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[Exodyus]

I'm giving it a trial run and I just wanted to say one thing, and ask another.

The first would be that it's extremely inconvenient to tell me that I have to pay a rather sizable sum of money in order to get the license when the demo doesn't allow me to fully experience the product itself. In running the demo, I can't download an of the hooks or applications in order to test them out to see how well they work, (yes, all of them are free that I was looking at), but it says that I require a license and therefore cannot utilize this demo board to it's fullest.

I think that if you're going to charge for a product, you should at least give people the opportunity to see whether they like certain features about that product before demanding that they buy the product and then having them find out once the money is spent, that the mod/hook/application that they were looking into is actually just junk.

The second thing I mentioned was an issue with the Gallery on the Demo.
For some reason, I've edited the Admin and Member Permissions to reflect the amount of download capabilities and the ability to upload/create albums on their own free will. The error I keep receiving is either Error500 or Error406. It doesn't tell me what either of these are, just that it failed.

Is this just because it's a Demo board and I can't upload to the IPB servers or what?
Because that would revert back to the first comment about buying before trying.

[Robulosity2]

The purpose of the Demo is to demonstrate the core IPS products, not modifications if you want to see how hooks work you can see it on other IPS sites by searching for them.

The software is worth what you pay, plus in the next release will bring archiving, ajax password saving and I believe a few other features

If your having problems you can contact sales, and ask them forward it to support to look into what the error code means.  Or email sales@invisionpower.com (I think this address still accepts mail for tickets) just explain your not a customer yet, but your having problems with the demo try to give as much detail as you can as far as reproducting the problem and the error code

Edited by Collin S., 21 January 2012 - 01:32 PM.
Changed to the correct email

[Exodyus]

Just from trying to edit the logo by using the "Easy Logo Changer."

Lol, not so easy apparently.

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Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@a753.demo.invisionpower.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.3.8 Server at a753.demo.invisionpower.com Port 80

[Hatsu]

Perhaps your problems are partially based on the file system restrictions.

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What restrictions are there?
Some functions that would allow access to the database or file system are disabled in the demo. ...

[Exodyus]

Robulosity2, on 21 January 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

The purpose of the Demo is to demonstrate the core IPS products, not modifications if you want to see how hooks work you can see it on other IPS sites by searching for them.

The software is worth what you pay, plus in the next release will bring archiving, ajax password saving and I believe a few other features

If your having problems you can contact sales, and ask them forward it to support to look into what the error code means.  Or email sales@invisionpower.com (I think this address still accepts mail for tickets) just explain your not a customer yet, but your having problems with the demo try to give as much detail as you can as far as reproducting the problem and the error code

And I actually would have to go off-site to see anything, because this forum isn't user-friendly with non-Licensed clients. Every step seems to be a dead end of "You need a License . . ." and nothing is really visualized, save for some lame screenshots. You'd think that people would be interested in making the product a little more accessible to view, seeing as there's Free Hooks and Apps for this, it's not like it would be the end of the world to let someone experience the product first hand.

I can't change skins.
I can't load anything to the gallery. (though I can see that here.)
I can't look at any forum-based mods, because they all lock me out.

[Robulosity2]

You need to understand, they need to protect their demo servers... Some skins are HUGE, they wouldn't want things uploaded to the gallery (you can see how it works here) due to disk space whats to stop someone from uploading 500mb of data

And as mentioned you can check out mods by searching for what you want and IP Board 3.2 or 3.2.3 as mentioned there's also invisionize.com where you can see some.  I wouldn't allow people to upload files to a demo server that has several people testing it, as it could be a security risk and IPS is pretty protective of their network and enviroment as they host a lot more customers than people generally think

[Robulosity2]

As far as the site goes, yes you have limited access as a lot of the areas are for clients to speak, and technical support forums for community members to help other active clients. You should be able to view gallery and blog, nexus (client area you would log in with the same information as here) you should also be able to visit chat.  The tracker is a community project which I'm not sure if you can view as a non-client.  But going off site to view what hooks can do, is not a very big deal as not all of them are here

[rsyvarth]

If you really need to test things which require file uploads why don't you get a basic hosted community for one month. It would cost you $5 and you would be able to test all of the features which the demo restricts (those restrictions are there for security purposes FYI).