You are unable to connect to simplemachines.org's latest news file.

[smithy]

Hello,
I just moved my forum to a new server and everything seems to be working fine but when i go to admin panel i see this message were normaly the simple machines messages are.
You are unable to connect to simplemachines.org's latest news file. I was woundering if it was a problem on the simple machines end or is maybe that i have missed something during the move process. Also before the move, the forum ran pretty fast but now it seems a bit slow eg: Pages taking a while to load. I cant realy understand this because i have rented my own server and theres only me on it so was woundering why its taking a while to load pages.

version 1.06

Thanks
smithy

[redone]

News feed works for me. I would refresh the page in your browser and see if your looking at a cached image since you moved the site.

[Thantos]

Also make sure your browser has javascript turned on.

[Oldiesmann]

If you've got "Enable compressed output" turned on, turn it off, as this has sometimes been known to cause the issue you're experiencing.

[anunlike]

A bit off-topic, but is there any way that something could be built in to turn this off? It's not that big of an issue, but if, say, the server this site runs on goes down or is down for maintanance or upgrades or whatever, it'd be cool to just be able to turn it off.

I know that we could just load a different page in the admin center and get around from there, but I'm sure many people don't really need this all the time and it would avoid problems like the one mentioned here. Besides, not everyone knows about this, and if something is slowing their site down (even if just in the admin center), it'd probably freak them out a bit.

For myself, I'd probably keep it off and just visit this site and when I hear that a new release should be out sometime soon, I'd probably turn it back on.

[H]

The javascript file can sometimes cause browsers to hang but when the file timeouts the page will load normally.

If you comment out the external script file that should disable it

[anunlike]

The javascript file can sometimes cause browsers to hang but when the file timeouts the page will load normally.

If you comment out the external script file that should disable it

Ah, OK, I gotcha on that.

Thanks much.

[smithy]

Thanks for the replies everybody. Still having this problem but its not the end of the world as i visit simple machines forum most days.
You are unable to connect to simplemachines.org's latest news file.However i have sorted the slow loading pages by re-booting the server :)and its running as normal again.

Thanks
smithy

[Fourm.Man]

old topic, i know, but figured i'd bump it for others looking for a solution.

if you're using Firefox, and particularly if you're using the popular NoScript, extension, you need to enable JS for the 'simplemachines.org' website inorder to get the feeds on your forum.

[H]

if you're using Firefox, and particularly if you're using the popular NoScrip, extension, you need to enable JS for the 'simplemachines.org' website inorder to get the feeds on your forum.

Note that this will break the forum here

Commenting out the js is the best way if you know how

[Thantos]

If you truely wish to not fetch javascript files from Simple Machines then run the following query for 1.1

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REPLACE INTO {$db_prefix}settings VALUES ('disable_smf_js', 1)
Where {$db_prefix} is the prefix you use.

For the version after 1.1 we will be changing this so even if Simple Machines is down or slow it won't affect your ACP.

[Fourm.Man]

Guys, i understand your concern, but the NoScript ext. for FF isn't exactly what i would call a total nOOb friendly tool. Then again, i would think that the majority of FF users are not total noobs either. The NoScript ext. is used to dissallow JS globally, and then allow on a per-site or domain basis. It's very easy to allow JS for domains that you trust (2 clicks).

[anunlike]

It's very easy to allow JS for domains that you trust (2 clicks).

One click, actually, if you select to show "Status bar icon".

[Fourm.Man]

2 -- you gotta click the icon first

fellow FF user huh?     1.5.0.5 was released the other day in case you don't already know.

[anunlike]

2 -- you gotta click the icon first

True.

fellow FF user huh?     1.5.0.5 was released the other day in case you don't already know.

Yep, I got it as soon as the little update message popped up.

[thinds]

I used repair_settings.php to fix various bad URL's and this problem went away for me.  Be careful using repair_settings.php, though.  The forum banner isn't kidding when it says the presence of that file is a serious security breach.  The utility puts your database password in clear text for whoever knows to run it.  If you use it, be sure to secure it somehow.

[Thantos]

I used repair_settings.php to fix various bad URL's and this problem went away for me.  Be careful using repair_settings.php, though.  The forum banner isn't kidding when it says the presence of that file is a serious security breach.  The utility puts your database password in clear text for whoever knows to run it.  If you use it, be sure to secure it somehow.

The best bet is usally to just delete the file when you are done.  It shouldn't be something you need to access on any regular basis.  So I highly advocate getting the file from us when you need it, upload it, fix the settings, and then delete it.

[CowboyLogic]

This topic did wander off into the weeds. I just upgraded from 1.8 to 2.0rc1 and I get the following:

Live from Simple Machines... 
You are unable to connect to simplemachines.orgy's latest news file.

I am using IE, I have JavaScript enabled and I have used the repair_settings.php file to clean up my URLS and deleted it when finished, but this problem persists. Is there a cure for this?

[Thantos]

Most likely the task that downloads the files hasn't ran yet.  Either wait or run the task manually (sorry don't remember the route to it off the top of my head but check one of the maintenance options)