This thread is for all your simple questions about installing and running Wakaba or Kareha, that just require quick answers. Please don't create any more new threads for issues like that, post them in here instead.

Ok, so please tell me how I can go about firstly: Setting up ImageMagik, and secondly: When I reply to one of my threads when It moves to a new page the permissions on that page change so I cant write to it. Does this mean that whenever a new page is created when the max amount of threads for a page has been reached I have to manually change the permissions?

For your first question, that's not really on-topic here. Go to http://imagemagick.org/ and read their documentation.

For the second, I still don't understand what you're saying. What do you mean by "I can't write to it"?

I mean that when you post at my Imageboard and your thread gets moved onto a new page like 1.html the permissions for 1.html are set up so all users cant write to that file. This happens everytime a new page is created by the user after the max amount of posts has been reached for that page. Does this mean that whenever a new page like this is created I have to be there to set the right permissions?

I think you're confusing users on the board and users on the web server. If the script is making files it can't write to later on, the web server is definitely messed up.

Argh and is there anyway to rectify this?

>>6 talk to the server admins, get them to relax and release the permissions for script-created files.

I contacted my hosts support people and they just told me to try a search engine and that they cant possibly fix stuff like that. I think they tried to blame the script, argh stupid! So without the help of those guys its not possible? Goddamn godaddy.

So Ive been messing about with it and I found that, just after a new thread is created you can reply to it no problem, but then after awhile when you reply it says error writing to res/199342234.html at wakautils.pl, I know this is just telling me my permissions arent set up right but in the time period that you CAN reply to this thread the permissions are exactly the same as when you cant. This is very confusing.

> the permissions are exactly the same as when you cant

What about the owner?

The permissions are 644 when a new html is ctreated by the script, the owner can read and write to the file but not execute and all others can just read, the thing that gets me is why you can write to it just after a new thread is made but cant later on.

The question was, who is the owner, before and after?

Like its the owner of the hosting I guess, which would be me I guess. I can write to the files but other people cant.

"I guess" is no help. You'll need to get an actual list of the files and the specific names of their owners.

Ive been running 2channel like BBS for couple of month and found out the spammer (robot) do not submit messages in case of the word "http://" is banned.

Is there any way Kareha can control forbidden word?

or at least, kareha do not make auto link in a message?

Anything you put in spam.txt will be forbidden. So you can put http:// in there if you want to go so far as to forbid links entirely. I find that adding <a href=" and <a href=' helps a lot if you're dealing with bots that are dumb enough to try and use HTML everywhere.

Disabling auto-linking can't be done from the configuration, you have to edit the code to remove it.

Although this might seem like a stupid question to ask, I keep getting this error.

Software error:
Malformed multipart POST

This keeps showing up when any comment on the wakaba board is submitted WITH a picture. Could it be permissions or possibly something else?

First guess: Mis-configured Apache. How, exactly, you'd mis-configure Apache to give that kind of error is beyond me, though.

I try to post a reply on a Wakaba board and I get:

Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /f/wakaba.pl.

WTF?

Most likely Apache is set up to forbid POST requests. The only fix is to ask your admin to remove that limitation. If they don't, Wakaba won't work.

>>16 thanks that will help a lot. made a nessesary amendment.

One another question about management.

Is there any function Kareha keep IP address in each replyied message ?

As I need to kick out screwed people in the thread, i am hoping that I can find the function but I could not find it.

Please advise

The IPs are stored encrypted in log.txt. admin.pl can show IPs, but isn't actually set up to do it by default. To make it do that, edit admin.pl and change <var $masked_ip> to <var $ip>. I'll try to make that part a bit simpler in a future version.

Is there a way to disable tripcodes?

I can't find any license information in Wakaba. Can I use parts of the code in a GPL project?

s/Wakaba/Kareha

>>24 Public Domain.

>>23

No way to do it in the configuration, but there's a single function in wakautils.pl that does all the tripcode processing. Changing it to nothing but a return ""; statement should do the trick.

>>24

>>26 is right, it's Public Domain. Knock yourself out.

Thanks that worked!

If I would like to have textra area for stable size what should I do?

Does it disturb the program to change following part

<td><textarea name="comment" cols="64" rows="5" onfocus="size_field('<var $formid>',15)" onblur="size_field('<var $formid>',5)"></textarea></td>

to

<td><textarea name="comment" cols="64" rows="5"></textarea></td> ?

>>28
That should be fine. I can't think of any reason it wouldn't work.

>>28

Yes, that should work fine.

Thanks for many kind advise.

Well, it's about manage problem but someone knows how to change
moderators name colour in BBS ?

I've changed config.cgi

use constant CAPPED_TRIPS => ('!hogehoge'=>'<font color=#FF0000>★webmaster</font>');

but after I made a change, it turned out rest of all messages
changed to red color which I did not meant to.

All I need to change is webmaster and moderators name color as to
show users know I am the real manageing person.

If someone knows how to modifiy the program please advise.
Thank you so much.

>>32

That looks about right, as long as the '!hogehoge' is replaced with the actual output from the trip (like '!WAHa.06x36' for me). I'd put quote marks around the color argument to be valid XML, though: <font color="#FF0000">. Otherwise I can't think of why it wouldn't work, unless you forgot </font> or something...

On my FreeBSD box, regular tripcodes (#) don't work, but secure tripcodes (##) always stay the same. What the heck is up with that? If I have to install perl libraries, that would be fine with me.

Oh, right, I've heard of that... Some of the BSDs use a more secure algorithm for crypt() by default, meaning they won't produce the expected output. There is some flag somewhere that will turn this off, but don't ask me what it is. Try Googling for problems with crypt() under FreeBSD.

>>33 it was simple mistake. quote marks worked ! Thank you : )

I see text laying on top of of the background on IE with 2-channel design.

Is there any way I can fix this problem?
Firefox looks better but still the page is slightly crooked to the right.

>>37

Can you post a screenshot?

It's really strange but sometimes happen and sometime doesn't

Screenshot as follows

http://www.no1game.net/images/bbs.gif

Thank you

Ive found

1) access http://www.no1game.net and then Click the BBS URL
it get screwed. However it get fixed after reloading the page.

2) but if I access directly to http://www.no1game.net/bbs/
the page looks fine.

Hmm, that is very weird. It seems a lot like it's a bug in IE... I've never seen it before, but I don't use IE either.

Also, if you find any errors in the Japanese strings I used, tell me about them, and I'll put in fixed versions.

It works fine in my IE, though...

>>38-42 Thanks for taking a look at my problem.
yes, I bet it's depend on each person's enviroment but
majority of Japanese people uses IE5-6.0...
Sometimes it's ok but sometime doesnt't its really strange.
So I need to take a look at it little more closely.

By the way, if you have plan to update the script
it would be nice to put function that refuse posting from certain IP address control and delete function using the check box form.
It would greatly decrease management time for website.

Anyway thanks mate!

>>43

If you can figure out what causes it, I'll try to include a fix. Right now I can't test it, though, since I use a Mac and can't run IE.

There is a script for deleting posts and such. Copy admin.pl out of the extras/ directory. If your webhost uses Apache as a server, you can ban people by hand by adding lines like Deny from 123.123.123.123 to a .htaccess file. I might add some code to do that automatically from inside the script in the next version.

>>35
There isn't a way to make the bsd trips the same as other unix trips, because bsd uses MD5 for their crypt and *nix uses DES. If you change it, your user's passwords will then be DES'd and not MD5'd.

>>45
crypt_default in auth.conf sets the default for crypt().
passwd_format in login.conf sets what is used for user's passwords.

>>46

my bad, I guess searching google and the handbook failed-x me XD

in wakaba 3.0.4, i don't see any css, any ideas?

>>48 link to the board; and did you copy over all the files, including the folder called "css"?

>>48

Did you run wakaba.pl from the command line at any point? Or did you move it without rebuilding caches? In either case, you need to manually go to http://.../wakaba.pl?task=admin and rebuild caches.

>>49
>>50
http://kompak.mine.nu/wakaba
WARNING NSFW

Yeah, it's set up right, i copied everything over and made sure it's all 755, and have tried rebuilding caches several times.

Just a big FYI for everyone in this thread:

I was having some 500 Internal Server Error issues, and I was sure everything was right. However, in apache.conf I had to change cgi-handler to cgi-script in the <Directory > config for that particular directory. This is on Apache 2.0.55, and probably just some change in config-file syntax. If you're in dire straights, do everything the wiki says, substituting cgi-script for cgi-handler.

Hope that helps someone.

>>51

Testing in Firefox, I get the error:

> Error: The stylesheet http://kompak.mine.nu/wakaba/css/gurochan.css was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/plain", is not "text/css".
> Source File: http://kompak.mine.nu/wakaba/
> Line: 0

Apparently it won't load stylesheets with the wrong MIME type in ultra-strict mode. I guess you should either add that MIME type, or turn off the XHTML stuff (in both config.pl and .htaccess).

>>53

Okay, I'll configure a new mime type when I get around to it then, thanks.

Well, it doesn't seem to want to let me into my own management panel, even though I type the exact password from config.pl

It gives me Error: Management password incorrect.

How can wakaba be configured to run a flash upload board ala 4chan /f/?

>>56 Learn perl.

Usually people just enable the SWF filetype and leave it at that.

I am trying to set up Kareha and I want to have multiple boards. Am I supposed to just duplicate the kareha directory for each board I want, or is there a more logical way of doing it?

Pretty much. If you want to be fancy, you symlink most of the files except config.pl and anything else you've edited, to make updating easier.

hmm, might be a css arror...

firefox 1.5, karaha; permasaged threads's [del] butons are apprearing too far to the right, off the gray part of the thread.

Ive been using kareha 3.0.9 about a month and found some problem.
As it seems some people do not reload the page after posting a message, they tend to post duplicate messages again.

If we can force them to wait few minutes to post another message
I think it would be okay.

Does anyone knows how to cope with this ?

How do I ban people in Kareha exactly?

>>64

You don't. You can, however, ban them with Apache by adding lines of the format Deny from xx.xx.xx.xx to your .htaccess file. Or you can try applying the changes listed in http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1124340406/ to add banning functionality. I'll probably try to roll some of that into the next version, whenever I get some spare time to work on it.

Can you ban them from posting but still let them browse the board?

I'm getting this.

This board has not been configured yet.
Things you need to do to get the board running:

• Choose what kind of board this should be, and copy the files out of the corresponding mode_* directory into the board directory.
• Edit config.pl to suit your needs - remember to uncomment the lines you change.
• Access kareha.pl again (or just reload this page).

Can I've done the first. Can someone please tell me exactly what I change on config.pl and what do I change it to?

If you're getting that, you haven't done the first. Otherwise, you'd be getting a different error.

But I did do the first. Unless I did it incorrectly. The folder looks like this now.

The threads show up on the main page, but not the actual post itself. Whats going on?

http://sysops.gotdns.com:8181/dis/

>>69

There's at least one file that didn't get copied, because that message is displayed by one of the default files that should get overwritten when you copy the new ones in.

>>70

Did you set the number of displayed posts to 0?

>>71

If you mean REPLIES_PER_THREAD, no, its at its default of 10.

>>73

Did you modify the templates at all?

>>74

No.

The front page is being generated with the correct number of posts, but the posts only consist of a bunch of spaces. What exact changes did you make from the base install?

>>76

I copied the mode_message stuff into the folder and edited the config.pl file.

Its something in the config file, I copied it again and its working.

Weeeeird. Well, as long as it works...

Software error:

Bareword "SECRET" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at captcha.pl line 115, <FILE> line 4.
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at captcha.pl line 148, <FILE> line 4.
Compilation failed in require at kareha.pl line 15, <FILE> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at kareha.pl line 15, <FILE> line 4.

What's this?

>>80

Your installation is still broken.

2 Kareha Questions:

1) Is it possible to remove the Board Look section and just make it use Futaba style?

2) Is there a place I can define what html tags are allowed? It would be cool if I could allow people to post things like google or youtube videos directly on the board.

Your installation is still broken.

Obviously. Any idea how or why, or how to fix it?

>>82
1) remove this from templates.pl:

<div class="adminbar">
<loop $stylesheets>
        [<a href="javascript:set_stylesheet('<var $title>')"><var $title></a>]
</loop>
-

2) set ALLOWED_HTML in config.pl:

use constant ALLOWED_HTML => (
    'a'=>{args=>{'href'=>'url'}},
    'b'=>{},'i'=>{},'u'=>{},'sub'=>{},'sup'=>{},
    'em'=>{},'strong'=>{},
    'ul'=>{},'ol'=>{},'li'=>{},'dl'=>{},'dt'=>{},'dd'=>{},
    'p'=>{},'br'=>{empty=>1},'blockquote'=>{},
)

>>84
oops, i was a little careless with my copypasta... leave the <div class="adminbar"> line in.

