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.

>>680
pfffffffff haahahahaffshgsfgsdgsd

>>681
I'm guessing the "tagging" part set off your prehensile anti-Web 2.0 sense, eh?

>>682
i was loling at your entire request. unless you plan on offering some sort of payment to Waha then I'd say your request isn't gonna be fulfilled. maybe you should make one yourself?

>>683
I'm only proposing it if he has any latent interest in developing such a project in his free time. It's not like I'm storming through the door and demanding that he do it.

>>684

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Well, the idea has run through my head once or twice, but I've dismissed it in the past due to a lack of time for it, and I have even less of that now, so it is not likely.

Also, my inability to figure out a good set of basic mechanics that would not degenerate into groupthink and popularity contests has also prevented me from bothering furhter with the idea. Stuff like "comment ratings" especially are horrible.

The web 2.0 world is already filled with these horrible failures of community building, and I have no wish to add to their numbers.

> that would not degenerate into groupthink and popularity contests

but that's what web 2.0 is all about!

Perhaps I'll wait for the 2.1 update.

While I agree that a WEB 2.0 feature rich version of Wakaba would be awesome, I can understand that not enough administrators in the community would appreciate it like the few of us would.

dsadsa dsa

Why the square and two triangles links displays with slightly diffent shape in Firefox? The square particularly is even smaller in size.

Strange that I browsed similar forums and all of them uses the same chars (&#9632, &#9650 and &#9660) and all display ok in any browser.

It is a mystery.

Ok I found why. Needs just to set a mona font for these links styles.

>>693
Or you could use a font with decent unicode coverage as your default font...
I'd suggest the DejaVu fonts (Sans, Serif, and Mono Sans). They're free and, unlike Mona, actually look pretty nice.

>>270 where is this exact section of the function? And what would be put in to make it forward to the post?

http://lulz.net/furi/wakaba.html

We just started using our new wakaba.pl and futaba.pl files. We now have working sticky threads and a reworked management panel.
The management panel is now paged and made to look more like the actual main board.
There is also a janitor login area. Janitors cannot ban users or make threads sticky/unsticky. They can only delete files/posts.

(8 just braggggggging :X

>>696
you know you're making a pretty convincing argument that stickies are a bad thing, right?

>>697
1) Please give information as to how I am doing that.
2) Like it matters. No one else thought it was a good idea so we added it ourselves.
3) you know you're making a pretty convincing argument that stickies are a good thing, right?

>>698
1) furries.
2) FURRIES.
3) FURRIES.

now go die in a fire kthxbai

>>699
lol, the fact that we are testing all the features you hate with a niche that you hate is.. bad?

when we finish bug testing and tweaking our addons i will add them to our main boards/site. lulz.net is both our testing area and our trolling ground. if you do not see the obvious bonuses to controlling a furry community while not being a furry yourself, then you are blinded by your own e-peen.

>>696

and how are stickies helping anything in any way?

>>701
It doesn't matter. Your opinion has no reflection on our decisions.

If you would like to read up on the arguments for and against sticky threads, then just screen through some of the threads on this board. You'll find people giving obvious reasons why sticky threads would be helpful and then you'll find other people responding with "That's stupid. You're stupid. Stickies are blasphemy and no one will use them in my presence!"

Oh, and don't forget the ever popular "If you have something so important that every user must see it, then add it to the rules.html (and then reupload the .html file and then rebuild thread caches after waiting a minute for the management panel to load because your board has 20 pages of huge threads.)"

To which someone would reply "But what if I don't want to make my post form look bogged down and retarded? Perhaps there is a lot of information I need to pass on to the users and simply making a thread (that can be collapsed forever if you wish) would be the easiest route."

I will say this: It is a matter of opinion, and it just so happens that we believe sticky threads are helpful. The best part about a feature is you don't have to use it but you can if you want to.

The disadvantage of this form of forum is that I know more about this than you do, and making that post more than one paragraph is useless information.

It sounds like an opportunity for another field that only shows on front pages. Also, your SQL server is really slow.

>>703
I spread it all out real neat like just for you.

I even left cute little "in short" messages like this:

>>I will say this: It is a matter of opinion, and it just so happens that we believe sticky threads are helpful. The best part about a feature is you don't have to use it but you can if you want to.

p.s. gj on knowing more than me about anonymous imageboards.. i guess. did you get a PHD on japanese subculture or something?

It was awarded by the university of kamiyama mangetu-chan.

>>705
go back to china.

Im installing a wakaba board, and its going just fine. the only problem is the verification code section doesnt go away.
I have set use constant ENABLE_CAPTCHA => 0; but its still there. I deleted my browser cache, still there. any suggestions on how to get rid of the verification section beyond this?

