Round and round we go!

[JohnBee]

Damned I don't know where to look next, Im on v3.5 with vBa 2.x and I have to say, there seems to be either some very frustrating bugs or the settings are just creating circular runarounds. In any case I can't seem to get a fully functional page going beyond the default page (which has its own ideas)

The front end login just doesn't work (yes I read and tried all the threads)

The navigation menu is somewhat posessed - lol if you clock a subpage link when already on the page it pops me out to the forums.

The news module seems to display news, well... whenever its in the mood - hehe. I can setup and display some news in the default homepage but only in the first forum I choose, if I try to change it, it has no effect and keeps showing the news from the same (first selection) forum.

If I create a new page, I can get the news module to display content but the moment I touch anything in the module display settings the news won't publish and won't return regardless of the changes I make.

Well thats my complaint for the week, I don't like to pile a bunch in one thread but I figured I would be better to lay it all out in case someone else had similar experiences with some advice.

[JohnBee]

Okay for the news, I have isolated the problem down to subforums. If I select a 2 level subforum it won't display it. if I come up one level it will work as advertised.

[JohnBee]

Another update:
It would seem as though the problem is the no. of post counter.
If you choose 0 (none display) instead of display all
if you choose a no. that is even or higher than the total post count in your forum, the news will not display.

In case anyone shared similar frustrations

[JohnBee]

And some more (last time)

News Archive vs News...
Something very odd here, if I choose news alone, I get no news no matter what. If I select news archive along with the news I get news (or is it achiving?) either one one does not work without the other. Additionally turning off archiving in any way will result in - no news as well.

Donno if this helps but I figured it was worth posting about.

[Brian]

Strange that you would be having problems like this... Would you rather just submit a support ticket so I can have a look at things myself? I'm thinking that might be easier in the long run for the both of us.

[JohnBee]

Okay sure.

For the record. I have fixed the erronous login to homepage problem. This is not in reference to the form login code found in the welcome panel but a direct permission problem for closed pages.

The problem presented itself like this:
url > http://www.mysite.com (homepage)

Standard error login form, login crudentials, login > "wrong path to login.php"

Solution, edit standard_error_template and replace:

action="login.php" method="post"

with

action="{$vbulletin->options[bburl]}/login.php" method="post"

Perhaps this will helps someone else out there, even though my thread title makes absolutely no reference to the problem