Re: Load balancing and some numbers

Silverfish — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:56:49 +1200

Also, if that motivates anyone to help me out, if I manage to put together a system I will be more than happy to compile a tutorial from my experience.

Hi zard,

hope your system is running fine?
How did u do it? any special experiences or learnings you could share?

Would be curious for any hints on managing high loads with Silverstripe.

Kind Regards
SF.

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Re: forced and random mbstring.func_overload

Darkfaythe — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:50:00 +1200

Thanks for this post Anatol, this is still an issue with 2.4.7 as well and this change in the SS_Viewer.php file sorted it nicely.

Cheers

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Re: Server error after setting password for MySQL

ArnoParno — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:37:33 +1200

Thanx a lot, updating the _config.php file in mysite folder did the trick.

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Re: Server error after setting password for MySQL

Willr — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:27:53 +1200

If you changed the mysql password then you'll need to update that in SS as well in your mysite/_config.php

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Server error after setting password for MySQL

ArnoParno — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:15:08 +1200

Hello,

After installing WAMP and SilverStripe I got a warning in phpMyAdmin that there was no password set for MySQL. When I figured out how to set these for the different hosts (127.0.0.1 / localhost / ::1 localhost <--- what is this one by the way?) I went back into phpMyAdmin to see if all was well now. Alas access denied, had to change the config.inc.php file and set the password there too. This done I had access again to phpMyAdmin. Thinking everything was hunky-dory now I went back to SilverStripe CMS (localhost/silverstripe/admin) to work on my website, but no luck "Server error - Sorry, there was a problem with handling your request". Same for the website (localhost/silverstripe). I'm sure it has something to do with setting the MySQL password because before this I had no problems accessing SilverStripe CMS or the website. Tried to Google and search this forum but nothing yet.

Hope someone out here will hear my cry for help and come up with a solution for me. I am kind of a newb so keep it simple please

Arno

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Re: Mysql Service shuts down

kominiarz — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:21:59 +1300

Well, are you sure that it's CMS fault?
maybe it's VPS internal problem?

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Deprecated Functions in PHP5.3

teejay — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:45:08 +1300

Hello,
I am just wondering why there are still so may deprecated function used in the latest 2.4 version. We have written a little scanner which looks up some keywords (could be comments as well so its not hundred percent correct but it gives a good overview) to find deprecated function calls. The result is really not so bad as for lots of the functions there is a replacement even in php 5.2. eg split -> explode, ereg -> preg_match (slight change necessary). So here is the list

php 5.3 deprecatinator
+++++++++++++looking for call_user_method++++++++++
+++++++++++++looking for call_user_method_array++++++++++
+++++++++++++looking for define_syslog_variables++++++++++

+++++++++++++looking for ereg++++++++++
./sapphire/forms/CreditCardField.php
./sapphire/email/Email.php
./sapphire/email/Mailer.php
./sapphire/core/HTTP.php
./sapphire/core/i18nTextCollector.php
./sapphire/core/i18n.php
./sapphire/core/SSViewer.php
./sapphire/core/model/fieldtypes/Date.php
./sapphire/core/model/fieldtypes/Varchar.php
./sapphire/core/model/fieldtypes/Datetime.php
./sapphire/integration/Geoip.php
./silverstripe-blog/thirdparty/xmlrpc/xmlrpc.php

+++++++++++++looking for ereg_replace++++++++++
./sapphire/dev/SapphireTestReporter.php
./sapphire/forms/CheckboxSetField.php
./sapphire/forms/FormField.php
./sapphire/forms/FieldGroup.php
./sapphire/forms/OptionsetField.php
./sapphire/email/Mailer.php
./sapphire/search/AdvancedSearchForm.php
./sapphire/security/PermissionCheckboxSetField.php
./sapphire/widgets/Widget.php
./sapphire/core/control/ContentNegotiator.php
./sapphire/core/control/Director.php
./sapphire/core/ManifestBuilder.php
./sapphire/core/i18nTextCollector.php
./sapphire/core/Convert.php
./sapphire/core/SSViewer.php
./sapphire/core/model/Image.php
./sapphire/core/model/SiteTree.php
./sapphire/core/model/Database.php
./sapphire/integration/XML.php
./sapphire/filesystem/Folder.php
./sapphire/filesystem/Upload.php
./sapphire/filesystem/File.php
./cms/code/SideReport.php
./cms/code/CMSSiteTreeFilter.php
./cms/code/LeftAndMain.php
./cms/code/sitefeatures/PageCommentInterface.php
./cms/code/staticpublisher/FilesystemPublisher.php
./cms/code/AssetAdmin.php

