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Not Solved 2016-10-09, 11:01 PM (This post was last modified: 2016-10-09, 11:12 PM by Starnova.)
My forum has now been closed for 4 hours and yet guests are coming in droves. 6 - 8 per hour. I am trying to configure my site ..and yet there are people all the time.. 
Is there something I can do ?  when it's closed that is what I want it to be.

They are reading threads too... they are not bots either hmmm


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Not Solved 2016-10-10, 12:16 AM
This user has been denied support. This user has been denied support.
If your board is closed guests can't read threads, even if it does show them online.
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Not Solved 2016-10-10, 12:26 AM
(2016-10-09, 11:01 PM)Starnova Wrote: My forum has now been closed for 4 hours and yet guests are coming in droves. 6 - 8 per hour. I am trying to configure my site ..and yet there are people all the time.. 
Is there something I can do ?  when it's closed that is what I want it to be.

They are reading threads too... they are not bots either hmmm

By closed, what do you mean?

How about try logging out and browsing as a guest to see if the board is truly closed or not?
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Not Solved 2016-10-10, 07:25 PM
I have been having some odd issues with my site lately. One is that there are users on long after I have closed. when I go to see whre they are .. they are all over the forum reading etc. So I have to assume something is wrong..their IPs check out..

Now today I was shocked when I went into my Admin and wanted to work on the templates and Xthreads. Someone is on the skin I do not have up and running, and they are  marked as 1   all other members are on the default skin I have up..

what is going on? Can someone advise me? I use the spam filters and everything I can..  

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Not Solved 2016-10-10, 10:49 PM
well I closed it in adminCP but I was working on it, when I went to check my work there were 8 guests where there were 3 when I closed. SO i went and ran their IPs to see if they were bots and they were not .. two were downloading files a couple were reading online one was reading a thread and then one left as I was checking.


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Not Solved 2016-10-11, 02:51 AM
you can log out from forum and check whether guests or normal users can access forum content & unlisted themes.
who's online does not show error page when visitors try to access unavailable content !
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Not Solved 2016-10-11, 05:23 AM
Okay it is strange though I checked my chmod too and all is in order. They will just have to put up with things happening like the check of a configuration. I only close it if updating.


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