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 two threads:

• http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1141929669/
• http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1192108766/

Also check the documentation: http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html

There is also a setup guide by Anon: http://wiki.iiichan.net/index.php?title=Wakaba_and_Kareha_Setup_Guide

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

>>85
Maybe somebody guessed your admin password?

No, that's not it. After conducting an experiment, it seems like the pages are only able to be at 0 and 1 from now on. It can't make a page 2 anymore for some reason.

Maybe i should just reinstall it?

So, where do I get this url shortening decoder for Wakaba?

I am running small Kareha board. Somehow one thread got disappeared I don't know how. Limits are disabled (manually of by default) or set to other values, so threads shouldn't be autodeleted, I think.
There were 5 pages, and that thread was on 0 page (though it was old, but most active, post limit and bump limit was not reached). OP didn't deleted it too. Where could be the problem?
Also, TRIM_METHOD is better to set to 1? Maybe because of this that thread was gone.

I keep getting this error not matter what I do. Advice?

No SQL settings defined in the configuration at config_defaults.pl line 11.
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.

To continue about >>89
Could it be because of no space left on disk and that thread was bumped (posted in it)?

I have a small question regarding the the "posts omitted" message in Wakaba. Is there any possible way to accomplish what I'm showing on the bottom half of this image?

http://i.imgur.com/IljHR.png

>>92
Yes, you can misspell "omitted" by editing strings_en.pl.

>>96
Doesn't really solve my problem, but okay.

Hi,
I'm using lighttpd and perl on a openwrt.
I'm getting the following error if I'm posting anything:

---
Software error:
Attempt to reload Encode.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at wakautils.pl line 616.

---

The Section is creating something for a cookie. How can I fix his?

>>99

Don't use lighttpd, probably. I don't think anyone's managed to get wakaba to work with it.

It's working on my debian box with lighttpd.

>>100
I actually have it running perfectly on my Debian box as well.

http://glauchan.ax.lt/

>>100
The kei.iichan.net boards use it, apparently.

>>99

I believe this problem have something to do with the used perl version for openwrt.
I only installed the "missing" packages, but maybe I missed a few.

It isn't possible to install all perl packages at all, because there is not enough space left on the device

>>90
Help please?

>>105

Well did you define any SQL settings?

>>106
Only the bare minimum ones needed to run and connect to the database.

>>107

Well, better check that again, then. Remember not to comment it out, either.

Trying to set up a Kareha board, however, I've noticed that unless I delete kareha.pl, re-upload it and run it no changes take effect. Is this normal, or am I missing out on something?

>>109
Rebuild the caches from the admin panel after you make changes.

Well I got it working.
Sort of.
http://chansoft.heliohost.org/demos/wakaba/wakaba.html

>>110

I'm guessing it depends on the host's control panel, but just how would I do that?

>>112

Go to admin.pl.

wAHA, what do you think of youtube embedding in the post? Some users want it but I find it annoying when they just start posting a lot of embedded videos instead of images, or text, or at least links.

Would anyone mind telling me if i should be using the same cryptographic secret key across all boards?

>>115

If you want secure tripcodes to be the same across all boards, yes.

I get a 404 when I try to Preview Post using Opera (11.51). Does anyone else have this problem?

>>99

Got the Page-Load Problem solved. It was missing .pm file.

CGI::Carp qw ( fatalstobrowser does not work correctly on lighttpd.

use the following lines instead:

-> kareha.pl

#use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

BEGIN {
use CGI::Carp qw ( carpout);
open ( LOG, ">>/tmp/cgi.log" ) or die ("Unable to open cgi.log");
carpout (LOG);
}

So you'll find the perl errors in /tmp/cgi.log

Anyone an idea to solve the problem, that I only see the new posts with a "refresh" of the page .. with lighttpd ??