+++++++++++++looking for eregi++++++++++

+++++++++++++looking for eregi_replace++++++++++
./sapphire/core/control/ContentNegotiator.php
./sapphire/core/Convert.php
./sapphire/core/model/Database.php

+++++++++++++looking for set_magic_quotes_runtime++++++++++
./sapphire/thirdparty/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php

+++++++++++++looking for session_register++++++++++
+++++++++++++looking for session_unregister++++++++++
+++++++++++++looking for session_is_registered++++++++++
+++++++++++++looking for set_socket_blocking++++++++++

+++++++++++++looking for split++++++++++
./recaptcha/code/RecaptchaField.php
./sapphire/forms/DatetimeField.php
./sapphire/forms/CreditCardField.php
./sapphire/forms/PhoneNumberField.php
./sapphire/tasks/MigrateTranslatableTask.php
./sapphire/thirdparty/simplepie/idn/idna_convert.class.php
./sapphire/thirdparty/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/rpc.php
./sapphire/thirdparty/json/JSON.php
./sapphire/thirdparty/Zend/Cache/Frontend/Page.php
./sapphire/thirdparty/Zend/Locale/Format.php
./sapphire/thirdparty/Zend/Locale/Math.php
./sapphire/thirdparty/simpletest/http.php
./sapphire/thirdparty/simpletest/url.php
./sapphire/parsers/HTML/HTMLBBCodeParser.php
./sapphire/core/i18nTextCollector.php
./sapphire/core/SSViewer.php
./sapphire/core/model/fieldtypes/HTMLText.php
./sapphire/core/model/Translatable.php
./sapphire/filesystem/File.php
./sapphire/tests/fieldtypes/TextTest.php
./cms/code/CMSBatchActionHandler.php
./cms/code/LeftAndMain.php
./cms/code/AssetAdmin.php
./cms/code/Diff.php
./cms/code/CMSMain.php
./cms/code/ModelAdmin.php
./silverstripe-blog/code/widgets/TagCloudWidget.php
./silverstripe-blog/code/BlogEntry.php
./silverstripe-blog/thirdparty/xmlrpc/xmlrpcs.php
./silverstripe-blog/thirdparty/xmlrpc/xmlrpc.php

+++++++++++++looking for spliti++++++++++
+++++++++++++looking for sql_regcase++++++++++
+++++++++++++looking for mysql_db_query++++++++++
+++++++++++++looking for mysql_escape_string++++++++++

I know they will spit out only notices but come one we are reaching already php 5.4 and silverstripe didn't even sort out php 5.3.

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Re: Silverstripe at www.one.com

biapar — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:25:34 +1300

Hi,

Have you solved?

Regards

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Respond to our survey! PHP 5.2 vs. PHP 5.3 support

Sam — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:25:35 +1300

Hi everyone,

One topic that has come up in the past is PHP 5.3 compatibility. Many other frameworks are either requiring PHP 5.3 already, or they are moving to rely on PHP 5.3-only tools like Composer. PHP 5.3 provides a number of features that make it easier to write clean code (such as late-static binding, namespaces, and closures).

One of the key goals for SilverStripe - and the reason that we kept PHP 5.1 support for so long - was that it could be run on the PHP packages provided by major distributions. RHEL/CentOS ran PHP 5.1 for a long time, but that is no longer the case - RHEL6 runs PHP 5.3, as to the most up to date releases of all of the distributions that I investigated.

However, PHP 5.2 still has 3x as many deployments as PHP 5.3. Based on that, it seems like dropping PHP 5.2 support would make many users unable to use SilverStripe.

But this is all speculation. To get some concrete data, we've put together a survey that we would like as many people to fill out! On it, we ask a few questions about whether people still need PHP 5.2 and/or whether they would benefit from PHP 5.3.

