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unable to login to ACP

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Current board is running 3.0.8. Got the email this morning announcing the newest 3.0.9 update. Haven't applied any of the updates yet. But, can't access the ACP. I login fine, but on the redirection step, board hangs. Is it possible that its hanging because of some problem the ACP has checking current version status (the part of the ACP that looks at the current board version number, against the latest -- presumably by polling something at phpbb.com).

Again, the board was working perfectly. Made no changes whatsoever. Logged into the ACP just fine a day or so ago. Even tried deleting cookies, rebooting the system etc. etc. No dice. Can't get redirected to the ACP.

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Re: unable to login to ACP

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I also had this problem: I tried to edit the \includes\acp\acp_main.php file.
I have temporarly removed the lines from " // Version check " to $latest_version_info = false; to solve the problem.
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pennino wrote:I also had this problem: I tried to edit the \includes\acp\acp_main.php file.
I have temporarly removed the lines from " // Version check " to $latest_version_info = false; to solve the problem.
I can confirm this workaround. Of course this breaks/disable version checking.
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I can confirm the workaround too.
I had the same problem with two of my boards (3.08). it appeared today and maybe it is affiliated with the "minor issues" mentioned here:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... #p13023080
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Re: unable to login to ACP

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the8re wrote:
pennino wrote:I also had this problem: I tried to edit the \includes\acp\acp_main.php file.
I have temporarly removed the lines from " // Version check " to $latest_version_info = false; to solve the problem.
I can confirm this workaround. Of course this breaks/disable version checking.
Hi
not working here even if I desabled those few lines . I had updated from 3.0.8 to 3.0.9 over two forums and same problems.
Any idea please ?
Thanks.
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Re: unable to login to ACP

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This is being caused by phpBB's version checking. They neglected to think that at some time their version server might be down (which today it is, see http://version.phpbb.com/)! Because of this all ACP's are hanging on the version check. You can get into the ACP via other methods like administrate user from the profile, but any page with the version check on it will fail.

Developers, please use CURL instead. You can set a timeout of 5 or 10 seconds to the versioning server. If it times out, you can still let people use their ACP!

Thanks all.
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AbyssUnderground wrote:This is being caused by phpBB's version checking. They neglected to think that at some time their version server might be down (which today it is, see http://version.phpbb.com/)! Because of this all ACP's are hanging on the version check. You can get into the ACP via other methods like administrate user from the profile, but any page with the version check on it will fail.

Developers, please use CURL instead. You can set a timeout of 5 or 10 seconds to the versioning server. If it times out, you can still let people use their ACP!

Thanks all.
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I would, except the bug tracker isn't working at the moment presumably for the same reason as the ACP issue.
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Re: unable to login to ACP

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CrazySat wrote:Hi
not working here even if I desabled those few lines . I had updated from 3.0.8 to 3.0.9 over two forums and same problems.
Any idea please ?
Thanks.
Doesn't work for me either :( (haven't updated yet though)
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Give it a few hours Jason, everything will work out. Its not dependant your forum version. ;)
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I have the same problem too
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Re: unable to login to ACP

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You can temporary "disable" version check by editing includes/functions_admin.php file.

Find obtain_latest_version_info function and comment following lines in it:

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$info = get_remote_file('version.phpbb.com', '/phpbb',
		((defined('PHPBB_QA')) ? '30x_qa.txt' : '30x.txt'), $errstr, $errno);
After that you will be able to access ACP.
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Boardtalk.net wrote:Give it a few hours Jason, everything will work out. Its not dependant your forum version. ;)
That's what I am thinking too.
I will wait and the problem with desappear as soon as remote server for updates will be running again.
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Same problem here. Thanks to those who found a workaround, but actually I was trying to update my board to the new version. Also received the email today, but since I get a LOT of bogus emails telling me to update, I always go to Admin to check. :mrgreen:
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