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

Before posting, check that the question has not already been answered in this thread, or in the previous thread: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1141929669/

Questions about "500 Internal Server Errors" go in this thread: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1109033191/

990 from the old thread here,
thanks for the suggestion of an if statement, it worked just fine.

Hi!
I downloaded wakaba, but i cannot find documentation or any kind of instructions. Yet when I edit config.pl, it says there to read documentation first. Where i can find that?

Perhaps I should have linked http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html from the first post...

I also have a rather verbose wakaba setup guide at http://wiki.iiichan.net/index.php?title=Wakaba_and_Kareha_Setup_Guide

Thanks! That guide was helpful.

Any idea why the [del] button next to a post you've made won't work from the main page (with all the other threads, like /sup/) but when you go to the thread page (/sup/kareha.pl/######/) it works?

>>12

No. Check the Javascript console for error messages.

is there a changelog for wakaba?

No, sorry. The closest is that most changes are noted in the release thread: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1130723862/.

How do your get google adsense work in wakaba? When I download my wakaba.html, I can see the code in there, but all lines have been stripped away. Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening? There is no such option in config.pl.

>>18

No, there is such an option in config.pl. Search the old thread.

I did that, but didn't find answer, well, at least answer I could understand. It seems I should edit include() in wakautils.pl, but what I should change in it?

That is an ancient answer. Just look at config.pl again, there's a STRIP_NEWLINES option, or something similar.

I looked at it, but I can't still find it there, or anything like it.

I looked at it, but I can't still find it there, or anything like it.

Yeah, seems I only got around to adding it to Kareha and not to Wakaba. You can fix it yourself by adding a ,1 to the end of the compile_template call in futaba_style.pl.

use constant PAGE_TEMPLATE => compile_template(NORMAL_HEAD_INCLUDE.q{
(all the html for the frontpage goes here)
}.NORMAL_FOOT_INCLUDE,1);

Hi, i successfully installed wakaba but when tying to login to managment panel i always get the "Management password incorrect" despite that the password is correct for sure. This happened after i changed the encoding in config.pl file to 'windows-1251' when i change it back everything works fine. How can i fix this problem? Thank you

Does the password contain any non-ASCII characters?

>>26
no, it contains only numbers

Then I am completely lost.

Does RSS work with image-mode?

>>29 with kareha, yes. Wakaba doesn't have RSS.

So I set up a kareha image-mode board, and people are posting, which makes me happy. But threads keep getting deleted without human input, which makes me unhappy. I can't imagine what's causing this - looking over config.pl, all the settings seem reasonable and shouldn't be killing the threads like that. The threads aren't exceeding size limits, post limits, or time limits. The deletion seems random, but the board's never gotten past 11-12 threads before something disappears, and usually threads disappear before a second page is even created. Any ideas why?

Possibly relevant config.pl settings:

use constant THREADS_DISPLAYED => 10;
use constant THREADS_LISTED => 40;
use constant REPLIES_PER_THREAD => 1;

use constant MAX_THREADS => 0;
use constant MAX_POSTS => 500;

use constant TRIM_METHOD => 1;

use constant DELETE_FIRST => 'single';

none of these seem like they should be deleting things...

MAX_POSTS => 500 does mean total posts.

yeah, but there haven't been near that many total posts. (it's a very small board)

>>33

I suggest setting a MAX_THREADS then leaving MAX_POSTS to 0.

What software should I use to edit the futaba_style.pl file and actually see the changes happen? I am currently using Dreamweaver CS3 to create my site, but when I try to edit this file, I can't see what's going on, I can only see the code.

>>30 I am using kareha. I tried setting the RSS-file name to index.rss, but it only generates an empty file.

Look here:
http://zzub.org/forum/index.html
http://zzub.org/forum/index.rss <- completely empty

>>34

Did that, posts are still being weird and disappearing.

>>37

Are the image files disappearing from src/ and thumb/, too?

>>35 uh, notepad?

>>38

Indeed they are. And the HTML files from res/ as well.

>>39 uh, you didn't read what I said. I want to SEE the actual changes that the values I edit make, the COSMETIC changes to the site. I can see the actual code fine, I just want to see it change in realtime instead of having to upload it to the server everytime.

>>41

Install a local copy and run it. That's the only way.

>>42

How would I go about doing this? Do I have to install apache server and Imagemagic software on my PC?

I don't know how to setup a local host.

Yes, pretty much.

>>43 google "wamp" for the basic package, then install perl as well.

>>45

Ok, installed them both, but I don't know what to do next. Is there a new-user friendly tutorial on this or would you folks just have to end up walking me through this?

Thanks for the software though.

Is there ## Admin and ## Mod functionality in base Wakaba?

>>47
no, you need to add it yourself.

And you should really consider not doing it.

>>38

So no ideas as to what's causing it? It's really getting annoying.

None. It's the first I've ever heard of a problem like that. Can you post your entire config.pl?

okay, my config.pl, save the crypto secret and the admin pass, and a huge block of stuff I didn't touch (everything after SPAM_TRAP is still commented out and at its default), is at http://hofochan.tejat.net/configbugged.txt

I've made a few changes since I posted those lines back in >>31 but the problem hasn't stopped.

You've got MAX_MEGABYTES set to 1. That's how many megabytes the entire board is allowed to take up before threads start getting deleted.

oh wow, really? I totally misinterpreted that - I thought it was the max size for each image. Wow. Go me.

Thanks for helping!

how the poop do i change the color of the captchas? currently it is #800000 (128,0,0) but when i edit the (128,0,0) places in captcha.pl it stops showing captcha images altogether.

what the butt am i doing wrong? D:

There is a hack in there that reads the colour from the CSS files, so change it in there.

>>57
yeah i saw that.. i just have no idea what css to put in the file.. ie what label to use.

Ok so i got mysql, apache configrued to run cgi, heidisql, and wakaba. I know i have to create a database so I did but I don't know what tables to add. And im not real sure where to put wakaba in apache folder. does it go in htdocs? Well i put it in there and told apache to use wakaba.pl as a default page so heres what i get. Go to http://75.4.51.1

>>58

Just look at the default ones.

>>59

The script creates the tables itself. And no, wakaba.pl should most definitely not be set to the default page.

Ok then so im gonna put these in steps in order from what i know.
1.gain apache, mysql, perl
2.allow apache to use cgi
3.create a database for wakaba
4.download wakaba files and unzip them
5.edit config files config.pl,wakaba.pl,maybe another one
6.At this step im confused, where do i put my files to make them work? I think i have to put them in apache but i don't know if i should put them in the root directory or the cgi folder. After i do this i should be able to access the site.

Another thing is you said not to make wakaba my defualt page so what should i tell apache and if i need to be able to make wakaba.pl an html file how do i do that? As you can see i have the basic idea on how to get started but the problem is tweaking config files and placing my files in a place readable by perl and apache. All thanks to who gets my stuff to work

So, anyone else gotten RSS working with kareha image mode?

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

>>61 Whatever directory you set up as the "root" directory in apache. Go look at the apache documentation, it's not our job to help you out with that.

I have a problem. When trying to make a manager post without file i get "no comment entered" error. When i make a post with an image everything works fine except for that the comment i entered is not displayed along with Name and Subject. What can be the cause and how can i fix it?
Thank you.

>>65
I'm pretty sure the manager post form is broke as hell.
Check the old support thread for a post on how to fix it.

>>65
make sure the id for the different fields in the management panel are the same as the ones in the normal post form. somewhere along the lines some things got changed and waha didn't apply the changes on the management panel.

I'm trying to get Kareha to work with IIS. So far, it largely works fine... the script runs, it's possible to post/reply, thumbnail converter works, etc. However, if I try to access the page for a specific thread (ie ./kareha.pl/1192108766/l50) it gives me a 404 error. However, it is creating the thread files in the ./res/, and the front page is able to load that data...

Any ideas?

it's likely trying to open a folder named /1192108766/, which obviously doesn't exist. There must be a way to re-write that url so that it sends the request to kareha.pl instead. I know you could do it using mod_rewrite in apache, but ISS is another matter entirely.

Sounds like CGI is broken in IIS, and it doesn't support PATH_INFO properly.

The only solution I can think of other than somehow making IIS not be broken is to hack Kareha to not use PATH_INFO but some kind of normal CGI parameter instead. Not recommended unless you know your way around Perl.

Is there a possibility of a MySQL powered Kareha (2ch-mode)?

No, not really.

Hi, I was wondering if there is anyway to use Wakaba without using SQLite, I haven't played with just commenting it yet but thats something I will do when I have a chance. Thanks.

(Just for the curious ones)
Im getting this message while running Wakaba.pl

Software error:
install_driver(SQLite) failed: Can't locate DBD/SQLite.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at (eval 321) line 3, <FILE> line 3.
Perhaps the DBD::SQLite perl module hasn't been fully installed,
or perhaps the capitalisation of 'SQLite' isn't right.
Available drivers: DBM, ExampleP, File, Gofer, Proxy, Sponge, mysql.
at wakaba.pl line 45

Clearly showing that I don't have SQLite installed.
Again, is there anyway around using SQLite? Thanks, Wakaba is great.

Hi, I was wondering if there is anyway to use Wakaba without using SQLite, I haven't played with just commenting it yet but thats something I will do when I have a chance. Thanks.

(Just for the curious ones)
Im getting this message while running Wakaba.pl

Software error:
install_driver(SQLite) failed: Can't locate DBD/SQLite.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at (eval 321) line 3, <FILE> line 3.
Perhaps the DBD::SQLite perl module hasn't been fully installed,
or perhaps the capitalisation of 'SQLite' isn't right.
Available drivers: DBM, ExampleP, File, Gofer, Proxy, Sponge, mysql.
at wakaba.pl line 45

Clearly showing that I don't have SQLite installed.
Again, is there anyway around using SQLite? Thanks, Wakaba is great.

> Hi, I was wondering if there is anyway to use Wakaba without using SQLite,

yes, you can use mysql instead.

Uhh, how? I set up the database and everything...

Its still given me that error.

NVM, I seem to have gotten it, just uncommented the 2nd use constant SQL_DBI_SOURCE

How do I make new directories?

I copied the wakaba.html file over into the new directory but it shows the same thing that the wakaba.html does. also, what about the reply pages and what not? How should everything be placed and routed?

>>79
You need to copy everything to the new directory.

everything like what?
The res folder? the .pl's? im pretty sure I wouldn't have to copy EVERYTHING over cause most pages have links and what not made so it will go back to itself like "/chan/whatever/"

>>79 are you trying to set up two boards, like say /anime/ and /non-anime/? then you need to set everything up twice. the boards don't talk to each other.

>>81
Ugh, okay, let's start from the beginning.

You download wakaba, so you now have a wakaba folder. Goto config.pl, edit the data you want to edit and save it. Upload load it to your site, and change the directory name (site.com/anime/). Change the config (from your computer) again to what you want the new board to be. And upload it to your site as a differenct directory (site.com/non-anime).

How to use utf-8:

The top of your config file should look like this:

use constant ADMIN_PASS => 'change this';
use constant NUKE_PASS => 'change this';
use encoding 'utf-8';

Note that use encoding is applied AFTER the admin passwords.

Also, NUKE is an offensive term for a country that was bombed by nuclear weapons, and why do you insist on swearing in comments to the source code?

>>84
I've never seen anyone consider nuke an offensive term, besides nuke is a very fitting term for what the feature does.

Waha probably uses swearing to emphasize how important it is to change the password.

And lastly in my experience, most non-native english speakers don't consider english swearing to be as offensive as a native english speaker would.

>>85
Yeah, fuck all that shit.

How would you go about setting the password for mods? I've tried making an admin password and giving it to the mods but that doesn't work.

>>87 they can't log in using it?

>>88
Nope, and after they try to use it it won't let me log in and I have to reset it.

Can't find anything on this, so I'll post it hoping there is a quick solution.

I installed a fresh copy of wakaba with oekaki integration and attempt to upload a file and get this error:

CGI open of tmpfile: Permission denied

Now, I googled this and it turns out that it might have something to do with the world writeable temp directory that is supposed to be there on the host, but probably is not now because my host (ipower) has been getting worse and worse lately.

So, is there a way to make all the wakaba scripts use the tmp directory from the oekaki?

Is there a way to make an image appear below the "Flood detected" screen?