On the basis of this survey, we can make an informed decision about when and whether it would be appropriate to drop PHP 5.2 support. It would be great if you could all fill it out!

The survey is here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GXBJ283

Once we have the data from the survey, we'll post back here with the results and our plans for PHP 5.2 support. The goal is to make a decision that is in the best interests of the whole community, so this is your time to be heard.

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Re: Not able to access admin page and Not seeing CSS (colours and layout) on webpage

swaiba — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:36:55 +1300

Looks like your host has something to "override" the use of /admin - contact them and ask them to remove it.

When you get "in" then you should be able to select the theme in the CMS and that may fix your "white" page issue

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Not able to access admin page and Not seeing CSS (colours and layout) on webpage

Bala — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:05:32 +1300

Hi,

I am 1 day old to "SilverStripe" CMS framework. I love this framework, very user friendly and easy to develop

I have developed one website using "blackcandy" theme on my local server and its working fine. Below are the issues I've after uploading to server.

1. Not seeing CSS (colours and layout) on webpage. It is looking like plain html pages
2. Not able to access admin page.

For refernce: http://cms.crossbricks.com/

Please some one help me on what are all the basic requirements I should have at server side.

Thanks, Bala

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CMS error After moving site to a different server

tlarevo — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:28:26 +1300

I had to move a SS website from it first hosting server to another server which uses cpanel and I did manage to migrate all the data and the files without any visible issues other than broken images due to inadequate permissions, which was easily fixed. but when I access the CMS it loads well but when I access any pages i.e. blog it gives an error(as an alert);
ERROR [Warning]: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
IN GET /admin/getitem?ID=5&ajax=1
Line 33 in /public_html/cms/code/WidgetAreaEditor.php

If someone could help on this matter it would be great thank you

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One way to fix one cause of "Error Saving Page" problem...

vwd — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:07:12 +1300

Hi,

It appears that my webhost has done some server upgrades and must have tightened up security a little. This resulted in one of the pages on my site being prevented from being saved - every time I would hit "Save" or "Save & Publish", it would result in "Error Saving Page".

The error console revealed that it was a "403 Forbidden" error on /admin/EditForm. It reminded me of an earlier issue I was having with the same page for which I made a post in the forums. I suspected that there was some filtering going on somewhere (wasn't sure where at that stage) as it was picking up the word "system" in alt/title tags and causing the same "Error Saving Page" issue.

I stumbled across this post which made me aware of a web host issues wiki page

To cut a long story short, by including the following lines in the .htaccess file, I was able to eliminate the problem:

# Disable mod_security to prevent restrictive calls between the server and client
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine off
</IfModule>

It turns out that the content on that page must have formed a signature that triggered mod_security, preventing it from being saved. Other pages were fine.

Anyway, I hope that info helps someone who might be pulling their hair out with similar issues.

VWD.

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Re: Silverstripe at www.one.com

biapar — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:54:14 +1300

Hi,
write me, if you want more information.
Thank you
Regards

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Re: Local Host

biapar — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:45:03 +1300

yes...I suggest to use IIS7.5 + php

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Re: Anyone using APC PHP Accelerator?

biapar — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:43:48 +1300

I use phpcache on IIS7.5

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Re: Silverstripe at www.one.com

diro — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:25:22 +1300

@biapar,
where are the servers and what are parameters?

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Re: Silverstripe at www.one.com

biapar — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:26:26 +1300

Hi,

we can help you. Could you contact us by email. Thank you.
We have hosting, vps and server in two european country.

Bye

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Re: Rewrite Htaccess

mahir — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:13:23 +1300

Hi Turnaound Guy,
Thank you for your reply.

It works fine now

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Re: Rewrite Htaccess

Turnaround Guy — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:12:39 +1300

is joomla installed IN the same dir as silverstripe?

try adding this in .htacces

RewriteBase \ ( if ss in public_html remove all this, or write name of dir its in)

like
in public_html
RewriteBase \

in sub dir called newsite
RewriteBase \newsite

let me know if this helps

Darren

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Re: Rewrite Htaccess

mahir — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:58:40 +1300

I have the same problem with JustHost. They are using Apache. Here is the content of my htaccess.txt file

##
# @version      $Id: htaccess.txt 21101 2011-04-07 15:47:33Z dextercowley $
# @package      Joomla
# @copyright   Copyright (C) 2005 - 2011 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license      GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
##

##
# READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE!
#
# The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems
# with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
# be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
# your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to
# beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's. If they work,
# it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.
##

## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
Options +FollowSymLinks

## Mod_rewrite in use.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions Inherit

## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.
# If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
# This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!
#
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*$[^)]*$ [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]
#
## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.

