Errors when performing moderation actions (such as delete discussion)

jspautsch

I'm running Vanilla 2.0.18b2 and I'm getting a very strange assortment of errors when performing certain moderation actions:

1) The first I ran into was a 404 error after deleting a discussion, I fixed it by manually changing the redirect url in class.discussioncontroller.php, as described here: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/15381/deleting-a-discussion-ends-in-a-404/p1 It was redirecting me to /vanilla/discussions, but my install was in /forums/. This would only occur if I deleted the discussion from within the discussion itself.

2) The second issue is that if I delete a thread from the All Discussions view (by clicking on the Options drop down moderation menu), I get redirected to /forums/discussions. The problem here is that I don't have clean URLs, so /forums/discussions doesn't exist, it should be /forums/index.php?p=/discussions. The problem is I can't find where this is specified. Similarly, if I delete from within a specific category it tries to redirect to /forums/categories/categoryname when it should be /index.php?p=/categories/categoryname

3) Finally, if the homepage is set to the "Categories & Discussions" view, and I try to delete a discussion from there, it brings me to a blank page that just says "TRUE" (the discussion, however, is still successfully deleted), which is the weirdest behavior I've seen yet, and I have no idea what's going on. This also happens if I close/reopen, sink/unsink, and announce/unannounce. So pretty much every moderation action performed from the Categories & Discussions homepage completes the action and brings me to a blank page that says TRUE on it. Any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it?

As a side note, shouldn't the All Discussions page auto-update when I close a thread? It will if I announce a thread, but I have to manually refresh to see that a thread has been successfully closed. Just curious.

UnderDog

Go to https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden
Hold your mouse over "branches" and make sure that "master" is checked in the menu that rolls out.
Then click on the "Downloads" button.
In the screen that shows, click on the tar.gz source or the .zip source. Make sure you can unpack it, so usually .zip is the best guess to download.
Make sure that after "source" it says "master"
And you're now downloading the latest of the best vanilla source.
Install it locally on your localhost and test it.

UnderDog

@jspautch that is an excellent summary of your problems, other people could use your post as an example. I will point all other "404 error after delete discussion" threads to this one.
Hopefully @lincoln knows the github bug ID for this problem.

Edit

I've marked the following threads to follow this thread:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/17140/deleting-discussion-takes-to-wrong-vanilla-forum/p1
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/17053/error-message-when-i-delete-a-discussion-the-requested-url-vanilladiscussions-was-not-found/p1
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/15990/404-error-at-discussions-after-i-delete-a-post/p1
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/14968/possible-bug-deleting-discussions-in-embedded-vanilla/p1
and there is some useful information in this thread:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/15381/deleting-a-discussion-ends-in-a-404/p1
Particularly this post, thanks to yu_tang:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/138867#Comment_138867
Now let's create or find that github bug ID (otherwise it cannot get fixed) and fix this problem.

luc

You'd better open a github issue.

If you can, update to the latest "master" package (generated) and check if you still have all those issues first.

jspautsch

If you can, update to the latest "master" package (generated) and check if you still have all those issues first.

How do I do that?

jspautsch

Excellent! Upgrading to 2.0.18b4 seems to have fixed the 404 redirect issue. The only issue that remains is redirecting to a blank page with "TRUE" after performing moderator actions while the homepage is set to the Categories & Discussions view.

I saw an issue on github that seemed like the same thing so I just commented on it with some additional details: https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/issues/1026