Question Installation report and weird issue after install

Some issues I would like to report

I wanted to give Kunena a try, but I also have phpbb setup in my website.
The thing is, when it installed it did not ask me to what path I would like to have Kunena point to, and it was automatically set up for /forum.
This is the path where my phpbb operates, so I thought i might cause trouble. I searched through the configuration settings (not exhaustively) but I could not find a setting to determine the path I would like it to point to. I believe this is an omission. It also automatically created a menu link in the "mainmenu", which I believe should be left to the user to set.

This is where the problems started...
After I installed Kunena 1.6.1 the front-end of my website went very, very, very slow, taking almost a minute to load a page which would have taken a second or a couple of seconds before.

The back-end still ran smoothly...

So I decided to uninstall Kunena and I did. The front-end was still quite slow, however.
I opened "PHPAdmin" through CPanel and saw that the MySQL entries of Kunena had not been removed by the uninstallation process. So I had to do it manually.
As soon as I did, the site's front-end started responding normally..

I searched for leftover files and folders through "File Manager" and also found that some folders and files were not removed, so I also had to do this manually.


I wonder why Kunena had this effect on my website's front-end and if it had something to do with the installation of phpbb and their pointing to the /forum folder and I am disappointed by the uninstallation process, which left much to be desired.
I must also point out that when I clicked the menu link that Kunena had created it pointed me to the phpbb, not the Kunena forum.

The website is now ok, it still is a little -but noticeably to me- slower than any other time I have accessed it, but maybe this small speed deviation is random, and of course miles away from before uninstalling Kunena.

I hope I did not bore you.

I wasn't bored; thanks for asking your question.

You can change the menu link (which, in turn, changes the URLs on your site, which, in turn, means that users can access either your phpBB forum or your Kunena forum. So, for example, if you want your site to differently point to the Kunena forum, change the menu alias to something like "kunena-forum".

As far as slowness is concerned, this is something else. It could be caused by a lot of things.

I don't have any personal experience trying to run two different forum components on the same website. Perhaps other users here have that experience. I wish I could be more helpful to you.

It might help to see your K 1.6 configuration report .

You mean I can change the menu link by editing the mainmenu item, the menu where the link was added?
That is a simple thing to do, but I figured that there must be a setting within Kunena parameters that would tell Kunena exactly where the forum is, to make the two match...
...unless of course Kunena also installs a specific Kunena type menu link that one can use to create a link between the Kunena installation and the forum itself...
Did not think that at the time, for some reason, maybe having other extensions in mind, it did not occur to me.
Did not dwell on it much, though, because the real problem was the effect on the site's loading speed.

I still think it would be better to not automatically create the link, but maybe make it part of the installation process to have the user choose the menu where he wants to have the link added to (strangely enough, the link was also added to the top of main menu list, not the bottom, i.e. not as the last menu link in line, which would make someone go to the specific menu manager to change that)

I guess I'd have to reinstall to provide that configuration report.

etkritikonspoudon wrote: You mean I can change the menu link by editing the mainmenu item, the menu where the link was added? That is a simple thing to do ...

... and that's the answer. Sometimes the answers are simple.

etkritikonspoudon wrote: ... there must be a setting within Kunena parameters that would tell Kunena exactly where the forum is, to make the two match...

Kunena is installed (just like you install any Joomla extension) where it's nortmally installed. Some parts are installed in ../administrator/components/com_kunena and some parts are installed in /components/com_kunena. Just like all other Joomla extensions, it is the Joomla menu that sorts out how you can make use of the function.

etkritikonspoudon wrote: Did not think that at the time, for some reason, maybe having other extensions in mind, it did not occur to me.

The choices we make and the way we've implemented those choices, eh? C'est la vie

etkritikonspoudon wrote: The real problem ... [is] the site's loading speed.

I agree with you. Please start a new discussion topic or search for information on this site that may help you to understand better what other choices you've made may be responsible for your site's slow performance. Your configuration report may provide some clues.

etkritikonspoudon wrote: I still think it would be better to not automatically create the link, but maybe make it part of the installation process to have the user choose the menu where he wants to have the link added to (strangely enough, the link was also added to the top of main menu list, not the bottom, i.e. not as the last menu link in line, which would make someone go to the specific menu manager to change that)

Thank you for your feedback and your suggestion. I will try to make sure the message is passed to the development team for the next major release.

etkritikonspoudon wrote: I guess I'd have to reinstall to provide that configuration report.

Do you mean that you've uninstalled Kunena? You don't need to reinistall Kunena if it's still installed: I pointed you to where you can obtain the information about your K 1.6 configuration report. See the link in my earlier message.

Yes, I uninstalled after facing the loading problems, which also resolved them...
I will try reinstalling again as soon as I can, and will post back