## Begin - Custom redirects
#
# If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to
# www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those
# redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.
#
## End - Custom redirects

##
# Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).
##

# RewriteBase /

## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.
#
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
#
# If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request
# has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
# and the request is for something within the component folder,
# or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the
# requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
#
## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.

I dont want to have an index.php, on my URL. Any help will be appreciated.

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Re: Quercus and Google App Engine

Stuckinrealtime — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:11:53 +1300

I just started trying to get silverstripe 2.4.5 working under Quercus after a few tweaks with url rewriting and how urls are passed to silverstripe the only problem seems to be how some of the statics are returned from Object::get_static which prevents forms and full database builds from working.

I did need to add the following code to sapphire to get things to even begin to load

sapphire/core/Core.php to correct a problem with interfaces not being loaded or found

// load interfaces manually for some reason they are being missed by the manifest builder and autoload
$_interface_list = array(
'core/i18nEntityProvider.php' ,
'core/model/CurrentPageIdentifier.php' ,
'core/control/NestedController.php',
'core/model/DataObjectInterface.php',
'core/model/HiddenClass.php',
'core/model/fieldtypes/CompositeDBField.php',
'security/PermissionProvider.php'
);
foreach($_interface_list as $_interface_class) {
require_once($_interface_class);
}

sapphire/main.php to get the stuff from my custom rewrite rules in. I added it before the IIS check

if(isset($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE']) && (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'],'Apache PHP Quercus') !== false)) {
$_quercus_url = $_quercus_request->getAttribute('SS_URL');
$_quercus_qs = $_quercus_request->getAttribute('SS_QS');
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_quercus_url;
$url = $_quercus_url;
if (!empty($_quercus_qs)) {
parse_str($_quercus_qs,$_GET);
if ($_GET) $_REQUEST = array_merge((array)$_REQUEST, (array)$_GET);
}

}

I was wondering if anybody else has done any work in this area.

FYI: this is my setup

jetty-8.0.4.v20111024 from http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/
urlrewrite filter verson 4.0 from http://code.google.com/p/urlrewritefilter/
quercus-4.0.18 from http://www.caucho.com

Servlet Mapping for Quercus from web.xml:

<servlet>
<servlet-name>Quercus Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.caucho.quercus.servlet.QuercusServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>script-encoding</param-name>
<param-value>ISO-8859-1</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>ini-file</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/php.ini</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Quercus Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.php</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

UrlRewriteFilter config from web.xml

<filter>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>logLevel</param-name>
<param-value>DEBUG</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>modRewriteConf</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>

urlrewrite.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE urlrewrite PUBLIC "-//tuckey.org//DTD UrlRewrite 4.0//EN"
"http://tuckey.org/res/dtds/urlrewrite4.0.dtd">

<rule>
<note>
The rule means that requests to /test/status/ will be redirected to /rewrite-status
the url will be rewritten.
</note>
<from>/test/status/</from>
<to type="redirect">%{context-path}/rewrite-status</to>
</rule>

<class-rule class="org.silverstripe.web.filters.SSPrettyUrlRewriteRule" />

<outbound-rule>
<note>
The outbound-rule specifies that when response.encodeURL is called (if you are using JSTL c:url)
the url /rewrite-status will be rewritten to /test/status/.

