Here you go:
1 2008-02-11 09:34
Re: URLs being parsed into smilies? (18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
2 2008-02-10 17:26
Re: URLs being parsed into smilies? (18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Success at last!
It was indeed the upgrade of the Debian libpcre3 package that broke it. The release notes of the latest version of the package read:
pcre3 (6.7+7.4-2) stable-security; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer upload by the security team.
* Upgrade to upstream version 7.4 to incorporate results of a security
audit. The version included here tries to expose the 6.7 API
unchanged, and the pattern language is compatible with version 6.7
(which means that some Perl 5.10 escape sequences are not supported).
* This update fixes CVE-2007-1659, CVE-2007-1660, CVE-2007-1661,
CVE-2007-1662, CVE-2007-4766, CVE-2007-4767, CVE-2007-4768.
* Note that externally stored compiled patterns need to be recompiled
becaue the internal bytecodes have changed. (This feature is only
rarely used; no further action is required by most users.)-- Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:34:34 +0100
Note the part:
The version included here tries to expose the 6.7 API unchanged, and the pattern language is compatible with version 6.7 (which means that some Perl 5.10 escape sequences are not supported).
So I looked in /var/cache/apt/archives for the previous version, found it, and then installed it using:
dpkg -i libpcre3_6.7-0.dotdeb.1_i386.debFinally I restarted Apache using:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restartAnd voila, success!
I hope that helps anyone that might have the same problem, or even for making sure newer versions of PunBB support this new library version.
3 2008-02-09 19:58
Re: URLs being parsed into smilies? (18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Good idea, I will try this tomorrow and let you know how I get on. Thanks for all the suggestions so far 
4 2008-02-09 19:18
Re: URLs being parsed into smilies? (18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Fair point. I've just done a search with PHPMyAdmin and no instances of 'http :' were found in any post messages 
5 2008-02-09 17:48
Re: URLs being parsed into smilies? (18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
It's affected every URL, even ones posted years ago that previously displayed fine - so I don't think it's that.
6 2008-02-09 14:49
Re: URLs being parsed into smilies? (18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
No mods installed at all, it's really quite baffling as it's been working fine for years, but all of a sudden started going wrong after performing an upgrade (apt-get upgrade) of the packages on the Debian server. I will see if I can get a list of exactly which packages were upgraded.
7 2008-02-09 11:04
Re: URLs being parsed into smilies? (18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Here you go:
http://www.ssradiouk.com/forums/include/parser.php.zip
(I had to zip it up as it wouldn't post as code due to a bbcode error)
8 2008-02-08 18:59
Re: URLs being parsed into smilies? (18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Nope, I haven't added any smilies. The smilie that is being produced is one of the standard ones, represented by:
:/Hence why it is being converted in links that contain 'http://' (which shouldn't get parsed as a smilie,as this post demonstrates).
9 2008-02-08 18:10
Topic: URLs being parsed into smilies? (18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
I have a very strange forum parsing problem that seems to have started after I performed an upgrade of the packages on our Debian server.
Basically, when a URL is posted in a forum post, the ':/' in the 'http://' being parsed as a smilie (and converted to the appropriate image tag), hence breaking the link.
Take a look at this post for an example of what I mean:
http://www.ssradiouk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4925
I'm very confused as to how upgrading the server software could have done this, but I know that both MySQL and Apache were updated, nd the problem seemed to appear around about the same time.
Any ideas much appreciated!
Matt.