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Can't see thread
« on: January 10, 2016, 08:35:02 am »
I just responded in a thread in the beginner-friendly area with a name similar to Confused. Think that I am a Pagan, but when i click on the thread my screen goes white. My screen does not go white when I click on other threads. I believe that i might have become logged out before. I am not a computer geek, so i have no idea what is happening technologically.

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Re: Can't see thread
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2016, 12:38:28 pm »
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I just responded in a thread in the beginner-friendly area with a name similar to Confused. Think that I am a Pagan, but when i click on the thread my screen goes white. My screen does not go white when I click on other threads. I believe that i might have become logged out before. I am not a computer geek, so i have no idea what is happening technologically.

 
There has been an intermittently recurring board issue causing this at intervals.  At first I thought it had to do with server work Randall was doing but since it appears to keep happening I don't know.

The good news is: wait for a little while and it will work again.  For some values of "a little while"; I was getting the blank white page on this thread three or four hours after it was posted, but it's back up now.
as the water grinds the stone
we rise and fall
as our ashes turn to dust
we shine like stars    - Covenant, "Bullet"

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Re: Can't see thread
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2016, 12:49:24 pm »
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There has been an intermittently recurring board issue causing this at intervals.  At first I thought it had to do with server work Randall was doing but since it appears to keep happening I don't know.

The good news is: wait for a little while and it will work again.  For some values of "a little while"; I was getting the blank white page on this thread three or four hours after it was posted, but it's back up now.

 

Randall, is it's of any use to you...the message on my browsers (Chrome, Firefox) is a 500 Internal server error.
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Re: Can't see thread
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2016, 01:16:33 pm »
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Randall, is it's of any use to you...the message on my browsers (Chrome, Firefox) is a 500 Internal server error.

I am being to suspect that Vbulletin is breaking. This started happening after I did a security update on the server. No major chances were included, just bug/security fixes. However, Vbulletin 4.x does not handle modern versions of php very well. While we are still using an old one, (and are stuck there because of Vbulletin) some of the final fixes for our version of php seem to be causing issues -- but only with Vbulletin. Even when this board is having issues, wordpress still works on the main site, the old SMF 1.1 board still works, etc.

We moved to Vbulletin in the hope of getting away from issues like this. Unfortunately, the new version of Vbulletin (5.x) sucks big time as it tries hard to be more like facebook and less like a message board. The company behind Vbulletin has greatly slowed support for older versions in an apparent attempt to get people to move to the 5.x version, but few people want it.

I'm not sure what the solution is at the moment.  When we start getting the white pages instead of messages, the only thing that works is restarting things (sometimes just apache and mysql) other times the entire server. Sometimes it takes a couple of attempts. :(
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Re: Can't see thread
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2016, 01:22:40 pm »
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I'm not sure what the solution is at the moment.  When we start getting the white pages instead of messages, the only thing that works is restarting things (sometimes just apache and mysql) other times the entire server. Sometimes it takes a couple of attempts. :(


The website is back to normal now, it seems.

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Re: Can't see thread
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2016, 02:43:51 pm »
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The website is back to normal now, it seems.

The forum is back because Darkhawk emailed me saying it was down and I restarted server stuff until it started displaying messages again.
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Re: Can't see thread
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2016, 06:31:49 pm »
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The forum is back because Darkhawk emailed me saying it was down and I restarted server stuff until it started displaying messages again.


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