>>91 check out the strings files, or perhaps the template one, depending on whether you're talking about kareha or wakaba

lol sorry for all these posts, I'm a little new to this. I'm having a problem with the little icons that should appear next to the board title on the tab for each board. Instead I'm getting the default page icon on Firefox. Now, it'll work if I go directly to the board, but if I click on the board from the site it won't work.

>>90

That is not handled by Wakaba, but by CGI.pm. You'd have to hack or replace that somehow, but if you can't even get a temp directory working right on that server, chances are you're not going to have much luck with that either.

>>90,97

$ perldoc CGI | tail -n +767 | head -n 13
           The temporary directory is selected using the following algorithm:

               1. if the current user (e.g. "nobody") has a directory named
               "tmp" in its home directory, use that (Unix systems only).

               2. if the environment variable TMPDIR exists, use the location
               indicated.

               3. Otherwise try the locations /usr/tmp, /var/tmp, C:\temp,
               /tmp, /temp, ::Temporary Items, and \WWW_ROOT.

           Each of these locations is checked that it is a directory and is
           writable.  If not, the algorithm tries the next choice.
$

so it should be as easy as making a directory that's writable by the script and then setting the TMPDIR environment variable.

>>98 Where would I go about setting such a variable? In the wakaba script hopefully, because I do not have access to server settings as it is share hosting.

>>97 sorry, forgot to say, the tmp directory that I set up for the oekaki works fine, which means the oekaki part of the wakaba script and the board itself function perfectly, the only thing that happens is that I can't post images directly. So to return to >>98 where would I go to set such a variable, sorry I am unfamiliar with perl to that extent.

>>99-100
http://www.devdaily.com/perl/edu/qanda/plqa00014/
second result on google for perl environment variables.

>>101 thanks, !waha where would be a good place to drop this statement in your code?

I am very interested in programming, specifically for mac. What app would someone use to program without using java or applescript? How would you compile the source for Dag Ågren's source codes?

>>102

You probably want it right at the top, perhaps even in a BEGIN {} statement. At least, it should be before the "new CGI" line. I'm not sure when CGI.pm reads those variables...

What would cause tripcodes to be shat out differently every time?

The Wakaba install was working perfectly before it was moved to a new system (that was set up almost exactly the same), and now using tripcodes results in a random output. They're completely broken.

We're one of the "large" chans, probably the only one of large size still using Wakaba as Kusaba is a hunk of shit, so this is a bit of a critical problem.

>>105
maybe your server's crypt() isn't the usual des-based one?
on bsd systems you can check to see if crypt_default is set in /etc/auth.conf, if it's set to something other than des you'll probably have to change it.

What >>106 said.

What >>107 said.

But seriously, many fairly well known western imageboards, which have been around for quite a while, use wakaba:

• iichan/wakachan, of course. there's other scripts on some boards but it's mostly wakaba
• ko-chan uses wakaba for /b/ and has kareha elsewhere
• chansluts uses kareha
• fchan uses wakaba with a screwy weird layout
• wtfux uses wakaba, same screwy layout as fchan
• 420chan has a hacked wakaba with stickies and stuff
• desuchan uses wakaba with a bunch of crazy hacks like stickies and post editing (what)

There's a lot more, but I'm getting out of the "large" chans as you put it. Point is, after weeding out the weak attempts at boards that high school kids started that are generally destined for failure, the vast majority of imageboards do, in fact, use Wakaba.

>>108
It was 420chan. We actually have a lot more hacks than stickies and locked threads but most of it is on the moderation side to make things a lot easier to manage.

>>106
That was spot on, thank you.

I'm wondering what people are using to automatically archive their kareha boards, to try and keep loads down. Kareha gets a little top-heavy as the thread count rises.

I'm wondering, I moderate a fairly popular site for anime fans and we're trying to setup wakaba for all the sections there. I've read that it's possible to span the spam.txt file throughout all boards so that way you only have one spam.txt file to edit when we need to blacklist a site. How can we do that to save the hassle of modifying all 8 spam files?

>>111 use constant SPAM_FILES => ('http://domain.tdl/boards/spam.txt', 'http://wakaba.c3.cx/antispam/spam.txt', '../boards/spam.txt');

Should be down near the bottom of the config.pl file.

>>113
Wouldn't that cause wakaba to download the spam file every time someone posts? (Can you even use http links there?!)

>>111
lolol@#tripcode

>>114 Read the comment next to it, it explains everything. The code is somewhat self-documented, after all.

>>116

> # Spam definition files, as a Perl list.
> # Hints: * Set all boards to use the same file for easy updating.
> # * Set up two files, one being the official list from
> # http://wakaba.c3.cx/antispam/spam.txt, and one your own additions.

All that comment tells me is that I can put more than one file there, and where I can get the official list. In fact, nowhere in the source code does Wakaba attempt to download anything defined in either SPAM_FILES or any local variable derived from it. Please elaborate further.

Is there any way to only permit registered users to post even though that is totally against the concept of imageboards?

>>118 in a way, using "approved" tripcodes.

>>117 It's in the wakautils.pl file. spam_checker(), spam_engine(), etc.

So, I've been trying to intall the latest kareha release on my webspace (perl version 5.8.7), and I'm getting stuck. When I go to http://www.ftmvariations.org/sg/kareha.pl I'm getting:

Software error:

syntax error at config.pl line 165, near "1;"
Compilation failed in require at kareha.pl line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at kareha.pl line 12.

line 165 refers in my config.pl file to the very end, the last line with "1;"

---------
# Allowed HTML tags and attributes. Sort of undocumented for now, but feel free to
# learn by example.
# use constant ALLOWED_HTML => (
# 'a'=>{args=>{'href'=>'url'},forced=>{'rel'=>'nofollow'}},
# 'b'=>{},'i'=>{},'u'=>{},'sub'=>{},'sup'=>{},
# 'em'=>{},'strong'=>{},
# 'ul'=>{},'ol'=>{},'li'=>{},'dl'=>{},'dt'=>{},'dd'=>{},
# 'p'=>{},'br'=>{empty=>1},'blockquote'=>{},
#);

1;
---------

What I am doing wrong/missing?

>>121

You probably messed up the last uncommented line.

>>120
Provide a line number. It just doesn't happen.

I just traced the execution by hand, and unless I'm incredibly dense, it does no wget or locally implemented equivalent anywhere.
Full execution path is as follows:

1. wakaba.pl:486: post_stuff passes spam_files=>[SPAM_FILES] to spam_engine
2. wakautils.pl:1046 spam_engine initializes local @spam_files array
3. wakautils.pl:1054 spam_engine passes @spam_files to compile_spam_checker
4. wakautils.pl:1034 compile_spam_checker maps read_array on its local arg list
5. wakautils.pl:962 read_array accepts one scalar, which can either be a filehandle or a filename; if it's a filename, it opens the file locally with open FILE,$file. Either way, it returns all the lines in the given file as an array.
6. wakautils.pl:1028 back to compile_spam_checker to munge the results from read_array into a form suitable for inserting into a regex
7. wakautils.pl:1023 ... which it then does a bit more munging on, saving the results in @re
8. wakautils.pl:1036 still in compile_spam_checker, take @re and build a block of code out of it
9. wakautils.pl:1054 back to spam_engine; results from compile_spam_checker are saved as $spam_checker and all the form fields are scrunched together into $fulltext
10. wakautils.pl:1060 spam_engine still. actually run the spam checker with the given text, and call spam_screen if it gets triggered
11. wakautils.pl:1063 spam_screen just prints out a page saying "anti-spam filters triggered". (On an unrelated note, this page doesn't use the templates at all.)
12. wakaba.pl:493 if the spam checker didn't find anything, control returns here.

>>122

Thanks! that was that.

>>123 Hell if I know. WAHa! Defend your code.

Durrr, I think it won't load anything over http. There is a caching http loader function in wakautils though so it would be pretty easy to add it if one was into that kind of thing.

So I've loaded up kareha and it's all nice and pretty, but I can't post anything. After I press the Create Thread button the page reloads, but there is no new thread. What's most likely wrong?

Linux, Kareha 3.1.3

>>127
Sounds like your caching is screwy. You can confirm this by clearing your browser cache and reloading the page; if it still doesn't show up you've got other problems, but if it does...

Assuming you're using Apache, make sure you have mod_headers enabled. Try adding a line like the following at the top of your .htaccess:

Header add X-Test "This is a test"

If you suddenly get an internal server error, you don't have it enabled, so you'll have to fiddle with your httpd.conf.

mod_headers is enabled, clearing cache doesn't help. Also, kareha isn't reloading from include/rules.html either. This happens on multiple clients.

How can I change the character coding?
Well, I partially know where, but when I'm executing wakaba.pl, some special language characters are changed to "?"..

>>127

Delete index.html, hit kareha.pl from the browser.

>>130

Explain in more detail what you want to do, and what you're actually doing.

>>131
I want to set the encoding from the default utf-8 to windows-1250 (so the board can display polish characters).
I'm editing the encoding in config.pl (I'm also uncommenting it, I'm not THAT stupid). I'm also changing the .htaccess file.
I change the board title in config.pl to "różne" (with the polish chars, I don't know if they'll work on this board, there may be problems).
Then all the stuff gets uploaded, chmodded and I run wakaba.pl. What I get then: the title changes to "ró?ne" or something like that. I want the title to stay in its original, polish form.. But it won't work.
So?

Okay, I solved my encoding problem (the post above) but there's another one now.
As I'm trying to post a message on the imageboard, I get an error:

Software error:

Wide character in subroutine entry at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/Encode.pm line 162.

What now?

>>132

There's no need to change the charset to do that. UTF-8 will allow polish characters just fine, and anything else, too.

I've got a problem with my kareha forum, new threads show up fine in the "view all thread" page, but don't show on the front page, even though I think my config.pl file is fine:

"# Page look
use constant TITLE => 'Intersections';
use constant SHOWTITLETXT => 1; # Show TITLE at top (1: yes 0: no)
#use constant SHOWTITLEIMG => 0; # Show image at top (0: no, 1: single, 2: rotating)
#use constant TITLEIMG => 'title.jpg'; # Title image (point to a script file if rotating)
use constant THREADS_DISPLAYED => 10; # Number of threads on the front page
use constant THREADS_LISTED => 40; # Number of threads in the thread list
use constant REPLIES_PER_THREAD => 3; # Replies shown
use constant S_ANONAME => 'Anonyme'; # Defines what to print if there is no text entered in the name field
use constant DEFAULT_STYLE => 'Futaba'; # Default CSS style title
use constant FAVICON => 'kareha.ico'; # Path to the favicon for the board
"

I'm wondering what's up with that?
I've tried rebuild caches.
When I look at the raw html of the index file, the post is there.

Hey, Just set up kareha, did config file, i can run perl scripts, and i set all the permissions to 777. But when navigate to kareha.pl, it gives me a 403 forbidden error... What should i try next?

ok, i think i dont have apache set up right. I uncommented the Addhandler, added .pl to its line, and added Includes ExecCGI to the options line, is there anything i forgot?

>>135

huh weird, now it shows fine.

>>135

Note the lines examples.htaccess that disable browser caching of the front page.

>>136

Try 755 permissions on kareha.pl.

>>139
unfortunately that didnt work

>>140
Are you sure you can run Perl scripts? Try putting

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/plain\n";
print "it works";

in a file, chmod it, and run it.

Gah. That should've been print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n"; (note the double \n). Need to read what I type before hitting the button.

(Why can't I use <code> or <tt> with the HTML format?)

>>141
Youre right, that also gave a 403 error. I have a mac, so it comes with apache and perl, i uncommented the addhandler line and added ExecCGI to the options line in the httpd.conf file, what else do i have to do to run perl scripts?

>>143 Make sure that perl actually is installed to /usr/bin/perl

try:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
echo
which perl
perl -V

(You can still save it with the .pl extension if you don't feel like messing with your config)

If that doesn't work, CGI scripts are just broken, because /bin/sh should never fail.

>>144
Yes it is
>>145
It still tells me its forbidden when running it from the web browser. Running it locally from the terminal is no problem.

Does anyone have success using Google AdSense on Wakaba/Kareha?

I'm trying to put simple banner ads in rules.html and footer.html but it's not working... is there either

* A better place to put them?
* Need to modify the .pl scripts instead of the .html files?

Thanks for any help or advice.

>>148
More details.

When I save the parts of the site, it works offline. It also works online when using Safari (OS X) and Konqueror (Linux). However it doesn't work when using Firefox 2.x on OS X or Linux... Is it something to do with XHTML/HTML configuration?