The above rule and this outbound-rule means that end users should never see the
url /rewrite-status only /test/status/ both in thier location bar and in hyperlinks
in your pages.
</note>
<from>/rewrite-status</from>
<to>/test/status/</to>
</outbound-rule>

</urlrewrite>

Custom Java Rules (I couldn't get the regular ones working properly for silverstripe)

#1) SSPrettyUrlRewriteMatch.java

package org.silverstripe.web.filters;

/**
* Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
* User: smathews
* Date: 1/24/12
* Time: 10:18 PM
*/

import org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.extend.RewriteMatch;

import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;

public class SSPrettyUrlRewriteMatch extends RewriteMatch {

public boolean execute(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

String qs = request.getQueryString();
String url = request.getRequestURI();

// this these as server variables so php can see them
request.setAttribute("SS_QS",qs);
request.setAttribute("SS_URL",url);

String forwardto = "/sapphire/main.php";
RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher(forwardto);

rd.forward(request, response);

return true;
}
}

#1) SSPrettyUrlRewriteRule.java

package org.silverstripe.web.filters;

/**
* Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
* User: smathews
* Date: 1/24/12
* Time: 10:01 PM
*/

import org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.extend.RewriteRule;
import org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.extend.RewriteMatch;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.File;

public class SSPrettyUrlRewriteRule extends RewriteRule {

private boolean isFile(String filename) {
boolean exists = false;
try {
File f = new File(filename);
exists = f.isFile() && f.exists();
} catch(Exception e) {
exists = false;
}
return exists;
}

public RewriteMatch matches(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {

// we don't want to match request from
if (request.getRequestURI().startsWith("/sapphire/main.php")) return null;

// ignore all image types
if (request.getRequestURI().startsWith(".ico")) return null;
if (request.getRequestURI().startsWith(".png")) return null;
if (request.getRequestURI().startsWith(".gif")) return null;
if (request.getRequestURI().startsWith(".mov")) return null;
if (request.getRequestURI().startsWith(".jpg")) return null;

String fileName = request.getServletContext().getRealPath(request.getRequestURI());

// we don't process any request if there is an actual file
if (this.isFile(fileName)) return null;

return new SSPrettyUrlRewriteMatch();

}
}

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Re: Updating/ Modifying Hosting Permissions - HostPapa

Plato — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:42:08 +1300

It is correct. The function is deprecated, however unfortunately the patch has been put off for the SSViewer rewrite in SS3.
You basically have to just suppress the warning, the function still works.

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Silverstripe at www.one.com

DaveTh — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:30:11 +1300

I have been using this site to host silverstripe.

Problems

a) Can not get Subsite module to work
b) no ssl

Any one can suggest an alternative for central Europe with English UI`

thanks

Dave

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Updating/ Modifying Hosting Permissions - HostPapa

greenpea — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:27:01 +1300

Hi,

I'm hosting SilverStripe 2.4.5 with HostPapa running PHP 5.3.8.

I get the following error when running dev/build or ?flush=all:

Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /home/.../public_html/sapphire/core/ManifestBuilder.php on line 310

Hostpapa has suggested I modify the file permissions within Cpanel. I'm not sure what to update.. any help is appreciated.

Note: I also had some initial hosting problems which were resolved by setting the server requirements to match http://www.silverstripe.org/system-requirements/

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Re: Local Host

Tim Snadden — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:47:23 +1300

Yes

If you've tried it and something isn't working you may want to try asking a more explicit question with a bit of context thrown in.

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Local Host

darnson — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:57:26 +1300

Can I develop a site using my local host with WAMP?

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Orange Business Service = Bad

Mauve — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:06:03 +1300

For some reasons, I'm trying to install silverstripe on a shared host from orange business service in France.

And it's a bumpy road.

The service is as basic as can be : 5Gb static storage, 20Mb mysql DB, ftp access only.

Installing itself is eventless. Ftp the silverstripe tree, run php installer and it's set.

Almost. Because once you're there, you can't log into the CMS without adding ?isDev=1 to the url, you can't upload pictures (well, you can upload them actually, but you won't see them), and certainly other oddities I haven't spotted yet.

[edit]I dug into this a bit, and I solved the behavior I had by chmod'ing js files in assets/_combined to 666 ; this solved the admin access issue.[/edit]

I've read countless docs, and I think the main issue is files are owned by the ftp account (uid ftp, gid ftp) while apache certainly runs under its own uid/gid. When you want to create folders or upload files to the cms, they end up with rwxr_x___ attributes (0750), and when you want to access them from the site, you get a 403 forbidden error.