>>84
Thanks alot ^_^

>>83

Do it over. You've obviously got files all mixed up.

Hi, everytime I run wakaba.pl I get Error: Could not write to directory.
I asume it means it cant make wakaba.html can anyone help me fix this?

>>89

Fix permissions. See the docs at http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html for more info.

Short version: set the directory permissions to 777.

I tried kareha message and image mode versions.
I liked message mode better, but:
I would like to have some functionalities of image mode in the message mode board. For example: password for user post deletion.

in the message mode board, all posts have a [del] link, and i guess you can delete your own messages based on a cookie? I prefer the password because of users that connect from different machines...

Also, I can't see any admin link in my site. check it out: http://www.pixelorama.com.ar/messk/ and if I type kareha.pl?task=admin I get a "Script error; no task speficied."

>>91

For Kareha, the admin script is a separate script that you can copy out of the extras folder. If you want passwords, you can hack them yourself, but I most probably won't do it for the main distro because it's a bit too inelegant. (You basically need to change the password form fields in the template from type="hidden" to type="password".

Software error:
Insecure dependency in `` while running with -T switch at wakautils.pl line 1073.

I am getting this error when attempting to post in my Imageboard

Uh, you should set up your server to stop running perl with the -T switch.

>>94
How do I do this?

I have no idea why it'd do that in the first place, so don't ask me.

>>94

How hard would it be to make Kareha run with Perls taint checks?

>>97

Dunno, I never actually bothered to learn how to deal with taint checks properly, so I never bothered. I did try to read up on it and it sounded like more annoyance than it was worth, so I never did anything about it.

I have some kareha boards set up on my site, and there is something about it thats really annoying me, and I'm not sure where the problem lies. I keep seeing old, outdated versions of the board, unless I hit the refresh button in firefox.

For example, I can go and make a post on my board, close firefox, then open it back up and load my board, and i wont see the post I just made unless I refresh. I've never noticed this problem on any other sites or boards.

>>99

You need to set up Apache to tell browsers not to cache pages. Rename example.htaccess to .htaccess to do this - however, it will only work if mod_headers is loaded on the server.

>>95
you could try changing the #! line to:

#!/usr/bin/perl -t

and then adding this line after it:

no warnings qw(taint);

lol it works now, the problem was that the -t in the hash bang was a capped T, after I made it lowercase it worked.

There is now another problem. The script is not creating the reply pages needed. e.g /res/1.html does not exist.

>>103

Try rebuilding caches.

I can't get my kareha or wakaba boards to convert images to thumbnail, so I'm currently using stupid_thumbnailing
I have ImageMagick installed and it works fine from cmd.
Any suggestions?

Yes, post in the right thread.

Apart from that, what OS?

>>106
Sorry :(
Windows server (WAMP5+ActivePerl+ImageMagick)
:-/
btw, "install linux" is not a very good asnwer for me...I've heard it a hundred times already T_T
...I know there is a way to get this to work on windows...I'm just an internet noob I guess :-/
Any healp greatly apprecieted :3

Running on Windows seems to lead to random and difficult to track down problems. Good luck with that.

http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html#RunningOnWindows has some hints, and maybe there are some others if you dig through the board, but beyond that, I can't really say.

I would like to place ads on my kareha board. They are text ads and are generated from some javascript code. If I put it in one of the include files though, it doesnt appear on the board. Normal text that I place in there shows, but the text from the javascript doesn't.

This is probably because they are google ads, and don't allow stripping out newlines, which the template code does by default. There's an option in config.pl to turn this off, but I forget the name. STRIP_NEWLINES or something.

>>110 why is that, anyway?

>>111

Why it strips them, or why Google ads won't work? I don't know about the latter, but the former is because Kareha needs posts on a single line, so I designed the template engine to strip them (because I did not exactly feel like writing templates on a single line), and so that behavior carried over into other places where it wasn't strictly necessary, but didn't really hurt either (except for breaking the Google ads).

Using debian, I get the following after trying to create a new database using sqlite.

hanzo# ./wakaba.pl
[Thu Apr 20 23:59:12 2006] wakaba.pl: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: admin(1) at dbdimp.c line 269 at ./wakaba.pl line 1802, <FILE> line 3.
[Thu Apr 20 23:59:12 2006] wakaba.pl: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: admin(1) at dbdimp.c line 269 at ./wakaba.pl line 1802, <FILE> line 3.
[Thu Apr 20 23:59:12 2006] wakaba.pl: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: proxy(1) at dbdimp.c line 269 at ./wakaba.pl line 1802, <FILE> line 3.
[Thu Apr 20 23:59:12 2006] wakaba.pl: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: proxy(1) at dbdimp.c line 269 at ./wakaba.pl line 1802, <FILE> line 3.
[Thu Apr 20 23:59:12 2006] wakaba.pl: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: comments(1) at dbdimp.c line 269 at ./wakaba.pl line 1802, <FILE> line 3.
[Thu Apr 20 23:59:12 2006] wakaba.pl: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: comments(1) at dbdimp.c line 269 at ./wakaba.pl line 1802, <FILE> line 3.
Status: 303 Go West
Location: wakaba.html
Content-Type: text/html

>>113

Do you get that repeatedly, or only the first time? If the latter, that's perfectly normal. If the former, try running the command-line sqlite tool to see what's actually in the database.

PS: This thread exists.

So...is there anyone running on windows that might be able to help me with thumbnailing?
I've tried looking at the problem myself, but to be honest, I don't really know a lot about perl. I can get convert to execute, so ImageMagic isn't the problem. I'm just so confused :-/

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
(I read #RunningOnWindows over a few times...it doesn't help me, since perl is in the right dir and imagemagick works.)

>>115
If you got Q8 like "RunningOnWindows" recommended, try getting Q16. I /think/ that's how mine started working, but to be honest, I have no idea why anything at the beginning of the entire setup process was as difficult as it was or even started working.

I have made several other wakaba and kareha boards without any problem on Linux systems. However, I recently moved to a new server that uses Windows Server. I had several issues that I already sorted out (DBI wasn't installed), and now there's only one left. When I try to access the management panel, it hangs for about 2 minutes and then says:
CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.
I don't have administrator access, so I can't easily get more information, but I will try.
Any clues?

>>117

Can you post to the board? Sounds a bit like it locks up at some point and then times out, probably when trying to access the database.

>>118
sure, http://www.city17imageboard.com/index.html

Man, I have no idea what's going on there. I suggest you follow the program flow for the login procedure, and put in die statements along the way to see how far it gets before it locks up.

What is it in wakaba's .htaccess that causes this to happen:

http://imgboard.eleochan.org/statistics/

I noticed that when I removed wakaba's .htaccess this didn't occur when static stats pages were generated (with both awstats and webalizer). Since I suck at .htaccess I figured you'd be able to tell me what I can remove/edit without messing everything up.

Wakaba is currently installed to the root folder so it's imgboard.eleochan.org/ so don't really have options as to where to put /statistics instead.

I'm so sleepy.

>>120
I did as you suggested, here's the line of code that is causing it:
print "Status: 303 Go West\n";
in wakautils.pl

when I told it to die just before this, it died properly
when I told it to die just after, it gave the original error, but no long pause

It's fixed
but I had an odd little problem
I changed ALTERNATE_REDIRECT to 1 in config, but it didn't actually use the alternate redirect
so I changed the code in wakautils.pl to force it to use it, and now it works
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

>>121

.htaccess is set up to send files as application/xml+xhtml when the browser supports it, which causes the browser to parse it much stricter. It looks like you edited the template and broke the <!DOCTYPE statement.

>>123

Oh yeah, I remember now that ALTERNATE_REDIRECT is sometimes needed on Windows machines. But I'm not sure why it won't use it properly. I'll look into it.

>>124
Nuh uh, I didn't do anything to the template.

I had to comment out the last block from wakaba's .htaccess

#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/xhtml\+xml
#RewriteRule \.html$ - [T=application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8]
#</IfModule>

>>125

Oh wait, I misunderstood what was happening. The web statistics tools don't generate valid XHTML, so when Apache tries to send them as application/xhtml+xml, Firefox activates the strict parser and breaks.

I guess the simplest solution is to just comment those lines out like you did.

Oh okay I get what's going on.

I have two questions. How much does bandwidth does kareha use during peak usage? And also, is there any way for me to change the thread list at the top of each page so that it displays in a table, like on world4ch?

>>128
4-ch goes through about 5-15kb/s, that's anywhere from 240MiB to several Gb per day. We average it out to be close to 1GiB a day*.

• We're running mod_deflate, so those numbers arent entirely acurrate, YMMV.

>>128

If you just want a to put each entry on its own line, you can add a display:block to the a elements in the thread list in the CSS files. I forget where exactly... threadbox a { display:block } maybe.

If you want an actual table with with more data, you'll have to edit template.pl to do that.

>>129
How many unique users do you have? I'm betting I won't have as many unique users as 4-ch for quite awhile, so the best way I could approximate how much bandwidth my board would use is if I knew the average bandwidth used by each user, or maybe per hit.

>>130
Thanks, now I understand. By the way, congrats on the new version!

Thanks for answering these questions for me!

is there a way to make a link to web pages that have some name in front of it like:

<a href="example.com" >example sight</a >

that results in a the text "example sight" to be linked to example.com?

>>132

Click "More options..." and pick HTML formatting.

I've done everything, installing Perl and Apache, fixing the Hashbangs (though I don't get how you're supposed to set permissions to 755, as I can't understand anything on the Kareha Quickstart page). Still, it does not work, nothing does. I've read through the documentation time and time again and I personally don't find it detailed enough; it's confusing and I think I'm placing the wrong files in the wrong directories. I've been at this for a week now, as I'd like to get a Kareha-site up and running for a few mates of mine.

So, is there a more detailed walkthrough on setting up your own Kareha image board? Or am I to keep trying to decipher the documentation? Thanks.

First off, use this thread for support requests.

Second, unless you tell us what problems you have, there's not much we can do to help. Setting up Kareha itself is a very simple task, and there's not much need for a walkthrough. The trick part is usually getting CGI scripts working in the first place, if you're installing a server from scratch. Guides for how to do that are available elsewhere on the net. I don't have any good links at hand, though, but Google will help, and maybe somebody else could mention a good guide?

Also read the 500 Internal Server error thread for hints: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1109033191/ - especially post 4. Try to get the test program working first. Only when that works should you start installing Kareha.

Ok, I know that to install wakaba i need either a server or a host. Only problem is I have a server and i dont know how to go about installing wakaba. Im new to this and need some help.

>>136

1. Create a database for your board.
2. Upload the files from wakaba.zip.
3. Edit config.pl (The SQL_ options and ADMIN_PASS at the very least).
4. Change the permissions on wakaba.pl (and maybe captcha.pl) to 755, and the permissions on the directories to 777.
5. Go to http://.../wakaba.pl.

i need an over all better description on how to do this exactly. Very precise cuz i have no idea what im doing but i want this to work its causing me to lose sleep.

Then I think you'll be better off looking for a general tutorial on how to run CGI scripts. When you've got that down, the rest is easy.

Ok, I'm having a problem in my wakaba. I have uploaded it to my host but whenever I post anything I have to hit F5 to refresh to see my post. I tried uploading and renaming example.htaccess to .htaccess but it still doesnt works, any ideas?

Forgot to say, Im using Firefox

Im sure it has to be something about Firefox keeping info on its cache, because when I delete all the info thats there I see all the messages I posted without problems...

Well, it caused an 500 Internal Server Error... I guess i'll have to change my host or ask them to install that mod...
Anyways, thanks for your help!!

>>144 is already in example.htaccess, but wrapped in <IfModule> so it won't 500 when the module isn't installed. And yes, what you need to do is ask the host to enable mod_headers.

Why can't you just use "Cache-Control: must-revalidate"? The rest are just repetition of that and won't even use If-Modified-Since.

likely just backups to make sure it works on all browsers?

>>149 is close to the truth. It's there to ensure it works on all browsers and all proxies.

RFC2616 is nice, but we're dealing with numerous different products here.

any good sources related on learning cgi scripts?

I'm having an odd problem with Kareha 3.1.0's captcha system: I keep getting the same captcha image repeated, but after the first time, entering it returns "wrong verification code entered". Reloading the image, clearing the browser cache, or disabling caching does not solve this--but deleting the captcha cookie does. Any ideas?

>>152

That is very strange. I really don't have any idea what's going on. After deleting the cookie, does it work once, or several times?

I had wakaba running on one server and worked perfect, but now i'm migrating to another server and when execute the wakaba.pl in the server log I get errors like:

ModPerl::Registry: Bareword "SQL_TABLE" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at

And the output of the code, the page, says that can't connect to the sql database (I'm using sqlite).