The error console consistently says on both platforms:

uncaught exception: [Exception... "Object cannot be created in this context" code: "9" nsresult "0x80530009 (NS_ERROR_DOM_NOT_SUPPORTER_ERR)" location "http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js Line: 19"

>>148

Set STRIP_NEWLINES to 0.

>>150
Is that variable different from KEEP_MAINPAGE_NEWLINES ?

>>151
I would say so. KEEP_MAINPAGE_NEWLINES will keep your newlines; there doesn't seem to be a STRIP_NEWLINES anywhere in the code though. :)

In any case that's what you want.

The thing that's really waxing me about this is that it totally works and looks exactly the way I want it to in

* Safari (OSX)
* Internet Explorer 6&7 (Windows)
* Konqueror (Linux)

But in Firefox 2.x on all platforms it doesn't work for some reason!! It's driving me bananas.... why would it work in some browsers and not in others?? Does it have to do with the handling of the onMouseOver method?

In Kareha, spaces in AA aren't replaced with &nbsp; or anything, messing up the rendering.

Since I don't know perl or regex the best i can get (with google's help) is:
$str=~s/????????/&nbsp;/g; #clean up spaces for AA

(in the clean_string sub)

>>154

No other board does either. In Shift-JIS AA, you use full-width spaces instead.

>>153
Yeah, I'd try turning off USE_XHTML, if it's enabled. I think Firefox is the only browser out of the list you gave that supports it.

>>155
Regardless, could you please give me something that'll let me use regular spaces?

>>157
Actually, nevermind.

I just replaced each double space with a full-width

>>154
Ah ok. That's a good place to start. I'll mess with it and report back.

use constant ADMIN_PASS => 'password'; # Admin password. For fucks's sake, change this.
use constant NUKE_PASS => 'password'; # Password to nuke a board. Change this too, NOW!
use constant SECRET => 'omgwtfidiedlol'; # Cryptographic secret. CHANGE THIS to something totally random, and long.
use constant SQL_DBI_SOURCE => 'DBI:mysql:database=umbrella_wakaba;host=localhost'; # DBI data source string (mysql version, put server and database name in here)
use constant SQL_USERNAME => 'umbrella_interne'; # MySQL login name
use constant SQL_PASSWORD => 'h8machine'; # MySQL password

still getting sql failure. can anyone see any n00b mistakes? Mysql names/pwords/locations have been double triple checked.

Check your error log, usually there's more information in there. In particular if mysql is complaining about /tmp/mysql.sock, try replacing the localhost with 127.0.0.1 and see if that helps.

I got Wakaba working with PostgreSQL. It took a little bit of fiddling with the table structure, but the changes are worthwhile on the whole, I believe:

• changed IP and mask fields to integers. (Why were they stored as TEXT in the first place?)
• moved static IP mask calculation from SQL into Perl
• all INSERT statements explicitly state their values

There's still a few more things that should be done, particularly rewriting the COUNT(*) queries as Postgres doesn't even try to optimize them, and modifying the table init check to convert the data from an older version. It's a start though, and everything seems to function.

Any ideas about why, when I make any change to wakaba.pl (even harmless stuff like declaring variables) I get a 500 server error?

I'm running wakaba on a linux webhost, PERL 5.008008, the error log says

Mon Feb 11 16:48:20 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] failed to open log file, referer: http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/wakaba.pl?task=mpanel&admin=WXdiMCdCZ4HJ
[Mon Feb 11 16:48:20 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] fopen: Permission denied, referer: http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/wakaba.pl?task=mpanel&admin=WXdiMCdCZ4HJ
[Mon Feb 11 16:48:20 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Premature end of script headers: wakaba3.js, referer: http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/wakaba.pl?task=mpanel&admin=WXdiMCdCZ4HJ

Ok nevermind, it was Dreamweaver's fault. Editing the files with notepad and uploading them with another ftp client works.

I'd like to ask what I need to look out for when making manager posts on Wakaba.

I can't find any errors coming up in logs, but I tried to make a manager post with a comment and it keeps returning Error: no comment entered.

Where might I find more information on this, please?

>>165 The fields are mis-named in the manager post screen; they need to be called "field 1", etc, like they are on the board proper. Waha forgot to change them.

So would anyone mind telling me please how to get around the problem? What would I need to change in order to get this working? :)

I can't make any manager posts at the moment :(

It's really straightforward, just change the first four form fields in the ADMIN_POST_TEMPLATE form to "field1", "field2", "field3", and "field4".

uh... I've made this change and now when I hit submit it just takes me back to the index page, logging me out of the management panel as if I'd not bothered logging in. When I refresh, there's nothing record of my having posted. This seems a little off, I reckon. It may be straightforward, but it's got me stumped. I doubt this is supposed to happen?

>>169
Did you fill in the "parent" field with the thread you're posting to?

If you want to make a new thread, put a zero there.

>>170

hmm... yeps, tried that. Same thing happens. I'm a bit baffled, to be honest.

>>171

Try looking at the source to see if the action attribute in the <form> is filled in right.

here's the source code from the manager post page, if this is any help?

<div class="postarea"> <form id="postform" action="/wakaba/wakaba.pl" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="field1" value="post" /> <input type="hidden" name="field2" value="ZfL9BDt4YCBq" />
<input type="hidden" name="field3" value="1" /> <input type="hidden" name="field4" value="1" /> 
<table><tbody> <tr><td class="postblock">Name</td><td><input type="text" name="name" size="28" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="postblock">Link</td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" size="28" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="postblock">Subject</td><td><input type="text" name="subject" size="35" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /></td></tr> 
<tr><td class="postblock">Comment</td><td><textarea name="comment" cols="48" rows="4"></textarea></td></tr> <tr><td class="postblock">File</td>
<td><input type="file" name="file" size="35" /> [<label><input type="checkbox" name="nofile" value="on" />No File</label> </td></tr> 
<tr><td class="postblock">Parent</td><td><input type="text" name="parent" size="8" /></td></tr> 
<tr><td class="postblock">Password</td><td><input type="password" name="password" size="8" />(for post and file deletion)</td></tr> </tbody></table></form></div>

>>174

Oh, I see. >>168 meant the first four input fields of type "text". The "hidden" type fields should be left as is.

oh... duh. Cheers for that, I'll check 'em and change 'em :D

I want to know how to install Wakaba to my website?

>>177
Try thinking.

>>177 http://wiki.iiichan.net/Wakaba_and_Kareha_Setup_Guide

I have installed kareha on to my webserver. My hosting runs perl, I have CGI running and the code went in great. The only problem I'm having is when I post an image it doesn't show up. It show shows up as a hyperlink and when I click on it it takes me to the exact location the image is, "site.com/cgi/src/00000.jpg" Yet an internal server error pops up.

I'm hosting with godaddy which sucks, but they say that imagemagick does run on the hosting server but that it's not installed. (If that makes sense) Could this be the problem? Please, I need help from anon.

Please deliver.

Sound like a) imagemagick is not installed just like they say and b) they don't allow access to images in the cgi directory anyway. You'll need to fix both.

Any thoughts about XHTML2 or HTML 5?

How do i get futallaby working with images in replies?
sry for wrong board but there is no futallaby support anymore Oo

>>183
There's a reason for that. Use Wakaba, or if for some crazy reason you absolutely need to have PHP, find one of the Futallaby hacks with image replies... or you could just use Futaba and translate it to English.

Can someone post up a good rotating script? .pl or .php please.

>>185
lol @ .tk

>>185 google "php image rotator" and you'll find plenty.

>>188 Ty
>>187 Umm, ya...good for you.

hi. using kareha. installs fine, but now getting 405 error:

Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /kareha/index.html.

Apache/1.3.37 Server at mysite.net Port 80

any ideas?

Your webserver is set up to not allow POST requests.

>>191
that's not the only problem, for some reason his browser is trying to POST to index.html

>>190
Did you run kareha.pl from your browser? All sorts of things break if you try to run it from the command line.

Any reliable way to convert from mode_image to mode_message? I've converted my boards to display in mode_message now, but all of the old posts are still stored in the mode_image format, making readability very tough and producing a rather inconsistent look.

Take http://www.fatechan.net/moe/kareha.pl/1162824087/l50 for example, the mixed posting looks very odd. If I knew more perl I'd just code a conversion script myself, but I don't :<

No, you pretty much have to write a script that does the conversion yourself.

Here's a quick outline: Copy the first line verbatim, ignore the second line and write an empty line instead ("Rebuild caches" will fix it for you later), and ignore the last line in the same way. For every other line, use regexes to extract the various data fields, and then use the templating engine and templates.pl to create the new line.

You might want to fix the >> links too, they'll all be wrong.

>>196
Wait, no they won't, I suck cocks.

How to make the HTML code nicer so wakaba doesn't output everything in one line? ^_^

Is there any simple ''hack'' to do this?

I've tried with some prints and searched http://perldoc.perl.org/ for useful information but seems like I can't get it nicer.

Thanks for any replies. :b

>>198 there's an option in config.pl. STRIP_NEWLINES? If it's not there, and you've been upgrading from an older version, dl a new version, double-check what the setting's called, and add it to your config.pl.

>>199

Hello, I was unable to find it in Wakaba, but copied it from Kareha and added ".NORMAL_FOOT_INCLUDE,KEEP_MAINPAGE_NEWLINES);"

Thanks for the info!

Everything else works, image posts and replies.. so on. But when I put in my password at the [Manage] panel, it says it's wrong.

use constant ADMIN_PASS => 'password'

has been changed and everything... Dreamhost, permissions and everything else right/working

>>203

Are there any special characters in the password?

>>25

I'm getting the same problem. I've tried changing the password, using only numbers... it won't let me access the management panel.

>>204

ha, I'm a retard, didn't even notice that first one posted. No special characters, only numbers

Oh weird, I changed the URL to have my password on the end and it suddenly started working... um, do I just have to keep doing this? Actually, I don't mind... but if anybody knows what's going on..

I was wondering how hard it would be to set up on a wakaba board a spoiler/censor system like some boards, noteably 4chan's /a/ and /co/, have to replace the thumbnail with a black box or something. Is this something that would take a lot of work? Has already done it and if so would the mind sharing how to set it up?

>>207 it's not hashing, then? That's very odd.

>>207

Sounds like something is very strange with your server, maybe?

I've discovered a denial of service flaw in Kareha, and I've been the victim of these attacks for the past few weeks. I dunno if it's intentional or just some sort of bizarre bug, but if you send a specially formed string in the call to kareha.pl, it will cause the process to hang, forcing lighttpd to spawn another one in a neverending race condition.

It's completely crashed my server twice, and just today I barely caught it in time by noticing the telltale studdering in my ssh connection and killing lighttpd before it got too far.

Sounds sort of like a lighttpd bug. I don't think a CGI process should ever be respawned under any circumstances.

>>212
FastCGI, maybe?

I'm using mode_message and:
use constant PAGE_GENERATION => 'paged';
on my board and I see that kareha is indeed generating cached thread pages (1.html, 2.html, etc) but it doesn't create a page list on any of them. Basically the only way to get at threads that fell off the front page is to view the All Threads page and pick one from there.
Did I miss an option to have it stick a page list somewhere?

>>214
paged and mode_message aren't so great together.

You can hack the template and add that stuff...

I'm not using fastcgi, just the standard cgi caller, and it's spawning multiple perl processes because the "attacker" will make multiple calls, and since the perl process is hung, the old ones will never die, eventually leading into an out of memory condition.

I guess I misworded it, lighttpd itself isn't spawning new perl processes, but the old ones won't expire so every call to kareha with that malformed string creates a new perl process that hangs.

>>214

I think the Kareha templates don't implement support for paged mode. You'll have to hack them to do so.

>>216

Well, there's nothing anybody can do until you figure out what exact request is being sent.

Well I have it in my logs, I just don't want to openly post it.

Then mail it. See the front page for address.

Access.log entries sent.

I have a problem when setting up kareha (using a free hosting service), I have all the permissions set to 777, and the config.pl file configured for mode_message, but when I try to access kareha.pl from a browser it doesn't assemble the board, instead I get sent to my service's default 404 link. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

>>222

Not unless you are more specific. Do you get forwarded when you go to kareha.pl? Is index.html created on the server?

>>222

> (using a free hosting service)

There's your problem.

How can i run kareha.pl if I only have ssh access to my webserver? Using perl kareha.pl creates an index.html file, but its broken(Can't post anything on the board).

Thanks for your help!

