Need Help!

[Lance L]

I had a total server melt-down and PHP was re-installed. Sessions appear to be broken, can someone tell me what they need to be in order to make YABBSE work?

PHPInfo File: http://www.antares-dev.com/phpinfo.php

Also, I am getting a blank page about once a minute, appears to be a Javascript running that kicks the board to this page. The URL I get when this happens is:

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http://nopc.antares-dev.com/yabbse/<?=$scripturl?>?action=<?=$action?>

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Lance

[Michele]

For the session problem, does /tmp actually exist?

Not a clue on javascript stuff tho, sorry.

Michele

[Lance L]

Michelle: Yes, the /tmp directory does exist. I was getting a session timeout when trying to post, the threads here indicated that sessions were messed up.

I was hoping someone could tell me just what they needed to be.

The refresh is coming from the template.php meta refresh tag. For some reason, the $scripturl and $action variables are not defined.

[Douglas]

Lance, you need to get PHP upgraded, there is a confirmed problem with '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' on 4.1.2 (I was the one that discovered it and confirmed it on several machines).  There are at least 3 threads that contain more specific information about this problem (it's also indicated in Common Questions by [Unknown]).

After you get upgraded (I suggest the latest 4.3.x series), we'll tackle your other problem.

[[Unknown]]

Also... are you trying to install an older version?

-[Unknown]

[Lance L]

Thanks.

[unknown]: No, this is 1.5.2 with the Supermod installed. It was working before the server guys screwed with the PHP.

[[Unknown]]

You should go complain at supermod.org...

http://nopc.antares-dev.com/yabbse/<?=$scripturl?>?action=<?=$action?>

This is using short PHP tags, which is bad.  They should replace <?=xxxx?> with <?php echo xxxx;?>.

-[Unknown]

[Ben_S]

does a plain 1.5.2 work?

[Lance L]

It was the PHP version. I did get it upgraded, 4.3.1 and everything is now working. Or appears to be.

I had 4.1.0 before the melt-down, which had everything working okay. Then 4.1.2 caused the problems.

To answer the other question, my stock test board had the same issues.

[unknown]: Where that was actually coming from was the META REFRESH in the template.

[Douglas]

Lance, great!  Glad to hear this.

Okay, folks, if you are on PHP version 4.1.2 - 4.2.3, and you have the following two items active with your PHP:

--enable-mbstring
--enable-mbstr-enc-trans

You need to upgrade to the latest version of PHP (Currently 4.3.1).  There is a CONFIRMED bug, now proven on 5 different servers, upgrading fixes the bug with the two items I have above.  If you don't want to upgrade, recompile PHP and disable those two items.  View PHP.net for more information, or do a search on "--enable-mbstring" (without the quotes) to view all my notes about this issue.

[Lance L]

Douglas: Totally agreed. I had to hack the code to even get it sort of working.

I also do think I have some insight to the login issue that appears to affect YABBSE. One of the suggested fixes for some of these issues was to disable sessions in index.php. (Commenting out about 3 or 4 lines.)

Since we upgraded thru 1.5.1, I had a user who could not get in no matter what he tried. (He is also a techno-peasant too, so do bear that in mind.) When I commented out sessions, he was able to login without any problems.

So somehow, the login issue is related to the sessions and how they may be handled.