Any clues of what can be happening? Thanks.

>>155

You're using mod_perl, which isn't supported yet.

So what i must use in the server for handle this perl scripts?

I can change the configuration of the server.

>>157

Just the usual Options +ExecCGI and AddHandler cgi-script pl. Somebody correct me if I misremembered those lines as usual.

Thanks :)

Now the board, the execution of wakaba.pl, works fine, but when i try to upload a new picture i get this error :S

Constant subroutine main::S_HOME redefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/constant.pm line 108, <FILE> line 5.,

I need to change something more?

Sorry for double posting but i can't edit the anterior message, and the end of this types of error also say:

wakaba.pl: CGI.pm: Server closed socket during multipart read (client aborted?)

>>154
Just once.

I don't get it either. As I understand how the captcha script works, it sounds like the cookie for a new image is being set, but the old image is still being cached and displayed. But that doesn't explain why clearing the cache does nothing, nor why clearing the cookie allows a new image to load.

Maybe my ISP or webhost is doing some sort of stealth caching. I'll look into that.

You have a wonky Apache setup, it sounds like, but I'm not enough of an Apache hacker to say what's wrong.

I've searching and seems to be that the GCI module has a bug since the version 3.15, someone can say me what verion of the module you're using.

The bug report is this http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18677

>>164

You should rebuild caches.

>>166

Note the use encoding "shift-jis"; at the top of strings_jp.pl. You should change that to whatever encoding you used for that file, which may be different from what you use on the actual board!

Oh, and also note the no encoding; at the end.

>>169

Did you remember a no encoding; at the end of your strings file? Or if you are using unicode characters in the password, you should probably add a use encoding statement to config.pl too.

>>170

That really shouldn't be possible. Hmm. I'll have to look into it.

Hi, getting a problem with installation; I get a 'forbidden' error, and when checking logs get this:

[Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] [error] [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] kareha.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] templates.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] templates.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] wakautils.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] wakautils.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] INET.pm: Can't locate IO/Socket/INET.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . /usr/home/builder/pb_work_dir/plesk7.5.4_hotfix4_7.5.4/psa/release/dist/usr/local/psa/apache//site_perl/5.00503/i386-freebsd /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 . /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 /usr/local/psa/apache/ /usr/local/psa/apache/lib/perl) at wakautils.pl line 461.\n[Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] kareha.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] templates.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] templates.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] wakautils.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] wakautils.pl: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at wakautils.pl line 461.\n[Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] kareha.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] templates.pl: [Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] templates.pl: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at templates.pl line 3.\n[Thu Jun 15 18:37:01 2006] kareha.pl: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/xxxx.net/httpdocs/kareha/kareha.pl line 14.\n

(host edited out).

I have no access to /kareha/ as it says it's "blocked by rule." unsure as to how to change this :x.

:( ty

>>172

That's very strange. I have no idea what would cause that. For rules.html, hmm... That might actually be slightly broken. I'd have to investigate that too. If you have a program to convert a file to use HTML entities instead, that should work, though.

>>173

Your Perl version is ancient. Wakaba used to work on 5.005, but recent developments have apparently broken it (I don't have anywhere to test it on old versions any longer).

Either upgrade your Perl, comment out the function that uses Socket::INET (it's not important), or wait until I fix it. That might take a while, though, as I'm pretty busy with several things.

Nobody else have problems with CGI.pm?

Can't locate Encode/ConfigLocal.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/mach/Encode.pm line 52.

Please send mail to this site's webmaster for help. Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8

Is the error I get whenever I create a new post or a new topic.

Thanks in advance. :)

looks like your perl installation is broken.

What >>177 said.

I have a bit of a baffling problem: I've used Wakaba successfully with oekaki, but now I need to move it to a different directory. Upon doing this, I receive "File does not exist" errors in the error log, and the paint applet refuses to load. Is there a path somewhere in the configuration files I'm forgetting to set? Nothing of relevance seems to be in the oekaki config files.

Moving the folder back to where it was fixes the problem. The simplest "move" - renaming the directory and rebuilding caches doesn't work either. Thanks for reading.

You probably just need to rebuild caches. The Manage link will point to the wrong place too, so fix it manually.

I'm sorry I wasn't clear - rebuilding caches fixes everything but the applet loading. The error log looks for the jar file in the right place, but reports as not being able to find it.

Most mysterious. Link?

hi, i am running wakaba from the last version under lighttpd 1.4.4 perl 5.8.8.

when i'm trying to post a new thread via the wakaba.html form, it forwards me back to the wakaba.html page, without including the new thread.

tried to delete the wakaba.html to see if the wakaba.pl will create a new one, no success.

thx :]

>>183

You need to get lighttpd to tell the browser not to cache the pages. Also, a reload should show the new thread.

>>184

ok, i have switched to apache 2.2, and still the post i tried to submit refuses to appear in the wakaba.html page. maybe i should change the wakaba.html permissions to 777 so the webserver could write the new topic into that page?

>>185

Did you try just reloading the page? If the script can't write to the file, it will complain.

i tried, no change. it seems like the HTML page sends the POST details to / (or /wakaba.html) instead of /wakaba.pl.
another thing I've paid attention to (a bug?), is the need to write your admin password in the url bar (the form sends a rhandom password)... not so secure imo :S

you can see the problem at http://69chan.ath.cx ...

thanks again :]

>>187

The page isn't built right - did you run wakaba.pl from the command line? That will break the page. Also, going to http://69chan.ath.cx/wakaba.pl gets you an SQL connection failure so it wouldn't work anyway. First, fix your SQL settings, then go to http://69chan.ath.cx/wakaba.pl?task=admin and log in and rebuild caches. Also, the admin password is encrypted in the URL bar. This is normal.

okay, i changed the permissions so the webserver can create the wakaba.html and i have fixed the sql settings... everything works now, thanks alot! ^_^

I tried to rebuild cash but I got the message like this.
Untile today it did not happen to us.

Out of memory during "large" request for 1052672 bytes, total sbrk() is 28467200 bytes at wakautils.cgi line 973.

I am using kareha 3.1.0 at http://www.no1game.net/bbs/index.html
Is this something to do with setting ?or do I have to try other
method to cope with ?

Wow, that's a weird error message. The line it occurs on does nothing that I can image would cause that kind of error.

Lacking any other clues, I'm assuming something is very broken on your server.

Thank you very much !WAHa.06x36

well,,, I see file like _Xafeafavae.dat in the same directory of kareha.cgi which I've never seen before....

I bet the html files in res directory is broken but dun know how to tel which is bad res and which is not...

It seems the strange name .dat file comes up when I click the Rebuild cash. sorry multiple reply

>>193

When Kareha saves files, it writes them to a file with a random name ending in ".dat", and then renames it to the real name, to avoid destroying files if it runs out of space while writing. However, on your system, the rename function crashes with that error. There is nothing in Kareha that could make that happen. It's not your config or the res files. Something much more serious is wrong with the server.

ok thanks for the advise.
So far, I dont have problem beside that and as the server is not my own I guess there is not much I can do for it.

Well I appriciate your kind advise, your adivse released my from mining the res files. (^^;

Hello, I seem to be having a problem getting the title image to display on my imageboard, i am pointing to the right file on my server but no title image appears only the actualy title.

>>196

Did you set both the title image URL and the title mode? It's been ages since I used that, I can't remember what exactly it should be, but the config.pl comments should say something.

I'm having difficulty running Wakaba, specifically getting wakaba.pl to follow through properly. specific error is:

Invalid [] range "}-\x" before HERE mark in regex m/([\x{100}-\x << HERE {ffff}])/
Compilation failed in require at futaba_style.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at futaba_style.pl line 3.
Compilation failed in require at /kunden/homepages/12/d160583925/htdocs/wakaba/wakaba.pl line 19.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /kunden/homepages/12/d160583925/htdocs/wakaba/wakaba.pl line 19.

>>198

Hmm. Your could try copying wakautil.pl from Kareha, and see if that works better.

o shi-
it worked, thx ( ^_^)

I changed the text in include/rules.html, but the board still say
"You should probably put some board guidelines in this file - include/rules.html."

What can I do?

Did you rebuild caches?

>>202
Thanks.

The average thread length is a lot higher on first board. Same number of posts, but fewer threads.

Hello,
I need to be able to display a picture when someone has been banned from a board, is it possible to redirect the banned person to a new page or just put an image up in the place of the Banned string?

You should be able to put any HTML you want in the banned string.

I am having problems setting up the oekaki script with wakaba, im not quite sure what you mean by "set the URL settings in oekaki_config.pl" i get a 500 internet server error btw.

>>211

500 Internal Server errors are never caused by scripts themselves (except for the hashbang on the first line), but by configuration errors. See http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1109033191/.

So, I've never done anything like this before, but got a Dreamhost account for super-cheap recently, and figured it might be fun to but Wakaba on there. Things seem to be going fine, if somewhat still over my head, but when I tried to load wakaba.pl in my browser I get this software error:

No ADMIN_PASS or NUKE_PASS defined in the configuration at /usr/share/perl/5.8/CGI/Carp.pm line 314.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at config_defaults.pl line 120.
Compilation failed in require at wakaba.pl line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at wakaba.pl line 17.

Any advice?

You need to edit config.pl to actually configure the script.

I got the same error, and my config file is configured!

did you remove the # in front of the changed lines?

There is no easy way to do this.

>>218 Besides just being safe and making all boards have different passwords, which is more secure anyway.

>>220

There are a couple of options for the banning that you can edit. Something like ADMIN_BAN_FILE, I forget exactly.

I get a 404 Forbidden error when opening wakaba.pl directly

I don't know if i'm supposed to do something like make a html file, or anything. i've already created the mysql databases and set up config.pl

anything i can do?

>>224, you mean 403?

Check out your .htaccess to make sure you're not killing referrers, and make sure permissions are correct (775)

>>225

Actually, I got everything working somehow. Thank you though :D

I'm trying to set up wakaba on a home test server before going live on the web. My problem: When I access wakaba.pl through Firefox, It pops up the download manager asking to save or open it.

Using:
Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/4.4.2-1build1 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.7

I have permissions for .pl files set to 755, along with directories as needed.

I have a simple Hello World in the same dir as wakaba.pl that runs fine from a browser with proper headers and everything.

Suggestions?

What's in the Hello World script? Also, what's its name?

>>229
My file is hello.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<H1>Hello World</H1>\n";

I can't get archive mode to work.

My config file says

use constant TRIM_METHOD => 1;
use constant ARCHIVE_MODE => 1;
use constant ARCHIVE_DIR => 'arch/';

But, even though old threads are being cleaned up, there is nothing in my arch/ directory. I double checked permissions and they are 755. What am I doing wrong?

>>228
>>230

After I renamed wakaba.pl to wakaba.cgi, it worked fine for me.. so it's an Apache issue somewhere.

I can't seem to figure out what the "link" and "parent" fields do. Can anyone tell me?

>>231
Does you arch dir contain res, src, thumb? Are all of them set 755?

If that is all true, have you tried with mode 775 on arch and all subdirs?

>>230

Man, I really have no idea. As >>232 suggests, sometimes Apache might be setup to run .cgi files but not .pl, but if your test file is named .pl, I really have no idea what's going on. What's in the file you end up downloading if you go to wakaba.pl? If it's the Wakaba Perl source, it's an Apache issue...

>>233

Link should be obvious, no? Parent is only for admin posts. You put the number of the first post in a thread there if you want to make an admin reply in a thread.

>>235
Those were both me.

1) It is the source, so I'll have to mess with Apache sometime.

2) Yeah, I figured links out shortly after I posted that. Thanks for the explanation of parent though.

>>234
No :( Manually created my arch folder when I decided I wanted to archive. Didn't remember they were in there and didn't think it would be necessary to recreate them. I'll see if it works now.

Hey guys.

I'm having difficulties with Wakaba. I had some problems with using the wakaba.pl(because of misconfigured httpd.conf), but it works now. When I access it through a web-browser, it loads a bit and adds stuff to the MySQL database. Then it says:

"Not Found

The requested URL /wakaba/wakaba.html was not found on this server."

Could someone tell me what am I doing wrong, or is it just a bug?

>>238

Go to http://.../wakaba.pl?task=admin and rebuild caches.

Hello, just want to know how do i change or remove the style list at the top right of the page. And also how do I stop the "mailto:" email link from appearing after a poster puts an address in the Link field, i just want it to display the link to a webpage. Thanks

So, could someone tell me what is the admin password for that http://.../wakaba.pl?task=admin page? I've tried the password that I wrote to the config.pl, but it didn't work. I've also tried a blank password, and it loaded the page but didn't make any difference to the situation.

Thanks in advance.

