In case some of you might be wondering why some of the work has slowed down a little:
My wife gave birth to a wonderful little baby last week. We just got back home from the hospital. Everybody is doing great but we are all tired. Not much sleep ahead of us in the upcoming days.
Just thought I drop a little not for you guys.
Once live returns back to normal we will focus back on the release of K1.6
PHP only crashes on PHP bugs. Also APC, eAccelerator and XCache can cause crashes, actually most of the time disabling one of those fixes the issue. PHP 5.3.0 is very buggy and caused a lot of grief in my development environment and when we migrated Kunena to new server. It just did not work..
This is known issue dating from FireBoard and has to do with new message accounting: it's only keeping track on read threads (after last visit/logout) and last logout time.
It has been in my todo list as far as I remember, but as it's not trivial fix, I have never had time to implement the change. I hope that I have some time to do it for K1.6..
I have seen this bug many times and I'm starting to believe that there's a bug in Joomla SEF that causes this. At least it sounds odd that making a new menu entry sometimes fixes this kind of issues..
I don't know the answer either. I got some non-working messages from sozzled, but they work in my test environment. I think that this has something to do with php version (bug?) or similar..
I believe that this does not happen for every message? If so, take one non-working message and strip words from it until you find out what letters cause the problem. Once we have that, it will be easier to track down the real issue.
Kunena 1.5 does not show users that haven't been visited in the forum pages as latest members. Only those users who have been at least in forum front page (while logged in) are counted.
Blocked user means that he has not activated his account in Joomla.
Well, this really looks like directory permission issue with Joomla. I believe that you get the same error with every component you're trying to install.
This error comes from Joomla installer, so it's hard to know where the problem may be. Here are a few possibilities on kunena:
components
administrator/components
images
in your site this url: administrator/index.php?option=com_admin&task=sysinfo you have directory permissions: please take a look on it and fix the issues (red directories).
You can merge databases, but it's not going to be easy. There are few things which have to be taken into account:
- Users need to be the same (imported from the old site)
- All categories need to have same ID in both forums
If those two are OK, importing old messages should be quite easy for someone who knows how to do it (maybe a paid job if you do not have skills to do it?).
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First step is to make a new copy of your migrated site. Drop all jos_fb tables from that copy and manually import all jos_fb tables from the old J1.0 site. After that check that all text fields use UTF-8 -- change table/field collation if not.
When you have all the data available, install latest Kunena. Now you should have working Kunena forum with old data.
I assume that the users got imported and are the same (with the exception of new users). Next step is to check that categories id's are the same. You can do this in the paper -- just write down every difference you are seeing: Category name: 10 (old) -> 12 (new). If there are no differences -- fine. If there are, you need to write a small script to change category ids in the (old) test forum. Please backup before starting this, if you decide to do it by yourself. If mapping is not trivial, it may be easier to make archive from old messages.
When everything is the same, you can start importing messages from the new forum. It's quite easy for someone who knows how to write complicated queries in MySQL (maybe few hours job). The idea is to append new messages after old ones by changing their id to id + last message in old forum.
If other info needs merging, that could be done as well. But if only messages are sufficient, last task is to replace messages tables with the new ones in the test site.
So in any case this is not trivial -- you need some skills to make it to work.
Well, finally, that error message from Joomla gives me all the information I need.
This error usually happens when server does not have local mail server installed or configured for php mailer. The odd thing is that we are sending email just like Joomla does when user asks his lost password. Does it work?
Can you still provide me screenshot of mail settings in Joomla settings?
I'm sorry about that I've not been able to participate on forums -- I'm lacking a few extra hours every day to do everything.
For the last month I've been in parents leave, trying to spend as much time with my family as possible -- and still coding K1.6, so that we can release it as soon as possible. Now we are finishing last missing functionality and after that it's mostly fixing bugs and making some smaller improvements.
