Recent content by david.steadson

Thanks. I have not seen that advice. I've been reviewing the ElasticSearch website and frankly it's confusing as hell to work out what's needed .... I'll keep educating myself.

Thanks for the really helpful advice. 😏 How many of those thousands have 40Gb databases with over 13 millions posts and xf_search_index is over 15Gb? The query is what intrigues me. A lot of boolean exclusions I think is the root of the issue and likely creates a massive cached query. Are these...

Seems the managed database actually ignores requests to change innodb_ft_result_cache_limit . Any tips on how we can optimise things? Searching with Xenforo is literally causing the database server to crash (bringing down several sites) on a regular basis.

We're regularly getting errors when people do searches on our forum, running on a DigitalOcean managed database. We recently migrated from VB3.8. I've tried adjusting cache limits to no avail. One example of a query that crashes below. Googling indicatesthat complex queries with lots of Boolean...

When background activity is happening there's often a snazzy animation (gold here on community) that flashes across the top of the screen to alert the user something is happening. I've noticed that it doesn't occur when using the search dropdown to search, but does with advanced search...

never mind, found someone asking the same thing.

How do I insert images from my media gallery into a post I'm writing? Googling finds (old) references to a camera icon that allows you to select from your gallery, and I see that here but that doesn't appear on our editor. A permissions thing somewhere?

That requires the server to be rewriting URLs. Nothing in the vb_importer installation does this. Rereading the importer notes again, under the section where additional steps are needed if you're installed a different location it mentions additional configuration if you're not using Apache (I'm...

but I'm not even sure how it can work in theory? For example, this URL - /forums/forumdisplay.php?f=21 There is no "forumdisplay.php" file, and no rewrites or redirects are configured anywhere in the server setup? 🤷‍♀️

yup.

Just imported a large VB forum to XF and installed and configured the redirect addon. Every URL I've tried so far throws 404 Not Found /forums/forumindex.php?ltr=A /forums/forumdisplay.php?f=104 On nginx. Any tips on where to look?

Everything appears to be working now 👍

ahh, also tried xf:import-finalize, and it gave a different error - Nothing comes up in the CP under importing any more, so I've gone and selected to rebuild the cache manually

Apparently not -- Also, I'd note your docs say - This process may take a few moments, or several minutes to complete, depending on the volume of data that was imported, and how much data was already in your XenForo database. Several minutes? It's been more than 2 hours and it's not even...

Hmmm ... instructions at the end of the command line import said I need to complete the import via the web, but it appears this is going to also take many hours Are those instructions incorrect, and I should instead use --finalize from the cmdline?