Oh, I got the rebuild caches thing working, but it still says the same:

"Not Found

The requested URL /wakaba/wakaba.html was not found on this server."

Management panel works, so the only thing that doesn't work is this. Any ideas how to fix this?

>>240

To remove the style list, edit the template to take it out. Alternatively, deleting files from css/ will get you a list with just one entry. Also, mailto: is only added if the link field has no other protocol prefix. If you put in a link correctly as "http://...", it will link just fine.

>>242

Can you check if the file really does exist? Also, is there no error when running Rebuild Caches?

Alrgiht here's my problem. I followed the documentation of installing and configuring wakaba to the letter, and I'm still having issues.

I'm running Apache+PHP+MySQL through wampserver5 and that's all well and good.
I've installed ActivePerl and ImageMagic Q8 Static.
I've modified my httpd.conf to have
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-handler .cgi .pl
for the / directory and restarted Apache.
I've changed the hashbang to #!perl as I'm running windows.
And it seems that when I navigate to http://localhost/wakaba/wakaba.pl it treats it as a text file.

I tried the following instead, for httpd.conf:
Alias /b/ "e:/misc/site/wakaba/"
AddHandler cgi-handler .cgi .pl
<Directory "e:/misc/site/wakaba">

<Files *.pl>

SetHandler cgi-handler

</Files>
Options -Indexes +ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

</Directory>
And then navigate to http://localhost/b/wakaba.pl and still it treats it like a text file... Is there anything I'm missing or failing to see here?

I just tried modifying the httpd.conf again, this time to
AddHandler cgi-handler .cgi .pl
<Directory "/wakaba">

Options -Indexes +ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

</Directory>
and it is still a no go.

I also tried creating an .htaccess with
AddHandler cgi-handler .pl .cgi
Options +ExecCGI
And it is the same result.

>>245

In order for .htaccess to work, you need "AllowOverride All".

Well I moved everything to my web hosting, and now it says 500 Internal Error no matter what I do.
I've CHMOD'd wakaba.pl to 755, uploaded in ASCII and my .htaccess now looks like:
AllowOverride All
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
Options ExecCGI
DirectoryIndex wakaba.html index.html

That should probably be "+ExecCGI", but first of all, look at your error_log to see what it's complaining about.

The HTML file was made properly, but I can't save any threads.

Is it possible to pin threads in Kareha? i'm looking around in admin.pl and haven't seen that option.

>>250 no.

Is it possible to modify the script so i can post as ##mod???

>>252
Add a capped_trip

Alright. So I gave up on Wakaba. I don't know why but it apparently hates me. I got Kareha working, but I am wondering if I can revert it's reply styles to Futaba/Futallaby type, where even when a new thread is made, it will make the RES number as the last post on the board, like 4chan.

ie.
Someone starts >>4
A reply is made, it is >>5
Someone starts another topic, and it will be >>6, not >>1

>>254

No, there's no such option. It'd take extra code to implement, and it's really just a cosmetic feature, so I didn't think it was worth bloating the code for. It's very strange that you can get Kareha working and not Wakaba, though, because they are very, very similar, except for the use of a database, which shouldn't affect any of what you do. I can't think of any problems that would affect just one.

Maybe you should try Wakaba again from scratch?

>>249
Just making sure nobody forgets my post.

>>256 Check your permissions (775) on folders?

Set it to all the ones in the same directory, nothing.

Eh, whatever. I got Wakaba working fine. How can I make every HTML file generated contain the javascript for my StatCounter?

>>259

Use the files in include/, or edit futaba_template.pl.

I have a question but I am afraid it is not completely simple. I apologise if this is the wrong place to ask.
I use Wakaba 3.0.4 and am trying to figure something out.
On my board a user posted an image with no comments but every post after his, all the text of the page, except the comments of each posts is reversed. All the HTML after the image is reversed too when you click view source. If this is hard to understand take a look at the page.
http://www.ko-chan.org/b/1.html Post #2181

>>253
What is a capped_trip and how do i use it?

>>261

It's due to the wonders of Unicode. There is a character that changes the text direction. It's not obvious what to do to prevent people from abusing it.

I recommend just deleting posts that do, for now.

>>263
Thanks, I edited it out of the post in the database.
Not that the post was worth saving, but I wanted to see if it was possible.

I don't know why my server was freaking out before, but Wakaba is working now. Is there any way rib myself of the image verification to post?

>>265 Sure, there's a line in the config.pl file (actually a whole section) called "CAPTCHA". Just disable it there.

Software error:
Can't locate config.pl in @INC (@INC contains: . /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /home/www/warsworldchan.awardspace.com/wakaba/wakaba.pl line 16.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/www/warsworldchan.awardspace.com/wakaba/wakaba.pl line 16.

What does this mean? Thankss

You didn't upload all the files.

Basic problem: When i submit a picture to my wakaba image board i want the site to be redirected to a URL that i specify. And not back to its original URL.

Example, If I have my imagine board on the URL http://somesite.com/bubblegum/wakaba.html and after i click the submit button, i want the picture posted (duh) but i want the site to go to http://somesite.com/home/index.html

Can anyone let me know what files i need to edit to make this so?

The forwarding statement is at the end of the post_stuff function in wakaba.pl.

Also, please use http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1141929669/.

I don't know how, but it seems like http://shanachan.konosutekinabasho.net/cosplay/res/2267.html#i2746 temporarily broke the cosplay board. All of the html pages that are usually in the folder had 0 file size afterwards.

I took the opportunity to upgrade, but still... I'm curious as to what caused it.

I have just installed Kareha on my Linux box to /cgi-bin/k/ and have pearl working fine. I set the permissions in ALL my directories to 777 and yet, when I try to run http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/k/kareha.pl I get:

Software error:

Couldn't write to file "index.html" at wakautils.pl line 985.

what's the deal?

>>271

Sure you didn't just run out of disk space?

>>272

Did you set the permissions of k/ itself to 777?

Yeah. I have plenty of disk space. And I set 777 permissions to all folders and files.

>>273

>Sure you didn't just run out of disk space?

First thing I considered when I saw it... but it's dreamhost, man. It's near impossible to run out of disk space. (Control panel says 368.684/25120 MB (1.5%) )

Though, I suppose it's possible that dreamhost themselves could have ran out of space... but it's odd that none of the other boards on the domain were affected.

>>277

You mean, numbering each post in a thread starting from 1? No, but you can run Kareha in mode_image and it'll do that.

>>278

Sorry, what I meant were the user ids, like ID:VqDGzUzh.

>>279

In Kareha, they can be set to change by thread, but I think I never enabled that feature in Wakaba because it wouldn't work on the first post (because when creating the first post, the script does not yet know what post number it will have).

zOMG! AAARGGHH!!~

Ok, I just spent allot of time bangging my head against my linux box, and finally found the problem.

I didnt have the src/ res/ and thumb/ directories.

Dosnt Kareha/Wakaba make thoes directories it self? Seems like i could...

PHP anyways can run command lines (through exec() for example), and do chmod command on files.

You really need to specify which script you are referring to before that can be answered.

Yours is the only recent one.

You don't need to edit anything in config.pl, just click "More options...". Blinking is done with capped names, and there's no way to do it normally.

>>289

mode_image doesn't support this stuff, only mode_message.

>>292

There is no option in Wakaba to allow HTML as it is now. If you used Kareha, you could set the markup type to HTML and list embed and the required attributes as allowed (and add a forced attribute to disable the script injection), but Wakaba doesn't support that.

You can try hacking it yourself, but this is not recommended unless you know what you are doing (because you'll probably get XSS vulnerabilities).

>>294

A bug, apparently. Will be fixed.

Whenever i'm in ie and do more potions it allways shows "undefined" on the dropdown (even on this board) which causes the preview thing to fuck up when you press Preview post (saying: Abnormal reply.)

Is there any way to fix this?

Uh, 3.1.1 should fix the Abnormal reply error, I've just been too lazy to install it here. IE will probanly still say "undefined", but I don't have a machine to bugfix this on, so somebody else will have to figure that out.

Do I need a separate install (config file & mysql database) for each image board?

Yes and no. You need a separate install of the files, but you can use the same database if you change the names of the tables in the config file.

300GET

Okay, short problem. Thumbnails won't show, any ideas?

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/6343/wakabathumbnailsdy8.png

http://penischan.110mb.com/wakaba/thumb/ <-- They are being created as 0-byte files. This is wrong.

In other words, I haven't a clue. Something with the thumbnailer is fucked up. A first step to figuring out what's wrong might be to dig into the thumbnailing function in wakautils.pl and putting in die statements to see which thumbnailer it tries to use.

I see, thanks for your help. It's odd, since I didn't mess with anything except for config.pl.

I suspect it's a problem with the host, somehow.

>>303 It's a free host; I doubt they've got anything installed correctly.

I'm trying to change the file types that users are allowed to upload. using the latest of wakaba. I was told it was at the bottom of the config and all i see is the icons config. I really just need a example of where its at and how to change it, i was on a olf futaba befor this and this is all new to me.

>>305

If you add an icon for a filetype, it will be allowed. But earlier you talked about gif, png and jpg, which are always allowed so I don't think you are asking the right question.

I was using that as a example of what i was looking at. In hope that i could get a general direction of where i'm suppost to be at. The file type i want is already in the list under "other files". I tryed uncommenting them but that didnt work, also tryed adding it to the part i showed a example to earlyer and still didnt work. Yes i tryed rebuilding the cache a couple times to

In laymens "I want to add other files to the list of supported files, but i dont know how to go about that, hence why i asked for a example on how"

Well, what exactly happens?

You need to uncomment the lines you want, and you also need to uncomment the initial use constant line and the { } block around it.

Ahh see i didnt even notice that the constant was commented out. Now it works. 2nd question, is there a way to turn off the verification? It gets annoying when the pace of the board gets going. Specialy those long ones

>>309

use constant ENABLE_CAPTCHA => 0;

Ahh okay, thanks.

I need some help my wakaba giving me this error whenever i click Manage.

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </meta>.
Location: http://www.xxxx.com/imageboards/b/wakaba.pl?task=mpanel&admin=c1L9l/VznFIM
Line Number 1, Column 1427:

And then it points to the "h" in the </head> tag

I didnt mean to post three times, it said timed out and i just clicked refresh, sorry.

>>315

You've added code that is not well-formed XHTML. You need to close all tags, either explictly, or by implicitly by ending them in />.

Also, just click "[Del]" to delete posts.

I bet it's either css includes or a favicon.

Yeah i figured out what i did, it was more of a typo then anything. Thanxs again. Also i tryed deleting them i get wrong pass everytime, not that i remember entering a pass

>>280

Can you base it on the timestamp? I forget whether you can access the parent's timestamp easily.

>>320

No, you can't, because it's not stored in the database as such. Although, well... Technically the format doesn't really matter so I guess you could use the textual time stamp... Hmm.

Hello, i continually get an SQL connection error, and all my MySQL settings are set up perfectly in config.pl and server side.

>>322

I can only guess that they are not, in fact, set up perfectly.

I used the Futaba style sheet and edited it completley into my own personal style, i just want to konw how do i go about renaming the futaba style sheet link at the top of the page to what i want?

Just rename the file and rebuild caches. And do your users a favour and copy in the original futaba.css too.

I keep getting this error:

Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at config.pl line 14, near "'blahblah';"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at config.pl line 14.
Compilation failed in require at /public_html/wakaba.pl line 16.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /public_html/wakaba.pl line 16.

I have no idea what that means or what to do...help! :(

>>326

It means you messed up something in the config file.

>>326 on line 14, no less.

I have Kareha all set up and working and everything but I have one question. Is there any way to get it to have each new thread/reply get a unique number instead of saying 1 for the first reply and then 2 for the second and so on.

>>32

As has been stated at least once already in this thread, Kareha doesn't do this. It's only possible with a database, like what Wakaba uses.

How would I go about making a custom ban page, where it would show your ip and what you were banned for?

This is what i've done so far.

futaba_style.pl

use constant BAN_PAGE => q{

<p>Ban ;_; (insert more text later)</p><br />
The IP you were posting with was: <var $ip><br />
<if $comment>Reason for your ban: <var $comment></if><br />
<if !$comment>Reason for your ban: None</if>

};

wakaba.pl (under sub ban_check($$$$)

make_http_header();
print encode_string(BAN_PAGE);

} else {

make_error(S_BADHOST);

}

Should this work? Is there something I need to change?

>>331

Disregard that, I just realized that ban_check is for when you post, not view.

I'm gonna have to look into this more =/

Any help before I butcher 20+ Wakaba installations is appreciated.
Thanks.

If you want to prevent banned IPs from viewing the pages, you'll need to resort to .htaccess hackery.

