San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu
website => Report Broken Link, incorrect information, Forum rules etc => Topic started by: tonyco1 on May 16, 2011, 02:10:14 AM
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Is it just me?? the icon's do not appear now!
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Same here Tony - only the box with the title of the icon and a red cross
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Is it just me?? the icon's do not appear now!
Hi Tony
I have the same problem.It could be a protection issue.This is based not on any computer knowledge but on the simple fact it appears very similar to my first viewing of any emails received.I get no pictures showing only the letter X in their place.Along with this is a message that states the pictures are not being shown as it could help the sender to identify your computer.Click here if you want to show them.
When clicked the pictures appear.
Yammas
Yiannis
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It's because either the administrators have turned off smileys, or the path on the server to the smileys is incorrect, or the smiley gifs have been accidentally deleted. The last is most likely. There's no block on images because the ticker banners people have at the bottom are gif images and they display ok.
I'll mail the administrators.... (pause for fiddling)
Okay - reported it.
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Well thought out Jimbo.
Yammas
Yiannis
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I actually run one of these Simple Machines forums for my software company's users. It looks identical to this. There are a few more possibilities of a technical nature which I won't bore you all with, unless you ask!
stin eiya mas
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Thanks everyone - thought it was my new PC at first.
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It's NOT your PC (or Mac, or iPod, or iPad or netbook).
If you don't want to read some boring techie stuff just move on!
The forum runs on a server. The forum uses a programming language call PHP. This generates web pages in real-time and sends them to your web browser. No human needs to be involved after the initial coding stage. It's an automated system. Imagine having to get the comments one by one and then update the web pages! Nightmare. Instead, when we post our witty comments, the server applies the rules, updates its database, makes a new web page and sends the page back to your computer.
The server expects to find things in certain places. If they're not there that can have catastrophic (computer dies) or mild (default icon displayed) consequences. Smileys not appearing is obviously a mild condition. There are two main reasons why they won't appear:
1) The little pictures have been deleted.
2) The server's firewall is blocking access to "localhost"
Aha, I hear you ask, reaching for another Mythos - what is localhost? We're all familiar with our computer talking to remote computers, like, for example the BBC's computers. But your computer can also contact itself as though it were a remote computer. This is known as localhost and usually has an IP address of 127.0.0.0
The forum code talks to localhost a lot. If you right-click on a smiley that's got a place-holder funny little red triangle and page-turned-down icon you'll find that it's URL looks like this:
http://localhost/sanstefsmf/Smileys/default/cry.gif
So you can see that the forum code is asking for an image (cry.gif) via localhost. So the ways to failure are that the image, or folder, doesn't exist, or that something's blocking network access to localhost (which is VERY unusual). Users can't fix this. We are powerless.
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:) ::) ??? :o :-* :-\
I think the problem is now fixed .
It had occurred during the last security and maintenance forum-update.
Thanks for pointing me in to that,
Dimitris
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Thank you Dimitris :)
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Well done Dimitri. And also Cerys.
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And - it's thank you from me as well!!
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:) ::) ??? :o :-* :-\
I think the problem is now fixed .
It had occurred during the last security and maintenance forum-update.
Thanks for pointing me in to that,
Dimitris
Dimitris, I think it's gone wrong again!
Tony
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They haven't worked since the site recovered from its major crash. Not the end of the world.
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Of course not, but a bit of fun, I am sure there is a fix.
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:) ??? :-[ :-\ :-* :'(
just seen this
I hope it;s now fixed
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Thanks Dimitris ;)
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Thanks again!