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That is correct. You did trigger the firewall. I have not got time to look into it now. The firewall blocks only last 30 mins.

Request:
POST /media/files/do-upload.json?hash=196470efc87e1b95247f0d9444871ae0&content_type=xengallery_media&upload_type=image_upload&key=image_upload
Action Description:
Access denied with code 403 (phase 2).
Justification:
Match of "eq 0" against "MULTIPART_UNMATCHED_BOUNDARY" required.
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Please email me the image you were trying to upload so I can try later and examine the process. accessnorton at gmail
 
I just noticed there is a button when you upload an image for either Thumnail or Full Image. I have also noticed that all of what used to be images embedded inline are now thumbnails at the end of the posts. Would it be possible to change the default behavior to Full Image, so all of them come back inline on the posts that are migrated over? Or, will all of the posts have to be edited by the author to make them visible in the posts as they were?
 
I just noticed there is a button when you upload an image for either Thumnail or Full Image. I have also noticed that all of what used to be images embedded inline are now thumbnails at the end of the posts. Would it be possible to change the default behavior to Full Image, so all of them come back inline on the posts that are migrated over? Or, will all of the posts have to be edited by the author to make them visible in the posts as they were?
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Yes- I need to configure this. Not had time. Thanks for reminding me.
 
I am not sure who it was. Someone emailed me about not having the ability to upload full size images and that only thumbs are available. This is how you do it:
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Jerry Doe said:
Hi Ken, the links to old threads will need to be manually updated. This is a completely different platform. Its been a rocky ride to get here and we are still working on things. Unfortunately I was forced to do this due to security reasons. The other forum was insecure and had major problems. It had security holes and was hacked several times. I did not mention much about it here as I did not want to tell the hackers how I fixed it. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are kind of in this together, although I am the driver ;)

Jerry
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Related to this is when you Google old threads (and by old I mean the old site) the links no longer work. This mean you basically can't use Google to search. Perhaps there you could add a redirect script? I assume the old threads are there just with a new link?
 
I thought about writing a redirect script, and it was getting too complex as there are hundreds of links indexed in Google. I have read and I have been told that the forum platform is extremely good in SEO. I have already been submitting sitemaps to Google. Hopefully they will re-index the new forum links quickly. I know it can take a few weeks sometimes. Lets see what happens. A couple of quick updates for anyone else following this thread still:

1) I noticed I was getting too many emails every time someone posted something. I just realized that was turned on for everyone by default. I have changed the default setting to off for new users. To turn that off go to your control panel (hover over your username) and select alert preferences. Thats where its controlled and you can turn off those emails if you dont want them.

2) Facebook auto login now works. If you are logged into facebook all the time you can now associate it with your account here, so you will no longer need to login at the forum; if you are already logged into facebook.

3) I am still working on styling this so please be patient. Its not done yet. I know I got to fix this editor font so I can see it better. That is now on the list.

Cheers
 
Jerry Doe said:
That is correct. You did trigger the firewall. I have not got time to look into it now. The firewall blocks only last 30 mins.



Please email me the image you were trying to upload so I can try later and examine the process. accessnorton at gmail
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I tried this again with the same pics, and got the same results in Chrome and Edge. So, I opened the photos in Photoshop and re-saved them, and then was able to upload them.

But, it would be good to understand why the ones I sent you failed, as I quite often post images i edit on my phone to threads, and if this is failing on the new forum it would be good to understand why.

But, i get that this is not a Pri 1 issue.
 
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Hi Dave - (gortnipper) thanks for emailing me the image you could not upload. I tried to upload it and it failed for me. I analyzed the server logs and could not find the exact reason for the server block. I have found the process that blocked it and I have whitelisted it. This type of block will not happen again to anyone. So this is solved.
 
Just a "heads up" to Jerry and all.

Any intra-forum links (a link to another page or post within the Forum) posted on the old version, result in <page not found> errors in the new version.

Slick
 
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Hi Slick, thanks for letting me know. I am going to run a script to find all those links and I will try and fix as many as I can. That will happen later. If you see any links send them to me here please on this thread and I will do my best to update them all one by one. If you own a link and can edit a post that will help me.
 
I replied to a thread "Access Norton Control Panel", the OP of which was TD54 who had no avatar, and my avatar now appears on the thread, albeit small and aligned bottom right.

Edit: my avatar now appears on this thread too!
 
Observation, it will right itself over time, but current google search results are out of date and referring to the old site addresses.
 
I replied to a thread "Access Norton Control Panel", the OP of which was TD54 who had no avatar, and my avatar now appears on the thread, albeit small and aligned bottom right.
Edit: my avatar now appears on this thread too!
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Hello- I dont understand what you are saying. If this is a problem happening, please can you provide more details so I can look into it. If its not a problem, ignore.

Jerry
 
Biggest issue I see is that the new forum path has broken external (google search) linking:
Old path from google search
http://www.accessnorton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=848
New path to post:
https://www.accessnorton.com/threads/commando-cam-bushes.815/
You should ask your programmer to write a script handler to redirect/append incoming searches to the new path
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Well I am the programmer :) I have been trying to figure this out and this is what I have come up with for htaccess:

RewriteRule ^(viewforum|viewtopic)\.php phpbb.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html html.php [NC,L]

Its not working. I am trying to juggle all of this with my real job lol. Are you experienced in apache re-write? I am listening if you are. If not I will get back to the redirect issue later.

Cheers
 
Jerry:

On the previous version, I made regular use of the "Mark topics read" feature when I'd opened one of the forums and didn't find any topics of interest. I don't see that capability in the new forum. Could it be added?

Jerry:
Ignore the above - I just found the feature.
 
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Jerry, don't bother with a redirect script, get Google to sort it out.

http://support.aarcade.net/how-do-i-update-or-change-the-google-search-results-for-my-site/

How do I update my Google search results?
Google’s process of indexing your site, and subsequently displaying it in search results, is automated. It can sometimes take months before your site is listed or before any changes you make are reflected in your search results. You can not directly define when Google’s indexing takes place and what rank they assign your pages, however you can prompt them to re-index via Google's Webmaster Tools.
 
A small observation. When I use my 7 inch pad to view the forum the advertising banner obscures some of the new posts in the box on the right hand side. If I use my PC I don't get any advertising banner.

Ian
 
Jerry, don't bother with a redirect script, get Google to sort it out.
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I wish it were that easy. I am concerned about the links in the threads and in the posts. These links go to where the links used to be on the old forum. The URL path is different now. I am trying to write a script (mod_rewrite) that will redirect all old links to new links. I hope I can pull it off. I will give it go on the weekend.

I already have a script that will find all broken links in the forum. Worst case scenario I will run that, note all broken links and fix them manually. I hope I dont have to take that approach as there are thousands of them.

Stay tuned...
 
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