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lakshya

Hey........ What is this Canonical URL extension used for..........please anyone........elaborate

SKevo

This extensions creates redirects so that Flarum can only be accessed via the url defined in config.php.
(https://discuss.flarum.org/d/19307)

In other words, it helps FreeFlarum to stack scales better, instead of having a centralized redirect map in Nginx
(https://discuss.flarum.org/d/19307/5)

It should therefore be always enabled.

lakshya

SKevo Sorry! I didn't get it even know

SKevo

lakshya it is applicable if you have users who are attempting to access your site through the wrong URL, like non-secure HTTP protocol or with the WWW subdomain. This extension automatically redirects them to the proper forum URL. Not sure how to explain this better

SKevo

Added FoF Disposable E-Mails. It provides a simple and minimalistic protection against spam and temporary mailboxes, so I have decided to include it (based on this request).

VisceralGravitas

My forum keeps getting an erratic error when saving messages. I've tracked it down to situations where it's a reply using the @ extension, and it seems that the issue is updating the broader index of message titles, time stamps and authors.

I have cleared the cache, removed @ extension, cleared cache, and re-enabled the extension, and that sorta helps the problem go away... but it still tends to come back.

Even with the error, the messages do get saved and posted. Just that the larger index doesn't get updated, and members often post multiple times because of the error.

Any tips on how to troubleshoot this better?

My forum is at www.visceralgravitas.com

SKevo

VisceralGravitas

I see the following error multiple times in your forum logs:

flarum.ERROR: Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError: Call to undefined method Illuminate\Container\Container::url() in /app/vendor/fof/pretty-mail/src/BladeCompiler.php(18) : eval()'d code:50

It seems that FoF Pretty Mail is using an unsupported method. When users are mentioned, a mail is sent to them indicating that there is a new reply, which is likely to trigger the error above. I can report this to the FoF Pretty Mail thread

Edit: It seems that you're not the only one who experienced this error: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/11178/136
I've reported your error message too, just in case: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/11178/138

Edit 2: I've removed all cached views of every forum, which could help to fix the issue above.

VisceralGravitas

SKevo

That seems to make sense,... I can disable the extension and see how it goes... I'm guessing the only difference would be that email notifications would be more plain... no big deal for now...

btw. is there a way I can access the forum logs to see and track errors?

askvortsov

SKevo I've removed all cached views of every forum, which could help to fix the issue above.

This fixes the issue.

SKevo

VisceralGravitas is there a way I can access the forum logs to see and track errors?

No, but we're doing a recode/code cleanup for FreeFlarum and I was thinking of some way to peek in the logs for forum owners, so that they can report the errors to developers right away without us needing to interfere. No ETA though

someperson

Is there any way for admins to receive email notifications whenever a new post is made? Or alternatively a weekly digest? Thanks in advance

clarkwinkelmann

someperson there is the Subscribed extension, but I don't know if it's available on FreeFlarum.

They might not like it due to the large amount of mail it can generate.

EDIT: it might be for discussions only, and not posts 🙉

SKevo

clarkwinkelmann someperson Currently, no extension that generates a lot of mail is available at FreeFlarum. This might change later, but we need to discuss it first.

If you want to get notifications about new posts, I usually recommend people to setup FoF Webhooks - this way, you can get almost instant notifications to Discord or Slack (it should support option to notify you on every discussion and post, if I remember correctly)

someperson

SKevo Thanks, @clarkwinkelmann and @SKevo! I'll look into FoF Webhooks.

lakshya

hey my forum is focused on educational questions and answers......so most of the discussions are questions that students post on the forum to get help from others..........In this case they need to have no limit on title.....................because if there is a title limit then they will have to post DISCUSSIONS with titles like.................HEY PLZ HELP ME WITH THIS ONE atc...........and this is truly awkward as seen from SEO point of view

SKevo

lakshya they need to have no limit on title

As far as I know, this is impossible due to database limits and setup that FreeFlarum uses. An extension could extend the limit, but it can never be limitless due to how databases work.

All you can do right now is politely ask them to structure the titles to the point and without unnecessary words in order to make your forum more structured and organized. Also, you could have a "Help Wanted" tag, depends on your use case.

You see, a forum can never be perfect and you'll always need someone to control the content. So, I'd recommend to make some discussion guidelines and control inappropriate one manually. FoF Filter and other extensions (Approval, etc.) can help you to some extent.

lakshya

SKevo Its okay.......You can permanently delete that..............
But still I am having problem with that title problem...........I am not saying that it should be limitless but since my forum is educational oriented right now.........any academic question posted will not fit into 80characters.

SKevo

lakshya it is currently not possible. I remember that there was some extend.php script that extended the limit and there was a discussion on that here on Discuss, but I can't find it. Also, FreeFlarum synces files for all forums, so we can't really make specific exceptions

askvortsov

lakshya any academic question posted will not fit into 80characters.

Couldn't they put the full question in the initial post of the discussion?

lakshya

askvortsov Actually the initial post will also be a question...........LOL 😆

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