I had installed 9.2 and everything worked fine.

I saw there was a 9.4 version, so I decided to install the latest version. I deleted version 9.2 and did a clean install of 9.4.

Now for my problem:

When ever I try to save a setting in any of the catagories in the administration panel, I receive an "internal server error" in the right hand panel of the administration page. The setting that I am saving saves ok..... It just doesn't take me back to the admin page....

What am I missing?

Justin, is there something new in Perl that I don't know about (like that would be hard ) that you might be using in your code that could cause this problem?  Perhaps a security threat that is driving server admins to install something that you are not aware of...or that they are not aware of.

This just seems to be happening an a lot lately with forums.  I did a code comparison between 9.2 and 9.3/.4, and the only thing that I noticed was you added [ code]"[/code]'s to the html portion of the admin1, 2, and 3 .pl files.

I'm lost on this one, but my server has stopped giving me this problem after a week of it happening...I can only guess that they actually check their error logs.

Personally I have no idea what's causing it.  I'll try to do a comparison, but by now there's going to be far too many new and/or updated things.  It wouldn't be because you're editing the shebang line (like by adding something -?)?  I'm not sure.  I'll try to look though.

Hi again....

Well today the forum works fine except on and off during the day I can't get into the admin page.  I get "Internal Server Error" Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.....

I wonder if it has anything to do with me testing the board as an admin, guest and a member that I have created. It is as though I am logged in as "admin" but it thinks I am still "someone else"


Very frustrating!

On my server I found a work around for this.  Download P9.3 and upload the admin1.pl from that package to your Code directory on your server.  If that doesn't work, use the one from 9.2.  If that doesn't work, then your problem is different than my problem and you should upload your 9.4 version of admin1.pl to your server again

Actually, if I have to be 100% honest with you, this is the only thing you need to change in Admin1.pl to fix the problem.
Replace the top 6 lines with this:

Code ################################################ # E-Blah Bulliten Board Systems       Platinum # ################################################ # Copyright (c) 2001 - 2005 e-blah!            # # All Rights Reserved.                         # ################################################

That is the only difference between the 9.3 admin1.pl and the 9.4 admin.pl.

Changing the admin1.pl did not fix the problem....


Here is some more info that might help to figure out what my problem is:

I am accessing my forum from 2 different computers with different ip addresses. (work and home) At work the ip address never changes. At home I am on dial-up so everytime I connect I have a different ip address.

Today at work I had no problems at all accessing the admin page. I come home, connect to the internet, go to my forum, and go to the admin page... "Internal Server Error" No matter what I do I can't access that page....  I log out of the forum, and disconnect from the internet.  I reconnect to the internet, log into the forum, and now the admin page works.....

Any ideas?

No idea.  Are you using SID's?

No, I am not using session ids.  I am at work now and the admin page is:

"Internal Server Error"

"Sigh"

If you let me have access to your server via FTP I'll try to narrow it down?

I am having exactly the same problems - the rest of the site works absolutely fine but I am unable to access the Admin pages.  When I try I receive "Internal Server Error".  I have checked all file permissions.

Did you manage to resolve the problem?

Delete the .htaccess file in the /Code directory.  It's not really required in that directory anyway.

I was in the same situation, (checked persmissions etc) but have managed to work out a fix (For me anyway!)

I was using firefox as my browser & when I logged in it was fine.
But if I pressed the Admin Button I got the 500 Internal Server Error.

But if I used Internet Explorer I could login and go into the Admin Section!!

So I don't know why I just thought it had something to do with cookies..
Because this is a Eblah forum & the one I installed is Obvioulsly a EBlah forum.

So in the Admin Section (in IE)  I changed the default cookie name from Eblah to Satfeed (You can choose anything)

Save the Changes

You will have to login to your forum again & admin panel works in firefox & IE.

Quoted from Satfeed

I was in the same situation, (checked persmissions etc) but have managed to work out a fix (For me anyway!)

I was using firefox as my browser & when I logged in it was fine.
But if I pressed the Admin Button I got the 500 Internal Server Error.

But if I used Internet Explorer I could login and go into the Admin Section!!

So I don't know why I just thought it had something to do with cookies..
Because this is a Eblah forum & the one I installed is Obvioulsly a EBlah forum.

So in the Admin Section (in IE)  I changed the default cookie name from Eblah to Satfeed (You can choose anything)

Save the Changes

You will have to login to your forum again & admin panel works in firefox & IE.

Hmm ... interesting.

I haven't had any problems since I installed 9.5.