>>707
did you rebuild caches after making the change? go into your moderation panel and click the "rebuild cache" link.

Alright, im a dork, I uploaded the wakaba.pl file again before doing the captcha change and forgot to set its CHMOD to 755.

>>709
ah, it happens. don't worry about it.

this is probably a really, really stupid question, and I'm sorry if it's been asked and answered multiple times, but I'm growing frustrated. I'm using PHPMyAdmin, and I've created the database, and every time I try to upload the config.php file, it says that I'm not using proper syntax, but I've tried editing it every way I know how. Does anyone have an idea as to what's going on?

> every time I try to upload the config.php file, it says that I'm not using proper syntax,

what is "it"?

Also, there is no "config.php" file.

is he talking about setting up phpmyadmin? lol

Hey, I've installed wakaba but I'm having trouble getting it running. It first refused to run at all and output the wakaba.pl file as ascii text. Changing the extension to .cgi fixed that. Now all the pages load, but it seems like it doesn't want to write to the database. It is connecting fine and is able to create new tables as after running it for the first time (through sh, mind you) it created the wakaba_admin, wakaba_comments and wakaba_proxy tables. No posts can be made, however, as no rows are ever inserted into the db. The SQL interface in the management panel can successfully exec commands on the db, however. I'm stumped...

http://www.reknet.ca/img

>>715

You're not supposed to run it through sh, that creates broken HTML. Manually go to the admin page and rebuild caches.

>>716
Already done that, several times. It rebuilds fine, but still can never enter new posts into the database.

>>717

Are you entirely sure you're doing that the right way? Because it's showing every sign of not being done.

Note that on the front page, the "Manage" link goes to "http://www.reknet.ca/img/?task=admin", but if you go to the right location by hand, it is "http://www.reknet.ca/img/wakaba.cgi?task=admin" as it should be. This means that the script couldn't find its SCRIPT_NAME variable when it built the pages, but that it can find it when you access it through the web.

Hi there, i tried to install Wakaba 3.0.7 on FreeBSD with Apache 1.3.x

I don't get an error 500, Perl execute and all but it seems unable to connect to mysql o_O (says fetch error)

If i go with SQLite, then i get a 500 error + this log from apache:

[Fri Mar 30 00:59:00 2007] config.pl: Constant subroutine main::CONVERT_COMMAND redefined at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/constant.pm line 103.
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libsqlite3.so.8: Undefined symbol "pthread_create"
[Fri Mar 30 00:59:00 2007] [error] [client 192.168.1.90] Premature end of script headers: /home/www/xchan/wakaba.pl

Any ideas?

>>719
DO YOU HAVE MYSQL INSTALLED?

>>718
Thanks, I wiped the caches, tooled the .htaccess (used cgi-script instead of cgi-handler, now .pl works, this on apache 2.0.54) and re-ran through a browser. Works now, thanks.

>>720

Yes. The server is on another (working) internal host.
The client is also installed.

>>721
me again. it is working, but the file size limit seems to be wrong. It won't allow any file, of any type, that is over 1 mb.

I've tried setting MAX_MEGABYTES as high as 100, but it didn't change anything

>>719

Your install of sqlite seems to be broken.

>>723

Probably a limitation imposed by the webserver.

>>724
I'll check, but I'm pretty certain it's not. Especially since the error returned is a wakaba page, not an apache error.

>>723
MAX_MEGABYTES sets the maximum space that the board will take up in TOTAL space. You want to edit MAX_KB to change the maximum allowed size for files.

>>724
You are right, dunno why just recompiled without thread support and now works like a charm o_O Still dunno why it won't work with mysql but whatever, as long as posts are working i don't mind.

Thanks!

>>727

Oh, yes, you are right. I was not paying attention.

Ok so, (im 728, 719)

SQLite work perfectly. I reinstalled the perl mysql module just to make sure but the same error still trigger:

[Fri Mar 30 16:15:46 2007] wakaba.pl: DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_hashref failed: fetch() without execute() at wakaba.pl line 1835, <FILE> line 3.

Wakaba fails to make the tables in the database. The installed mysql client is version 5 connecting to a v4.1 server (and this is working with a php script).

Any idea?

>>730
Ah im a moron X_X didnt install the right perl module.

sorry to have taken your time.

>>727
ah, thanks

>>732
no problem

>>152
Was a solution for this ever found? Because not even deleting the cookie is working for me.