Hi,

I am using wakaba 3.0.8, apache/2.2.21 and mysql 5.1.56.
Although the site is accessible, I can't post anything. The site just loads for about a second when i use the Submitbutton. There are no errors in the Apache or mysql logs. Any help would be appreciated.

>>119

>Anyone an idea to solve the problem, that I only see the new posts with a "refresh" of the page .. with lighttpd ??

I'm having this same exact problem with Wakaba (and maybe Kareha; too early to tell). Any solutions?

>>121
Configure lighttpd to serve HTML files with an "Expires" header set to a date in the past.

>>120

Rebuild caches.

Has anyone here ever tried to port Kareha/Wakaba into php-based framework app?
sorry for my bad english

wakaba.pl: Can't locate config.pl in @INC (@INC contains: . /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.12.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.12 /usr/share/perl/5.12 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /var/www/waka/wakaba.pl line 16.
[Wed Oct 26 22:18:00 2011] wakaba.pl: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/www/waka/wakaba.pl line 16.

how do i fix this?

Hi, I'm trying use Kareha in image mode, but keeping the textboard look, basically what this board is doing. I've setup kareha in text mode and image mode before, but how I set it up in imageboard mode and make it keep the textboard mode look?
The same thing is done on this board: http://www.secchan.net/niche/

>>127
set it up in textboard mode, then enable image posting in config.pl.

So I setup Wakaba on my hosts server and everything was working except for thumbnail generation. In place of the thumbnail you would see a dotted borderlined square, and in it is simple the words "No thumbnail." You click in and it opens the image just fine, but there is never any thumbnail.
Now, I just setup Kareha on the server in image mode, and the very same thing is happening. A dotted boarderlined square with the words "No thumbnail" inside it. And clicking the words brings up the image just fine. But neither will create thumbnails.
Is there anything that could cause this very same problem with both Kareha and Wakaba? I've tried what I could and now I'm stumped.

Help please?

My host uses Apache 2.2.17, by the way.

>>129
Get your host to install Imagemagick (the command line version).

>>129
Kareha and Wakaba need an external program to work? Lame. Well it can't be helped.
But, if I am unable to get them to install it, is there a workaround?

A BIG Thanks :)

>>131
get an imagemagick binary that will run on your server, put it on the server, and set the location in config.pl.

Hey guys, I'm trying to add spoiler text support to wakaba, and I'm new to perl so this is a lot harder for me than it should be. Is there any reason why adding the following to `sub do_wakabamark($;$$)' is not working?

elsif(/^\[spoiler\]/) # spoilers{
    if ($lines[0]=~/^\[spoiler\](.*)/){
        while !($lines[0]=~/\[\/spoiler\]$/){
            push @spoiler,$1; shift @lines;
        }
    }
    $res.="<span class='spoiler'>".(join "<br />",@spoiler)."</span>";
}

Thanks in advance!!

>>135
Oh and if it matters, I'm getting a regex error in this section for some reason, and I don't understand what that has to do with my changes:

# do ^H
if($]>5.007)
{
    my $regexp;
    $regexp=qr/(?:&#?[0-9a-zA-Z]+;|[^&<>])(?<!\^H)(??{$regexp})?\^H/;
    $line=~s{($regexp)}{"<del>".(substr $1,0,(length $1)/3)."</del>"}gex;
}

>>135

>elsif(/^\[spoiler\]/) # spoilers{

There's supposed to be a linebreak before the {.

>>135
>>136
>>138
Made a bunch of changes and got it working for the most part, but now I can't make the spoilers work if post contains any other text before or after the tags. Here's what I have:

	elsif(/.*\[spoiler\].*/) # spoilers
	{
		my @spoiler;
		if ($lines[0]=~/.*\[spoiler\](.*)/){
			shift @lines;
			while ($lines[0]!~/\[\/spoiler\]$/){
				push @spoiler,$lines[0]; shift @lines;
			}
			shift @lines;
			if ($lines[0]=~/\[\/spoiler\]$/){
				$lines[0]="";
			}
		}
		$res.="<span class='spoiler'>".(join "<br />",@spoiler)."</span>";
	}

Not sure what to do next...

