forum/private messages wont post now

Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

all of a sudden last night on a site that i help to admin no one can make a post in the forums or send a private message. Everyone gets this

Code:

You cannot make another post so soon after your last; please try again in a short while.

now.. i checked flood interval first and it is set to 15 seconds.

what could be causing this to happen all of a sudden? i really need to get that fixed..any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks Wink

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Things just don't happen - usually YOU cause them ROTFL

Now that that's out of the way, what has changed? You've been at this long enough to know that something must have changed. A fix? A mod? Help us to help you. And feel better! Get some sleep!

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:27 pm

nope.. nothing has changed. i have not added a single thing to that site. no one else has access. i know that it worked tonight at about 3:30 but then something happened. could it be something with their server?

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:30 pm

Possibly. Check your sever error log. Also just for grins and giggles, do a repair on all the tables via phpMyAdmin. Delete cookies, refresh the cache. Do a moon dance. Offer a blood sacrifice. Have Deseroka do an Indian dance. You never know.

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:31 pm

actually .. i found this post at phpbb.com
Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!

seeing that his problem was that the server changed time i went to look at another site and yes.. they did change the server time and date. it was incorrect which i pointed out to the server owners a few days ago. They went and changed it tonight it seems. I assume that people on the site that is effected by this will have to wait until time passes? do you have any idea how long that might be now that they just set the server to the correct date tonight?

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:34 pm

Well, that's a new one to add to my stupid user tricks! Send Chat a PM and ask him to respond to this post. No one knows phpbb like he does Wink

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:45 am

That could be something to do with the cookie setup, check this out:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php

If you read down in the comments there are a few threads about the time being different and not setting a cookie or the browser thinking it is the past/future

I would also try clearing all cookies and attempting again. That may do the trick!

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:59 am

A change in the server's time will cause this mainly because cookies will have a different time but that is not the only problem, session tables will not match either until the time has been corrected at the server.

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 2:02 pm

So would emptying _session, _bbsessions and deleting cookies do the trick?

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:47 pm

nope it doesnt. you just have to wait it out until time catches up so to speak. it is starting to work for the people on that site now..lol.. i guess we learn something new everyday Confused

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:40 pm

Try renaming the cookie through Forum Admin Configuration.

New Member Joined: Aug 05, 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Texas

Done all the above. Time is way off on the posts for my forum. Any suggestions or ideas? I posted something this morning and it is showing that I posted it at 10pm tonight which isn't even here as yet. Strange.

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:59 pm

I have spent the last 16 hours solid, getting my PC back on line after an HP update pack hosed it all up! I tell you this so that you'll understand that I wasn't online at all until about 1/2 hour ago so I was unaware of the server timing problem. If you will let me know what posts are out of order, I will reorder them.