How can i run kareha.pl if I only have ssh access to my webserver? Using perl kareha.pl creates an index.html file, but its broken(Can't post anything on the board).

Thanks for your help!

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

225 here

>>227

"Access wakaba.pl through a web browser. This should create the HTML pages and forward you to them if everything worked."

I'm working on my site from home through ssh. I've got everything setup the way it should, BUT I heard that I should NOT run kareha.pl via command "perl kareha.pl", i must use a web browser.

The thing is....I ONLY have access to my webserver via SSH. How am I supposed to launch kareha.pl without having access to a web browser on the server? Is there a way to open a web browser in ssh?

I'm a newbie to linux, so let me know. Thanks!

>>228

Read about CGI scripting.

>>229

How is reading about CGI scripting going to solve my problem?

When I run the command "perl kareha.pl", it creates a index.html. When I go to http://"webhost ip" (I dont have a Domain name yet), I CAN see the kareha board fine and everything looks good, but when I create a new thread and click submit. The page refreshes, but the thread doesn't show up.

From what I read here, someone said NOT to run kareha.pl from command because it will create a broken index.html. So, I'm assuming THIS is the broken index.html he was talking about.

>>230
Don't run kareha.pl directly. How hard is that to understand?

>>231
if I run http://webhostip/kareha.pl it just opens up as txt.

How else am I supposed to execute it?

> How is reading about CGI scripting going to solve my problem?

Because Kareha is a CGI script. Read up on how to make those run on your web server.

ok i figured it out i think...

I was putting my kareha files in /var/www/html/ I can't execute perl scripts from that directory. SO I moved my kareha files to /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/ and I was able to execute the perl script from my browser, but I get a 500 Internal Error.

What do I have to do to Apache's httpd.conf file to enable me to run scripts in /var/www/html/ ??

CHMOD kareha.pl and admin.pl to 755

>>234
http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/subback.html
Ctrl-F, "500", Enter.

Also, it would help to read the Apache documentation before blindly running ahead and making a complete mess of everything. That's a fantastic way to end up with a completely insecure setup.

Don't put it in your cgi-bin, either; it's not meant to run that way and it won't work.

You really should take some time to learn what you're doing -- don't expect to be constantly spoon-fed. If you can't put any amount of effort toward solving your problems, why should you expect others to do so for you?

Short question: I'm setting up a site with multiple boards (similar to Desuchan, for example). Do I need a separate SQL database for each board, or will they all share the same database?

>>237
You need different tables for each board, but apart from that they can all use the same database.

Ah yes, I forgot I could change the tables. Thanks a lot :)

how can i make more boards like tv,photography,movies,games etc?

>>240

and im using kareha

Just install more copies.

But before you do, put some thought to into whether you really need any more boards.

>>237
Desuchan's version of wakaba is a unified "server" structure.

Can't get passed this.
The last thread implied that this means DBD might not be installed, but it is. Can anyone help?

Checked my error log. I get...

[2008-05-13 00:54:50]: error: directory is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1)
[2008-05-13 00:48:30]: error: directory is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1)
[2008-05-13 00:26:09]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-13 00:25:41]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-13 00:25:13]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-13 00:21:58]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-13 00:21:42]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-13 00:21:25]: error: file has no execute permission: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-13 00:21:05]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-13 00:20:07]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-13 00:15:23]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-13 00:15:02]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-12 19:53:37]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-12 19:52:36]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1/wakaba.pl)
[2008-05-12 19:26:10]: error: directory is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1)
[2008-05-12 19:26:03]: error: directory is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1)
[2008-05-12 19:06:57]: error: directory is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1/LV1)
[2008-05-11 19:45:22]: error: directory is writable by others: (/home/junkmanx/public_html/level1)

>>244

It means your SQL configuration is wrong.

Well what do you suggest I do to fix it? I posted my errors in 245.

>>246

None of those errors have anything to do with it. Also, none of us know what your SQL setup is, so it's not like we can do anything about it. You pretty much have to figure it out yourself.

Curious as to why when I made a board it copied everything from the first one I made onto it. Also, more importantly, why aren't my things located at img.(hostname).net/(boardname)? it's just (hostname).net/(boardname). I used img as the thing in mysql.

>>249

Because you used the same table in the SQL database? Also, SQL has nothing to do with where your things appear on the web. That's all up to the Apache setup.

>>250
Fair enough, I don't know much about databases (blatantly). Is there any way I can set this up? Will this happen every time I make a new board?

Also, how do I make it so you don't have to post an image with every reply?

>>251 just change what the tables are named in wakaba's config.pl file.

And you don't have to post an image with every reply...?

>>252
Yeah, I figured that out this morning, thanks.

I meant, so you don't have to check the box every time.

How does one give people moderator access?

>>248
Do I have to create tables myself?

>>254
Give them the password

>>255
No

In kareha, there was an INCLUDE_DIR option where I could set a 'global' header, footer, and rules page for all my boards. Yes, sorry, boards.

I can't seem to find this option in wakaba. Could someone point me in the right direction, please?

My kareha imageboard index loads and seems to be working fine, but when someone tries to make a post, nothing is added. Hitting the submit button seems to do nothing other than refresh the page. Help?

i thought i got everything right but apparently i didn't.. would anyone know what to do when this comes up?

[error] Bareword "DEFAULT_STYLE" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at

                 /usr/home/me/public_html/wakaba/futaba_style.pl line 642.\nCompilation failed in require at /home/me/public_html/wakaba/wakaba.pl line
                 19.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/me/public_html/waka

thanks!

Uh oh, one of my boards now only shows as a blank white page and the file size is 0 of wakaba.html. I've tried running wakaba.pl but to no luck-- any help? It worked fine before.

>>260
Check your error logs.

>>257

Sorry, never implemented it there. You can either change the paths in futaba_style.pl, or you can make the include/ directory a softlink to some central directory.

>>258

You probably ran kareha.pl on the command line. Delete index.html and then go to kareha.pl through the browser.

>>259

You messed up the files somehow, probably config_defaults.pl.

>>260

Go to admin.pl?action=admin and rebuild caches.

hi i would like to remove the image verification process from my wakaba board. how do i do this while keeping the board clean and functional? thanks.

>>263

use constant ENABLE_CAPTCHA => 0;

>>263

When did moving posts get implemented (sorry if I'm slowpoking)

>>265

It didn't.

>>266
It should.

I have a wakaba setup with multiple boards and was wondering how
people handle ip bans across multiple boards. Every so often I get
an asshat or two that want to spam crap on a board and a day or
two later after i have removed it hit another board and so on. Do
you use a script to transfer the ip's from board to board ro do
you just deal with them one a a time??

getting
"SQL connection failure"

Other wise the board seems to load up fine.

>>268

You can use the same admin table for all your boards, if you want. That makes all bans global. That's a pretty common setup.

>>269

Fix your SQL settings and/or SQL server.

>>270

That got it, bans show up across all boards now, Tnaks

> ID:**JPEG**70Jy

Alright, I'm sorry but I just have a few questions. First off, how do I set up multiple boards. I understand HTML directories and etc, but I don't understand what files need to reside where. Do I need ALL the files for each board? Right now I have a working install, can I just duplicate this, dropping it in folders (one dir down from where it is now) and then create an index.html linking to each of these? Or can I have one copy of some files in the / and duplicates of others? I have no idea why each board would need its own config, CSS, and etc if they are going to be the same. Thanks for your time.

>>273

use constant CSS_DIR => '../css/';

The configs won't all be the same; at the very least you need to change the table name, unless you really want all of the boards to share the same posts as well for some perverse reason. Also, symlinks are your friend.

> The configs won't all be the same; at the very least you need to change the table name

unless you're using kareha, >>273 didn't say if he's using wakaba or kareha.
you'd still probably want to change the board title, tho. so you'll probably still have separate configs for each board.

Thanks! I'm sorry that I forgot to mention that I am using Kareha. One more questions, what about the scripts? Do I need duplicate scripts each folder? Do I need the scripts in the root folder? I'm sorry for not understanding much of this. From googling symlinks I found out that they are similar to an alias, which I do understand with my mac background, but I'm not sure how to create one on my server. Thanks for all your help.

Ah. If you have shell access you can make a link with ln -s existing_file new_name. Don't know if it's possible with ftp though.

Barring that, basically just make a complete installation for each board, and move all the stylesheets and spam.txt up a level. No harm in making complete copies of everything, it's just a little more difficult to make changes across the whole site (e.g. upgrade).

Thank you, for all your help. I don't have ssh access or anything like that, so while working though FTP I just decided to make duplicate files in my directories. I am only trying to set up one board right now, but it is failing pretty hard. I don't want to use any of those stylesheets, so I made my own. I changed default stylesheet to the filename of mine -.css. and placed it in the correct directory. I honestly don't care if the others are options on the page, but I do want mine to be default. Well, when I browsed to kareha.pl it made my html page, and that seemed to work fine, but when I moved all the files (except /CSS and /spam.txt) down a directory it didn't (from / to /b/). I changed the config to ../CSS and ../spam.txt. After that, my index.html wouldn't display with any stylesheets. I don't understand what I'm doing at all. I know XHTML, but not JS, perl, or PHP. I want to customize the page layout, and have no idea how to do this. I don't want the subject field, or the link field. I can't just edit the HTML, that seems to work, but then it screws something up. I have tried around 10 different installs and they all have some problem.

> Well, when I browsed to kareha.pl it made my html page, and that seemed to work fine, but when I moved all the files (except /CSS and /spam.txt) down a directory it didn't (from / to /b/). I changed the config to ../CSS and ../spam.txt. After that, my index.html wouldn't display with any stylesheets.

try deleting index.html and browsing to kareha.pl again after moving the files and changing the config.

> I want to customize the page layout, and have no idea how to do this. I don't want the subject field, or the link field. I can't just edit the HTML, that seems to work, but then it screws something up.

try editing templates.pl.

One of my threads (on a wakaba board) isn't bumping and it's important (thus I need it to). What's up with that? It's not even an old thread.

>>280

Does it have more posts than the bump limit?

>>281
Thanks, that was exactly it.

Has anyone written a script to convert from wakaba to kareha and keep the old wakaba message base? Google is not being helpful.

>>283
Probably not, Wakaba is superior to Kareha, why would you convert it?

>>284
I want to dump the database back end.

While we're at it, does anyone know how to add a "Report" button to either Wakaba or Kareha?

>While we're at it, does anyone know how to add a "Report" button to either Wakaba or Kareha?

Do it yourself?

How would you add noko support to take you back to the thread you posted in when that's in the email field?

>>288
click the back button after you post?

(Note: untested code.)

In wakaba.pl, line 600-ish:

- make_http_forward(HTML_SELF,ALTERNATE_REDIRECT);
+ if ($c_email eq 'noko') {
+     make_http_forward(RES_DIR.($num or $parent).PAGE_EXT,ALTERNATE_REDIRECT);
+ } else {
+     make_http_forward(HTML_SELF,ALTERNATE_REDIRECT);
+ }

Kareha is slightly trickier, but still not difficult.

>>291

Doesn't work, however I tried something different based off of what you did (in a way).

Replace (around line 600):

	make_http_forward(HTML_SELF,ALTERNATE_REDIRECT);

With:

	my $noko;
	my $noko2;
	if($parent)
	{
		$sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT num FROM ".SQL_TABLE." WHERE timestamp=? AND comment=?;") or make_error(S_SQLFAIL);
		$sth->execute($time,$comment) or make_error(S_SQLFAIL);
		$noko = $parent;
		$noko2 = '#'.($sth->fetchrow_array())[0];
	}
	else
	{
		$sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT num FROM ".SQL_TABLE." WHERE timestamp=? AND comment=?;") or make_error(S_SQLFAIL);
		$sth->execute($time,$comment) or make_error(S_SQLFAIL);
		$noko = ($sth->fetchrow_array())[0];
	}

	if($c_email eq 'noko')
	{
		make_http_forward(RES_DIR.$noko.PAGE_EXT.$noko2,ALTERNATE_REDIRECT);
	}
	else
	{
		make_http_forward(HTML_SELF,ALTERNATE_REDIRECT);
	}

It may be bulk and able to be done in less lines of code, but this works perfectly.

