Forum suddenly broke

My forum suddenly broke and is showing the try again later.  I didn't modify any code, is there something else I should look at to find a solution?

This happens here, as well.

Were you able to get it going again.  I can't just install events and groups to fix the froum those things have stuff in them.

Refreshing the page like a madman seems to work for Unity.

Someone from boonex needs to chime in here, how in the world does the forum actually go offline and how do you turn it back on.

This just happened to me as well.  Orca has been working for months, then all of a sudden bam, I get the evil red note!

Has anyone found a solution?

I'm on 6.1.6 but it seems as if the issue is the same.

I've pinpointed the error, its coming from orca/classes/BxXslTransform.php (at least for me).

It seems to be related to DOM XML, however when I check my info.php I see DOM XML is enabled? Again, I'm on 6.1.6 but the issue seems relevant to 6 and 7.

Any help out there on this?

The code generating the error looks like this:

// xml: string, xsl: file
if ( !($this->_mode & BXXSLTRANSFORM_XML_FILE) && ($this->_mode & BXXSLTRANSFORM_XSL_FILE) )
{
$args = array(
'/_xml' => $this->_xml,
);

validate_unicode ($this->_xml);

if (((int)phpversion()) >= 5)       
{               

$xml = new DOMDocument();
if (!@$xml->loadXML($this->_xml))
{
$mk = new Mistake ();
$mk->log ("BxXslTransform::process - can not load xml:\n " . $this->_xml);
$mk->displayError ("[L[Site is unavailable]]");
}

Outright absurd!

Where is some help on this Boonex?  If this is an unresolvable problem then let us know because we're busting our butts trying to figure this out.

Give us something!

same problem here ... can someone plz help ?

I've since changed to phpbb considering no one here can help with this issue.

I used the phpbb mod by dolphinbugfixing, seems to work great.

thx ... but....phpbb  175 $ :-(

I bought dolphin, so I want to help me boonex if their programs do not work

What version of Dolphin are you on?

Thanks BTW...

You should probably also mention that this requires either root access or a web hosting provider staffed by a team of mindless marmosets.

not if it was on a vps or dedicated server

Thus my mentioning of root access.

My bad.

Most probably it is some XML error.

The best way to see the exact error to add ?debug=1 at the end of orca forum url and open this page in Firefox.

Firefox will validate XML output and point you directly to the error.

PS: in most cases this error occurs because of copy/paste JS code inserted in Dolphin header/footer, which contains <![CDATA and ]]> symbols - solution is to remove these symbols from copy/paste code, js code itself is fine, but without these symbols.

Nice tip Alex.  Thanks

So how do you uninstall and reinstall xsl in Apache?

(Assuming you have root access, obviously :) )

Hia all, when I got this working I do have root access on my dedicated server and I was using verion 7.0.2.

Cheers

I mean what are the steps from the command line to uninstall and reinstall xsl in Apache?

(I'm on a Linux server.)

I cannot even get the forum to work at all on my site just shows blocks [[Forum]]  [[Latest]]  etc..   cannot find any place to ad topics, or post or do anything  what's the deal with this, does anybody know?

I did what Alex instructed to do and I found  <![CDATA and ]]> in the error so all I need to do now if get that out.........I looked on the page it is referencing and it is not there I assume it is a live code deal?  How do I get rid of that BC live code is ghosted via Dream Weaver for the page that is the problem?

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </header>.
Location: http://www.getglobalexposure.com/forum/?debug=1
Line Number 68, Column 3:</script>
--^

What does this mean?

Have you made any changes to any files in module/boonex/forum/layout?

And i hope you have not been using dreamweaver to edit xml or xls files.

The error means exactly what it says. It was expecting to see </header> and ran into </script> instead while it was parsing one of the xml template files. Which means one of them is most likely damaged.

No editing done by me with xml or xls files I reinstalled the forum and now get this message below......

Warning: require_once(/mycommunity/modules/boonex/forum/layout/base_en/params.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /public_html/mycommunity/modules/boonex/forum/layout/deanos_basic_black_en/params.php on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/public_html/mycommunity/modules/boonex/forum/layout/base_en/params.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in/public_html/mycommunity/modules/boonex/forum/layout/deanos_basic_black_en/params.php on line 3

You will also need to reupload the forum portion of my template. Or have you forgot about that.

But before doing that you need to switch back to the uni template. Same standard procedure that had to be followed when the template was first installed.

How can you forget something you don't know?  You live this stuff everyday I am here to just to try to get it to work again.........I have no idea that would need to be done how in the world would I?  I must have missed that page in the my forum is broken, I am trying to get it to work.PDF    :)

I have no idea where those would be so when you get a second as the files are already there but I have no idea how many files are associated with YOUR template if you could re-upload the needed files to get it to work I would greatly appreciate it.......

You will need to send me your info. Dolphin admin ID, pass and ftp address, id and password.

But the forum still does not appear to be operational. The spy block seems to be missing and the forum language is not compiled.

I just recompiled the forum and it is working in the Uni format I will PM you with your requests for the other and I do appreciate your assistance in this matter

I just looked to see if the spy block was showing up becuse it was missing before, but the forum is not working. Your red box is back.

I don't know what to tell you I sent you a personal message bit this is what I see which is not the red box.....

Odd. I am still seeing a forum error with a red block.

But i looked at your pic, and the forum index block is on the left. It should be on the right with a forum post bloack on the left. Like my site. http://www.deanbassett.com/forum/

So something is still not quite right with the forums.

Great FF tip, thanks AlexT!