Legion World Forums LEGION WORLD Science Police Headquarters Errors on Main Forum Page

Gary, hi, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but while I can reach here on my phone and laptop, my iPad still shows the error message.

What error message? And did you try refreshing the page? Sounds like a browser cache issue.

Gary, hi, I've typed the address in, rather than using my bookmark but it still shows the 'we are having some major technical issues' and shows me as jfposey. Ive refreshed the page a few times but it's stayed the same. That said my iPad is one of the first and struggles with a lot of sites, can't do YouTube, shopping sites make it freeze and won't stream so it may be that it is just too old to play?

Try visiting a barely-visited thread, like this one on it. And make sure you clear out ALL the cache/cookies/etc.

I had a similar caching issue on my tablet. Try logging out, and then in, that clears it for me.

Sorry, still not doing it. I put it down to having a first generation iPad that is too old and stubborn. I'll keep trying and let you know. Thanks guys.

I may have fixed the multiple who's online, so maybe that will help you.

Darn, got cocky. Nevermind.

Looks normal to me right now.

(Darn. I didn't think I'd beaten the cloned-poster jokes into the ground yet.)

OK, it looked normal for almost 3-4 minutes, I swear!

Testing...just want to make sure this works, since no one's posted since we came back.

Yeah, it works.

Also, this is what NC said in the shoutbox for anyone who missed what "came back" means:
Are UBB even still developing this, if modern PHP versions are verboten? Looking at Wikipedia, everything pre-PHP 8.1 is now out of support, and https://www.ubbcentral.com/doc_install.php only mentions PHP 7...

Thanks Nighty, Reboot. Was wondering what happened, but it seems we only lost access for a few hours total at least

The UBB developers have a version UBB.Threads 8 already in operation which should work with PHP 8 (hopefully, the latest build), but are working on the upgrading scripts, but they do this in their spare time (are not really paid by the owner of the software fulltime). Unfortunately, Hostmonster keeps changing it back to 8 now as I had to fix this again this morning...so I'll probably need to move to a new host or not have forums until UBB gets their acts together.

I only upgraded us to 7.7.5 since I wasn't sure exactly what the problem was at first. I really hope I don't have to move us and we can just upgrade to 8.0. The amount of work to move all of my websites and their software and databases makes me sick to my stomach.

that sounds like a lot of work indeed! here's hoping!

Normally the board tuns so smoothly that it's easy to forget just how much goes on in the background to keep it running.

I don't really understand much of this, but thanks for everything you do, Nighty.

hear, hear!! thank you for all that you do, Nighty!

Thirded!

Thank you, Nightcrawler!

It’s good to be back! I assume thanks go to Nighty for resolving… whatever the issue was?

Thanks Nighty - what happened exactly?

Update - I can log in through one of my phones, but not my laptop or my other phone. Interesting

Yeah, I thought it was still down because I couldn't access through my phone but tried my laptop and got on. Possibly a cache issue?

Yeah, sorry. At this point any place you can't see the real site is due to a cache issue.

Somehow our htaccess file got corrupted to redirect to alteatrosd instead of legionworld.net. I didn't do it. Our host company helped me fix it, so not sure how that could have happened.

Yeah, cleared the cache on the phone browser and everything is a-ok!

Thanks for all your work Nighty!

Ahh thanks for explaining, EDE and Nighty! So that’s the trick

And double thanks for your hard work Nighty!!

thanks again, the cache-clearing worked perfectly!!