>>734

There's really no way to solve an unreproducible problem, so no. For you, though, it sounds like you might be stuck behind a buggy transparent proxy.

hi, i'm trying install kareha, and i get this error:

[Fri Apr 6 19:18:52 2007] templates.pl: [Fri Apr 6 19:18:52 2007] templates.pl: [Fri Apr 6 19:18:52 2007] wakautils.pl: Too many arguments for open at wakautils.pl line 500, near "$cachefile) # get modified date and cache contents [Fri Apr 6 19:18:52 2007] templates.pl: [Fri Apr 6 19:18:52 2007] templates.pl: [Fri Apr 6 19:18:52 2007] wakautils.pl: " [Fri Apr 6 19:18:52 2007] templates.pl: [Fri Apr 6 19:18:52 2007] templates.pl: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at templates.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at kareha.cgi line 14.

any idea?

I'm trying to use FORCED_ANON => 0 on my wakaba but the changes don't seem to go through. Is this setting supposed to remove the name field and set all future posts to Anonymous or not show the name field at all? That is exactly what i want to do but so far it's not working well.

Nevermind, it works now, i had it on 0 for some reason.

>>736

That error seems messed up and unreadable. Also, it's very confusing. Are you using some ancient version of Perl or something? Or did the files get messed up?

There's a minor problem with Wakaba's strikeout code in do_spans(). Malicious poster can create constructs like <!--0-<del>->, which may block others from viewing the board.

Patch (probably kinda ugly, but...): http://www.pastebin.cz/show/668

I've always said there should be a function to rebuild all the html files wakaba has output, the threads. Is that what rebuild cache does? I'm afraid to try it on my live board.

I'm using kareha now which i find is really nice but i've made some modifications to make it fit into the design of my webpage and pretty much all of this fails because kareha calls kareha.pl directly when showing threads. If it were to just call res/thread-id.shtml as the file is called all would be well for me. How can i make it do this?

>>741

Yes.

>>742

Just edit the template to change the links. mode_image does this already, for instance.

>>739

I'm running it on a university server that has silly restrictions that say that the the scripts have to be .cgi, they have to be not writable by anyone by the owner, and cannot set uid or gid.

I had to change kareha.pl to kareha.cgi, and I did change the name in the source files. I tried the same thing again with a fresh install, and I got the same error.
And it's running perl 5.8.7 on linux.

Thanks.

I had to change kareha.pl to kareha.cgi, and I did change the name in the source files.
which files? the only one i see 'kareha.pl' in is admin.pl...
if you changed anything anywhere else, that's probably what caused the problem.

I'm sorry if I didn't lurked enough, though I tried. But I'm almost complete noob and I need some help installing Kareha.

1. I must extract Kareha archive in every folder that will be on BBS, don't I? (i.e. each folder (/music/, /text/, etc) must have its own set of files including config.pl and others)
2. What configuration changes I should make to Apache in order to run scripts from those folders not from /cgi/ or /cgi-bin/ folders? Where those changes should be implemented? How do I make Apache to run those scripts? (Perl is installed and working)
3. How do I disable HTML formatting? Or even set "WakabaMark" only?

>>746

1. That is the simplest setup. If you have lots of boards, you can do tricks with softlinks to make it easier to maintain, but that's not necessary. Also, you're probably better off not making a lot of boards anyway. (This is something most people miss.)
2. http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html
3. There's a list of formatting modes somewhere in the config, I forget where exactly.

I gave up on trying to make kareha ssi and just run it as is. I've translated the template file to swedish though if anyone cares i have a link to it here.

http://swehack.se/pub/code/template_se.pls

Swedish characters are corrupted somewhere in kareha.pl when building cache. I'll try and find out where but it would be great if someone with more knowledge of the script could fix it. Example below.

http://swehack.se/forum/kareha.pl/1176204606/l50

> Swedish characters are corrupted somewhere in kareha.pl when building cache. I'll try and find out where but it would be great if someone with more knowledge of the script could fix it. Example below.

your kareha.pl is sending utf-8 pages as iso-8859-1 instead of utf-8. setting the encoding to utf-8 causes the page you linked to to display correctly. i'm guessing you changed CHARSET in config.pl to iso-8859-1 instead of utf-8. if you did, all you need to do to fix the problem is just change it back (or just comment out that line, as utf-8 is the default).

Thank you! That sure helped, i changed the charset because i was afraid swedish characters would not be displayed properly if i had utf-8 but i guess i was wrong.

A spam bot was able to create anchor tags linking to the usual random pill sites in a post on one of our boards. How is this possible? It only scares me because if spammers can do it then what's stopping malicious people from.. being malicious?

>>747
Thank you!

>>751
if you select html formatting it only allows certain tags.

>>753
for wakaba?

also, how do i ban an IP range in wakaba?

>>754
i'm pretty sure you can't do html formatting on wakaba boards.

>>755
.htaccess

>>756
i said in >>751 that a spam bot was able to create an <a href=""><a> link on the board.

>>755,756

Or use the mask field when banning on the management panel. You need to understand how netmasks work, though.

>>757

But was it Wakaba or Kareha?