>>292

If you're using MySQL, there should be a function for getting the value of the autoincrementing column of the last update. You could use that instead of the unwieldy SELECTs.

	if($parent) { build_thread_cache($parent); }
	else # must find out what our new thread number is
	{
		if($filename)
		{
			$sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT num FROM ".SQL_TABLE." WHERE image=?;") or make_error(S_SQLFAIL);
			$sth->execute($filename) or make_error(S_SQLFAIL);
		}
		else
		{
			$sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT num FROM ".SQL_TABLE." WHERE timestamp=? AND comment=?;") or make_error(S_SQLFAIL);
			$sth->execute($time,$comment) or make_error(S_SQLFAIL);
		}
		my $num=($sth->fetchrow_array())[0];

		if($num)
		{
			build_thread_cache($num);
		}
	}

is what I used as a base for it. I'm not very good at Perl, so I'm just happy it works.

>>294

I had to do that because I don't want to rely on MySQL-only features, but if you're doing something for a specific server, you can get away with it. Read the docs for DBD::mysql to find the function in question.

I've been having some trouble installing wakaba...
When I try to open up wakaba.pl in the web browser it comes up with this error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /public_html/wakaba.pl on this server.

I am running wakaba under Apache in Ubuntu 8.04 using Perl 5.8.8 and MySql. Wakaba is currently placed in /var/www/public_html and httpd.conf has been edited to add the lines:

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

It's clear that Apache has recognised the scripts as CGI perl files as when I click on them(and it comes up with that error) it also shows:

Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.1 with Suhosin-Patch mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at localhost Port 8

What should I do about this problem, would you like more information.

This is my first post, and I have looked beforehand for an existing topic, and if I have repeated something, I apologise.

First off, you should not be using mod_perl, if you are. Second, does the webserver have access to those files? Did you set the permissions correctly?

>>296
Check your file permissions and error logs.

> I have looked beforehand for an existing topic

Not enough, evidently ;)

ok, I'll uninstall mod_perl (via synaptic), and I have chmodded wakaba.pl and captcha.pl to 755.

but the error message persists.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /public_html/wakaba.pl on this server.

Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.1 with Suhosin-Patch Server at localhost Port 80

I've uninstalled mod_perl, it still comes up with the error.

Problem solved, I added:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/html/

    <Directory "/var/www/html/">
            AllowOverride None
            Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
            AddHandler cgi-script .pl
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>  

to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
and this:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

to apache.conf
and loaded the module using:

sudo a2enmod perl

I then restarted Apache and hey presto! the wakaba.pl script loaded up!
I think the source of the problem was not adding the code to /sites-available/default as this defines /var/www/html/wakaba as a directory that can run perl.

>>286
this has been done along with overhauling the mod panel to something sane

Regarding the "KEEP_MAINPAGE_NEWLINE" thing again.

Is there any way to make it works when viewing threads?
I have tried to do like this:

>},1;

at the end of THREAD_HEAD_TEMPLATE but when I try to post again it just output:

><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

instead of the comment. Is there any way to do this?

> Is there any way to make it works when viewing threads?

In Kareha? No. The script finds threads by loading single specific lines from the file. Everything breaks if you mess with that.

>>305
I see. Thanks. ;)

Two simple queries:
Am I correct in thinking that of Wakaba, Kareha and Kusaba, only Kareha can have dynamically generated 2ch style "show last 50 posts" (eg http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1192108766/50)? I was looking to integrate most recent posts embedded into other parts of the site using this feature, so it seems only Kareha will do using this method.

Particularly in Kareha, is there a simple way of flagging a thread undeletable, so it could be left alone at the end of the board without any danger of it being deleted? I was looking to tie certain threads into the site, so I don't want them being deleted.

Thanks.

>>307
IIRC Kusaba had "first 100" and "last 50" links in that giant mess of useless buttons it adds to every thread. You can do something similar with Wakaba when it's rebuilding the thread page -- just prune the thread after writing the res/*.html file, and run the writer again with a new filename. You'd have to be fairly competent with Perl to hack that in, though.

If you're intending to mix threads in with non-thread content, I think it'd probably be easiest to use Wakaba and pull the threads with an SQL query elsewhere.

>>308
Thanks, I more or less got something working.

Last problem I have is adapting the output to fixed width - for some reason a long line of text in a thread refuses to wrap to a new line (which screws up the display) despite me plastering max-width everywhere in the CSS, I presume I am missing the proper location for max-width in the CSS or style.pl? The page itself is now fixed width, but a long line just doesn't wrap fluidly like it should. The element is a blockquote, but the CSS does nothing to stop the line...
Last piece in the puzzle for me now...

How do you change the "Wakaba image board" title and link "Home" to a specific page?

Ok, I've gotten the "home" link sorted out myself, but I can't figure out how to change the "Wakaba image board" title on the first page.

>>311 it's under Page Look.

i am trying to set up wakaba, but i am running into a problem. when i open the .pl in my browser all i get is the code o the screen.
i am thinking that my computer is not set up to execute perl.
how do i set it up to do so, i am using a mac?

i am trying to set up wakaba, but i am running into a problem. when i open the .pl in my browser all i get is the code o the screen.
i am thinking that my computer is not set up to execute perl.
how do i set it up to do so, i am using a mac?

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

is there a guide to theming wakaba and kusaba?

>>316 basic css?

Hello, first thanks to the author for writing such great software.
Kareha question.
I have one working image board on my private host (Windows). I created a new dir where this board lives and extracted and setup all the files as before to give me a second board.

However when I run kareha.pl from this new dir it displays the title of my original board, says 'Thread specified does not exist.' and fails to create an index.php.
For the life of me I have no idea what's going on. I see no reason how is managing to display the title of my original board.

Before I move my original board to a separate dir I thought I'd ask for help. (Is it even possible to move a board and have its contents survive?)

>>318

You need to either delete index.html before running kareha.pl, or go to the admin page and click "Rebuild caches".

>>319

Thanks, tried that and ran into a CGI error. Problem with the way my host is setup. m(_ _)m　～ギブ　アップ

i am getting this error when i open the wakaba.pl from my browser...

install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1) at (eval 409) line 3, <FILE> line 3.
Perhaps the DBD::mysql perl module hasn't been fully installed,
or perhaps the capitalisation of 'mysql' isn't right.
Available drivers: DBM, ExampleP, File, Proxy, SQLite, Sponge.
at /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/xampp/wakaba.pl line 45

and i have no idea what is going on with this.

>>67

>make sure the id for the different fields in the management panel are the same as the ones in the normal post form. somewhere along the lines some things got changed and waha didn't apply the changes on the management panel.

I somewhat understand what you're saying to do, but I'm not sure which part to look in. By IDs, do you mean like "Field1" or something else?

>>321

Install DBD::mysql.

How do I delete a post I made? I mean I know about checking my post and the delete thing at the bottom, but it wont do it without a password. And it isnt filled in already and the only password thats given when making a post is just a series of dots.

How do I delete a post I made? I mean I know about checking my post and the delete thing at the bottom, but it wont do it without a password. And it isnt filled in already and the only password thats given when making a post is just a series of dots.

>>326

Don't disable cookies, or start typing in a password when posting.

I suddenly am having problems posting images on my site. nahc4.com

Basically if I post an image I get:
"Either this image is too big or there is no image at all. Yeah."
Im getting this on any image.. even a 30kb image. I can only post text on the site now. Does anyone have any ideas on why this is happening? I use dreamhost if that helps.

>>328 do you have board-size limits set in config.pl? or a hard limit set with dreamhost?

>>328

Your server is probably blocking file uploads.

>>328
I remember you... you spammed your site on every imageboard in the overchan about a year ago, right? And then it collapsed because you were runnning it on a crappy shared host with Draconian bandwidth limits.

Is there an option (or a temporary hack) to perform secure erasure of unwanted images?
The shred is to be done regardless whether the deletion is invoked by user or admin.

Local laws are really tough on contraband.

>>332

There is no option, but if you can find a Perl module that does it for you, it'd be easy enough to search wakaba.pl for "unlink" and replace that with whatever secure deletion function you have. You could also make it call some external app to do it, using system().

>>333
Thank you for your reply. The web host recommend storing everything in EncFS to make deletion unrecoverable. Not too sure about how true that concept is. I'll try to find that Perl module mentioned.

my 'software error' if anybody doesn't mind helping

No ADMIN_PASS defined in the configuration at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/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 each of these what do i change? like.. showing an example would be the most helpful and i know how to find all te documents for each except /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CGI/Carp.pm

>>335 you forgot to uncomment the lines in config.pl. remove the # from the very start of the line.

>>336 there is no # and what does uncomment mean? i edited mode_* to mode_image.

now it says:

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_image 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).

also where is the board directory?

> also where is the board directory?

That's just the one where you're installing things.

>>338 so.. the ftp publisher i assume...?

ok, so i was at this step >>335

BUT THEN I FUCKED SOMETHIGN UP D:
how do i get back there?

I'm setting up a board using wakaba, when I'm done I have a couple hundred images I would like to upload to start the board off with. Is there an automated way to do this so I don't have to upload them one at a time??

Hi, I know it's been answered before, but the description was a bit complex for me - I tried fixing it and screwed things up completely so I'd appreciate a quick walkthrough. It's the manager post problem, where it says the spam filters have been triggered every time. I edited futaba_style.pl, but only got it to let me post but only including an image and posting as anon. Help would be much appreciated.

>>341 you could make a very specific hand-crafted SQL query.

Okay, I've got a unique problem (Like as far as I have seen while browsing here.)

I have set up Wakaba correctly SQL and Database wise (meaning that there are no server errors and everything is in the right spot)

However, I get "Software error"s now. Here's basically what it looks like:

Software error:

config.pl did not return a true value at wakaba.pl line 16.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at wakaba.pl line 16.

config.pl and wakaba.pl are in the same folder and directory, but from what I'm reading (I'm a newbie at perl) is that the wakaba.pl script is claiming it cannot find the config.pl script, therefore not able to draw from it using the

BEGIN { require "config.pl"; }

found on line 16.
I have found above a line containing

use lib '.';

What do I have to do? The server is configured correctly, and my config file seems to be in order, my only guess is that little line (use lib '.';) must have something to do with it. If so, then what do I have to change it to, and if not, then what might be the problem?

>>344

No, it finds the file, but it is corrupt one way or the other. You may have deleted too much when editing it?

Hello, I am having a problem or two with setting up Kareha. Everything seems to be in place, but I keep getting the board not configured message. Here's how I have everything in place, am I doing something wrong here?

>>345

I followed all the instructions included in the config file along with the setup guide provided here. Should I just try to upload a fresh config file (nonaltered) and just work my way up from there?

>>346

You need to actually follow the instructions and pick a board mode, and copy the files from that directory into place.

>>347

That sounds like a good idea to try.

>>344

>config.pl did not return a true value at wakaba.pl line 16.

I'm not that experienced in Perl, but doesn't that error come from the 1; not being at the end of config.pl?

>>349

Yes, probably.

Is there an easy method of adding Adsense to the left of the input table (the one in the middle of the screen, name, link, comments, file input, etc)? It looked like I could just copy/paste the code right into the Futaba_Style file, but it didn't work. Am I missing something?

>>351
Basic html skills? Also ads are lame.

On another note, I did add the 1 at the end of the compile lists, and it does keep the spaces in there, but still having issues having Adsense show up right next to the input area.

>>352

No hard feelings about ads. On another note, I was trying to implement this into pearl, but I suppose I could just toss it into the html page. :p

If you're going to do that, you might as well put it in templates.pl, because the first time you rebuild the cache all of that adding to the html page will vanish.

>>355

Yup, figured that out after I re-cached lol.

I figured out how to place ads on my site, but they do not work in Firefox. I looked at other threads here, some say to turn off xhtml (set it to 0) which I did, that didn't work.

I'm looking at Wakachan, and somehow they are able to display ads in Firefox. I just don't know what they are doing differently than myself.

Ahhhh i've spent about 5 hours today trying to even start this thing!!1! So i've set up apache and got that "it works!" message in my browser..ok easy. Then i set up perl scripts - though im not sure how to test if this is working. blah blah blah i did everything and at the end it just displays code in my browser. Any useful links so that i can start over? ( except http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html#WakabaQuickStart ) thanks

>>357

1. Set up your config file.
2. Upload the contents to your FTP.
3. Change your permissions, I just changed all of my .pl files to "755" in every single folder, but that's me. If your perl files do not have the proper permissions, it may not work at all.
4. Open your browser to http://www.example.com/wakaba/wakaba.pl
5. Should be working now.

Basically, if you just follow those steps as generic and simple as it sounds, it should be working.

On another note, I'm still waiting on some help with my Firefox issue with using ads lol. Not showing up in FF, yet shows up in IE.