Okay, so I moved it until after WakabaMark finishes messing with the text, and did my best to work around the strange placement of the tags it introduced. Here's my "final" solution (until I get rid of Wakabamark completely and start from scrath):

if($res=~/.*\[spoiler\].*/){
	$res=~s/\[spoiler\]*/\<span class\=\'spoiler\'\>/g;
	$res=~s/\[\/spoiler\]*/\<\/span\>/g;
	$res=~s/\<p\>/ /g;
	$res=~s/\<\/p\>/\<br \/\>\<br \/\>/g;
	$res=~s/\<br \/>/ /;
	$res=~s/\<\/span\>\<br \/\>\<br \/\>/\<\/span\>/g;
}

>>140

Protip: Don't do that. It seems like it's easy to write a simple text formatter using a bunch of chained regexes.

It is not.

Every single regex is going to interact with every other regex, in subtle ways you will not predict, and you will open yourself up to mis-formatting and HTML injections. Hunting these down will be painful, and once you are done (which you never really are) you will have an utterly unmaintainable monster.

If you want write a text formatter, you will need to use some kind or other of actual parser.

>>141
Interesting. Well, I'm going to take your advice and keep trying to get spoilers working in a Wakabamark like fashion. Any advice?

Anyone know why both Wakaba and Kareha's generated HTML looks like this? If it matters, it happens under both nginx and lighttpd.

>>143
That's intentional. If you want to read the HTML code, use Firebug or similar.

>>144
Its intentional? Mind explaining why?

>>145

There is little need for people to read it, and adding linebreaks just makes the code and output bigger for no real benefit.

I can post and it shows that in my admin management menu, but I don't see the posts in wakaba.html

How come they won't show?

>>147
Tried to F5/clear browser cache? If that works, use the included example.htaccess file to avoid the problem.

Is there a way for 2 people from 2 computer locations to share control over a Wakaba board? By control I mean fixing config.pl, changing link on top of the site, adding template style, etc.

How do you add boards?

>>149
Share the (S)FTP username/password.

>>150
You...

1. Stop asking questions about it.
2. Start looking for the answer on this board. It's been answered billions of times, and there's even a nice thread about it in the thread list.

I'm having minor cache problem with wakaba: new posts won't appear unless the page is refreshed, happened in both Firefox and Chrome. Is there a way to fix this?

>>152
See >>148

How do I get rid of the /wakaba.html part from the main URL, as well as .html extension from every page?

I'd tried to use .htaccess but it doesn't fix the problem permanently: after posting, /wakaba.html returned.

>>154
Are you using nginx or lighttpd?

>>155
Sorry I don't know, I have a friend hosted+coded the site and he's away atm. The private test board I set up is on Apache.

Last time I mention about removing /wakaba.html, he only said it can't be done even though I've seen some sites did it. So now I'm searching around. Does the methods for each differ much? It might be a good idea to document them.

>>156
Set Apache's directory index to wakaba.html or change wakaba.html to index.html in the config, then either 1) add rewrite rules to redirect wakaba.html to the board's root directory or 2) modify wakaba.pl to always redirect to the board's root directory.

>>100 uh what? i was using lighttpd on chansluts/male general/tranchan/chanchan/intern3ts/etc for about two years.

Is there anyway to force re generation of thumbnails? My older thumbnails are sized differently than my newer ones due to a different configuration, and I was wondering what I could do to make it more uniform other than resizing them in the browser.

>>159

Nope, sorry. Unless you write your own script to do it and update the database.

>>160
Might not even have to update the database now that I think about it. Aren't the file names more or less the same in the thumbs folder and the image folder? I'm guessing I can just run some sort of script that will resize the originals and add "t" to the end.

>>161

You need to update the image sizes. I think those are in the database.

