This is what happens with PHP 4.2.0.....

[Greg Robson]

Had a support request today that was identified as being a problem caused by PHP 4.2.0

When 4.2.0 is installed with register_globals set to off you can only access the board index - no matter what you click that is the page that you will get.

To confirm make a file called info.php with the following contents...

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<?phpphpinfo();?>

and upload it to your server and run it. The version number is given in the web page heading - if you scroll down you will find the register_global setting, if this is off then your board will not work until we have come up with a fix.

Hope this helps
Greg

[Jeff Lewis]

Like I have said in the developers area...if someone wants to add:

ini_set ("register_globals",1);

to the index.php file, see if that works.

[Coyote]

Hi I posted a support request on my hosts forum and a kind soul by the name of Jason posted this - Iwondered if it will help?

I'll try jeffs fix tonight.

Thanks Greg/Jeff

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Here's a quick fix for everyone having trouble with register_globals being off> register_globals, for those who don't know, is a PHP configuration setting that allows you to use form, environment, and cookie names as variable names within PHP. With register_globals off you need to specify these variables as follows:

$HTTP_POST_VARS["foo"] (as opposed to just $foo),
$HTTP_GET_VARS["bar"],
$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["session"],
$HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_REFERRER"],
etc.

If you want to quickly enable register_globals for your site, add the following line to your .htaccess file:

php_flag register_globals on

That will override the system settings and should get your scripts working again. Good luck.

--Jason

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Jason Pitoniak
Interbrite Communications
http://www.interbrite.com
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[Jeff Lewis]

Yep, try what I suggested and see if it works...would be easiest quick fix.

[daedalu318]

Hey guys,
     I'm running a server with PHP4.2 installed and ran into this problem.  Since I admin the server and it is a private server I just went in and enabled the register_globals in the php.ini and I can click between pages with no problem.  The only problem I have now is the fact that yabbse won't write a cookie for the username and password.  I do get the expirtime cookie though.  Of course without the user and pass cookies I can not stay logged in and hence can't do anything with the board.  Any ideas...oh and I also have Apache 2.x on the machine.  Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Daedalus

[Coyote]

Hi,

My host changed the register globals to 'on' before I changed anything and it seems to be working ok now

Hey daedalu,

I understand that PHP 4.2.0 and Apache 2 has problems and 'experimental' - maybe step down to Apache/1.3.23

Apart from that I cant help Im afraid

Good luck
Tony