So far, I managed to sloppily hack this issue - nearly. I modified saphire/filesystem/Folder.php addUploadToFolder function circa line 249 like this :

...
if (move_uploaded_file($tmpFile['tmp_name'], "$base/$file$ext")) {
//
$oldumask = umask(0);
chmod("$base/$file$ext", Filesystem::$file_create_mask);
umask($oldumask);
//
// Update with the new image
return $this->constructChild(basename($file . $ext));
} else {
...

and Filesystem.php (line 26) like this :

static function makeFolder($folder) {
if(!file_exists($base = dirname($folder))) self::makeFolder($base);
if(!file_exists($folder)) {
$oldumask = umask(0);
mkdir($folder, Filesystem::$folder_create_mask);
umask($oldumask);
}
}

...

It sort of works ; folders are created with 775 rights, but files end up with a weird rwx-rwS-r_x permission set. As there is little risk someone will upload executable files, this works enough for me.

Does anyone have better clues on how to install silverstripe on this kind of config ?

Cheers,

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Hardcoding config for cloudcontrol.com

xpyx — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:19:46 +1300

Is there documentation on hardcoding the config values for Silverstripe? I use cloudcontrol.com which requires hardcoding your config values (it's also a great test bed), it just has no writable file system. I'm going through the install.php file but just want to make sure I don't miss anything.

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Re: Mysql Service shuts down

asecondwill — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:53:06 +1300

Just to confirm this,

We have to edit the site one at a time. If i click on a item in the tree 5 times rapid fire, the mysql proccess falls down. every time.

At this stage we can live with the slowness but it needs to be reliable.

Is there anything we can do to fix this?

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Mysql Service shuts down

asecondwill — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:44:46 +1300

Hello.

We have just deployed a site to our stage environment. Its a 500m Ram, "Cloud" VPS with Crucial Paradigm.

If we both test it together, the cms ends up hanging, and then if i refresh the page i get:

PHP Fatal error: DataObjects have been requested before the database is ready.

Looking in cpanel, the mysql service is off. Rebooting it gets us going again until the next topple.

Whats to be done? could there be a configuration i have missed in the Silverstripe? Or does it need something special turned on at the server?

Thanks, will

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Re: Hostgator?

DanStephenson — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:03:02 +1300

I've hosted a few dozen SilverStripe sites with HostGator, and never had an issue.

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Re: Full Solution for Zeus Server Hosting!!

neilcreagh — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:17:41 +1300

Honestly, I have no idea, but it sounds like that hosting is totally unsuitable (old PHP, Zeus Hosting and not recognising your rewrite script). I would simply recommend moving the website hosting to a more suitable set-up. Sorry I can't be more help on this. If any of my clients have hosting on Register365.ie here in Ireland I recommend that they move to LetsHost.ie or MyHost.ie or Digiweb or Blacknight (pretty much all of the other hosts are suitable).

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Re: Web Hosting with Good Support

pinkp — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:15:29 +1300

This is not in the east... but these guys live chat 24 hours a day! They are super helpful and great price and host.
http://www.webhosting.uk.com

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Re: Full Solution for Zeus Server Hosting!!

pinkp — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:09:08 +1300

I have tried this with no success. Could you please help.
I am installing on a Zeus server with Namesco and it is quickly draining my time and patience!
I managed to install it with out any changes but this then meant the rewrite was not working and the links kept reading /index.php/mypage and the log in kept logging out and saying I was not the admin. So I am trying a fresh install.

I have:

* Removed .htaccess file
* Added rewrite.script file with your code (although it still states "I can't tell whether any rewriting module is running. You may need to configure a rewriting rule yourself.")
*Changed Index.php to read: define('BASE_SCRIPT_URL','');

The MySQL is only 4.1.22-log does that matter?

Now when I click install it gets stuck at:
"Building database schema..."

any help appreciated thanks!!!

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EDIT:

I upgraded the MySQL to 5 and it still freezes....

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EDIT:

I think it may be the "AllowOverride All" is not set up and the host will not do this...
What can I do now....?

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EDIT:

OK, so deleted and re-uploaded SS and made all the changes above and this time it worked. It did not freeze and the rewrite rule seems to be fine. The host was not able to set the allow override all but at the moment this is fine.

thanks for your reply.

