Ok, in the time it took my original post to be approved, I managed to get things working again.
I had to add another instance of the forum module to another page. Once I did that, I was able to figure out how to construct the link that got me into the editor mode.
Once I was in the editor, I disabled the footer and all of the sudden, I could get into the forums again. However, I could not get into the last message that was posted on the forums. Each time I tried to access that message, The page timed out.
I looked in the log and found this error:
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AssemblyVersion: 04.04.01
PortalID: 0
PortalName: Greater Iowa Reef Society
UserID: -1
UserName:
ActiveTabID: 56
ActiveTabName: GIRS Discussion Forums
RawURL: /site/Community/GIRSDiscussionForums/tabid/56/forumid/18/threadid/93/scope/posts/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /site/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://girs.brunkens.com/site/Community/GIRSDiscussionForums/tabid/56/forumid/18/scope/threads/Default.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: 35c31009-12ba-4cab-93ec-bc0838142cb1
InnerException: Thread was being aborted.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.ForumText.ProcessMedia
StackTrace:
Message: System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.at DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.ForumText.ProcessMedia(String OpenTag, String CloseTag)at DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.ForumText.FormatImage()at DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.ForumText.ProcessHtml()at DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.Posts.RenderPostBody(HtmlTextWriter wr, PostInfo Post, Boolean PostCountIsEven)at DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.Posts.RenderPostHeader(HtmlTextWriter wr, PostInfo Post, Boolean PostCountIsEven, Boolean ShowDetails)at DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.Posts.RenderPost(HtmlTextWriter wr, PostInfo Post, Boolean PostCountIsEven, Boolean ShowDetails)at DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.Posts.RenderPosts(HtmlTextWriter wr)
Source:
Server Name:
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Using query analyzer, I looked at the post in question and noticed that user had tried to embed and image using the [img] bbCode common on other forums. I then used query analyzer to delete the body of the post and all of the sudden I could view the thread again.
The next problem I had was that despite the fact that I could now view the thread, it timed out when I tried to delete the now empty post from within DNN. So, I had to delete it using Query Analyzer.
So, I'm not exactly sure what all this means (It's hard to do any real debugging when your site is on GoDaddy), but it seems that it is possible for a seemingly harmless post to bring down the entire forum.
I hope this information helps someone who might experience the same problem.
-JB