French Car Forum

About 2 and a half long hours ago I noticed the forum was down due to database errors.
The main database had become corrupt and required a restore from backup.
Consequently all posts, including PMs made from 2am on the 22nd June have been lost.
Sorry about that.

For reasons that I don't yet fully understand, The AOL mail system is rejecting all mail from the forum.

This means that any new members who use AOL and try to sign up to this forum will never receive their activation email and thus will never be able to activate their newly created accounts.

This seems to only affect AOL but I'm watching...

Is it me or is the forum running slow today?

Other websites are running OK for me.

On the 12th May I will be having BT Infinity installed. It is with a heavy heart that I leave O2 broadband, they've been great with no network outages, and brilliant customer/technical services, especially with how much effort they put into trying to resolve their internal network routing issue which prevents some other O2 customers reaching the...

Any registered member may now post into the Recommended garages and Services with any good establishments/professional people they have come across.

Please make full use of this facility :D

Note that only Mods and Admins can reply, edit or delete a Post in that area.

Mods and Admins will keep a close eye on it's content.

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, or has been covered already but just a quick note before I walk out the door to work.

Are pm's working.

Someone has mentioned in a thread they tried to pm me, but could not. I tried to pm them back and got the same message.

See below.

Cheers

- Dave -

I've got to reboot the server now

Not sure if its just me or not, but what on earth has happened to the fourm???

Has the engine been changed from a V6 to a 1.6i petrol... it is SOOOOOOOO SLOW... its barely worth useing at the moment..

It used to be lightening fast... not so much now.. :( :cry:

Paul

Hi Guys

It looks like the FCF and BXC are having issues, ive checked it not just my PC, do we know when the BXC will be up and running again?

Cheers.

I've just joined and have composed some PMs today. When I clicked on 'submit' the system said that the PM had been sent successfully. However it did not appear in my 'sent messages' folder. Instead it remained in my 'outbox'. It must have been sent because I've received replies. So am I right in deducing that messages remain in the 'outbox' until...

The server will be going down at some point in the next hour, most likely sooner rather than later.

Is it possible to change my user name to PicassoPigeon

Will this affect my £1 per month donation or will that be fine?

Hope this is possible, Thanks you.

The forum will be down for at least an hour while we perform some important sheduled maintenance.

Don't forget, as the forum doesn't know what the daylight savings rules are around the globe, you have to manually change the setting in your User Control Panel under Board Preferences, otherwise all the posts will appear an hour out.

Hi Folks

Its taking me anything up to a minute to connect to the forum and again to make a post or disconnect, is it me or the or the forum? Its on both the Citroen and Peugeot sections. All the others forums I connect to come up quite quickly.

Peter

This evening the forums (both the FCF and BXC) started playing up by giving lots of instances of popping up a login box and other errors.

I found the problem, after rebooting the webservers to no avail, to be a rougue IP address originating from the 3 network creating hundreds of guest sessions into the FCF and bringing it to its knees, along...

Has anyone else noticed that if you hover your mouse pointer over the thread title it displays the first few lines of the thread so that you have a better idea of what the thread is about before you decide to click on the thread and load it. Saves a fair bit of time avoiding threads that are not interesting or relevant to you, well done Xac :D

With the new forum software, several new features have been added, here's details of a few that you may find most useful:

Quick Reply

At the bottom of each thread there is the Quick Reply button, selecting this will allow you to tap in a reply rather than having to use the full reply screen. You can still use the full editor features by...

Been probably a few weeks or a month or so since I was last on here...

...has the design of the forum changed slightly? The top/header with the three french badges on the flag looks differant?
Also the colouring/font of the actual forum/subject/thread area (whatever it is called)?

Or is it just me being stupid and imagining it was differant...

just had to reboot everything because apple can't write decent software.

I'm going to be doing some work on the server tonight, hopefully it will only be for 30 minutes.

I'm going to be rebooting the server at 23:00 tonight.

We're noticing debug errors when replying to threads.
Nothing to worry about, it will be sorted as soon as we get a chance.

I'm investigating what went on.
Apologies for the delay in getting the site back up, I was having a lie-in :oops:

I'm going to reboot the whole system at 12:30

I have to take the server down to do a quick check on the CPU fan, it's reporting as not running and the CPU temp is up at 47C

Anyone else noticed that forum time is still on daylight saving time ?