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Web Hosting with Good Support

RS26 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:15:42 +1300

My current web host is in a time zone that's 4 hours difference than me, and it takes them way too long to get back to me.

Can anyone suggest a good Silverstripe host in the Eastern or Atlantic Time Zone?

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Re: Experiences with Arvixe (bad, unfortunately)

Arvand.Arvixe — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:46:57 +1300

Hello,

I'm sorry for your issues. Per my research, it appears that you were on the ostrich server. I can assure you that at Arvixe, large server side issues reach management very quickly. Some are easy to resolve and some take time. Whether at Arvixe, Dreamhost, Bluehost, etc. you are being placed on a single server out of hundreds or thousands under management. Your experience with that specific company's hosting services is summed up by not only their ability to properly manage the servers but also other customers' level of activity on the specific server.

I can agree with you that Ostrich has had some minor issues within the past week or so in regards to slower PHP processing. However, I would ask you to be reasonable in your assessment that a we had a server down for 5 days straight. The entire output looks a bit off when you have 5 days with literally no uptime (which has never happened in the history of Arvixe).

I'm attaching an uptime report for that server for the past 31 days. The uptime report uses the Nagios monitoring system setup in Seattle to ping the server every minute. This certainly only checks for the server's uptime. But for any monitoring system to be accurate, it needs to do not only minute by minute monitoring but also outline exactly what is being checked. Is the HTTP status code being checked? IF so, which status codes outline downtime and which status codes outline uptime? Or is it just ping? Do you know for a fact your monitoring system does minute by minute monitoring? Also, heavy access to the server can be considered abusive by the server firewall and therefore, the monitoring system could get blocked causing the monitoring system to show the extended downtime you are seeing.

To date, out of ~300 servers under management, not a single server has exhibited the level downtime shown in your report. I would welcome you to take a free account from me on a different server (or the same) and use a variety of monitoring services to monitor the service so that at the very least, you are left with a neutral feeling towards our services. I have no doubt that we'll be able to change your mind. And I can assure you that if you did end up on a poorly performing server on dreamhost and placed a post or blog post on the internet, you would not have someone from their management approaching you this quickly which I hope spreaks a bit to our concern for quality and excellence.

The screenshot mentioned above is attached. What I believe is the most important is the average uptime of a host's servers across a large number of different accounts and servers. There is one site that does a good job of taking each host's customers' domains when they leave a review and monitoring them to come up with an aggregated uptime report. That is available here: http://uptime.besthostratings.com/webhosts-uptime.php

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Experiences with Arvixe (bad, unfortunately)

geoffmcqueen — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:54:14 +1300

Had just had the unpleasant task of changing hosting companies twice in a month. My old host was in Australia, and with most of our business coming from the US, it made sense to move it over. I went with Arvixe on a tip from one of the SS team, and it wasn't a pleasant experience.

Posted the cautionary tale to my blog in case it saves anyone else grief: http://www.geoffmcqueen.com/2011/10/03/moving-web-hosts-from-the-frying-pan-into-the-arvixe-fire/

TL;DR version - I went with Dreamhost and have been happy so far (uptime report attached - changed to Dreamhost on the 30th)

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Re: Anyone using APC PHP Accelerator?

Sean — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:37:53 +1200

If you're in dev mode on the site, you can add ?debug_profile=1 to the URL, e.g. "mysite.com/about-us?debug_profile=1".

This will give you a list of times it took to render page components. While it's not the best profiler around, it does give you a good indication what parts of the page template are slow, and from there you can apply partial caching where appropriate.

Hope that helps.

Sean

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Re: forced and random mbstring.func_overload

bennettpr — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:25:50 +1200

Thanks for posting this Anatol.

I can confirm it's still an issue on some hosts when using version 2.4.5

I tried to copy a site which was previously installed on another server and had this error but patching the SSViewer.php file didn't work on a site which had been installed previously.
The only solution I've found is to delete the files, empty the db, load up a fresh version of SilverStripe 2.4.5, patch the file and install as normal.

Just in case this helps anyone else.

Paul

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Re: 64 bit

biapar — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:55:08 +1200

Yes. It's right.

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Re: Anyone using APC PHP Accelerator?

tv — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:23:36 +1200

What kind of requests per_second are you guys seeing with APC installed?