Well... I found out what the issue was after hours and hours of looking. The problem was simple. It was my htaccess file that was making it so it wouldn't show ads in Firefox. For future reference for anyone having this issue, be sure to check your htaccess file. :)

Hey, i was just wondering how to make a homepage when clicking home. As it currently links to my directory...

>>360 use constant HOME

>>360

If you're seriously asking us how to make a homepage, maybe you should learn a little more about websites before putting up an imageboard...

of course i know how to make a homepage in theory but was just wondering if it was somehow already created, anyway obviously not...off to dreamweaver

LOL

My webhosting server is being run by 'windows 2003 enterprise edition R2' that I can't change any permission as a user of the server. Host says it's because there's no problems running CGIs without permission setting on the OS.
But, finally what I found is this;

Software error:
Can't locate config.pl in @INC (@INC contains: . C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib) at D:\userhome\junkbox\wakaba\wakaba.pl line 16.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at D:\userhome\junkbox\wakaba\wakaba.pl line 16.

For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

just as it is on here: http://hosting.ohseon.com/junkbox/wakaba/wakaba.pl

I seems like wakaba.pl couldn't read config.pl (I heard that it is usual problem on Windows that CGI programs don't read its config files.

Now, I'm waitting for the anser for this from my host.
But I' cant be so comfotable with this.

So, Anybody please help me solving this problem.

Okay so far im liking wakaba alot...but because i dont know anything about html or setting up websites at all, some stuff confuses me. So i was wondering, i still don't quite understand where to put the .html file craeted from the install. Atm it's in *chan.org/b(Wakaba)/imgboard.html which links from the home. problem is if you go to *chan.org/b/ you get the directory. How would i go about just showing the page? Also a final question is once i have done this, to add a navigation at the top of imgboard.html like [ b / c / d ] how can i go about this. Thanks. Anon.

I wonder how big and blinky I will have to make that message at the top before people will actually see it? Anyway...

>>365

Windows webservers are a big mystery mostly, but you can try looking at what's been figured out in the past here: http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html#RunningOnWindows,RunningOnIIS

Sounds like the current directory doesn't get changed to the board directory. A workaround for that should be in there.

>>366

There is no html file created from the tarball. You're definitely doing things all wrong. First, learn how to use CGI scripts. Then, try reading http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html#WakabaQuickStart.

How can i go about making a side menu that sticks throughout a whole chan?

Try Google.

where can i download Kareha?

>>370
If you have to ask you aren't trying hard enough.

So, I got wakaba up and running, except for a couple of problems:

1. Thumbnails are being created, but they aren't showing up on the site itself.
2. Making an "Admin Post" form the admin section posts a thread as Anonymous with no subject, and no text.

Any ideas on why these two things are happening?

I receive "SQL connection failure" message when running wakaba.pl script. What I doing wrong?

wakaba.sql database is already created and config.pl is changed:
use constant SQL_DBI_SOURCE => 'DBI:mysql:database=wakaba.sql;host=localhost';

>>375

Try reading the earlier posts on both topics.

>>376

I guess that is not the correct settings, then.

I'm Running Kareha on my test server at home. Now that I've gotten over the quirks of Ubuntu (I hope...), it seems to work fine, except that bans don't have any effect. They show up in .htaccess, but the matching IPs can still read and post. Am I missing something painfully obvious?

Aaaaand what the hey. Right after I posted that it started working properly. Color me confused.

I've installed Kareha but I can't see anywhere to log into with Manage as it says on the documentation.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

The docs are a bit out of date; now admin.pl is where the management takes place. There's no link to it, so just type it in.

>>381

Thanks for the response.
I tried that but it says:

Can't locate strings_en.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 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.2 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.1 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0) at captcha.pl line 13, <FILE> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at captcha.pl line 13, <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.
Compilation failed in require at /home/www/admin.pl line 13, <FILE> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/www/admin.pl line 13, <FILE> line 4.

Everything else seems to work fine.

>>382

Oh, nevermind.
I've sorted it out now.

Thanks for the tip about the admin.pl :).

This has probably been answered already, but I'm not sure what to search for, and reading the whole ~1200 posts in the support threads is a bit daunting.

How do you add a board description? Either below the title (http://orochi.iiichan.net/senti/ is the first example I found) or in the rule list below the message box.

>>384
Just edit the template file.

I know Wakaba is designed to handle it, but is there a way to get Kareha to do flood detection and control?

How do I use the german strings instead of the english ones? I want a German board.

>>387 manually edit the strings file.

where do i have to leave the spainter.jar file for oekaki support?

>>389

Just in the base directory along with the rest of the files.

I'm using Yahoo! Small Business webhosting and what I keep getting after hours of trial and error is:

>Software error:

syntax error at config.pl line 173, near "1"
Compilation failed in require at /ichi/kareha.pl line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /ichi/kareha.pl line 12.<

Here is the line of config.pl and surrounding lines,

> 170 #);

171
172
173 1; <
And here is the line of kareha.pl, and surrounding lines,

>11 use lib '.';

12 BEGIN { require 'config.pl'; }
13 BEGIN { require 'config_defaults.pl'; } <

Please help me out.

Thanks,
Mr. Anon

>>391

You likely messed up some earlier line.

I have been looking over questions and answers and I still have not found out how to make Threads. How might I accomplish this?

>>393
You won't find it because it's a terrible question.

Click "New Thread" under the thread list at the top of the page, fill in a Subject and a Comment, and press the button.

I'm sorry. I just realized that I'm confusing threads with Boards. How would I make a board that I can directly link from my main page that won't get overwritten when I post?

>>398 what? Just copy the entire directly of one board to another and change the config.p information (MySQL most importantly; just change the table names).

Hmm. Okay. I'll try that. Thank you.

I'm trying to post using "Manager Mode" and keep getting this...

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.

>>402

Known bug, sorry. Check earlier in the thread for workarounds.

I've just setup my first Wakaba and Kareha boards. I was wondering if there was a better way of citing/quoting in Kareha (like in Wakaba, where the cited link highlights that post rather than taking you to a new page).

http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/kareha.pl/1098886772/

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </p>.
Location: http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/kareha.pl/1098886772/
Line Number 76, Column 404:

im using firefox2

>>405

Yes, old bug I for some reason haven't fixed on this site. Fixed it, but the pages need some cleaning which I'll try to get around to later. Nag me if I forget.

Software Error
"use" not allowed in expression at config.pl line 4, at end of line
syntax error at config.pl line 4, near "System config
use constant "
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at config.pl line 5.
Compilation failed in require at kareha.pl line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at kareha.pl line 12.

Heres an example

System config
use constant ADMIN_PASS => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
use constant SECRET => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
use constant CAPPED_TRIPS => 'XXXXXXXXXXXX =>' 'XXXXXX'=>' <em>cap</em>');

>>407

also are there any characters on the standard windows keyboard I should not be using in CAPPED_TRIPS?... because I think I used them all.

That CAPPED_TRIPS line is completely wrong. Look at the example again.

>>409
I changed it to the default setting, just to see if it worked. Now its giving me

"use" not allowed in expression at config.pl line 2, at end of line
syntax error at config.pl line 2, near "System config
use constant "
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at config.pl line 3.
Compilation failed in require at kareha.pl line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at kareha.pl line 12.

>>410
it looks like you removed the # from the # System config comment line...

>>411

yeah thanks, I forgot that pseudo-code does need to be commented.

Is there any way to add moderators without giving them the admin password? Talking about kareha here.

>>413

That's like asking if there's a way to add moderators without adding moderators.

Hi.

How can I modify wakaba to make it load index.html of the install's directory instead of reloading the page itself (wakaba.html)?

I need this because my server is slow and permissions are not set propely after a post before the page is requested (error, etc), so I made index.html which redirects to wakaba.html after a second in each wakaba directory.

>>415

After a post or reply is made.

OP

>>415
In config.pl, change:

#use constant HTML_SELF => 'wakaba.html';

to:

use constant HTML_SELF => 'index.html';

>>415

Thanks

>>418

That didn't work.

It overwrote my index.html :S

>>419
Put your board in a separate directory.

Hi!

I got an attack, where the "hacker" posted "Obvius Troll is Obvius" serveral times on my boards.

What can I do?

How do I prevent same IP from posting several times in a short period of time?

Every time I try to post a manager's post, I get hit with the anti-spam, even if I don't have a url in my comment. What's going on, and can I fix it?

Thanks.

>>422

Known bug, see earlier in this thread for workarounds.

SQL connection failure
D:
Just set up my new chan. How to fix?

>>424
http://command-q.org/wakaba/wakaba.pl is my imageboard.

fixed it, now how do I add boards? :<

I just installed Wakaba in my hosting, and it works OK. Question: When I reply to a thread, posts after the 1st do not have a Reply link; what should I do to enable it?

http://resourceroom.org/SSN/wakaba.pl

What happened there?

<<447
Never mind, that was a dumb question.
In case anyone asks the same thing, just click the post number ¬¬

I'm using Kareha.

I want to reload captcha image on click. My idea is to delete the captchakey cookie and to rerequest captcha.pl. So, I can delete to cookie using javascript

var     cookie_date = new Date ( );  // current date & time
cookie_date.setTime ( cookie_date.getTime() - 1 );
document.cookie = "captchakey=; expires=" + cookie_date.toGMTString();

Now, given, that kareha captchakey generation mechanism is based on the REMOTE_ADDR and time() in minutes (string 61 in captcha.pl), if I rerequest the captcha within one minute, I'll get the same image.

However, when a user successfully post a message, the captcha is generated randomly (string 430 in kareha.pl).

So, I could follow this way, but before doing this I want to understand, what was your reasons for such design?

>>429

Hilariously weird Apache setup?

>>430

It has to do with the bookkeeping for preventing replay attacks, if I remember correctly.

how does a script for rotating title images look like? just a short example please...

>>432 bump

>>433

Don't post if you have nothing to say. Your question is not so important that it absolutely has to be at the top of the board at all times.

>>432
Chrissake, this is something you could have answered yourself in 30 seconds if you did some google searching.

<?php
$a = glob("*.{gif,jpg,png}", GLOB_BRACE);
header("Location:".$a[array_rand($a)]);

I got my imageboard up, but it only allowed me to post the first post with picture only. Every time I try to attach a picture to another post or reply, I get that page that reads, "Duplicate file entry detected" even though it's a completely different picture.

Anybody know why this is; what causes this problem and/or how I can fix it?

Thanks

How the hell do I post with an admin tripcode? Can't seem to find this anywhere.

>>436 problem with imagemagick, maybe?

>>437
In Kareha, you can set up capcodes with specified tripcodes in the config. In Wakaba you can't.

After I went to a page (aaa.pl, I believe) I keep getting 403's just about everywhere... Could you... erm... fix this please? I can't access anything but /sup/ and /soc/.

>>440

Not unless I have your IP address.

Hey there

I noticed the preview post function is working perfectly here, so I guess I'm doing something wrong. I've set up kareha message board and everything works perfect... except for the preview post button which gives me some error

I'm uploading an image to let you see.

>>442
Alright, I just realized something, Kareha throws out an error for preview post when you are making a NEW thread, as opposed to previewing a reply post.

The same seems to be the case here. Some sort of bug?

>>441
Uhh, I'll give it to you on IRC.

>>443

It seems to work fine for me in Safari, even for new threads. What browser?

>>445
Oh, I'm using Opera 9.63

I am having trouble making wakaba go to a new page. No matter how many images and new threads I create, it will not create a page 2. I messed with the settings in config.pl but they don't seem to do anything:

use constant IMAGES_PER_PAGE => 5; # Images per page
use constant REPLIES_PER_THREAD => 5; # Replies shown

Also, would anyone know how to make a new board in wakaba?

Thanks

>>447 Sounds, once again, like a folder permissions problem.

To make a new board, create a new subfolder and install another copy of wakaba.

>>447

Also remember that you have to rebuild caches after any change to the settings, if they "don't seem to do anything".

>>449

Awesome. Thanks a bunch, that worked!

>>448

So where exactly would this folder be inserted? Alongside the current wakaba install or inside the current wakaba install? Also, how would I link to the new board once I create it?

Thanks.

No ADMIN_PASS or NUKE_PASS defined in the configuration at config_defaults.pl line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at config_defaults.pl line 126.
Compilation failed in require at wakaba.pl line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at wakaba.pl line 17.

I am getting that page when I attempt to install Wakaba. Can someone help me out?

