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.
>>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
You should rebuild caches.
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.
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
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.
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 :]
You need to get lighttpd to tell the browser not to cache the pages. Also, a reload should show the new thread.
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?
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 :]
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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)
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?
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?
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...
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
Is it possible to modify the script so i can post as ##mod???
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
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?
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?
Use the files in include/, or edit futaba_template.pl.