Is it possible to enable my users to be able to use HTML tags in their posts?

Not easily. You could copy some code from Kareha's format_post() function to Wakaba's, though. It has an automatic HTML sanitizer and filter. I very very strongly recommend using this if you want to hack this, because adding support for HTML safely is very, very hard.

>>335
Thanks, tho my motive for this, is to allow my users to embed video into the board from Youtube or dailymotion and such, would you advise against this?

>>336 <embed> is abusable to no end.

Shii killed a board through css and embed, I recall. All you saw when you visited was the waha-supergirl flash.

Anyway, not recommended.

http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1158859990/

Ohshi-! Bees!

I assume this is not supposed to happen?

<embed> can be used as long as you make sure to force a certain attribute that disable scripting from inside the swf file.

I forget what exactly it is, though. You know you've got it right if you can embed http://wakaba.c3.cx/bee.swf without getting a bee all over your page, though.

Speaking of which, no, >>338 is not supposed to happen. I'll have to fix that at some point.

Dumb question: how many ways are there to display posts via the URL?

The ones I know of are: multiple selections separated by commas, normal and reverse-order ranges (including open ended ranges), last X posts in thread, and X random post selections. Anything else?

And why do some of these methods display the first post at the top even when it's not specified?

I am creating a japanese imageboard for a small commnity i am a part of. everything has translated perfectly except for the rules.html file, and also when i add any japanese characters into the .pl scripts like config.pl they come out as alot of mumbo jumbo.

This is how it appears:

ûmØNïSý€Õ0¡0¤0ë0ÿ Ö0é0¦0¶0k0ˆ0c0f0o0ck8^k0ûmØNg0M0j0D0S0h0L0B0Š0~0Y00
g'Y•b?zÇ0ü0¿0Ï‘o0 KB ~0g0g0Y00sage_jý€ØNM00
;uÏPo0*j Ô0¯0»0ë00&~ Ô0¯0»0ë0’0…H0‹0h0.~\hˆ:yU0Œ0~0Y00

etc. etc., how can i translate this properly, thanks.

On a side note, i have a Japanese friend who is reviewing the translation and will correct any errors if you wold like the corrected japanese?

>>340

That's about it. The first post is displayed for simple ranges, to match the behaviour of 0ch.

>>341

You need to make sure your files use the right encodings. The include files have to use the same encoding you've specified as CHARSET, and any .pl files need to have a "use encoding" statement at the top that specifies what encoding they use.

Hey.

I'm helping the owner of the new not4chan.us try to get the "Original Filenames" feature in wakaba, but so far I've had no luck.

Basically, when a user goes into the reply page, after the (size, resolution) it would display the filename that the image had before wakaba converted it. This is very nice for organizing manga/doujinshi/etc.

Question is, is there any way to do this through Wakaba?

Thanks!

>>344
uncomment the following lines in config.pl:

#use constant FILETYPES => (
#	gif => '.',
#	jpg => '.',
#	png => '.',
#);

>>346 Not quite. All that does is not rename the files to unix timestamps. What he's looking for is shown in the picture attached.

Hello all. I'm having problems installing wakaba. On apache, no matter what perl script I run, I get the same damn 403 error. All the files/folder are 755 and my httpd.conf for the directories is:

<Directory />
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from none

</Directory>

<Directory /wakaba/>
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from none

</Directory>

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do? I'm using SuSE, if that helps.

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

I used to have apache and wakaba created nice little thumbnails but now when i changed to lighttpd it won't create any thumbnails and it just echo out "no thumbnail available".
How do i fix so the thumbnails work in lighttpd?

I've never used lighthttpd so I have no idea, really. Is the switch of web server software the ONLY change you made to the system? If so, I guess lighthttpd is failing to run external commands from CGI scripts for some reason.

>>352
But doesnt browsers just send the script to the perl folder and let perl do all the stuff? I haven't changed any perl settings though.

i meant http servers not browsers

Yes, but if the web server process doesn't have permissions to run the command, or if the PATH is messed up, it's gonna break.

If the path is messed up, try running which convert in a shell, and then putting the result in CONVERT_COMMAND.

>>347

Doesn't anybody know how to do this? I'm still looking for a response.

Thanks.

>>356

You hack the source to add it. There's no support for it, and I won't be adding it anytime soon.

>>357

;_;

Oh well, maybe I'll figure it out on chance.

How do i allow additional file types, thanks.

>>359

Look at the end of config.pl.

Hi I'm having some trouble setting up a Kareha image board

http://img.gig4free.com/kareha.pl

One problem is that one thread will have a url like

http://img.gig4free.com/kareha.pl/1160013863/

and the second will be

http://img.gig4free.com/kareha.pl/1160013863//1160014721/

and the third will be

http://img.gig4free.com/kareha.pl/1160013863//1160014721//1160015427/

etc

Everything appears to work correctly, permissions etc but is this because the subdomain is trying to add banner ads to the page so it concatenates the thread reply numbers?

Any help is appreciated thanks.

>>361

On the other hand, I just set a Kareha image board up at

http://img.gig4free.com/zorch

and it works fine. The difference is that I used the mode_message folder and enabled image replies in config.pl

I don't see how using mode_image would be any different though?

I've installed and edited everything that needs to be edited (the test perl script works) and wakaba should be working, but it isn't. If I try to load wakaba.pl all I get is a blank page. I have no idea what to do now. Halp

>>361-362

Never seen that before. I'm tempted to blame a messed-up Apache config, since that sounds like a free host and they're pretty unreliable.

>>363

Try going to http://.../wakaba.pl?task=admin and rebuild caches.

>>364

Tried that and this is what I got:
"Server error!

Error message:
Bareword "SQL_CAPTCHA_TABLE" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at D:/WWW/xampp/perl/site/lib//captcha.pl line 142. ...lots of other errors with similar format... BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at D:/WWW/xampp/htdocs/wakaba/wakaba.pl line 20. ,

;_;

Hello

what should I do in order to have a vertical menu like in http://4-ch.net ? also do I have to install Kareha for for every category?

thanks

>>366

Your installation is broken. Start over.

>>367

You write it in HTML, and yes.

Hi,i really need help,my HTML sucks and i dont know how to get Kareha or wakaba working at all....can someone guide me step by step pls,i couldnt find a guide too,thanks a lot.Does it start working once i upload those files i extarcted of the zip file onto a Web host?

>>369

Assuming you have a webhost... (this is for kareha, which I recommend you use)

0) unzip the zip to a folder on your desktop.
1) open up config.pl on your computer using notepad.
2) read the comments and change the things that are required.
3) upload that, and everything else from the zip, to your webspace.
4) in your browser, visit http://.../kareha.pl
5) if that doesn't work, post any errors returned here along with a link to the board.

so is there no way to ban proxies through htaccess or other?

>>371

Short answer: No.

Long answer: dmpk2k implemented some code in Wakaba to try and detect proxies using external utilities and such, which does get some of them, but might be tricky to get running. However, proxy detection is inherently shaky and unreliable.

>>368
By broken installation, do you mean Wakaba or Apache/MySQL/Perl?

>>373

Wakaba. All those constants should be defined by config_defaults.pl, and if they are not, something's broken or missing.

>>331

I am also interested in making my own ban page that shows the ip of the poster and displays the comment, but only when they try to post, how would i do that?

Secondly i am wondering is there a way to let my mods edit the rules.html file? thanks

>>375
I am refering to wakaba btw

> Secondly i am wondering is there a way to let my mods edit the rules.html file? thanks

There's no way to do that in Wakaba at the moment (although there is in Kareha), but I guess you could find some other script that lets people edit files.

However: If you don't trust your mods perfectly, you don't want them to be able to edit rules.html directly, because it is run through the templating engine, which can run arbitary Perl code. That means that if you can edit it, you hack it to access anything on the server.

The way to work around this is to make a rules.html file that contains the following:

<var include("include/rules_safe.html")>

And then just let people edit rules_safe.html, which will NOT be parsed by the template engine.

>>377
Ok thanks ill look into that,

any ideas on the custom ban page tho?

>>378

You'd have to hack it yourself one way or the other... Should be easy if you know a bit of Perl and DBI, otherwise, not so easy.

Hello, i recently went into Futaba_style.pl to do some html editing for a number of things, everything seemed to be working fine for me after i had finished, but when my mods tried to access the admin panel they were getting an XML parsing error, it was telling me that it was expecting html tags everywhere and particularily it also told me that the constants in the footer were invalid. Tho i managed to fix the problem by removing the constants and by basically doing what it told me to and adding in the tags it was expecting i have had to remove things that i wanted to keep in the first place, have you seen this error before? And when exactly caused it?

>>380

Wakaba is set up to use XHTML, which means you have to write your code as well-formed XML. You can write any code you want, you just have to write it correctly.

I know you're very busy WAHa, but is there a possibility we may be due for a major new releases of W&K soon?

No major releases, no. However, there are some bugfixes I really should get out there, but I've been busy with other projects. Hopefully I'll get around to it soon.

can someone please give me a basic step by step way to install wakaba?

Does Wakaba need a different database for each board? All I saw in the config.pl file was that you couldn't was to change the captcha sql table. But when I post on one board it puts that posts on all the other boards as well! I am pretty sure this is an sql thing (though it might not be), how do I go about correcting this and setting sql up properly?

>>385

Change the SQL_TABLE option for every board, and possibly also the SQL_ADMIN_TABLE.

Is there any way to ADD file types? I see there's a way to ban them in config.pl and then "allow all" but what I want to do here is just add one or two filetypes, like .psd and .tif. Is there any good way to do this? The only thing I've tried is going into wakaba.pl and editing

$filetypes{gif}=$filetypes{jpg}=$filetypes{png}=1;

to

$filetypes{gif}=$filetypes{jpg}=$filetypes{png}=$filetypes{psd}=1;

but all that got me was a 500 error. Any ideas?

>>388

There is a way to add filetypes at the end of config.pl. However, those types will not get thumbnails, and will not be renamed.

Nice day :)
I just want to ask like someone (anonymous) above ~
Can someone please,please give me a basic step by step way to install Kareha?
I mean, when i downlod it, there are *.pl files but i need index.html ????
Thanx ~

>>390 OK, here's the walkthrough:

1) edit config.pl to your liking
2) upload the entire folder to your webspace
3) navigate your way to kareha.pl on your website through your browser
4 that's it!

Hi -_-

• Ok ~ i have edited config.pl
• uploaded the entire folder to my webspace
• navigate to kareha.pl and i got:

[Forbidden][You don't have permission to access /~colorfull-wallies/kareha.pl on this server.]

• i have try this with wakaba too but it dont work for me T_T
• i have on the same webspace futallaby and it works
• addres is:

futallaby [http://www.oranet.sk/~colorfull-wallies/imgboard.php]
wakaba [http://www.oranet.sk/~colorfull-wallies/wakaba.pl]
Any ideas ?

>>394

Read http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html#WakabaQuickStart,SettingPermissions

ok
I know now - my webspace have no PerlScripts support. T_T
gome ne for troubles with me ~
However since i can not run wakaba and kareha i would like to
make my futallaby work propertly ~
All is fine, it only dont create thumbnails (it only minify
and show original image) - could this be caused with lack of
thumbnailer (i have read in offered link that wakaba and kareha
need this software installed on server to create thumbs)
Is this same with futallaby? , and if yes which one is most
suggested one?
~byg Thanx for help ^_^~

I have a bit of a problem figuring out into what format should I convert strings_en.pl and set the encoding in the config file so that I'd be able to have commands (like the Post button) with properly displayed characters like čšž (the ISO-8859-2 Central European characters).

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

>>397

The strings file can have any encoding you want, as long as you use a "use encoding" statement at the top that lists which encoding you are using (see strings_jp.pl for an example of this, it uses Shift_JIS).

The encoding listed in config.pl can then be anything else you want, and Wakaba should convert between the encodings automatically (as long as you have Perl 5.8). Remember to also set the encoding in .htaccess so the static HTML pages are displayed correctly.

How much disc storage/transfer storage/bandwich should I have on my web host to put up say.. 5 image boards? I mean, with them completely filled to the 10th page, each one, each thread max posts and whatnot, how much really? Thanls. :3

Is there an easy way to add filename retention (like the way either 4chan or fchan does) to Wakaba?

If so, how?

If you add gif, jpg and png as filetypes in the FILETYPES list, they will not be renamed.

I got his error, everything in my config is correct but it still don't work.

>>402

Everything in the config is not correct. Or else the config on the SQL server is not correct. I guess it might also be possible that you have not installed Perl DBD drivers for your database?

Check your error_log to see if it has anything more to say.

>>403

Whatever is my host or server OS I need to install DBD? Because I didn't. If yes, it's my problem. I don't know how to install it and where upload it.

Yes, I'm noob.

