Hi,

I just installed version 2.3.3 running with Tomcat 7.0.26 and MySQL 5.5.22. Installation went fine, but when I'm trying to create new Category (after installation) I'm getting:
java.sql.SQLException: SQL String can not be NULL.

Also creating new post to this 'Test Forum' gives the same error. Editing of 'Test Forum' (for example changing the name) works ok.

Any ideas? Too new MySQL version?

Cheers,

Jux

Hi,

Seems that something went wrong in the installation, after couple of more tries now it seems to work.

(update: actually now creating the topics etc works, but when I try to register new user I'm getting java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 20).

Hi,

I'm stuck with this problem now. When I try to create new registration - fill in all the details (name, email, pw, ...) and click 'Submit':
An error has occurred.
For detailed error information, please see the HTML source code, and contact the forum Administrator.
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 20

and in the jforum.log shows:

2012-04-14 14:55:19,986 ERROR [ExceptionWriter] - net.jforum.exceptions.ForumException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at net.jforum.Command.process(Command.java:114)
at net.jforum.JForum.processCommand(JForum.java:246)
at net.jforum.JForum.service(JForum.java:228)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at net.jforum.util.legacy.clickstream.ClickstreamFilter.doFilter(ClickstreamFilter.java:59)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:169)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:987)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:579)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:307)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
... 27 more
Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 20
at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:686)
at sun.net.www.ParseUtil.isEscaped(ParseUtil.java:458)
at sun.net.www.ParseUtil.quote(ParseUtil.java:424)
at sun.net.www.ParseUtil.appendSchemeSpecificPart(ParseUtil.java:354)
at sun.net.www.ParseUtil.toString(ParseUtil.java:311)
at sun.net.www.ParseUtil.createURI(ParseUtil.java:289)
at sun.net.www.ParseUtil.toURI(ParseUtil.java:266)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:905)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:836)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1172)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:677)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(XMLVersionDetector.java:186)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:772)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:518)
at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:986)
at net.jforum.security.StopForumSpam.getXmlRootElement(StopForumSpam.java:82)
at net.jforum.security.StopForumSpam.getResult(StopForumSpam.java:74)
at net.jforum.security.StopForumSpam.checkIp(StopForumSpam.java:65)
at net.jforum.view.forum.UserAction.insertSave(UserAction.java:301)
... 27 more

Any advice?

It seems to be the problem of using StopForumSpam-check API introduced since JForum 2.3.2.
Does your forum server have Internet connection?

Hi,

Yep, it has the internet connection - at least it's suggesting that there is new version available if I use 2.3.2 version... And with 2.3.1 this problem disappeared.

So I think you are heading to the right direction...