>>758 Wakakakakakakaba~

I deleted the post before realizing that perhaps I should check the mysql and see what was in the comment section. I'm at a loss for how they did it.

I have installed the new version of wakaba and almost everything is running well, except the wakaba board that uses oekaki, that gives me plenty of errors.

First one is that seems not to recive the comment field, if i only writte the comment field it says that i must writte something...

Another error i get is that if i reply one image inserted with oekaki, of course, as it doesn-t takes the comments i must insert a image, when i use a nickname i get the spam error, if i post it without nickname i post correctly the image.

>>547

I have done this to try to prevent the spam filter, i have also tried to leave spam.txt empty, but without success in any case.

Can you give-me some tips to solve this?

Thanks

>>760

Maybe oekaki_style.pl is not updated for the spam trap? You could try copying the right names over from futaba_style.pl... It's been a long time since I did anything with oekaki.

Well guys, I'm here to ask a question that quite a few of my friends aretoo timid to ask:

I need a clear rundown with installation. A REAL clear walkthrough. Existing instructions are made by coders for coders, I feel like an Italian kid trying to read Portugeese.

I am not a coder by any stretch of the imagination. I can screw around in HTLM in the most basic fashion. That's about it.
I download the files and I have no idea where to place them. I have this folder full of... stuff. Do I simply upload the folder via FTP and viola, instant wakaba page?

I have a Mac running OSX 10.8 and the '.pl' files do not open in browsers like the instructions say. I can open them in a txt reader and dick with it there.. but then what?.

Oh, I've already been to the Wakaba 'quick start' page.
I get instructions like "Start a database", "install thumbnailer" and "config Wakaba". I click to get details only to be told that 'text does not exist yet'. Not much help at all.

The server side of things is all clear, I know this because a friend of mine is letting me bum space from his domain and he already has a wakaba page... (which he forgot how to install also.)

There are a multitude of others that share my frustration.
This is my plea for getting the secret to getting this thing to work! Help me and I will erect a statue bearing your likeness.

Many Thanks!!!!!!

>>763
create a mysql database

upload the files and required directories (/src, /res, /thumb, /css, and /include)

CHMOD 755 wakaba.pl and captcha.pl

edit config.pl to reflect your mysql information and preferred board settings.

goto yoursite.com/wakaba/wakaba.pl and hope you didn't mess anything up

and that's about it.

>>761

Thanks for the info ;)

I'm afraid that i don't have the enought time to do this, so i'll disable it, thanks again.

I'm absolutely confused. I cannot install kareha.

Exactly what do I have to do? It'd be really, really nice if someone were to write a simple, step-by-step guide to installing it for those of us who are terribly confused by all of this.

For one, do you have to download MySQL, because I have MySQL databases provided by my webhost?

I don't understand any of what you all are saying, and I guess I should look into it more, but man...

And this is for kareha, not wakaba.

http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html#KarehaQuickStart

I'm having a weird problem with oekaki.. it seem that it save all drawing using the user ip.. so when the user want to draw another pic, it say can't save file because the filename already exist..

Maybe I misconfigured something?

>>768

nevermind, i found the solution.. let wakaba rename the png file..

How can I add an area in Wakaba which lists thread subjects, like Fchan has? Something similar to what's happening in div id="threadbox" on this board? Thanks in advance

You implement it yourself, I guess. There is no such feature in the base version.

...Yeah, I realize that, but could you give me any guidelines like what files, functions, whatever would I be working with within this script? I don't expect anyone to write out a bunch of code for me, I'm just not familiar with the inner-workings of this script, so I would like to know what I would be focusing on. Thanks.

>>772
Don't alter things if you're not able to read the "code." If you do, remember to keep backups of your original file.

I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but maybe you should learn up on some perl and then start tinkering with the imageboard.

If you wanted to add something like you're asking for you would only need to add a section to futaba_style.pl. Basically the thread list on fchan is a stripped down clone of the threads themselves. All you need to do is copy the thread list code and strip out everything except the thread subjects then add it below the post form.

I have a problem with wakaba and I hope you can help me.

When I make a post I get this:

Method Not Allowed

The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /wakaba/wakaba.html.

Ok, so I read somewhere that if a web host does not support POST then it is pretty stupid. I looked it up and my web host does support POST. The support forum also told me that you can't send POST-data to an HTML-file.

I really don't get it. Isn't the wakaba.html supposed to redirect me to some data-processing perl-file and then send me back to the html-file?

Anyway, thanks for your help!

Is the POST content somehow getting redirected to the html file when the script forwards? That's kind of strange.

Does anything get posted? Does setting ALTERNATIVE_REDIRECT to 1 in the config help?

How can i make wakaba show the original filename in the thread layout?