Orca forums not working, strange layout

Hi Everyone,

I'm brand new to this, so bear with me please! I just downloaded Dolphin 6.1.6 and installed it. VERY nice and easy 10 min installation! Everything seems to be working fine except for the forums. Here's a shot where you can see the Ls and [ brackets:

And then when you go to a topic and click on New, it freezes on this screen:

Can anyone help me on this please?

Thanks!

-Rich

Hi Richfaraone!

Access the forum by the admin section (Plugins/Orca forum) and there you should see (Compile Languages: en ). Click on en to compile the file and the brackets should disappear.

Hope this trick will work for you!

Hi,

Thanks, I read that and it removed the L formatting, but when I try and post a new topic, a box pops up and freezes with the message, "LOADING POST TOPIC PAGE" and you can go no further. You have to use the back button on the browser to get out.

-Rich

Okay, so I just finished reading about 20 different other posts where people finally got it working, but all of their resolves did not resolve mine, still the same problem.

Just checked all the post installation permissions as well... I'm stumped.

-Rich

I just noticed the same thing happens when I try and post to the groups section as well...

Anyone?

Your server specs dont seem to want to run this thing.

Dolphin core runs perrrrrrfect out of the box on a good server.

Fresh install that have problems = bad host for dolphin

please do not waste your time trying to recode dolphin to fit your server.

You can change hosts like you chage shirts so try another.

Yeah, I assumed that after reading the boards here before I installed it, so I decided not to use my server. I used one of the recommended providers from this site... arvixe.com.

Some additional info might help me figure this out.

1) Your sites URL so we can see it.

2) Dedicated server or shared?

3) On the main page of your site there is normally a Forum Posts block. Does that block load correctly, or does it constantly have a spinning blue loading icon that never stops?

Answers to these questions might help us.

http://yourscooterspace.net/community/

Shared hosting

Forum post block does load

User: test

Password: tester

Thanks!!

TinyMCE is not loading. I had the same problem, I got a tip drom IgorL that I had to set to OFF magig_quotes_runtime in php.ini from server.

And this worked for me.

Can you tell me where the php.ini file is? Is it something I can access or do I need to contact the support people from the hosting company? Or do I just create a php.ini with only that string in the public html folder?

Thanks!

if you had a dedicated server like me, then you could it be yourself, but you are on a shared host, so this will by affect others on the same server. You can ask your host if they are willing this......

But if not, don't know if you can set this in a seperate php.ini file.

Okay, so I created a php.ini with:

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

in it and placed it in the root directory, and well as in all the other forums and classified directories... no change!

Okay, flipped this one off to dolphingeeks.com for $20... hope they can fix it!

Thanks to everyone who tried to help!

-Rich

The freezing when it gets to the post topic page could be something wrong with the TinyMCE plugin. When I uploaded my .zip and unpacked it on the server I got the same issue (and this was a fresh install). After talking to some of the admins here I had a look at it with firebug which was a life saver. It turned out tinyMCE wasn't working properly (java script error). I checked all the .js files were okay and as I expected, they were fine.

The problem arose from 2 strangely named files that were left in my '/plugins/tiny_mce/' folder. It must've been left from unpacking it and they were both .tar files. I simply deleted them and the problem was fixed :)

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/browser/trunk/ is a great place to go to make sure your folders have all the right files in. Just click in and out and you'll be able to see which files go where (and which shouldn't be there)!