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1) onraad Group: Guests
IP: 145.53.--.--

Posted:

Is it right that forum.pl doesn't accept non-English word?. I wanted to get rid of the 'Guests' 'Admins' and 'Members' maken them 'Gasten', 'Beheerders' and 'Leden' instead. Also I wanted to Dutch the error-messages. WHen I do that the script doesn't work.
Other question: could it be by using SaFari on an Mac you can't sign up?

Overigens, you did a swell job.

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2) Joao Group: Members
Posts: 1 Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Location: Portugal (South Europe) IP: 81.193.--.--

Posted:

Find in... forum.pl this: $user_groups{'guests'} = { 'name'=>'Guests',

And now you just need to make it look like this... $user_groups{'guests'} = { 'name'=>'Gasten',
and it's translated!... the same for the rest.

3) Onraad Group: Guests
IP: 145.53.--.--

Posted:

If I do that I get the message something is gone wrong in the configuration.

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4) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 219.88.--.--

Posted:

Make sure you don't have any special (non-ASCII) characters in your group names. Also, make sure you change only the description 'Guests', the lowercase {'guests'} must always be in English (but it's never displayed, so that's OK).

Good luck - Angus.

5) Onraad Group: Guests
IP: 145.53.--.--

Posted:

I try to Dutch the forum.pl file (see: http://snn.vvb.org/cgi-bin/forumNederlands.pl). I keep krijgen de foutmelding, sorry, error:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator to inform of the time the error occurred and of anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

What did I do wrong.

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6) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 219.88.--.--

Posted:

You will have a syntax mistake in the script somewhere. Try uncommenting the "use CGI::Carp" line of the script, or reverting to an earlier version before the mistake crept in.

- Angus.

7) Onraad Group: Guests
IP: 145.53.--.--

Posted:

I'm sorry. I'm completely lost. Uncommenting the Carp-line doesn't do anything visible (for me at least it doesn't). I only changed printHeader ('Disallowed') and the sentence 'Editing post in this topic' in prinHeader ('Niet toegestaan') and 'berichten bewerken'. And pang: the hereabove in an earlier posting mentioned screen-text and 500 internal server error in the browserhead.

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8) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 219.88.--.--

Posted:

Maybe setup Apache and Perl on your own computer (links are in the forum install instructions)...? Debugging locally means that even if the server is spitting out useless errors any dying, you can access error.log in your Apache logfiles folder to spot the problem.

- Angus.

9) Onraad Group: Guests
IP: 145.53.--.--

Posted:

Is it possible (and plausible) that I just have to change the meta content-language from en (English) to nl (Dutch). I will try that and report you. The Apache-road is too complicated for a onbenul in perl like I'am.

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10) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 210.55.--.--

Posted:

Yeah, Perl can be a little tricky sometimes :).

Anyway yes, you can most likely change the language attribute on the HTML element, and translate the "template" file. That should give a very usable forum. Some of the hardcoded error messages are in English (I should really put them in the template file...) but they're the rarely seen ones anyway.

Good luck - Angus.

11) Onraad Group: Guests
IP: 145.53.--.--

Posted:

I've already translated the template-file. No problems met. The problem comes when I try to Dutch the forum.pl-file. You will here from me. And if you want to have the transducted Nederforum you're welcome.
Another point is that some people say they have problems to become member (no big point, but I want to have 'my' forum working properly). I tried to set up a new account (I'm the first user-moderator/admin) to check that set-up-function, but that didn't work. Is it because of my known IP-addres that I can't set up a new account?

Arno Schrauwers (was as)

12) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 210.55.--.--

Posted:

It sounds like your copy of forum.pl is pretty broken I think. One thing: to sign up for a new account you have to log out of your existing account, of course.

Check the original template and script on your server and see if they work OK in the signup department. If so, then the bug will be somewhere in your modifications I guess.

- Angus.

13) Onraad Group: Guests
IP: 145.53.--.--

Posted:

I've compared my forum.pl-file with the original one: the only things that are changed are the first line (dropped env) en de de forum-base-URL. Can't be the problem. There must be people which have translated the forum files in their mothertongue?

14) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 210.55.--.--

Posted:

Well, why not put back the "env" and see if that fixes it? When you have a script that doesn't work, make the changes in a small stepwise fashion until you find the one that breaks it.

Good luck - Angus.

15) Onraad Group: Guests
IP: 145.53.--.--

Posted:

I'm sorry to be so tedious but I changed the env back in and now only get 500 internal server errors. I made a new forum.pl script, changed the url back to the one I use: same error. Getting quite desperate

Arno Schrauwers