>>404

If you are on a shared host, they are most likely installed for you. If it's a server you set up yourself, most likely not.

You usually need DBI and DBD::mysql (Or DBD::SQLite or whatever it's named). If the script works at all, DBI is installed. DBD::mysql might not be. If it's a Unix machine, you can try running "perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::mysql'", or figuring out how to do it through whatever package system you use.

How to remove the verification code when we post and the
excesses style (or only the link on top of the page) on Wakaba?

> How to remove the verification code when we post

Change ENABLE_CAPTCHA from 1 to 0 in config.pl

> the excesses style

Delete what you don't want from the css directory.

They give me this error wen I try to open wakaba.pl

Can't locate config.pl in @INC (@INC contains: . /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /home/www/"my url"/board_a/wakaba.pl line 16.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/www/"my url"/board_a/wakaba.pl line 16.

What's the probleme? Congif.pl is there but he can't see it.

Maybe you should start by making sure it's spelled right?

Odd error. I've successfully installed Kareha once and am trying to install it several times t make a variety of boards for my site.

He's the weird part: Every time i change the name so the link is "Fan Art" or something like that instead of "Kareha" everything works fine execpt the style sheets no longer work and i'm left with a rather plain looking board.

>>410

I am not sure exactly what you are doing, but I am guessing you need to rebuild caches if you change the path to the script.

>>410
I'm making a image board, standard 4chan type set up. This requires several installations of kareha, one or each section. When i change the name of a installation (so that a new one does not overwrite it) or if i install a new one under a changed name the style sheets disappear.

I still don't know what you mean by "name". Path?

And what happens if you rebuild caches?

I have a site with 3 boards right now, at some point in development, it became the case that any new thread started goes to one specific board, (regardless of what board it was posted to) and replies are simply lost.

>>414

You've either messed up your SQL settings, or you need to rebuild caches.

Is there a way to get rid of this annoying thing that doesn't involve extensive reprogramming of stuff?

>>416

Well, it involves a little bit of reprogramming. Edit out the HTML code in futaba_style.pl and then find the line that throws the error message in wakaba.pl and remove it or comment it out. To find it, look for the error message in strings_en.pl, then search for the identifier it uses.

I should warn you that it does serve a purpose, though, which is to warn people who accidentially try to reply to the top thread without pressing Reply first. Whether or not removing it will make misdirected replies significantly more common or not hasn't been tested by me personally, though.

I've successfully installed Kareha and it's working fine, except for one little thing.
I am in Seattle, all my users are in Seattle, but my server is in Vermont; so when I post it shows when it was posted in eastern time.
Is there any way to have it show the time of post in pacific time?

>>418

No, unless you hack the code to change it (it's pretty easy, just add or subtract the right number of seconds from the time variable in post_stuff())

>>419
Umm... how exactly do I do that?

Can it be implemented that every url can only be repeated a certain number of times per post, the number being set in config? (Or is this already possible?)

>>422

Why?

>>423
Usually when there's a spammer like in http://spi.iichan.net/fb/res/1658.html it repeats urls mutiple times, while normal people would probably only mention a certain url once or twice.

I think it would help reduce the few spammers that do happen to get around the filters already implemented.

>>424

Well, the built-in spam filters are much more effective than that. That board is using an old version and is not running the filters.

Also, that post has (as far as Wakaba can see) no repeated links, so it wouldn't be caught by the filter. Matching partial URLs to find repetitions would cut off a lot of legitimate uses, too.

>That board is using an old version and is not running the filters.

Oh okay.

Also the spammer/spambot I get on /sak/ seems to know what fields to avoid too.

Went easy on banning the fucker and didn't include filters and the serious guns... yet. That's because I've been busy.

Hello

I am trying to set up Wakaba and I want to have multiple boards. Am I supposed to just duplicate the wakaba directory for each board like it's done with Kareha? Can I just create a new directory and then symlink everything to the install folder without the config file? would that work for Wakaba?

>>428 yes; and yes, that would work too.

ok, thanks for your reply. but now I have another problem. I made symnlinks to everything except config.pl. I copied the config from the previous install and only modification I made was to rename the admin, proxy, captcha and comments tables. this is what I get after I tried to execute wakaba.pl

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

etc.

This is what I get when I tried to execute it from the command line:

[Tue Nov 28 00:09:08 2006] wakaba.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'blablachan.adminA' doesn't exist at wakaba.pl line 1794, <FILE> line 3.

[Tue Nov 28 00:09:10 2006] wakaba.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'blablachan.proxyA' doesn't exist at wakaba.pl line 1794, <FILE> line 3.

etc

now. isn't supposed wakaba.pl to create these tables automaticaly?

thanks.

sorry for posting it not in the appropriate thread. I fixed it. it was a overly paranoid apache server which refusing to execute scripts from 777 directory.

I seem to have a small problem with my board,

It's installed correctly as far as i can see, it just wont recognise my admin password, i put it in fine, it goes to the management panel, but when i click ANY link i get..

Error: Management password incorrect.

It's quite annoying.. not sure whats wrong :(

>>432

Now i cant login at ALL! :( Thats getting really annoying..

I can't get wakaba to display cyrilic characters. I changed utf-8 to windows-1251 in the config.pl file and in the .htaccess file. the generated wakaba.html displays the characters in a very odd way :
Àíèìå
when I view the source they get even more odd : #xc0;íè&#"

is there something else to be done which I overlooked?
I also turned on CONVERT_CHARSETS in the config file but it doesn't seem to help.

> I can't get wakaba to display cyrilic characters. I changed utf-8 to windows-1251 in the config.pl file and in the .htaccess file.

What did you do that for? UTF-8 supports everything, even Cyrillic.

>>433

Did you overwrite your config.pl with an old one with another password?

>>434

The characters that are displayed wrong, do they come from user posts or from the script itself? Also, as >>435 points out, maybe you'd be better off just using utf-8?

this isn't a futallaby support board.

I have no problems nor with UTF-8 nor with windows-1251 in the posts. the only problem with the correct display of the cyrilic charactes is in the title that is read from the config.pl (use constant TITLE = )

>>436
Nope, i've only ever updated with newer config's whilst changing some settings, same password, but sometimes lets me log in, and sometimes not.

When i do log in i cant click any of the links, gives me the same error.

>>440

You need to set the character set for the Perl file to match whatever charset you are using. Note how strings_jp.pl has a use encoding "Shift_JIS"; at the top. You need to add a similar statement to your config.pl.

>>441

I really have no idea what's going on there. It really makes very little sense.

After like 16-17 pages wakaba removed some images. how do I remove that limitation?

thanks

>>444 in config.pl there are age settings. Crank them up as high as you want for threads that last until the end of time.

>>444

>>445 almost got it, but basically, check the example config.pl for explanations of the options that determine when threads start getting deleted. Most of them can be set to 0 to disable.

Note that if you let a board grow very big, it will become slow, because it has to keep rebuilding all the page.

is it possible to setup a kareha board using the webspace my ISP gives me?

at like http://members.myISP.com/myusername/kareha

>>447

I dunno, does your ISP let you run Perl scripts and have a suitable thumbnailer installed?

I have run into quite a bit of trouble, when trying to get kareha to support EXIF data 4chan/p/ style. It displays the comment along with the picture and EXIF data fine, but when the picture with EXIF data along with the post is posted as a reply, then it will somewhere eat away the last </DIV> tag, which it doesn't do, when that post is the first post in a thread. Multiple threads also work, but not replies.

Any help or suggestions very much appreciated. :)

Without knowing what exactly it is you're doing with the EXIF data, it's impossible to say what's going on.

How do I use capped trips? I see

use constant CAPPED_TRIPS => ('!!example1'=>' capcode','!!example2'=>' <em>cap</em>');

And assume that typing name##example1 would result in name!! capcode, but it just treats it like a normal tripcode.

>>451

"!!example1" is the result of the tripcode, not what is typed in. Note that it says "!" and not "#".

I tried

use constant CAPPED_TRIPS => (' code'=>' !!<em>ADMIN ##</em>');

and entering Admin##code or Admin#code returns Admin!!MIVjB2tk and Admin!FKk4keqK9w respectively, when I expect Admin##ADMIN. Sorry if this is obvious, I just started learning perl.

>>454

Re-read what I said. You're not supposed to put in "code", you're supposed to put in "!!MIVjB2tk".

I just realize that what I am entering in config for the input to "use constant CAPPED_TRIPS" is tripcode output itself, not the phrase that generates the tripcode. Gotcha. Thanks.

Hi again.

After translating the whole strings_en.pl to a cyrilic language I get when trying to upload file:

Software error:

Malformed multipart POST

>>457

That's not an error Wakaba ever generates on its own, so it comes from somewhere else. I've never seen it before so I have no idea what it means. I am guessing it's an Apache or CGI.pm problem. Maybe Google has some clues?

Error message:
Can't locate config.pl in @INC (@INC contains: . C:/Program Files/xampp/perl/site/lib/ C:/Program Files/xampp/perl/lib C:/Program Files/xampp/perl/site/lib C:/Program Files/xampp/apache) at (eval 88) line 14. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 88) line 14.

This is what I get when I try to execute kareha.pl. I have no idea why since config.pl DOES exist in the same directory. Forgive me but I know nothing of perl programming (I am savvy with PHP, though). What's wrong?

It sounds like whatever is executing the Perl code is not CD'ing to the right directory. cgi-handler should do this, which makes me wonder if something else is trying to run it. Is mod_perl in use or something? Wakaba doesn't really work with mod_perl without tweaking.

So, the solution should be to either configure Apache to use cgi-handler for .pl files, or if that still doesn't work, you can try adding a BEGIN { chdir "path-to-files" } at the top before the other BEGIN statements. But the first is more likely to help.

>>460

Yes, I presumed that was the problem. I've been searching for a good 30 minutes for a config file that changes the root directory with no avail. And yes, I do have mod_perl (that has been bundled with xampp). Is there a noob-friendly way of installing cgi-handler? Sorry for my ignorance, it's just that I have never worked with perl before.

Thanks in advance.

Edit config.pl for enabling youtube embed code to be pasted in Formatting:HTML mode

use constant ALLOWED_HTML => (

    'a'=>{args=>{'href'=>'url'},forced=>{'rel'=>'nofollow'}},
    'object'=>{forced=>{'width'=>'425','height'=>'350'}},
    'param'=>{args=>{'value'=>'url'},forced=>{'name'=>'movie'}},
    'embed'=>{args=>{'src'=>'url'},forced=>{'type'=>'application/x-shockwave-flash','wmode'=>'transparent','width'=>'425','height'=>'350'}},
    'b'=>{},'i'=>{},'u'=>{},'sub'=>{},'sup'=>{},
    'em'=>{},'strong'=>{},
    'ul'=>{},'ol'=>{},'li'=>{},'dl'=>{},'dt'=>{},'dd'=>{},
    'p'=>{},'br'=>{empty=>1},'blockquote'=>{},

);

>>463
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://hotaru.thinkindifferent.net/bee.swf"/>

Left-hand side, see where the border is cut off along the thumbnail? What's up with that?

>>464 damn.

>>463,464

Try adding allowscriptaccess=>"never" to embed's forced tags. For object, you'd have to add a new param tag for it, which there is no way to do so I suggest disabling that.

>>465

CSS silliness. Not sure how to fix it.

>>462

cgi-handler is part of the base Apache. You just need to change the config to use that instead of mod_perl.

Is there a way to force long one string comments to wrap in wakaba (so that they don't mess up the page design, causing the horizontal scrollbar to appear - damn those malicious people)? I have tried looking at CSS, but that solution seems to work only for IE.

No. I find the solution more annoying than the problem (for instance, long links being broken by putting space in them, making cut-and-paste much harder than it should be), so I've never implemented it.

i'd like to recommend that q be added to the default list of allowed tags in html formatted posts.

<q>? What's that do?

>>472
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/xhtml/quickref/xhtml_q.html

oh, and support for svg images would be nice, too.

Too many arguments for main::clean_string at wakaba.pl line 1324, near "1) "
Too many arguments for main::clean_string at wakaba.pl line 1345, near "1) "
Too many arguments for main::clean_string at wakaba.pl line 1378, near "1) "
Execution of wakaba.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

help help help

>>474

Are there any useful command line tools that can quickly render an SVG file to a thumbnail?

>>475

Did you update a board without updating all the files?

>>476
ImageMagick? or is it too slow?

atm when i press del all in the management panel w/wakaba I get the following: Error: Management password incorrect.

I have messed with a lot of the board look, and even a bit of the management panel look, but I am confused as to what would be causing this problem. The del all button seems to be formed correctly still. :(

also, i have replaced the edited management post loop with the original and am still experiencing the problem. i can select individual threads to delete and they go through no problem.

