Nukestyles EDLV 21 dm1a & RavenNuke v2.30.00

Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 04, 2003 Posts: 35

Hi, I am in the process of trying out RavenNuke v2.30.00 for a personal project. It's been a while since I have used any version of PHPNuke (in fact the last was 6.5) Raven hosted my site back then, and I have A LOT of respect for both him and the other key members who contribute to the PHPNuke scene.

The issue I am having is regarding 'Nukestyles EDLV 21 dm1a'. I follow the installation instructions to the letter but when I run the SQL installer file (new_install_edl_21.php) I get the following errors thrown back at me:

** Error Altering Table: nuke_downloads_downloads **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_new_pop **

** Dump Error for Table: nuke_ns_downloads_new_pop **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_general **

** Dump Error for Table: nuke_ns_downloads_general **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_desc_img **

** Dump Error for Table: nuke_ns_downloads_desc_img **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_theme_mode **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_table_form **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_table_html **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_upload **

** Dump Error for Table: nuke_ns_downloads_upload **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_field_perm **

** Dump Error for Table: nuke_ns_downloads_field_perm **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_nfeatured **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_recommend **

** Dump Error for Table: nuke_ns_downloads_recommend **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_recom_dlstats **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_recom_usrstats **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_fetch **

** Dump Error for Table: nuke_ns_downloads_fetch **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_auth **

** Dump Error for Table: nuke_ns_downloads_auth **

** Error Creating Table: nuke_ns_downloads_blocks **

** Dump Error for Table: nuke_ns_downloads_blocks **

Installation complete.

To me that looks like the script does not have admin access to my database but I am pretty sure I have logged in properly. From the looks of things Nukestyles has been offline for a few years now so I am unable to research the matter in their forums. I also noticed that Raven is using 2.1 on this site so that gives me hope that EDL works with the latest version of RavenNuke.

Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

StalkS

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Raven hasn't had time to upgrade this site to RavenNuke yet (ever hear the story of the cobbler's children's shoes?).

But this appears to be a permissions problem. Even if you are logged in as an administrator, the database user defined in your config.php file may not have the ability to create or alter tables (only update and add records). Check that, then try to install again.

Worker Joined: Oct 05, 2003 Posts: 107 Location: Illinois

There are numerous errors in that downloads module version that would have to be corrected before it could be used. I plan on working on it in the near future though.

Your best bet for now would be to take the version that is in Platinum and work from it since I have fixed alot of the errors in that EDL version.

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 4:53 am

kguske & Loki - Thank you your responses!

Loki, Which version is the platinum release? I don't seem to be able to find that specifically in the download section.

kind regards

StalkS

Update: Ignore me, I realise you mean Phpnuke Platinum - searching for files now! Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:14 pm

Well I'm sorry to say after trying all day to get EDL working from PhpNuke Platinum into the latest RavenNuke........ I can't......... Crying or Very sad

It's been fun (If not slightly frustrating)! Loki, when you do get round to modding EDL for RavenNuke I for one will really appreciate it!

Thanks again for your advice.

StalkS

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:14 pm

Not to get off topic but do you guys think that EDL is better than NSN?

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:32 pm

I would say that depends on your needs.

Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:48 am

Well to be honest as I stated in my first post

Quote:

It's been a while since I have used any version of PHPNuke

I was looking for a way to stop people pillaging my downloads. My old site used EDL to force the users to enter a series of numbers in order to download the file.

.......I know,....I know.... I found out late last night that RavenNuke has the Captcha system already added! However, along my the long winding road of setting up my dev site the captcha screen has reverted back to the old style version i.e. a grid with just four alphanumeric characters and not the fancy one with the multi coloured lines that was initially there?!

The real issue is that even though $gfx_chk: is set to '7'in config.php and downloads is set '3' in rnconfig.php the Captcha system is not displaying at all in the downloads section.

The GD extension is definitely installed on my hosts server and the Captcha system seems to work in other areas such as 'recommend Us' so I am at a bit of a loss.

I've searched through the forums but cannot seem to find anyone with a similar issue. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

StalkS

registered · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:21 am

Just so you know, if you are logged in as admin, you will not see the "spam captcha".

Also, with regards to the "old style", that means whatever script you are using is not RN captcha "aware". If you are still using EDL, that would very well be the case.

You might want to give NSN GR Downloads a try and it also integrates with the NSN Groups that is a part of RN. I would only get it from http://www.nukescripts.net and my forums have the hack to get the RN captcha to work with it.

By the way, just putting a captcha in front of your downloads will not fully solve the issue with leaching. I have lost the thread, but there was a long thread on leaching here in the forums with a small hack to either Downloads or NSN GR Downloads, which solves it for good.

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:38 pm

montego - Thank you for your detailed reply.

The "old style" Captcha thing is a bit weird. As a test I created two vanilla installations of RavenNuke one on my windows dev box (WampServer) and one on my hosting space (apache). The strange thing is that even though both were fresh installs, the one on my windows dev box had the new 'funky' lines version and the one on my hosting space had the old grid?!?.....Strange, maybe a GD thing?

On another note, I downloaded and installed NSN GR as per your forum instructions. It suits my Captcha needs perfectly. Thank you for guiding me in that direction.

I was wondering if I could possibly take a bit more of your time regarding an issue with TegoNuke ShortLinks? Having got the site to the point of pre-release. I wanted to enable the shortlinks functionality. Following your detailed readme I enabled the options in rnconfig.php and copied the ShortLinks.htaccess information into my root .htaccess file (above the NukeSentinal lines).

Everything appeared to working correctly until I clicked on 'Recommend Us' and 'Feedback'. The Captcha box in both these modules and even the main Login Block just appears with an empty image place holder. However, if I click on ‘Home’ the Captcha box reappears with the image. Have you seen this at all before?

I searched through the ShortLinks.htaccess file and can see references to both ‘Feedback’ and 'Recommend Us' so I’m slightly stumped.

Regards

StalkS

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:57 pm

I hate to ask this, but are you sure shortlinks is causeing the problem? Try setting shortlinks to false in the rnconfig.php and see if still happens.

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:56 am

Palbin - It only happens when the shortlinks are enabled. I have them currently switched off and everything is fine.

Regards

StalkS

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:46 am

Weird. No idea why that would be happening.

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:13 am

I can not reproduce this.Works fine with and without shortlinks. Please open a new topic if you can not solve this issue.
Thanks

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:38 am

Issue Not solved:

New post here: Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!

Regards

StalkS

Worker Joined: Sep 28, 2006 Posts: 241

I too have installed and added the hack as well and all is perfect on the first go around.