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Poll problems

PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:12 pm
by Nick
Hey, I had some problems putting up that poll, I'd submit and it wouldn't do anything and then i looked and something had been posted but it didn't have all the options I had included. So if anyone was wondering why there were only 3 teams, there were supposed to be more ... but oh well. If anyone has any tips on making polls, let me know.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 8:40 pm
by Kevin
Nick, Not sure what to suggest on the poll problem. I have not created a poll myself, so I'm not even sure how it works. Regardless, I think the three options you presented are probably the top three "most surprising" candidates anyway (two good, one bad).

another error

PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:09 pm
by Kelly
I had an error just trying to post a regular reply. When I hit "submit" it came up with an error message telling me there was a problem posting (something like..."could not connect to smtp host," and then a listing of the Apache program file). Then it was asking me to go into "debug mode." It seems that the reply was posted despite the error message though. Kelly

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 5:41 pm
by Kevin
Please continue to post problems like this on this forum (or the comments/suggestions forum). This bulletin board system is VERY difficult for me to debug. First, I did not write any of the code behind it. Second, it is almost impossible for me to reproduce your errors. I get a completely different set of errors myself :) The main problem is that a lot of the links throughout the system are absolute paths, not relative paths. (i.e. the links indicate the full URL http://dtbl.dyndns.org:1234/phpBB2/somefile.php rather than just somefile.php). This is not a problem for any of you, but it is for me. On my local network, I can not access ANY pages using the dtbl.dyndns.org address because that sends me directly to my router configuration. I intentionally designed the league web site to only use relative paths to avoid this problem. Since none of you have any idea what I just said, I'll just sum it up by saying that I need you to continue to post problems you have since I do not get the same errors myself. When I make a change, the only way I'll know if it worked is if you tell me. So please help me out with this. I'll try to keep you updated on any changes I make so you can try them out. Thanks for your help!

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 5:55 pm
by Kevin
OK, I think I solved the problem Kelly had, but like I said in the previous post, I can't really test this. I had to change a configuration setting for mailing messages... Nick has the option turned on to receive notices when his topics are replied to. There seemed to be a problem sending those messages, which caused the error Kelly received. Hopefully this is set correctly now. I have not figured out the problem Nick mentioned yet.