<td><var dec_to_dot($ip)>
	[<a href="<var $self>?admin=<var $admin>&amp;task=deleteall&amp;ip=<var $ip>"><const S_MPDELETEALL></a>]
	[<a href="<var $self>?admin=<var $admin>&amp;task=addip&amp;type=ipban&amp;ip=<var $ip>" onclick="return do_ban(this)"><const S_MPBAN></a>]
</td>

>>478

A known bug, I hope I'll find some time to fix that and a couple of other issues soon. Haven't checked what causes it.

>>481
oshi... well until then i hope i don't get spammed to hell.. which has already happened once in the past three days that i've had the board up. is there any other way to remove all IPs from a board other than the management panel?

>>481
Just weren't enough parameters to delete_stuff as it was called from delete_all. ;)

Since there's no easy way to specify whether to archive the posts that [Del All] will remove, I chose not to archive them.

Line 1479 of wakaba.pl now reads

 delete_stuff('',0,0,$admin,@posts);

>>483
dat's my qtpai. <3

>>483

Ah, I suspected something like that. Thanks!

>>485
we are making a lot of changes to wakaba, like i said. are you interested in any of the changes? so far we haven't had any problems whatsoever with any. things we are looking to add are sticky threads (just because... people whine about not having it) and a multi-board management panel.

does anyone know how i could get our collapsible thread option to store a cookie that says whether it was opened or closed and make the thread collapse/stay open to reflect the cookie?

>>486

Look at the iichan sidebar.

I've had the collapsible thread idea in the back of my head for a long while (I made a Firefox plugin that did the same for 4chan waaay back in the day), but I never got around to doing anything about it. It's probably a good idea, although there are some problems to take care of, such as: if you use cookies to store the state, you have to make sure you're not making the client send a ton of old useless cookies to the server.

Still not going to add sticky threads, though. They reinforce the idea that a board is run by the moderators and the users are an audience, instead of a board being run by the users with the moderators being there to keep the place clean. That is to say, moderators should never, ever control the content of a board beyond removing abuse.

>>487
what about, hypothetically, if you had user voted stickies? ie a thread gets so many votes so it stays at the top for a set amount of time?

in the end someone controls what's happening on the boards, whether it's the admin, the moderators, or the people posting.

>>488

That's a better idea, I think, but then you have changed the dynamics of the board to something new and different. Whether it would be something good or bad, I can't quite say.

>>489
yeah.. i was just tossing that out there. creating stickies is a step closer to having user chosen stickies.

>>487
Aha! Huge thanks for the clarification of the western imageboard philosophy. :)

is there any way to link directly to a post in a thread like in kareha? ie http://clownpenis.fart/wakaba/4323.html/666

http://bad-end.org/stuff/spam.jpg
or http://www.pooshlmer.com/wakaba/res/28275.html if it isn't deleted

It dodged the spam trap on a wakaba 3.0.6 board and also posted an image. Have the spambots been tailored to wakaba?

>>493 A sign we're doing something right, that is!

>>492

#postnumber

>>493

I've seen that in a couple of places, and I really don't know what the deal is with that. It might be human posting, even. If it returns, further investigation will be called for.

I'm trying to set up Kareha (check with my host and they are configured for running perl), but after following the quickstart guide, I keep getting an error 500 when I try to access kareha.pl. Is there something I'm missing or still have to do before running the software?

>>496

See if anything in here helps, first of all: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1109033191/

>>497
Thanks, that took care of it! I just noticed that was linked at the top too, sorry for not seeing it earlier.

Is there a way to make certain users' names show up in a different color? For example, I want the name "The admin" to show up in red and the name "Mod" to show up in blue, while other users still continue with the normal colors.

500GET!
the thing to choose the formatting doesn't work in opera mini... the "more options link works, but it doesn't show the dropdown thing to select which formatting mode to use ;;

>>499

Well, set up capcodes for the admin and mod, and set them to output something like <span style="color:red">The admin</span>, then post with just the capcode and no name.

>>501

It may be that 4-ch is one or two versions behind...

>>502

This is probably a really silly question, but how do I post with a capcode? When I enter my name in as just that, it posts as some tripcoded(?) version of what I entered as the capcode in config.pl

>>503

You're supposed to put the tripcoded version in config.pl.

>>504
capcodes work in wakaba?

>>505

I guess I assumed we were talking about Kareha?

>>493

Furhter investigation of this mysterious spammer indicates that it is actually a human posting from a regular browser.

Not much to do about that, except to update spam.txt, I added a couple of entries that should give him trouble.

(I was going to post those entries here too but of course I got caught by the spam filter.)

>>506
the OP may have been, but I was wondering it it works with wakaba. doesn't seem like it would be hard to implement. or am i just assuming wrongfully?

>>504
Thanks, that cleared it up. I had it coded in backwards per se. Oh and I did mean in Kareha, I forgot that this thread is for both Wakaba and Kareha help when I posted that question.

i don't think your new spam definitions are stopping the spam... is there anything "special" you need to do in order for the new spam.txt to take effect or is it good to go as soon as you upload it?

I get a "403 Forbidden" error after installation.
I checked the HashBang and Permissions.

>>512

Check your error_log.

>>510

Check the 3.0.0 thread furhter down - turns out, there was a bug that made the spam definitions not work at all! You have to upgrade to fix them.

why don't icons work :( they are not working for swf. have not tried others. they are in /icons/ in the same directory as wakaba.pl etc chmod 755 for the dir and the flash.png.

Can kareha ban IP addresses when running under lighttpd, or does it have to be done manually?

>>514

I couldn't say without knowing more of what you did and what happens. Did you set them up correctly in config.pl?

>>515

Well, you can configure what kind of format Kareha writes the bans in to some extent. But I know nothing of lighttpd, so you'll have to figure out for yourself what to configure it to.

>>515
i had a custom ban system for kareha but i have since lost it... :( sorry

>>516

use constant FILETYPES => (
    swf => 'icons/flash.png',
    swf => '.',
);

i have tried commenting out the "swf => '.'," but the icons still do not show when someone posts a flash file.

>>517

Well it's definitely not correct to have both. Drop the '.' one.

>>518
icon still isn't showing after commenting out swf => '.', also the swf filenames are still not being renamed when posted. is that normal for filetypes that are not images?

>>519

Yes, anything in the FILETYPES list will not be renamed. Make sure the icon files are readable by the webserver process. Making them 644 should be enough.

>>520
I had it @ 755 and now it is @ 644. Still not working. example: http://wtfux.org/temp/res/1154.html

to recap:

config.pl @ /temp/ (755)
icon @ /temp/icons/flash.png directory (755) file (644)

use constant FILETYPES => (

swf => 'icons/flash.png',

);

We can post files of type 'swf' and the filenames are not altered when posted. BUT icon 'flash.png' does not show as the thumbnail for the post. It simply says "No Thumbnail."

>>521

That's also very weird. I just tried doing the exact same thing, and it worked just fine.

Wait, is your /thumb/ directory writable?

it is 751 atm i will try 755

made no difference, as was expected. see: http://wtfux.org/temp/res/1154.html#1167

also, i have commented out the portion of wakautils.pl that does the spam check as you suggested. i have yet to get the spam error but i hope to find a better solution sometime soon.

i am wondering if it is something strange with the dreamhost account, but this doesn't seem right because i have had wakaba boards on dreamhost in the past with no problem.

our files are edited to add custom features as i've said before, but my friend used our files on his home server and everything ran fine.

also, do you or anyone else have any suggestions for getting adbrite ad codes to work with wakaba? adbrite code creates an "xml parsing error: not well formed" when I try to implement it. The arrow in the xml error always points to the second equal sign in the adbrite script URL.

http://www.pooshlmer.com/wakaba/res/29219.html

>>523

Writable would be 777, probably.

>>525

If it's "<script src=http://whatever>", change it to <script src="http://whatever">. If nothing else works, set USE_XHTML to 0 and remove the lines about xhtml from .htaccess.

>>527
777 and still no icon.

I've had UXE_XHTML set to 0 for some time, didn't realize I had to remove something from the htaccess for it to work.

#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/xhtml\+xml
#RewriteRule \.html$ - [T=application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8]
#</IfModule>

correct?

ads are working now, but i think it will take 24 hours before adbrite network ads start showing.

I implemented a topbar nav menu on http://wtfux.org/ i believe it will be a good and easy way to provide a cross-browser friendly menu across every board by using one header.html (using either symlinks or changing the location/to/header.html in wakaba.)

just wanted some criticism from the society ;D

p.s. this site was just down or really really bogged down for the past half hour or more.

Why every time i try, i have this?
I hope anyone can helpme, its a problem with the perl scripts?

No ADMIN_PASS defined in the configuration at /usr/share/perl/5.8/CGI/Carp.pm line 314.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at config_defaults.pl line 133.
Compilation failed in require at kareha.pl line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at kareha.pl line 13.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([email protected]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

Thanks.

>>529
did you uncomment and change the ADMIN_PASS line in config.pl? carefully look through config.pl to make sure you have filled in and uncommented the required lines.

hint: read the comments next to the variables

Thank you very much! I new on this, and i a little emm... dumb jeje, but with your explanation i have my imageboard =3

But i have another question, how i do to have many seccion, you know like 4chan, i mean, how i do to have a frame with the sections. I have to do a directory for every section?

>>531
you need to setup a seperate directory for each board you want to run. also you will need one mysql databse per imageboard.

if you want to have a list of the boards on one side and the actual board to the right you need to setup a framed index.html that calls two html files for 2 separate sections.

> you will need one mysql databse per imageboard.

Actually, no, you don't. You can do it that way if you want, but you can also change the SQL_TABLE option to use differently-named tables in the same database for each board.

>>533
aso aso. any idea on swf icons? it wouldn't be a problem but i want a /random/ board that allows SWF posting as well. if I were to setup a seperate flash board then it would be as simple as coding the icons into futaba_style.pl

>>534

No, I really have no idea what's going on there. If you have the Perl skills, you can dig into the code and try to find what function call fails or something... Add die statements in strategic locations or some such.

>>535
my perl skills are limited. Not a problem, though. I will just have a seperate flash board. ^_^

p.s. how hard would it be to make the management panel create multiple pages rather than parse all of the post data to one page? the load time is horrible on boards with many posts.

I've run into a formatting bug that shows up in IE with kareha in messageboard mode where if the thumbnail of an image posted is taller than the post text, the image extends beyond the end of the post body and the style is generally broken. It looks like it's restricted to the Blue Moon theme (which I rather like...) as well as Toothpaste (basically where the post body has a different color background).

I set up an example at http://damagedgoodz.net/boardtmp/

Any suggestions?

None more useful than "don't use IE" or "figure out how to fix the CSS", because I don't know how.

Hi again!, i have another question.

When i try put the name "Berryz Kobo" i obtain this error

Can't locate object method "Berryz" via package "kobo" (perhaps you forgot to load "kobo"?) at config.pl line 14.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at config.pl line 14.
Compilation failed in require at kareha.pl line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at kareha.pl line 12.

But if i put just "Berryz" all working :S

i apreciated if anyone can help me. C-ya

"Try put the name"? You need to explain in a bit more detail what you are doing.

If you are trying to set the name of your imageboard to Berryz Kobo then it should look like this:

use constant TITLE => 'Berryz Kobo';	# Name of this image board

i've installed proxycheck into /proxycheck/ in a particular wakaba directory and set it to:

use constant PROXY_COMMAND => 'proxycheck/proxycheck -s -d achaea.com:23 -c chat::"Multi-User License: 100-0000-000" -aaaa';	

I enabled proxy check and there is an obvious pause between the time you press submit and when your post actually goes through, but when I post with Tor it does not catch the proxy. Am I doing something wrong?

I didn't write the proxy check code (dmpk2k did), so I can't tell for sure but Tor is not really any kind of normal proxy, so I'd imagine proxycheck doesn't notice it.

Do you have any leads on the cause of the spam filter blocking image posts? It's getting really annoying.

No, sorry, it's damn hard to debug when you can't reproduce it. Well, maybe I should try that trick I was thinking of earlier and give it to you to test... I'll try to remember.