The config_defaults.pl file says when the message No ADMIN_PASS or NUKE_PASS defined in the configuration appears, it means the config.pl file is incomplete. I checked over the config.pl file and everything was completed.

>>451
http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1141929669/n213-216
http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1141929669/n529-530
http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1109033191/n138-139

>>450

Wakaba installs are completely independent, and handle one single board each. Anything beyond that is up to you to arrange however you want it.

>>453
Thanks a lot, it worked.

Does anyone know how to get rid of the captcha? I tried editing something and it gave me some error lol.

>>456
Yes, you set ENABLE_CAPTCHA to 0. It really isn't that hard to figure out if you actually read the file and use your head. Seriously, are we supposed to handhold you through your entire installation and configuration?

>>457
Yes.

I've been trying to figure it out, but I do believe this is beyond my skills.

As you can see, the top is Firefox and below is Opera. The "choose" or "browse" button does not look the way it's supposed as per CSS. Is this a matter that can be remedied or is that just a browser issue that I cannot help?

I've got a problem with Kareha. I cannot use the delete file function. It just does not work. I want to delete an image without deleting a person's post but nothing happens, the picture is still there. I've tried all the browsers, that doesn't seem to be the problem. It doesn't even give me any errors, I click on 'delete file' and it does something and then it reloads the admin page but the image I wanted to delete is still there...

>>460
Oh, also I am using kareha MESSAGE board with image uploads enabled.

>>459
For the most part, you cannot edit file input via css.

Am I a dumbass or is there no way to sticky or lock threads under Wakaba? I don't see any such option in the management panel.

>>459
that's a browser issue.

>>463
why would you want to do that?

>>464
Was going to make a rules sticky, because most people are dumb and don't actually read the rules.

I have a problem with encoding in Wakaba. My .htacess file is configured for using utf-8, the same about global encoding settings of Wakaba and DB encodings. I only use cp1251 in my strings file with "use encoding 'cp1251'" and "no encoding" uncommented.
That all works fine, but anything added into database turns into crappy junk. I'm lame so I have no clue of where the error could be.
P.S. sorry for my bad English.

>>466
Well that's why. Stop using cp1251.

>>467
Thanks, Anon. I've converted strings file into utf-8 and now it seems to work perfectly.
Also, happy New Year everyone!

>>465
you really think people who don't read the rules are going to read them if you move the rules section down the page a little bit?

>>469
Good point.

This is a suggestion regarding security. I assume this is the correct place to post it; otherwise, I can start a new topic.

Please implement proper file content filtering in Wakaba/Kareha. As of right now, Wakaba filters out forbidden file types through an array of forbidden extensions, but this is not necessarily sufficient. For example, a PHP file may be uploaded with extension ".php.7z." If a board allows the 7z extension and if the file is not renamed (as is default in the case of Wakaba), an Apache server may in fact still execute it, resulting in the execution of malicious code. This has actually caused a significant disturbance in a site with which I help out. A simple two-line patch that relies on the UNIX file() utility has been written to address this for the moment.

>>472
the default is to not allow any files except jpg, png, or gif images (and rename them). it's possible to make it insecure by configuring it improperly, but it's certainly not the default.

Like >>473 says.

Also, I'm really tempted to say that that is in fact a PHP bug, and until they fix it you're better off disabling PHP on your server.

>>475
Even if it isn't a bug, it's probably caused by shitty/careless PHP coding.

>>472 also, remove the +x from your uploads folder.

>>473

When I say default, I mean Wakaba's behavior when enabling non-prohibited filetypes in config.pl, such as MP3s. I'm pretty sure Wakaba is set up not to rename those after uncommenting the respective lines.

>>476

I am told by the server admin that it is actually a bug with the latest Apache (or perhaps mod_php), possibly affecting only Gentoo. I could not find a citation (beyond this anecdote) to support the claim, but this is seems to be a known issue. It does turn out that if ".php" is found anywhere in the filename, it is still executed by Apache. A PHP file can then be disguised as a 7zip file or MP3 file (e.g., nasty_hax.php.mp3), and be uploaded. If the extension is uncommented config.pl, it gets uploaded. If the server (or PHP interpreter) suffers from the issue, the attacker executes the malicious code and has fun. I have neither tested nor asked about this for other script types. Indeed, renaming files would technically render this exploit moot, but by default Wakaba does not do this with non-pictures. There are Wakaba boards out there that support non-picture uploading, and I have seen only one (Pooshlmer) that renames files.

>>477

Indeed, that is a wise suggestion. In fact, I've just chmod-ed the src/ directories myself.

...and then the pictures could not be accessed by anyone. I set permissions to 644, but no one could see the pictures unless the execute bits were set. I'll have to ask the admin about it myself, unless someone here has an idea.

At any rate, I just thought I'd share the (admittedly nontrivial) suggestion and post about this potential exploit for other people. It completely blindsided us. Having a layer of security at the board software level in case of a future server exploit sounds like the best solution, though I understand leaving it in the hands of the administration rather than adding feature bloat.

Kudos for the script.

it is a mod_mime "feature"

http://shsc.info/FileUploadSecurity

Well, the core issue is that PHP is broken and will execute files without the +x bit set. This is horribly insecure, and should never have been implemented, but apparently now we're stuck with it.

The best solution is to completely disable PHP. If you have to use it, enable it only for folders known to be safe from uploads and disable it everywhere else.

To add extra protection in Wakaba for it, though, rather than mess with file, it'd be far easier to just dump all files whose filename matches /\.php/. This issue shouldn't affect any CGI languages, since those won't run without +x.

>>480

Thank you! That explains loads.

>>481

I personally am not a fan of PHP, myself, but I think the admin wants to run some PHP scripts. Simply using the regular expression on the filename was indeed the first idea that came to mind.

I've got a problem somehow related to encoding.
I successfully installed Kareha, but every time I try to make a post I get a white screen with text saying "Software error: Unknown encoding 'utf-8' at wakautils.pl line 613". It doesn't abort the posting though (my messages still appear despite the error), but the flashing is no good.
I didn't do any changes to wakautils.pl since the very install. What could be that?

>>484
what version of perl are you using?

>>485
Nevermind, it's alright now... I really forgot to update my perl.

http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1130723862/318

I noticed this issue was never addressed. The CSS typo is still included in the current version of Kareha. I don't know if you forgot about it or if it's intentional...

Hello, is there any built in way or any code snippets you guys have that would allow my to set an image limit on a threads (like a single on) I could probably manage this myself eventually, but I was wondering if it was done already.

>>488
RTFM, it's in the config.

I have a problem with kareha, I cannot set a maximum image limit per thread.

I thought IMAGE_REPLIES_PER_THREAD actually meant IMAGE REPLIES PER THREAD! Apparently it doesn't do anything. I am still able to post image replies way beyond the limit. Is there any way to control this problem?

I think it makes the thread stop bumping when you pass the limit.

Why on earth would you want to limit the number of image replies anyway? That's just annoying, and adds no value to anyone.

>>491
It allows me to control the amount of images uploaded so that I don't go over a certain limit. I'm running a small board with limited bandwith and space.

I want to be able to control the space in terms of number of threads. There's no shame in that. Why are you trying to control my methods so much by just waving it off as "I don't like it, therefore, it is bad." ?

>>492
There is a configuration option for limiting the threads by filesize, you know.

>>492

Like the guy says, there's an option already for setting the maximum disk space usage across the entire board. That's what you want to use, not some weird and ineffective limiting of posts per thread.

>>479
Wakaba starts off by renaming files uploaded with those filetypes, but restores the name afterward. If you want to use the generated names on files, search wakaba.pl for "externally defined filetype - restore the name" and commment out that entire if block. I'd give the line numbers, but I've done a bunch of other custom stuff in mine, so they won't be accurate.

>>495
Should be around line 1075-ish.

OK, so I just closed a thread in Kareha, and I ended up getting this error when I tried to reopen it. Is this normal? By the way, I'm using image mode, on a Linux server.

>>497 did the thread reopen? That's sometimes an artifact of a page that didn't load completely.

>>498
No, the page didn't reopen. Not even when I refreshed it.

Hey I've got a bit of a problem. I've got Kareha pretty much set up but I'd like my .htacess to default to a different page.

Googling gets me the syntax for that (DirectoryIndex etc.) but I don't understand the included example.htaccess file and the directions to change the RewriteRule stuff. Maybe this is more of a general IT question but what am i missing?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html

• > A file written by the user, typically called index.html. The DirectoryIndex directive sets the name of this file. This is controlled by mod_dir.

(In case you simply stopped reading the example.htaccess after the very first line, the mod_rewrite directives at the bottom are purely optional, and have nothing to do with the index page. They only are there to provide better hints to web browsers about the document character set.)

Don't touch config_defaults.pl, ever. That's just where the error was triggered. Your problem is still in config.pl, and you've either removed, commented, or renamed ADMIN_PASS or NUKE_PASS.

Not sure about your verification code error, but to change the title (or anything else), just edit config.pl and let wakaba.pl regenerate your html.

And, yes, wakaba.pl has a purpose; it's what your site runs on...

Can you use the same mysql database for multiple boards? If not, how do you use the same admin table for every board to make global ip bans?

>>502-503,505-506,508
what

>>509
Yes.

Another question:

When you run wakaba.pl, wakaba.html is created. But I'm wondering if there's a way to edit something so when the html file is created, it's named something like board.html, or imageboard.html.

>>512
http://www.google.com/codesearch/p#ug-nylQR254/wakaba/config.pl&l=127

>>513
Doesn't work, I changed that and it had no affect. Edited the field in config.pl, deleted wakaba.html and re-ran wakaba.pl but it still creates wakaba.html.

>>512
Did you try uncommenting it?

is there any way i can disable the ability to post images?

>>516
Yes, it's very plainly in the configuration. Look for the word "image".

ok i thought so i just haven't gotten the script yet and it didn't say anything about like if you put it to 1 or 0 so i was just making sure. thanks though

is there any way to have multiple boards?

>>519
Multiple wakaba installations.

im talking about kareha and i mean have things like /board 1/ /board 2/ like different sections where multiple threats and posts can be made sorta like kasuba

i asked people on 4chan and they said i could make a portalish type thing and run multiple karehas off the main page, this is i guess what i want to do, any advice on how to go about doing this?

>>523
Multiple kareha installations.

This really isn't that hard.

I've been running my Kareha imageboard for about a month now, and I've been looking to add new CSS. However, I tried just making a new .css file and putting it in the /css folder, and it doesn't work... How do I add new CSS styles to Kareha in image mode?

>>526

Did you rebuild caches?

>>527
Ah, forgot to do that. Thanks for your help!

http://rokuchan.org/wakaba/wakaba.pl does any one know what the problem is and how to fix it

Software error:

Bad name after comments' at config_defaults.pl line 15.
Compilation failed in require at /home98c/sub009/sc61836-VWOA/rokuchan.org/wakaba/wakaba.pl line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home98c/sub009/sc61836-VWOA/rokuchan.org/wakaba/wakaba.pl line 17.

>>529
Help please

>>529

We aren't psychic, we can't tell what you put in that file that broke it.

Can anyone help me, please? I usually got "Error: No verification code on record - it probably timed out." when trying to post in my oekaki board. I fixed it for posts on main page as this guy said http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1168935423/7 but I still can not fix it for replies.

is there some who can help me please I'm using Futallaby right now and I hate it
I'm >529

>>531
well here is the file I put * over the some stuff like the pw user name and other stuff
here is the txt file
http://rapidshare.com/files/209442147/wkbrokuchan.txt.html

>>534
If you'd just uploaded that file to this board, or used a pastebin, I might have had a shred of care to look at it.

there

>>537-538
I daresay you're editing the wrong file. Start over, and pay closer attention, you should not be touching config_defaults.pl at all.

Whew. This thread is quite the read.
I'm having an issue where I delete wakaba.html and run (access via browser) wakaba.pl. I am then redirected to wakaba.html, which does not exist. It is not built/rebuild when I access wakaba.pl. Clearing cache results in the same 404. Suggestions?

>>540

What if you go to admin.pl?task=admin and rebuild it?

>>541 admin.pl isn't in the zip file I downloaded. I can still rebuild from wakaba.pl using wakaba.pl?task=admin (or something close), but the problem persists.

Something interesting I noticed. If I use permissions 755 for folders (res, in particular), line 378 (inside print_page) goes crazy and throws errors saying a temp file can't be created. It works only if I chmod res to 777.

