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Yesterday, I implemented a change in the Membership Preferences to stop the spam registrations. I changed the profile trigger word from member to membership. Now, if I try to post on my message board, it kicks me back to my home page. All the other functions seem to work fine, only the posting a new message or reply seems to be affected.

http://coastalpetrescue.org/forums

Could someone please help me? I’m using version 2.1.2.

No new posts have been permitted since around noon yesterday (EST). I was able to make a post after the change to the membership preferences, so I do not believe that is the issue.

I even went and downloaded the latest build and updated, but no success. I’m running ExpressionEngine v 1.6.9.

So, apparently, whenever we try to post to the forums (hitting submit at login, commenting on a thread, or posting a new topic), the system is trying to redirect to the system path rather than to the HTML path. But we don’t know why, or how this suddenly just happened. Here’s a sample from my server’s error log:

[Thu May 13 13:01:46 2010] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /system_path/to_public_directory/public_html/member, referer: http://mydomain.org/member/profile/
[Thu May 13 12:58:43 2010] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /system_path/to_public_directory/public_html/adopt, referer: http://mydomain.org/adopt/
[Thu May 13 12:58:16 2010] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /system_path/to_public_directory/public_html/adopt, referer: http://mydomain.org/adopt/view/2009-d-027-gallagher/
[Thu May 13 12:57:25 2010] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /system_path/to_public_directory/public_html/adopt, referer: http://mydomain.org/adopt/
[Thu May 13 12:57:05 2010] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /system_path/to_public_directory/public_html/forums, referer: http://mydomain.org/forums/edittopic/161/
[Thu May 13 12:55:46 2010] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /system_path/to_public_directory/public_html/forums, referer: http://mydomain.org/forums/newreply/52/

Are you using mod_rewrite to remove index.php fromn your URLs? Perhaps you simply need to update a rewrite rule there?

This is not a rewrite rule issue. It is only happening in the forum module, nowhere else. No forms elsewhere on the site are having issues. Again, let me reiterate that this just happened within the last 24 hours. My .htaccess file has not been edited since about October of last year.

Try going to a known-bad URL on your site (outside the forums) and take a look at the corresponding entry in your server’s error log. Is the server path listed on that entry as well?

Yes it is.

As of ten minutes ago, I can now post again on the forums. I still do not understand what happened, but seems to be similar to Mike’s issue.

Your issue went away completely? Did anything change on your server? Might want to ask your host about it. Either way, let’s keep this open a little longer to keep an eye on things.

I can post and do all the things now, but I still have the system path showing in error logs.

Hi,

Do you mean that you are still getting “File does not exist” errors in your logs even though it is working correctly? Have you run this by your hosting support?

Cheers

Greg

Once again, the forums are broken. This keeps happening just on the forums module, nowhere else on the site.

Hi,

Are the same error messages appearing in your logs? Did you ask your hosts about this?

Cheers

Greg