preferable date of the backup copy that should be used for this.
As the alternative way, please ask your developer to correct links to images in your source code directly."
I have the suspicion that they moved some folders around (possibly between different servers), and one of the installed extensions (Frontpage?) automatically changed my links. Then it was moved in a different way without changing them back to what they were before. Does that sound feasible?
I will take them up on their offer to do a backup restoration to a date just before this error showed up.
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Alfred
Senior Member
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Posted - 08 February 2010 : 01:14:31
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Originally posted by Davio
Might want to check the image settings, in the admin options. The urls for the image is incorrect.
It is set to "images/.images".
It has been unchanged by me for close to ten years. |
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Davio
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Posted - 08 February 2010 : 01:44:37
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| Then change it to "images/" and we can worry about how it got change afterwards. |
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Alfred
Senior Member
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Posted - 08 February 2010 : 11:30:37
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Originally posted by Davio
Then change it to "images/" and we can worry about how it got change afterwards.
Dang it all - it worked! 
It must be close to ten years ago when I looked at these settings last, and it always worked fine before last week.
How on earth did that second ".images" get in there?
I just hate mysteries! 
Thank you, Dario, for hanging with me. |
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Classicmotorcycling
Development Team Leader
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Posted - 09 February 2010 : 02:11:51
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Hello Alfred,
Are you going to put this back now that your site is working again?:
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Originally posted by Alfred
'## START - REMOVAL, MODIFICATION OR CIRCUMVENTING THIS CODE WILL VIOLATE THE SNITZ FORUMS 2000 LICENSE AGREEMENT
Response.Write "<meta name=""copyright"" content=""This Forum code is Copyright (C) 2000-02 Michael Anderson, Pierre Gorissen, Huw Reddick and Richard Kinser, Non-Forum Related code is Copyright (C) " & strCopyright & """>" & vbNewline
'## END - REMOVAL, MODIFICATION OR CIRCUMVENTING THIS CODE WILL VIOLATE THE SNITZ FORUMS 2000 LICENSE AGREEMENT
It is a breach of the copyright not having it in. |
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David Greening |
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Alfred
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HuwR
Forum Admin
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Posted - 09 February 2010 : 12:02:00
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| you must have added it wrong, the copyright should be visible when you do a view source on your pages but it currently is not. |
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