URL to your eFiction: http://www.the-b-word.com/fanfiction/index.php
Version of eFiction: 3.0
Version of PHP: 4.3.10
Version of MySQL: 4.1.18
Have you searched for your problem: yes
Have you looked at the FAQs: 3.0 help and rules error
State the nature of your problem: Whenever I click on the Help or Rules link at my site I get the following error:
Error!We encountered an error. Please go back and try again.
http://www.the-b-word.com/fanfiction/viewpage.php?page=rules
URL to your eFiction: http://www.the-b-word.com/fanfiction/index.php
Version of eFiction: 3.0
Version of PHP: 4.3.10
Version of MySQL: 4.1.18
Have you searched for your problem: yes
Have you looked at the FAQs: 3.0 welcome message
State the nature of your problem: There is a block of space outlined under the banner on my site that appears to be the place for the welcome but when I add text to the welcome from the admin panel nothing changes in the box. I am using the zencss and perhaps I am misinterpreting what that box is for but if that is the case, why doesn't the text I entered for the welcome show up?
Are you sure your files are properly CHMODed?
I'm positive that they are.
I get that error on all my old links because they were using the old page urls. When I upgraded to eFiction 3.0, I had to readd all the pages through the custom pages panel in the Admin area. I then had to change all my links on all my skins. I don't get that error anymore.
Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
url: https://www.potionsandsnitches.org/fanfiction
php: 7.4.33 msql: 5.6.51-community GPL
efic version: 3.5.5 latest patches: yes
bridges: none mods: challenges, tracker, story end, beta, word
The welcome message should use the database to store the message, not a writable file anymore like 2.0. You should have deleted your old messages.txt after they got transfered to the database during the upgrade (delete them after the upgrade).
Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
url: https://www.potionsandsnitches.org/fanfiction
php: 7.4.33 msql: 5.6.51-community GPL
efic version: 3.5.5 latest patches: yes
bridges: none mods: challenges, tracker, story end, beta, word
The upgrade instructed me to delete the message folder and that is exactly what I did. Everything was properly CHMOD'd when I had 2.0 and I didn't change anything with my CHMODs that I wasn't instructed to do in the upgrade. The only thing I looked at with CHMOD during the install, as instructed in the file, was to make sure config.php was CHMOD'd to 644... I checked to make sure it was set correctly, it was and so I left it at that.
With that said, since the message isn't an actual text document and I set a message from the admin panel, what could be causing it not to show on the site?
Yikes, that sounds like work I don't want to do. Thanks, I think I will just live with it for now.
As this is the same problem, I merged the topic. Do two things for me:
1 Turn debug on in the admin area. Admin->Settings->Site Settings.
2. Goto Admin->Custom Pages. What's listed there? If nothing, you simply have to add new pages named help, rules, and welcome and enter the information.
Cool, it worked perfectly for the Rules and Help. The welcome would show as successfully being created but it wouldn't appear on the custom page list. I ended up doing the welcome a second time and it still didn't show up on the list but instead showed up twice on the front page. Since it I couldn't figure out how to delete it I removed the welcome section from the skin my site is using all together.
You can delete the second welcome message through phpMyAdmin. It'll be in the PREFIXfanfiction_messages table.