Hotmail appears to be goosed today!

We are getting dozens of rejection notices for the forum mail where messages are being sent to hotmail accounts so if you are missing an expected message it ain't us to blame, it's Mr. Gates.

Oddly enough mine is working fine (never use it).

Just had a phone call from O2 boardband support asking if I can connect up the router that came with their service to investigate why some O2 customers can't access the site.
How's that for customer service? I've always been impressed with O2's tech support.

So, I've now got to find the original router, get it configured and connected up so they...

I am noticing that all d's and u's on the postings have bits missing from them.

Just my 'puter?

I've suffered this a fair while but being unable to diagnose it has kept me quiet for a while.

Still not sure but I now think it could either be a site issue or a side-effect of my ISP StalkStalk replaying my web browsing requests.

The first problem I have is that if I visit this site and have to leave before reading all new posts (or marking...

Hi, Is anyone else finding the pages of the forum very very slow to load?

this was the same yesterday afternoon and evenning, it is now 12:34 pm

perhaps this ia busy time? any ideas anyone please?

I have tried access on three different computers all running windows Xp pro service pk 3 but page loading is still very slow.

Thanks in advance...

I'm going to be installing something to cut out email spam on the server this evening so there may be some disruption.
I've taken full backups just now so we should be ok :D

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

Been recieving the above message for about 30 mins, just thought you should know.

Just analysed the logs for January, we had nearly 2.9MILLION hits!

Can we not have a minor make over to this site's masthead?

I understand there's a plan in place for a while now to change the php
software and even a demo mode was shown for a while, though this was
a way back.

I was reminded about an alternative I tried in a bored 10 minutes some
time ago when I chanced upon a file made to play about and see...

I'm going to bounce the server again this evening.
It may be down for a few minutes while I move the log files to another drive.

I'm going to bounce the server tonight, she's been up for a while and judging by the logs has had nearly 2million visits so far this month! (and approx 75000 hack attempts), so I think deserves a refresh :)

I've just finished reading a rather lengthy thread on my ISP's forum regarding some disturbing news that has similarities (in fact has been suggested is the same in principle) to the Phorm fiasco. An utterly illegal and dispicable intrusion, IMO.

This service is being rolled out (secret trials were carried out on the unsuspecting customer base...

We've been getting more spammers than usual slipping past our state of the art spammer spotting system, mostly from spammers using free accounts such as gmail and yahoo.

Should we ban these outright in the new year?

The server will be taken offline in about 10 minutes.
Sorry for the short notice but I've only just got back in from work.
Hopefully it won't be down for long, I'll be installing a network managment card in the UPS.

I've got to install new antivirus software on the host so there may be some outage depending on reboots etc.

Anyone able to pass this info on to me? Unable to contact by PM.

The server will be rebooted tonight as MS have released a shedload of updates.

I'll be replacing the router in a few minutes, it's misbehaving and we can't have that now can we?

Twice now I've discovered a PM in my outbox that failed to notify me when logging in.

I've now set email notification also but it too failed to announce new PM's.

Is this a symptom of a full inbox? :oops:

phpBB : Critical Error

Error creating new session

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1062 Duplicate entry '9227' for key 2

INSERT INTO phpbb_sessions (session_id, session_user_id, session_start, session_time, session_ip, session_page, session_logged_in, session_admin) VALUES ('edc71f27265406935a4c4cfc44bc22cc', 9227, 1285232351, 1285232351, '3e194837',...

Appologies for this, the router decided to go belly up and needed rebooting.

Morning Jim,
I'm having a problem with my profile pic, I keep getting an error message which says:

Warning: copy(./images/avatars/135404b3456a3826be.jpg) : failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\frenchcarforum.co.uk\httpdocs\forum\includes\usercp_avatar.php on line 288

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers...

Appologies for the outage, it appears MS produced another funtime patch.
And I was having such a lovely dream when Danielle woke me to tell me :(

With the current (newer) version of phpBB software running the forum, the advice below is no longer entirely applicable.

The forum will now rescale* oversize pictures to fit in the width of each user's browser window.

If you want your picture narrower than full page width, then you still need to use one of the methods below.

* The rescaling is...