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Following an upgrade to our server if I as (forum admin) try to login I get the message
"500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed."
Prior to the upgrade I shut down the forum and the website that contains it. This morning I can access the website but any attempt to log in was met with the 500 .... message. I can log in as an ordinary member (mLev=1) and can create a test topic (I shouldn't be able to as the board should still be shut down), the message does not appear to post, after a while the 500 ... message reappears. If I go back a page the message is correctly displayed. I am assuming they copied the forum before I shut it down and now one or more files find the "forum down / forum up" conflict if I log in as admin. Is there any way I can restart the board without being logged in as Admin? I can access the forum files via ftp. All help gratefully received
Nick
"500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed."
Prior to the upgrade I shut down the forum and the website that contains it. This morning I can access the website but any attempt to log in was met with the 500 .... message. I can log in as an ordinary member (mLev=1) and can create a test topic (I shouldn't be able to as the board should still be shut down), the message does not appear to post, after a while the 500 ... message reappears. If I go back a page the message is correctly displayed. I am assuming they copied the forum before I shut it down and now one or more files find the "forum down / forum up" conflict if I log in as admin. Is there any way I can restart the board without being logged in as Admin? I can access the forum files via ftp. All help gratefully received
Nick
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The forum up/down in classic asp version uses an application variable, so if you move to a different server it should not be down by default, so it is probably something else that is causing the problem. Do you have access to IIS? there are settings you can change that will give you the error rather than the generic 500 error
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Thank you Huw
I have asked the server folks to give me more information. The forum is not working properly, I can post using a non-admin login but the site eventually returns the 500 error message but the post is created if I go in again. I will report further. Nick
I have asked the server folks to give me more information. The forum is not working properly, I can post using a non-admin login but the site eventually returns the 500 error message but the post is created if I go in again. I will report further. Nick
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The server folks seemed to have made some progress, I can now log into the admin functions. I can edit posts without a problem. If I try to post a reply or new topic the website remains busy for some while then I get the 500 message. But if I go back to the forum page and refresh it, the text is present.
This is not only happening to me. Some members of the forum report everything working OK, others report the same symptoms as me.
I also cannot edit any of the forum properties, it gives me the 500 message but no changes to the forum have occurred.
Any clues?
It seems to me as if post.asp might not be completing for some reason. Nick
It seems to me as if post.asp might not be completing for some reason. Nick
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One further piece of information, ordinary members of the forum do not seem to be having any problems but admin (me) and moderators experience the same symptoms.
I have asked for the 500 message to be expanded but no luck so far.
Nick
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there must be a function somewhere that is failing