2015-09-22, 08:46 PM
On my site, it's completely impossible to post more than 3 links at a time, or certain words (like 'cuckold' and 'fetish' - even in non-porn and context appropriate instances that crop up naturally on a site devoted to creative writing) without getting the following error:
Exchange newreply.php with newthread.php or editpost.php as appropriate... same error occurs each time.
I've already talked to my host about this, and they've said it's not a problem on their end, but a "memory allocation and site optimisation" issue that needs attention from the software developer rather than them. Apparently:
I'm not completely sure what that even means.
Now.. I'm not really convinced this is a memory allocation issue - if it was, the problem would be occurring sporadically regardless of the content of the post, I would think? Or maybe it would happen on long posts, but not short ones.
As it is, a 3000+ word long post will go through absolutely fine... as long as it doesn't contain any words that are for some reason being blocked. A one word long post WILL generate the error every single time, if that one word is 'cuckold' or 'fetish'. Various forms of profanity and words for male and female genitalia do NOT result in this error - I can't think why the word 'cuckold' is so much more offensive than every swearword and every euphemism for genitalia I've ever heard. Even the actual word 'porn' can be posted.
Likewise with posts containing more than 3 links. At first I thought this was just a spam prevention thing, except it also applies to internal links on the same site as well. Can't have one thread that links to 4 or more other threads on the site, without receiving this error, which is a bit problematic for us - we like our lists and cross-referencing and so on.
All of which really doesn't say "memory allocation issues" to me. It's a bit too specific.
But maybe I can believe it's a settings or optimisation issue... though I've been all over the Admin CP and can't work out which setting it might be. Every single setting I can find relating to spam filtering has been turned 'off', and the problem still exists.
Possibly related (or possibly not? I have no idea, seriously) but several of my US-based members can only sporadically connect to the site at all. For the moment they're using proxies or the Tor browser, which also only work sporadically. It's very trial and error for them to access the site, and this issue has been persisting for close to 10 days now. Both are on different ISPs (first thing I checked), and experiencing some frustration, understandably.
If anyone has any insight, I'd greatly appreciate it. Even if it's just something more specific I can go back to my host with.
Site Link: http://westernbay.danach.co.uk/index.php
Version Number: 1.8.5
Feel free to utilise this forum to test things - it's already set up to be guest friendly. Alternatively, log-in details can be provided on request.
Quote:Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /newreply.php on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Exchange newreply.php with newthread.php or editpost.php as appropriate... same error occurs each time.
I've already talked to my host about this, and they've said it's not a problem on their end, but a "memory allocation and site optimisation" issue that needs attention from the software developer rather than them. Apparently:
Quote:the site is hitting the IO and receiving memory errors.
I'm not completely sure what that even means.
Now.. I'm not really convinced this is a memory allocation issue - if it was, the problem would be occurring sporadically regardless of the content of the post, I would think? Or maybe it would happen on long posts, but not short ones.
As it is, a 3000+ word long post will go through absolutely fine... as long as it doesn't contain any words that are for some reason being blocked. A one word long post WILL generate the error every single time, if that one word is 'cuckold' or 'fetish'. Various forms of profanity and words for male and female genitalia do NOT result in this error - I can't think why the word 'cuckold' is so much more offensive than every swearword and every euphemism for genitalia I've ever heard. Even the actual word 'porn' can be posted.
Likewise with posts containing more than 3 links. At first I thought this was just a spam prevention thing, except it also applies to internal links on the same site as well. Can't have one thread that links to 4 or more other threads on the site, without receiving this error, which is a bit problematic for us - we like our lists and cross-referencing and so on.
All of which really doesn't say "memory allocation issues" to me. It's a bit too specific.
But maybe I can believe it's a settings or optimisation issue... though I've been all over the Admin CP and can't work out which setting it might be. Every single setting I can find relating to spam filtering has been turned 'off', and the problem still exists.
Possibly related (or possibly not? I have no idea, seriously) but several of my US-based members can only sporadically connect to the site at all. For the moment they're using proxies or the Tor browser, which also only work sporadically. It's very trial and error for them to access the site, and this issue has been persisting for close to 10 days now. Both are on different ISPs (first thing I checked), and experiencing some frustration, understandably.
If anyone has any insight, I'd greatly appreciate it. Even if it's just something more specific I can go back to my host with.
Site Link: http://westernbay.danach.co.uk/index.php
Version Number: 1.8.5
Feel free to utilise this forum to test things - it's already set up to be guest friendly. Alternatively, log-in details can be provided on request.