I have APC installed on my Media Temple 3.5 dv server (1 GB RAM) with shared memory set to 100M. I also have partial caching in place (which I have tested and is working) with SS_Cache::pick_back_end set to use APC.

Using ap bench with a concurrency of 10, I am only seeing 6 to 7 requests pre second. I am new to server optimization, but isn't this really low?

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong or what I can do to increase my requests_per_second?

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Re: Quadra Hosting and permission issues

martimiz — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:54:39 +1200

[EDIT] - oops, wrong post, sorry...

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Re: SilverStripe on Media Temple

tv — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:51:15 +1200

Thanks Ryan.

Setting the permissions to 777 and changing the owner and group of the silverstripe-cache/cache folder did the trick. Media Temple automatically assigned an owner and group of apache to the cache folder.

Getting APC installed on dv 3.5 was a whole other bag of worms. I finally did get it installed, but whenever I up the shared memory to 128M, CPU usage peaks out on me. Right now I have shared memory set to 100M and everything seems to be holding steady.

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Re: SilverStripe on Media Temple

joern — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:43:55 +1200

Hi,
i create a cache-folder inside the data folder from my media template account. so that it is siblings to the tmp folder where the php sessions are stored. i'm not 100% sure, if it's the best way, but it works...

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Re: SilverStripe on Media Temple

Ryan M. — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:55:31 +1200

@tv: My silverstripe-cache folders are set to 777 as well. That should work. Did you try setting your cache folder to that? You mentioned it was set to 755 instead.

@joern Sorry for my late reply! I don't subscribe to this thread and just noticed the new posts in the RSS feed today. Make sure your cache folder has the correct permissions.

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Re: SilverStripe on Media Temple

tv — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:40:10 +1200

Hi Ryan

I am running a Silverstripe install on Media Temple dv 3.5.

I am having a problem getting my cache blocks to work. I have my 'silverstripe-cache' directory permissions at 777, but nothing is being written to the 'cache ' folder within the 'silverstripe-cache' folder (no zend files). Therefore my partial cacheing is not working. My cache folder has permissions of 'owner: apache' and 755.

Have you ever experienced anything like this on Media Temple?

Any suggestions would be awesome! Thanks!

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Re: Quadra Hosting and permission issues

Nobrainer Web — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:24:31 +1200

After some help at IRC from mobiusnz, i have it working. (Thank you!)

Simply removing the CHMOD calls will make the system run.
Files that was changed:
Line 596 off cms/assetadmin //chmod($p->FullPath, Filesystem::$file_create_mask);

and also the one added from the patch in sapphire/filesystem/Folder.php around line 250
//chmod("$base/$file$ext", Filesystem::$file_create_mask);

There are still periodic notices of permisson problems in my tmp folder though, but this is related to using a custom TMP folder i guess.

www.nobrainer.dk

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Quadra Hosting and permission issues

Nobrainer Web — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:34:46 +1200

Hi,

Just moved a copy of a working SS 2.4.5 site to Quadra Hosting (http://www.quadrahosting.com.au/) and now i simply cannot make the Asset Admin behave as intended.

My problems are:
Uploading af file gives me [Warning] chmod(): Operation not permitted
I'm using this fix http://open.silverstripe.org/attachment/ticket/5547/2.4.1-FileUpload-2.diff to get passed the invalid file for upload error.
(If i leave out the chmod part, the file is uploaded and can be choosen and used in the CMS)

Creating folder, gives Error creating folder, no further info.
Folder is actually created, but will not be visible in asset admin untill you do a manualy sync

Can someone help me find a solution to this?

Support at the host says everything is standard, and should be working - well it does not and i have never had these problems before.
If there is no fix this host should be removed from recommended hosts.

Do you know a host that will run Silverstripe with no issues? please post here thank you.

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Re: Hosting in Australia

Nobrainer Web — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:12:06 +1200

Hello Distinct,

I'm having problems with uploads to a site hosted at Quadra Hosting - can you tell me how you managed these problems?

Creating folder, gives Error creating folder, no further info.

Looking in the Webshell at Quadra hosting, i see that files uploaded with FTP have different owner/group than files created through the Webshell.

Hope you can help

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