So with chmod 777 to res, I get wakaba.html not found.
With chmod 755 to res, I get Error: Can not write to directory.

>>541 Issue resolved:
Had to mod /var/www to 777. Icky solution, but maybe my live environment will be better configured than my bevelopment environment. Thank you for your help.

I'm wondering why Wakaba doesn't automatically truncate threads beyond a certain point, if it does,, there do I find this option
thanks

I have a quick question, does posting (running kareha.pl) cause that script to rebuild all the pages?

>>544

Truncate how?

>>545

Only if index.html does not exist. Also, do not run it from a command line, that will create broken pages.

Hi, I love your scripts ;)
truncate as in, now I have 31 pages of threads after I was testing it..
and I want it to only show say 150 threads at any one time ;)
using Wakaba

Anyway, just wondering if you're going to release your notes.pl script, thanks!

oops, I found the notes.pl script :)
I thought it was just in indefinite testing, sorry

thanks

How do you get rid of the bee? I cant seem to find it in any of the .pl files. Is there something i comment out to stop embedding of files?

> How do you get rid of the bee? I cant seem to find it in any of the .pl files.

remove it from include/rules.html. it's not part of kareha.
people who have the admin password for your board keep adding it through the admin interface.

> Is there something i comment out to stop embedding of files?

yes. fix your php script so people can't inject perl code (so they can't just get the password again), and then change the admin password for your board.

>>550
Hm... helpful advice. I would have just recommended getting off of the internet altogether.

The thing is that it just shows the code on the browser, i think i have properly configured the httpd.config file, and yes i do have perl and i have a correct hashbang. Im using xampp on windows and i dont know what to do, any ideas ?

>>552
Ops i forgot the beginning:
Apache wont execute wakaba.pl

>>553
does this perl test script work?
http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1109033191/4

>>547

Read through config.pl to find the various options for how threads are deleted. By default it happens by number of posts, not threads.

>>552

If code does not run, you have not properly configured the httpd.config file. Beyond that, it's not like we know how your server is set up. You really need to figure out that part yourself. Also, xampp is known to cause all kinds of problems.

>>554
It works with mod-perl activated, but with that i get this error with wakaba.pl:

[Wed Mar 25 14:06:30 2009] [error] Can't locate config.pl in @INC (@INC contains: . C:/xampp/perl/site/lib/ C:/xampp/perl/lib C:/xampp/perl/site/lib C:/xampp/apache) at C:/xampp/htdocs/wakaba/wakaba.pl line 16.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/xampp/htdocs/wakaba/wakaba.pl line 16.\n

Internal Server error 500

>>555
I did it using this guide:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/addcgitoapache.shtml

>>556
http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1109033191/26,27,58,65,123,125,142,143,219,245,246,254

Hi, I've got a problem with Oekaki.
I'm using Shi Painter, and everything is OK except one thing: after clicking upload in painting window it shows me a preview in a reply form, and in this preview picture has some constant name. So, my browser saves this picture to cash and next time, when I draw other picture, it shows me the previous one.
Thank you, and sorry for my english.

>>559

Configure Apache to send no-cache headers for all files in tmp/.

>>560
Hm... I tried:
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
It didn't work.
What am I doing wrong?

>>561

That's PHP code.

Look at example.htaccess.

>>562
In my .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<Files *.html>
Header add Expires "Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"
Header add Pragma "no-cache"
Header add Cache-Control "max-age=0; must-revalidate; no-cache"
Header unset Vary
</Files>
</IfModule>
Still don't work.

>>563
Check your page with wget -S http://blahblah/ or something such as Firebug to see if the headers are really being sent. Probably you don't have mod_headers enabled.

Well, all of a sudden my wakaba install is giving me this error:

Software error:

Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at wakautils.pl line 447, <FILE> line 3.

Line 447 is:

    $str=~s!([^\w/._\-])!"%".sprintf("%02x",ord $1)!sge;

which is part of:
sub clean_path($)
{

    my ($str)=@_;
    $str=~s!([^\w/._\-])!"%".sprintf("%02x",ord $1)!sge;
    return $str;

}

We've edited parts of our script and it's been working just fine for us for quite some time... this is a quite strange error and I'm hoping someone has a clue about what could be causing it. It happens when anyone tries to post or even when I try to rebuild caches. I'm assuming it will happen with anything that calls wakautils.pl.

>>565

Probably some kind of malformed UTF-8 in a filename or something similar.

>>563

You are sending those headers only for html files. Note the <Files *.html>.

Is there any option that allows Kareha threads to be numbered like that of Wakaba?

>>568

No.

Hi. when i'm trying to run wakaba.pl i get a 403 error.
permissions are set to 775.

I'd like to put google analytics in BBS system
Where should I put the code?

Sorry the bbs is Kareha

>>571-572
look in the include folder.

Sorry for sounding like a n00b, but how do I change the time zone settings? Currently it's five hours past my time zone.

>>574
DATE_STYLE in config.pl.
http and cookie use GMT, the rest use whatever the local time zone is set to on the server.
well, there is month that uses GMT as well, but that's just the month name and year, not the whole date and time.

actually, if i set up a kareha board anytime soon, i am so going to set DATE_STYLE to month.

> actually, if i set up a kareha board anytime soon, i am so going to set DATE_STYLE to month.

When I first ran wakaba I noticed that the user has to click the checkbox when they want to upload a file. I was wondering why you did this since the script runs fine without it? Also I think it makes the user input panel look a little less cluttered and confusing by taking it out.

>>577
You mean when they don't want to upload a file. That checkbox keeps people from posting a bunch of useless threads because they can't figure out how to reply.

I am attempting to run Kareha on free hosting server and so far i copied files and style to main directory and edited config.pl

When i try to run kareha.pl it shows me this:

Can't locate config.pl in @INC (@INC contains: . /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4

halp.

top - 11:19:43 up 1 day, 20:27, 1 user, load average: 4.86, 3.98, 3.98
Tasks: 21 total, 2 running, 18 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 30.9%us, 4.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 8.0%id, 55.4%wa, 0.2%hi, 1.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 429056k total, 429056k used, 0k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 429056k total, 345912k used, 83144k free, 0k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
538 USERNAME 18 0 70824 54m 1828 H 15 13.0 0:14.51 kareha.pl
27783 USERNAME 15 0 27512 10m 804 R 1 2.4 8:41.59 lighttpd
1619 USERNAME 15 0 24788 9544 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
6192 USERNAME 15 0 24784 9544 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
13649 USERNAME 18 0 24916 9604 1752 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
16515 USERNAME 16 0 24788 9540 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
17883 USERNAME 16 0 24916 9604 1752 S 0 2.2 0:00.11 kareha.pl
18518 USERNAME 18 0 24792 9476 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
19332 USERNAME 15 0 24784 9536 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
20228 USERNAME 16 0 24784 9544 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.11 kareha.pl
22054 USERNAME 16 0 24920 9616 1752 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
22678 USERNAME 18 0 24784 9536 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
23959 USERNAME 15 0 24920 9608 1752 S 0 2.2 0:00.13 kareha.pl
25918 USERNAME 18 0 24788 9476 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
25949 USERNAME 18 0 24788 9476 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
28000 USERNAME 16 0 24920 9612 1752 S 0 2.2 0:00.11 kareha.pl
28666 USERNAME 15 0 24788 9536 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
29829 USERNAME 16 0 24784 9532 1744 S 0 2.2 0:00.10 kareha.pl
32364 USERNAME 15 0 36920 1732 1160 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 sshd
32367 USERNAME 15 0 10816 2112 1308 S 0 0.5 0:00.00 bash
32387 USERNAME 15 0 10592 1232 952 R 0 0.3 0:00.01 top

>>580

Dreamhost?

>>581
Yeah. Dreamhost private server. Kareha never did this to me before... but lately it's been taking up a large chunk of CPU and RAM.

I`m getting a
Software error:
CGI open of tmpfile: Permission denied
How do I change me temp dir to /wakaba/src/ or something?

>>582

Dreamhost has some kind of bug where flock() is broken and makes Kareha lock up waiting for a lock on log.txt that is never released.

I'm trying desparately to understand compile_template(), but that is some deep magic you got there, WAHa. It looks alien in comparison to the rest of the code, out of place.
Any chance of getting a commented version?

>>588

Yes, it's some pretty wacky magic, if I recall correctly. It was years since I wrote it, though, so I don't necessarily remember exactly how it works myself. I think I gave up on making it readable so I made it unreadable instead. Sorry about that.

It converts the template to Perl code, and turns off strictness so it can use name references to actually change global variables in as it enters and leaves scopes. The main trick is this:

$foo="bar";
$$foo=12;
print "$bar\n";

This will print "12". By setting variables this way, the <var> code can just evaluate whatever argument it is given as Perl code.

>>588

>>589
You're talking variable variables. Perl's use of references has always been somewhat magical. I'll figure it out, thanks!

>>590
Helpful.
It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand, eh?

>>591
They're not that difficult, just think of them as sort of like pointers.

I'm running a board and can't seem to increase the max number of pages past 2. I've increased considerably the max thread count and the max posts count, even changed the permissions on the folder and rebuilt cache, but I can't get any more pages. Help computah? :<

>>587
is it possible to disable the logging altogether?

>>594

You could put in a cron job to delete log.txt, I guess, but it would break deletion and break IP addresses on the admin page. The flock() itself is needed to avoid concurrent posts stomping on each other.

>>595
You couldd fake the file locking with a symlink and avoid the flock() call. Make a symlink somewhere (it doesn't even have to point anywhere, really), spin until the link succeeds, and unlink it when the script exits.

>>596
or you could find a host that doesn't break flock() like that or tell them to fix their broken shit.

>>597
I did that already. I was trying not to be pompous and elitist about it, though, instead preferring to help others in the hopes that they will on their own realize that the trouble that they have to go through in order to make decent use of a broken web host isn't worth the tiny price difference.

Trying to set up kahrea on nginx + fcgiwrap. The main board seems to work, but when I try clicking on an individual thread with a URL (in the format of http://www.whatever.com/board/kareha.pl/somenumber) it gives me a 404. I'm on a resource limited VPS and Apache takes up far too many resources for my liking, or else I'd simply use that instead.

This is the part of my nginx config dealing with the board.

location ~ ^/board/.*\.pl$  {
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:10000;
    fastcgi_index index.html;
}

What am I missing?

>>587
Would it be possible to get any more details relevant to the problem with flock()? I only ask because I'm planning on complaining to Dreamhost and it would be good to have as much information as possible.

>>601

All I know is that suddenly flock() starts hanging on a specific file, and the only way to resolve it is to rename the file, and copy it back to the old location (so a new file is created, which can again be flocked() normally). Killing all running processes does not release that flock().

dreamhost has not caused issues with kareha or wakaba since 2006 on their regular hosting. maybe there's a problem with their PS service but that's a completely different beast. you should specify "dreamhost ps" in that case.

you don't even need their vps service unless you are getting around 5000 uniques * 10 pages/unique using kareha or if you are getting around 20000 or more a day with wakaba.

I don't know whether the fact that the config.pl should not be in UTF-8 amuses me or makes me want to puke.
Maybe it's my setup;

I ticked off the encoding and the template would display correctly
I ticked it on and the posts would display correctly.

And when I converted config.pl and some other files to ANSI everything came out fine.

Any tips? Should I leave it at that?

I notice that since I installed Wakaba 3.0.7 a while ago, an updated version has come out. What changes have been made? Is there a version history somewhere?

>>605

If you want it in UTF-8, you need to have use encoding 'utf-8'; at the top and no encoding; at the end.

>>606

Just bugfixes. It's been too long for me to remember what exactly all of them were, though.

Ive got perl showing the wakaba.pl page correctly, I just need to setup mysql. Anyone have exp with Mysql in Ubuntu? Or even linux for that matter?

Damn, sorry for the quad posts ... server would not reply.

>>613

Sorry, you said quad posts so I deleted three of them... Anyway, read http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html.

i just " installed " kareha..

but when I visit mah page it only downloads kareha.pl instead of browsing it?

I've installed perl, and changed permissions. so idk : (

See the previous post.

>>614
I followed that completely. I go to <site>/kareha/kareha.pl, says the index.html does not exist. The guide says going to that file should make it.

I CHMOD'd the directory to 777 again, it made the index file fine. But, when I upload an image, it always says "No thumbnail".

Oh, I also can not ban anyone either.

Okay, in admin.pl, it shows their IP as ::ffff:<normal IPv4 address>

It will not let me ban IP addresses??