How to Ask for Help

Applies to: Jamroom 7.0+ Last verified: 2026-10-24
  • Before you ask

    Try the steps in Something's Wrong: What to Try First, and search for the error message. To search only jamroom.net with a search engine, add site:jamroom.net to your search.

  • Write a question that can be answered

    The people who help you can't see your site or your server. Everything they know comes from your question. A good question has:

    1. What you're trying to do: "I want members to upload videos."
    2. What happens instead: "The upload finishes, but the video never plays."
    3. The exact error, copied from the screen or the Activity Log, not paraphrased.
    4. What changed before it started: an update, a new module, a template change, a server move.
    5. What you've tried: "I ran the Integrity Check and reset the caches."
    6. Where to see it: a link to the page, or the steps to make it happen.
  • An example

    Hard to answer:

    The audio isn't working. Need help ASAP!

    Easy to answer:

    Since I updated the Audio module yesterday, new uploads don't play: the player shows "file not found". Older audio plays fine. The Activity Log has "CRI: audio conversion failed" for each upload. I ran the Integrity Check and reset the caches, and System Check shows FFmpeg in green. Here's a new upload: (link).

    The second one can often be answered in one reply.

  • Keep it safe

    Don't post passwords, license keys or the contents of data/config/config.php in public. If someone needs access to your site, arrange it privately.

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