>>545
If you are still experiencing it (as I'm sure my board would be too) you should comment out the block of code that handles the spam stuff. WAHa had me do that until further notice.

open wakautils.pl in your prefered editor and find sub spam_engine. comment out everything from my $spam_checker to spam_screen($query), like this:

sub spam_engine(%)
{

my %args=@_;
my @spam_files=@{$args{spam_files}||[]};
my @trap_fields=@{$args{trap_fields}||[]};
my %excluded_fields=map ($_=>1),@{$args{excluded_fields}||[]};
my $query=$args{query}||new CGI;
my $charset=$args{charset};

for(@trap_fields) { spam_screen($query) if $query->param($_) }

######################COMMENTED OUT TO STOP SPAM ERROR##########################
#my $spam_checker=compile_spam_checker(@spam_files);			       #
#my @fields=$query->param;						       #
#@fields=grep !$excluded_fields{$_},@fields if %excluded_fields;	       #
#my $fulltext=join "\n",map decode_string($query->param($_),$charset),@fields; #
#study $fulltext;							       #
#									       #
#spam_screen($query) if $spam_checker->($fulltext);			       #
################################################################################

}

Also, will Wakaba get fancy DISPLAY_ID support anytime soon (i.e. ability to make IDs not persist between threads, change daily, and such?) At least the board oper I was talking to said that lack of that was his reason for not using it.

>>548
you can make IDs change by day.

use constant DISPLAY_ID => 'mask,sage'; # How to display user IDs (0 or '': don't display,

											#  'day' and 'board' in any combination: make IDs change for each day or board,
											#  'mask': display masked IP address (similar IPs look similar, but are still encrypted)
											#  'sage': don't display ID when user sages, 'link': don't display ID when the user fills out the link field,
											#  'ip': display user's IP, 'host': display user's host)

The way I have it setup it shows a masked version of the users IP and shows ID:HEAVEN when a user sages.

Hmm. His exact words were "IDs on wakaba are broken in that they persist between threads." Guess he was wrong.

>>550
Oh does he mean that IDs stay the same thread to thread? that's... i dunno. sounds like a dumb idea imho. what would be the point of having IDs? other than showing if one person was posting multiple times in one thread.

in the end we all want different things. i guess it wouldn't be hard to add it. i'm not the expert, though.

Also, yo WAHa I added the email link protocols to wakaba.pl and it's working as you said it would. thanks. :)

my $protocol_re=qr/(?:http|https|ftp|mailto|nntp|news|ventrilo|aim|irc|steam)/;

>>551
It's because, in an extended discussion, certain people apparently have trouble keeping straight which Anonymous made which posts. I suggested SILLY_ANONYMOUS as an alternative but he thought that was, well, silly.

Persistent IDs in Wakaba are sort of impossible to do, as generating the ID requires knowing some fact that will stay constant throughout the thread, and that would most conveniently be the thread number, but the thread number is not known until the post is actually written to the database. So the ID of the first post would be wrong. I guess it could be added, with that caveat, if it's really wanted, though.

>>553
Why not the timestamp of the first post in the thread? Unless that's what the thread number is.

>>554

That's what Kareha uses, but the timestamp is not actually stored in the Wakaba database, only the textual date string. One could use that instead, but in either case it would require an extra database lookup for every post, and that seems sort of silly.

I made my wakaba display file sizes in KB rather than Bytes like so:

<var $size/1024> KB

Very easy, obviously. But it displays with lots of trailing decimals. A few wakaba versions ago I remember that I had this working without any decimal places but I don't quite remember how I did this. Is there some easy way to do it?

>>556
nevermind, i figured it out. sorry I'm dumb.

<var int($size/1024)> KB

I don't mind that the rounding isn't perfect. 1KB give or take isn't a big deal.

>>557

You can just add 0.5 to get the common rounding.

>>545

If you want, try this and see if it helps:
http://wakaba.c3.cx/stuff/wakatest.zip

>>558
add it to 1024? or add it to $size? orrrrrrrr add it to the product?

why not do ($size>>9)+1>>1 instead?

>>561
Because I have no idea what that does!

>>562
shift right 9, add 1, shift right 1...
it's slightly faster than doing int($size/1024+.5) (about .25 seconds of cpu time for 1000000 iterations on my machine), and, at least to me, a more straightforward way to do it...

>>563

This is Perl. The parsing cost for >> is higher than switching / out for it!

>>564
wrong. the parsing cost is the same for both.

This is a totally pointless discussion, but I'll point out that parsing cost is nearly non-existent, and always O(1), as Perl compiles to bytecode before running anyway.

>>565

No, see, it's one byte longer.

Anyway this is ridiculous.

would it be possible to add some <if $admin></if> statements into the futaba_style.pl $threads loop (and actually work?) I can't figure out what I need to add in wakaba.pl/wakautils.pl for this to work. The idea is to have management buttons in the threads that don't show unless you have the wakaadmin cookies.

Remember, the threads are static HTML files. You can't affect the contents at any other point than when somebody is posting.

What you could do is always add buttons, and use CSS to hide them and some Javascript to check for cookies and un-hide the buttons as needed.

>>569
lol so i should just steal the shit from the iichan sidebar and edit it to my needs then? <3~

How do I update the settings of a wakaba board after the board has been created?

for example, if I want to change the max file size, or the title of the board? I know where to change it in the config file, but I dont know how to ask the board to update its settings.

>>571

If the setting does not affect the look of the board, editing the config is sufficient. If it does, select "rebuild caches" in the admin panel.

Thank you

I think I found a bug in kareha... When you set the MAX_LINES_SHOWN to 0 (which should stand for 'no limit'), it actually does display nothing. A feature not implemented, perhaps? :)

I hope this is a "simple question." (sorry if it's not)
Well, my host doesn't allow running cgi out of cgi-bin, so I installed kareha there. Once I did that, it seemed I still had a problem. All the links formed as something along the lines of:

/cgi-bin/MYSITE/kareha.pl

What I eventually did to "fix" it is replace SCRIPT_NAME with SCRIPT_URL throughout the pl files.
Now everything seems to be working, except for in the full thread view: http://rabi.memebot.com/cgi-bin/a/kareha.pl/1171530470/l50
the "return" link is like this:

~/kareha.pl/1171530470/index.html

and the other links (entire thread, last 50 posts) add on after the thread number as well.

>>574 No, that's a feature! :) Just set it to something absurdly high.

I can actually see "0" being a useful setting for that, in some instances.

>>575

You probably need to edit the expand_filename() function to do something smarter.

>>577
ah, that sounds like it's over my head ATM, :x and I think I'll just try what >96 suggested in the 500 error thread

thanks

When I go to wakaba.pl, it redirects me to wakaba.html but does not create the file, so I get a filenotfound error. How do I fix this?

>>580

Go to wakaba.pl?task=admin and rebuild caches.

When I go to the admin panel and click "rebuild caches", it does something and then redirects me to wakaba.html again, which still isn't there.

Then something is seriously broken. Are you running on some weird webserver?

Running apache. I redownloaded wakaba and put it in a different directory, and now I'm not getting that particular error, so I probably corrupted some of the files or something.

Nevermind. I got mysql working on the new one and I'm now back to having this same error. This is really annoying.

Try searching your filesystem to see if it's putting wakaba.html somewhere else.

I tried that and no, it's not anywhere.

lol...I feel stupid. I changed the permissions for all the directories except for the root directory. I just set it to 777 and now it's working fine. Sorry for the trouble.

Hello,
I've been looking for a way to have smaller thumbnails in wakaba lately. Is that even possible? I located the lines responsible for the convert in wakautils.pl but I couldn't figure out how to change the width and height. I'm using imagemagick.
It's no big deal anyway, just curious to know whether that is tweakable or not. :)
Love ya WAHa.06x36!

>>589
Look in config.pl and find the following two lines:

use constant MAX_W => 285;						# Images exceeding this width will be thumbnailed
use constant MAX_H => 285;						# Images exceeding this height will be thumbnailed

Images larger than what you set there will be thumbnailed to the dimensions specified.

>>591
lol.. an hour well spent :p

when i press preview post on the kareha boards i have setup they just say loading and do nothing else. any idea what the problem could be?

>>593

Do you have the right version of kareha.js installed?

>>594
it was a fresh install of kareha (i think).. lemme check

>>596

Any messages on the Javascript console?

>>597
no, but firebug pops up and shows this..........

NEVERMIND. I just tried to upload a screenshot but I got the anti spam message!

Anti-spam filters triggered.

If you are not a spammer, you are probably accidentially trying to use an URL that is listed in the spam file. Try editing your post to remove it. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Uh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, looks like you've got something to work out maybe?

Anywy, here is the screenshot: http://wtfux.org/misc/what.JPG

Found a problem close to mine (http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1120353264/l50), but thought I would ask before I dismiss it as fixed. My host will not install mod_header, want me to pay extra, blah blah. Do I lose any functionality not fixed by adding <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" /> to the futaba_style.pl script?

My symptom before I added this line was that I would post a thread, and then attempt to reply to the thread and it would hang on waiting for host and then eventually display a blank page. Reloading showed no post, but then adding this line fixed it all.

IE is no concern of mine, but does this line fix all functionality lost by not having mod_header?

>>598

That certainly sounds like a browser bug, or unintended behaviour. You should really not be getting an error inside a try statement, as that is used to allow and catch errors in code! Is anyone else having the same problem?

Also, I tried putting out a fix for the spam bug for people to test, but nobody ever reported back whether it worked or not, so I still have no idea if that did anything.

>>599

It should be approximately the same, although I am sure there are cases where it does something different (because there always is), but if it looks like it's working, that should be good enough.

Hello
I understand that the futaba_style.pl script handles the pages when they are refreshed or whatever, but what i dont get is this

i added my code, then i reinstalled the script on the server, and it made no changes, i didnt see the ad anywhere. I just want to know what file and where i place my google ad code, becasue this doesent seem to be working here. again if anyone has done ads with the wakaba script please pass some info over on how to do it, im just not seeing it rite now, thanks!

>>601

You need to tell the script to actually write a new copy of wakaba.html before you see any changes. Go to the admin panel and pick Rebuild caches.

>>601
Do you have xhtml disabled? What sort of ad are you trying to run? Letterboard? Tower? Box? What's the dimensions and where do you want them to go?

You can see the way I have mine setup @ wtfux.org/random/

>>600
Could you try and use the preview feature @ wtfux.org/dis/ ?

would it be possible to somehow ban the MD5 hash of an image on a wakaba board?

>>604

I just did, and it worked fine.

>>605

I considered this, but it's too easy to circumvent, so I dismissed the idea.

>>606
alright so it must be my browser.

about the md5 hashes: i'm being sued (have been for a long while) by a particular artist over copyright infringement. all because people posted his works on some of my imageboards. my plan is to take every image of his that i can find, round up the MD5 hashes and only those ones, and ban these from being posted. it's very troublesome to wake up to see that some spammer posted a bunch of his images while all of our mods are away. this almost always leads to more DMCAs. I've had over FORTY in the last two years just from this one artist. You don't want to know the actual total..

Case in point.. it would be really really helpful. I know that people can simply alter the tiniest part of the image to change the MD5, but at least it would stop the people that are too lazy to do that. (most spammers are)

I can understand that this might not be a feature that most people would require. All things aside, I don't know how to do it myself. If you could point me in the right direction I would be most grateful.

>>607

In that case, dig into wakaba.pl's process_file function, and look for if($md5), where the existing MD5 checks are. If you want a quick hack, add something like this:

my %banned=(
    "12345abcd67890..." => 1,
    "44332211fedcba..." => 1,
);

if($banned{$md5})
{
    unlink $filename; # make sure to remove the file
    make_error("Enough of THAT");
}

>>608
Works well, thanks. Is there any way that I could put the MD5 hashes into a text list and have it read them from there? There are a loooot of them and I don't really want a huge list in wakaba.pl.

>>228

I'm having the same problem. Running ubuntu edgy. My perl testfile named test.pl works fine, while i get download dialog if i try to run wakaba.pl.

>>611

This may or may not work, I have not tested it:

my %banned=map ($_=>1),read_array("filename");

More elegant would be to implement an SQL query that gets the values from the admin table, but that would take actual work.

>>613
Doesn't work for me.

my %banned=map { ($_,1) } read_array("filename");

Maybe?

>>615
works awesomely... :D doesn't even noticeably slow down posting.

Quick question: If i wanted to show the users IP address (as a sort of scare tactic) in the error message that shows when they try and post one of the "blacklisted" images, how would I do this?
Right now I have:

in strings_en.pl -

use constant S_MD5BAN => 'You are not allowed to post this here!<br />'.
				 'Your IP has been logged for legal purposes.<br />'.
				 '<var dec_to_dot($ip)>';

in wakaba.pl -

	if($banned{$md5})
    {
        unlink $filename; # make sure to remove the file
        make_error(sprintf(S_MD5BAN));
    }

Change the <var...> to %s and add ,$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} to the sprintf statement.

>>618
thanks a lot.

Is it possible to restore archived threads?

One of my threads was accidentally sent to the archive. Is there a way to get it back?

>>620

In Wakaba? No, not really. It is theoretically possible if you made a tool to do it, but I haven't made any such tool.

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hmm, has anyone else noticed that "sage" in the email field is turning into "mailto://sage/"?