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Maintenance

06 Oct 2018, 22:58

Update!!!
Another attempt will be made to update the forum tomorrow 10/13/2018 5 PM GMT. I will be taking the forum down 6 hours this time to allow more time for debugging

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The Forum will be offline on October 7 2018 5 p.m. GMT

I will be updating the Forum software the captcha and doing some work on the database. This outage will last no more than 4 hours but you could last much less
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Re: Maintenance

07 Oct 2018, 16:03

The update failed. I have rolled back
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Re: Maintenance

07 Oct 2018, 16:31

Hi Charlie,
I can't get to the Ask For Help forum via the normal link for it:
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewforum.php?f=5

It comes up with an Error 404 - File not found. Any ideas on how to get there? Thanks, Joe
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Re: Maintenance

07 Oct 2018, 23:00

Thanks, upon investigation it seems the index is a problem as well
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Re: Maintenance

07 Oct 2018, 23:04

OK, great to know you're on it. Thanks much, Joe
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 00:02

Turned out to be corrupt tables during the restore . should be all better now
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 00:12

Still getting Error 404 on the Ask For Help link.
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 00:50

Ugh i had to completely rebuild the ask for help forum old links will not work
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 01:29

Hi tank,

the German "Ich brauche Hilfe" (Ask for Help) forum still retrieves Error 404.
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 01:30

Recommends AHK Studio
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 11:18

Both work for me. please clear your browser cache
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 11:22

The AutoHotkey v2 Development forum still has some oddities:
Operators vs Methods (old version with an unviewable post)
Operators vs Methods (duplicate with newer posts)
Will AutoHotkey v2 Syntax Be More Confusing For Newbies? (incorrect post count)

One user told me he'd had problems receiving private messages. Although AFAIK I did not experience this.

Do you have any ideas what could be causing these problems? Has this happened before?

Also, I believe that last time (and this time) when a software update was attempted, that unfortunately it didn't succeed. So when was the last time the website software was updated? Thanks.
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 11:44

jeeswg wrote:The AutoHotkey v2 Development forum still has some oddities:
Operators vs Methods (old version with an unviewable post)
Operators vs Methods (duplicate with newer posts)
Will AutoHotkey v2 Syntax Be More Confusing For Newbies? (incorrect post count)
jeeswg wrote:Do you have any ideas what could be causing these problems?
I disabled the forum and then took a backup of the forum. Something is corrupt in the latest backup. MySQL check table statement was unable to identify a problem. I was unable to find the corruption with manual inspection either. Fortunately it didn't seem to affect any posts. I recreated Ask for help but its index changed as a result.
jeeswg wrote:Has this happened before?
Not this specific problem if you are refering to the data corruption. If you mean the failed forum upgrade yes. I allotted 4 hours. and had parts of the forum functional but the themes were all messed up. I ran out of time and restored backups.
jeeswg wrote:One user told me he'd had problems receiving private messages. Although AFAIK I did not experience this.
Havent seen this either
jeeswg wrote:So when was the last time the website software was updated?
over a year ago but we arent that far out of date. This upgrade breaks some compatibility and alters the DB structure. Its an all or nothing move.
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 11:55

Thanks very much for the info.
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 12:29

Hi Charlie,
Working fine now...thanks very much for your efforts! I don't know if this was intended, but the link to the Ask For Help forum has changed, so anyone who has bookmarked it will get a message that says, "The forum you selected does not exist." The link used to be:
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewforum.php?f=5

It is now:
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewforum.php?f=76

Regards, Joe

Edit: Just noticed this comment, so you're aware of the link change:
"I recreated Ask for help but its index changed as a result."
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 13:48

- Just wanted to let people know that AHK v2.0-a100 does not appear to be available at the 2 expected locations:
recreate A_IPAddressXXX variables as a function - AutoHotkey Community
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic ... 08#p242708

- I experienced no problems with private messages, if anybody believes that they did, they would have to message about it.

- @tank + @JoeWinograd, thanks re. the Ask For Help tip.
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 16:06

Somehow it seems v2.0-a100 was removed and version.txt was reverted to a99. I've fixed it.
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Re: Maintenance

08 Oct 2018, 16:53

lexikos wrote:Somehow it seems v2.0-a100 was removed and version.txt was reverted to a99. I've fixed it.
Yes, my daily check-for-update script picked that up this morning...thanks for fixing it!
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Re: Maintenance

09 Oct 2018, 09:52

@tank I remember we tried this before, but I don't remember what failed in particular... What if we are to make a clean updated phpbb clone a on seperate host and upload a copy of the DB?
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Re: Maintenance

10 Oct 2018, 06:53

joedf wrote:@tank I remember we tried this before, but I don't remember what failed in particular... What if we are to make a clean updated phpbb clone a on seperate host and upload a copy of the DB?
I did do a clean install except for updating the DB for the new version which is necesary
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