>>162
Would it break things if I didn't?

>>163
Yes it would. Every thumbnail gets displayed with width and height attributes taken from the database.

>>164
I already changed how thumbnails were displayed in futabastyle.pl. I didn't change the larger ones though, since upscaling looks ugly.

>>165
Did you remove the width and height attributes? That's kind of stupid, because the page is going to bounce around like crazy while loading it, especially on slow connections.

>>166

>remove

No, I just set the width of all the reply thumbnails to 127px (apparently the height is adjusted accordingly), and my plan is to have the OP thumbnails display at 250px, which kinda has to be the native res if I don't want them to look like shit.

>>167

Try posting a 1x1000 pixel image now.

>>168
That -would- be annoying. Well, either way thumbnails are still resized with a 250px max height using imagemagick by default, so it still won't be that much of a problem

Is it possible to start an online archive for Wakaba board similar to how 4chan did it?

Is anyone else having problems logging into Wakaba on Dreamhost? I noticed they seemed to have broken REMOTE_ADDR which made the login not work at all for me.

Anyone else?

>>171
Works fine for me. Sounds like that is a server-specific issue.

>>170
I don't understand the question.

>>168
>>169
Starting to see what you meant. It does look kinda wierd. Guess I'd be better off resizing dynamically in javascript.

>>135-141
So I FINALLY got spoilers working properly. I don't remember who told me, but the only way to get this to work without completely rewriting wakabamark was to hold off on the spoiler function until AFTER all wakabamark related things were completed. Anyways, I went ahead and put my code right after:

    # restore >>1 references hidden in code blocks
    $comment=~s/&gtgt;/> >/g;

...which was on line 846 in my version of wakaba.pl. Next is the actual spoiler code:

    # new spoiler code (can't put it in 'do_wakabamark' because of 'do_spans' messing with the order of tags
    if($comment=~/.*\[spoiler\].*/){
        $comment=~s/\[spoiler\]*/\<span class\=\'spoiler\'\>/g;
        $comment=~s/\[\/spoiler\]*/\<\/span\>/g;
        $comment=~s/\<span class\=\'spoiler\'\>\<br \/\>/\<span class\=\'spoiler\'\>/g;
        $comment=~s/\<\/span\>\<br \/\>/\<\/span\>/g;
    }

Hopefully this helped -someone- out.

does anyone know why my kareha isnt generating an rss and backlog? the files are there, theyre just blank. my kareha is installed in imageboard mode if it makes any diff

nevermind i just copied the templates from the non imageboard file

Is there any way make individual posts display SJIS art properly in Wakaba like they Kareha does? Or is this something I'll have to add in myself.

>>179
There's no built-in way to do that, but you achieve it with a few quick additions to the templates.

Find something like this in the templates (it should occur twice, IIRC):

<blockquote>
<var $comment>

Replace it with this:

<blockquote<if $email=~/^aa$/i> class="aa"</if>>
<var $comment>

Then add this to either the global stylesheet in the header template, or to each individual stylesheet:

.aa { font-family: 'MS PGothic', ＭＳ Ｐゴシック, IPAMonaPGothic, Mona; }

Finally, to post with SJIS art, just enter "aa" in the email field. Note that I haven't tested this.

Speaking of CSS, was there any significance to .reply blockquote, blockquote :last-child { margin-bottom: 0em } in futaba_style.pl? Most seem to consider the way it looks odd, and both 4chan and 2chan are rendered the way Wakaba would be without it.

>>181

Probably something about emulating the exact look at Futaba at the time it was written.

>>179
>>180
Actually, on second thought, this won't work. /^aa$/i should be /^mailto:aa$/i.

>>183
It works you do /aa$/i as well. I didn't think to add mailto:.

Im running apache2 on ubuntu, and I am not able to access .pl files from my web browser for some reason I get 403 errors every time. Its my own server, what have i messed up?
I did configure it for .pl and .cgi files in apache2.conf