New Forum

[mgcjag]

Hi Garry....you can just select unread posts.....or if you have read a post and then select return to board index it should not appear as highlighted in red on tne left side...hope this helps.....just keep playing with it...you can also change the forum layout style to suit you in your profile section

[SEJohnson95]

Also tried the forum on my iPhone this morning - vast improvement, much more mobile-friendly now. Already used to the new layout.

[Heuer]

[shauniedawn]

Just a big thank you to David for the unseen work to make this happen.

About 10 / 8 years ago when I was looking for an E-Type forum there was nothing to read and I just stuck with my Triumph and Land Rover forums that were well attended. It was only a month or so ago that I looked again and found this forum to have flourished in my absence.

So pleased to be part of the community.

Shaun

[kgnich]

My thanks to you too David. A great, friendly and informative forum. So pleased it has been kept alive through your dedication and hard work.
Graham

[AussieEtype]

Oh ok - thanks - so you have to go all the way back to the forum home page to find that - I was looking for it on the page after I read the new posts.

Thanks for the information.

Cheers

Garry

[Heuer]

After you open/read a post it will be marked as read and should no longer be highlighted

[ALAN COCHRANE]

Well done David for all your hard work.
I, like some others, had missed the post about the Forum moving.
I realise now that over the last few days I've been suffering from withdrawal symptoms. So I'm officially a Forum junkie.
One advantage I've noticed right away is that my Works Laptop allows the members avatars to be shown, so well done there as well.

Cheers

Alan

[trondvo]

Looking good, I suggest installing subsilver2 theme (full width screen) and more important a SSL certificate.

The user login page really need it, and the administration control panel should absolutely have a secure login.

For non business use get a free one, it is done in minutes to a short hour depending what else is on the box (and you have access to the server). I can see it is apache and if you have cpanel or similar on the box it is very straightforward.

I use the free SSL from startSSL unless better certificates are needed.
https://www.startssl.com

Better safe than sorry.

[trondvo]

When the certificate is installed the easy way is to force SSL adding two lines in the .htaccess file. The rewrite engine must be on but I think that is default in most Apache installations.

Just below these lines in the orignal 3.1.9 .htaccess (green)
#
# The following 3 lines will rewrite URLs passed through the front controller
# to not require app.php in the actual URL. In other words, a controller is
# by default accessed at /app.php/my/controller, but can also be accessed at
# /my/controller
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

It is also possible to just make a hook for the login page, just Google: ssl login for phpbb hook

The above is tested and running our "family BBS", ie phpbb 3.1.9 installation with startSSL running Apache on Ubuntu.

[adam]

Big thanks to David I get lost without the forum.

Adam

[Heuer]

Looking good, I suggest installing subsilver2 theme (full width screen) and more important a SSL certificate.

I have the subsilver2 theme installed but not activated because it takes us back to the old phpBB2 world. Besides it does not work at all well with mobiles and tablets which was a frequent complaint. I am using the prosilver SE style which on reflection is the best of the bunch and which is what I am using to test and install various features. Some of these do not work when associated with different styles (the logo link to E Type UK on we_universal for example, which is half hidden) so I think we will end up with a choice of two styles based on usage feedback.

I have SSL on the server and enabling it in phpBB3.1 is a mouse click away but I am not convinced we need that level of security as we have no credit card or transaction information. I will have a play with it and see what the results are. The Admin passwords are already very strong.

[Heuer]

Oh ok - thanks - so you have to go all the way back to the forum home page to find that - I was looking for it on the page after I read the new posts.

[trondvo]

I agree that there is a fine balance on skins/templates, one does not want to many questions like "the forum is all messed up" (eg not working on the mobile), but still enough flexibilty for users to select a good template. The administrator has to balance this out and it is not very important with many option, rather a few good ones.

SSL for login, it is not really just a nice to have it is a "must have". Anyone that register for the forum select a username and password, too often the username and passwords he/she already use for other services.

Subsequently, it is not a good idea to force user to send the login credentials in plain text across the internet, lots of info about vulnerabilities out there. Just as a starter..
https://www.chapterthree.com/blog/why-y ... sing-https

It is not about getting access to the etype forum, its about all the other data that user may have elsewhere and with the non SSL setup the data can be picked up with quite little knowledge. Dr Evil does not guess passwords, he sniffs them.

[mystery type]

Yes nice to see the forum up and running again, well done David.
I see the avatars are also much larger
edit...except mine!

[Heuer]

Suggest you load your avatar again via your control panel and choose local upload.

[andrewh]

just back from Le Mans, and having tried to log on from my smart phone was very concerned that this old friend had come a cropper. Well done to all those involved in getting it back and running. Yes it will take a time to get use to the new layout, but I have used this format on other forums and it works pretty well. Now for the battle with the avatar shrinking software! thanks for all the hard work David and others. Andrew

[Stephanie Plum]

At last. I was worried it had gone forever. Down in the Pyrenees at the moment in the Elise. Having been unable to get onto this forum for quite a while I was even reduced to posting on PH to see if anyone could help!

Very glad to see it back, regardless of format. Huge thanks to David for all the effort he puts in.

:)

[MLBS3V12]

Great job David! Have a long night of rest now.:-)

[rossbraithwaite]

Great work, thanks David and all others involved. Missed it over the weekend and glad to see it back better than before. Struggling to find a few old threads I was looking at but I will get there.