Can't add new smileys ~ Internal Server Error 500

[Kindred]

guarantee that has no effect on godaddy servers -- they won't let you turn it off at your end of the chain

[bdtcomp]

I don't understand mod_security and what this does?

[Kindred]

http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/modsecurity/what-is-modsecurity-and-why-is-it-important


the problem is -- most hosts - including and especially goDaddy seem incapable of actually configuring the module correctly. (and also ignore the fact that SMF *DOES* include code for cleaning and validating input.)

[bdtcomp]

Well I am going to call Godaddy now & send that article to the tech I talk too. If they can disable just to the forum I have that would be great, actually to the new one I started since I may actually use it too. 

[bdtcomp]

I am going to keep this post open, a bit. I have two things more important, one is learning more about Apache, PHP...

And too, I'm trying to make a living, make money! OMG, how terrible, it sounds by people in my local, I should work for free?

But I did work on creating a new log for the GoDaddy people. So will see how goes, not sure it will work, but will look at later. I can get around adding new smileys, as I will write a query to add about 20 dummy images and then I can just edit. This will be a good exercise, though will back up the database first.

So I just need to set a reminder to check back, and hopefully before Christmas, this will be closed, and MUCH sooner, if I can get my other work going, which I haven't last weekend. 

[bdtcomp]

It's been a month since I started this post. I just haven't had time to research my 'can't add new smileys'. But I want to add a new one, I don't just want to edit, which works.

Now in PhpMyadmin I can insert a new record, but I am unsure of the smiley_order number. I see there are duplicate numbers, so they must be in relation to the 'hidden' field. Then too I see that the id_smiley doesn't always increment by one. I see that it usually does, but sometimes it skips 10 to 50. I know I haven't deleted that many smileys?

Am I okay to pick an ID above the last one added? The last smiley I added, is

ID         CODE                    FILENAME                DESCRIPTION     SMILEY_ROW   SMILEY_ORDER     HIDDEN
1459  :sleeping-puppy:  sleeping-puppy.gif  sleeping-puppy     0 ------------------  0 -------------------- 0 --------       
The last one is right below here.
1477  :sue:                            sue.gif                    Sue                     0                           13                   0


I am thinking the sleeping-puppy smiley was one I edited, and removed perhaps the first smiley since it was one I wanted deleted anyway.

I backed up the MySQL database just in case, though this looks like just a simple insertion. And for now I just want the new smiley to be above the text box, which would be 'hidden = 0'
                 

The highest 'smiley_order' is 621.