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The first board isn't working because it's a Microsoft IIS web server, and those servers will not allows you to download filetypes that do not have registered MIME types.  In other words, PNG and JPEG files are very common and have the MIME types "image/png" and "image/jpeg", respectively.  The web server knows what kind of files these are.  The animation types (PCH and CHI) do not have MIME types available, so Microsoft servers will not let you download them.

The files are actually there, but if you go to the pictures folder and click on a PCH or CHI file, you'll get an error:

http://krystina.net/talesof/oekaki/pictures/
http://krystina.net/talesof/oekaki/pictures/OP_13.pch

Unfortunately, this is just the way the web server is set up, and the only thing you can do is ask your system administrator to add the appropriate MIME types, as outlined in the oekaki manual.

This is almost never a problem with Linux-based web servers.

As for the second web server that's only playing PaintBBS animations, I'm not too sure about that, because PaintBBS and ShiPainter use the same animation viewer.  Could I have a link to that oekaki, please?

Okay, this is weird.  For some reason the server is assuming the ShiPainter animation data is a text file, and is adding extra linefeeds into the file (a linefeed is what happens when you press the "Enter" key).

This is a well understood problem with computers, but it almost never happens with file uploads these days.  Chances are, the auto-scan used by your server to detect text files isn't very good.

I've made a hack to the ShiPainter script.  This should fix the animation problem, as it's worked on my machine. 

I'll make this a new feature for Wacintaki 1.5.4.

Also, since there's only one ShiPainter animation on your board right now, I took the liberty to fix it for you:  OP_10.zip.  If you have trouble uploading it to your sever, you might have to CHMOD the old "OP_10.pch" file to 664 before you can replace it via FTP.  It's also possible that you might have to delete the old file first, upload the new one, and then CHMOD it to 664.  It depends on your server's security policy.

Uh oh.  Changing ownership is usually a bad idea.

On UNIX servers, there's two commands to set file and folder permissions, CHOWN and CHMOD.  CHOWN lets you set which group policy to apply to the file, and I would assume that group "99" grants ownership to PHP, but not to FTP.  So, that's why PHP could write files to that folder, and you couldn't write files via your FTP program.  Any program that has ownership of the file can also use CHMOD to allow access to it.  So, if group "14" wanted to write a file into a folder, the folder would either have to be owned by group 14, or it could be owned by group 99 with a CHMOD value of 775, which should allow group 14 write access.

You might have to set the pictures folder to 777 or maybe even 776 to get it to work.  It depends on your server's specific security policy, and how it handles the execute bit.  Try changing only one folder at a time, and use "Owner: Diagnostics" from the oekaki menu to check if that folder (or anything else) is still locked.

If you can get the folders unlocked, I wouldn't bother messing with the files, like "config.php" or "notice.php".  I have a separate script that can fix the files.  It's the folders we need to worry about.

If worse comes to worse, I can fix it for you if you'll grant me access to your host's control panel -- but only as a last resort.  Just don't go deleting things and we'll be able to fix this.

As for the shiget.php file, that only has to go into the general oekaki folder, not the shipainter folder.

Huh.  The animation viewer was working fine earlier, but the animation data was corrupt.  Now, it looks like the player itself isn't working, but only the ShiPainter player.  We might have to play around with the permissions.  I really don't know why the PaintBBS animation viewer would work while the ShiPainter won't.  It's the same player.  All I'm getting from the Java Console is "Access Denied", which isn't very informative.

Apparently some things are still locked, so download the config file repair utility (link), upload it to the main oekaki folder, and run it by typing its name into the browser address bar.  It should unlock all the config files.  Go to the Diagnostics page from the oekaki menu to make sure all the config files are unlocked.  If they are, delete the reclaim tool from the server.

You can also try setting the pictures folder to a CHMOD number of 776 instead of 777, but that's just a shot in the dark.

Also, delete the "shiget.php" file from the shipainter folder.  It's not needed.

As far as I can tell, the permission issues have been straightened out, and I re-downloaded that animation file and it seems to be fixed.  There's got to be something messing up the animation viewer.

If you're okay with sending me the 000webhost information, that would be a big help, and any information you have should be sent to my e-mail.  I've figured out a lot of UNIX quirks over the years, so hopefully this is just a minor glitch.  I've also recommended people use 000webhost since I set up someone else's oekaki on it and it seems to be behaving well, so I'd like to know if this is an issue with the hosting service itself, or just a configuration issue.