URL to your eFiction: www.skatefic.co.uk
Version of eFiction: 3.5
Have you bridged eFiction, if so with what?: no
Version of PHP: can be found out from your host 5.2.1
Version of MySQL: can be found out from your host 5
Have you searched for your problem: (yes/no) yes
If so, what terms did you try: changing folder permissions mainly / turning off PHP safemode
State the nature of your problem: Copy and paste any errors you are receiving. (as below)
Do you have a test account for us? yes user-dude password- dude
This is currently a test setup hence lack of editing and graphics, I dont want to put too much work into a layout until I know it works 🙂
Currently I have a few issues
1. When a user signs up the signup works fine and the user becomes validate but they still are unable to post stories.
2. If I post a story with my account the story is set for autovalidation in the settings but currently the stories still need validation and they appear on in the site info as only chapters not stories. (the catergories seems to be also counting down rather than up when submissions are made)
3. Captcha doesnt show the image I just see a image box where the phrase should be
A little background about what I have done, the site is currently set to place submissions in a folder called storiesfolder in the httpdocs root (i think thats where it should be ) this is chmod to 777 i have also tried 755 but neither work. I have disabled php safemode on the site also. No other settings have been changed since setup
To my untrained eye these issues point towards some form of folder permissions issue but Im not sure where to start hopefuly someone might have some ideas for where I can go from here
thanks James.
What do you have in your settings? You have to specify the path to the stories folder. I think the default is usually 'stories' and your is different. You'll want to make sure that's right. It's under Admin > Settings > Submission Settings, and it's "stories path". Your should read storiesfolder.
the storiesfolder path is correctly identified in the settings, im currently saving the stories in "files" rather than the database and the storiesfolder is chomod to 777 as it should be.
I have debuging mode enabled at the moment and when i just tried to submit a story i get the following error
Notice: Use of undefined constant PENNAMEFIELD - assumed 'PENNAMEFIELD' in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/skatefic.co.uk/httpdocs/stories.php on line 295
Notice: Use of undefined constant DBPREFIX - assumed 'DBPREFIX' in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/skatefic.co.uk/httpdocs/stories.php on line 295
Notice: Use of undefined constant UIDFIELD - assumed 'UIDFIELD' in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/skatefic.co.uk/httpdocs/stories.php on line 295
A fatal MySQL error was encountered.
Query: SELECT PENNAMEFIELD AS penname FROM DBPREFIXfanfiction_coauthors AS c WHERE sid = '5' LEFT JOIN fanfiction_authors as author AS a ON a.UIDFIELD = c.uid
Error: (1064) You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'LEFT JOIN fanfiction_authors as author AS a ON a.UIDFIELD = c.uid' at line 1
After seeing this error and searching for it on the forums i have replaced 3.5 stories.php with 3.4.3 and it works fine. The only issue im currently having is with captcha images it just seems to reguse to show the image
thanks James.
Hmm... I don't know much about the captcha. I don't know if what it outputs is actually an image or something else. You don't seem to have trouble with the other images in your skins. I think what is called for is figuring out which files deal with captcha and maybe reuploading them.
Just wanted to check up on this, are you still having problems delnaja?
