[wp-testers] RE: wp-testers Digest, Vol 43, Issue 7

George admin at crosshairs.net
Wed Sep 10 20:29:14 GMT 2008


Did you check the ownership of the directories on the server? This happened
to me in the past when it didn't recognize the site as the owner of the
files. If you're not familiar with this just contact host and ask them to
check.


George Passariello
http://www.Order.com


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Today's Topics:

   1. Strange issue (Shelly)
   2. Re: Strange issue (Kirk M)
   3. Re: Strange issue (Shelly)
   4. Re: Strange issue (Chris)
   5. Re: Strange issue (Kirk M)
   6. comments get 404 error with today's build (Musing Minds)
   7. RE: comments get 404 error with today's build (Musing Minds)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:01:43 -0400
From: Shelly <wordpress at anekostudios.com>
Subject: [wp-testers] Strange issue
To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
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Hey all,

I'm at the end of my search, and I've exhausted everything I can to  
find the answer to this.

About 2 weeks ago, I was working on a WordPress site.  Everything was  
going fine, and then the Friday of Labor Day weekend, suddenly we were  
unable to edit posts, nor create new ones.  This also went for  
categories, links and Pages as well.  We could do nothing.  The stuff  
that's there is there, and there's no adding to it, nor editing it.   
(We get an error in the newer installs that says "An unidentified  
error has occurred." in the sidebar of the admin panel.)

I've tried many things to fix this - of course the first being that I  
reverted back to the way it was before I started working on it - to no  
avail.  Disabled all plugins, reverted to the default theme - same  
problem.  Deleted the installation, and reinstalled fresh files.   
Nothing.  Upgraded to 2.6.1 - no change.  I kept checking error logs,  
and they were clean as a whistle.  I finally came across one that  
showed more "in depth" error messages on the server, and finally got a  
single error message.

[30-Aug-2008 09:30:25] PHP Warning:  Module 'ffmpeg' already loaded in  
Unknown on line 0
[30-Aug-2008 09:30:25] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load  
dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non- 
zts-20060613//usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ 
ffmpeg.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613// 
usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so:  
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown  
on line 0

I sent this info to the host, but since it was labor day weekend, I  
didn't expect a response.  So I went in search of other similar issues.

I've repaired database tables to no avail, and finally, as my last  
step today, a created an entirely new database with a new user, and  
made a completely new installation.  Same problem.  I created a second  
new database and user, and installed 2.5...then again with 2.3.3, and  
a third time with 2.0.10.  ALL of them have the same problem.  No  
posting, no creating anything, no editing.

For the record, I'm not talking theme files or file permission issues  
either.  And if it helps, the server is Linux, running MySQL 4.1.22,  
Apache 2.0.63 and PHP 5.2.6.  A funny note though - everything is  
unlimited - bandwidth, email accounts, domain names, FTP accounts, and  
databases, etc., are all set to "infinity" as the max.  That's  
something odd I've never noticed before, but I don't know if that  
would have anything to do with this.

I've posted to the WP forum with no response, as well as a couple of  
other lists I'm on that have some WP gurus.  When I posted to those  
two lists, I got three responses that they were experiencing the same  
issue - but no one can find a solution.

The host got back to me today - they've moved the ffmpeg (although,  
like me, they don't understand what that would have to do with  
wordpress at all), they removed it as well (and of course now we get  
an error that ffmpeg can't be found), trying all kinds of things  
trying to figure out what's going on, and restarted Apache for me.   
Still nothing.  No postie-love, not edity-love, no creating anything- 
love.  New installations don't do squat - 'cept now I have a new  
installation of WordPress that I cannot use.

So now I'm turning to you all - I have no idea what to do here.  I've  
been working on this site with no problem for the last 5 months (it's  
a pro-bono site, for any of you that think I'm getting paid for this -  
I'm not), and then suddenly poof - it appears he may have to go as far  
as to try to get a new host and have all of this work go down the  
drain.  Which seems so bizarre, because WordPress is the *only*  
application on the server that's having this problem.  i don't know if  
this is a WP bug, or something with the server, or what - but no one  
seems to know what to do.

if *anyone* has *any* ideas, or links, or anything that could point me  
towards a solution, I'd really appreciate it.  Even the host tech guys  
are stumped, and I can say from experience that they aren't the kind  
of guys who are easily stumped.  So if anyone has any little inkling  
of what I could look for, or where i could go to try and find the  
solution, that would be great.

Thanks!

~Shelly




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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:21:51 -0400
From: Kirk M <kmb42vt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Strange issue
To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
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Understanding that I've read and reread your message here to make sure 
that I understand everything you've done so far, it sounds like the one 
of the main directories that WordPress is installed into may have become 
write protected. Why this would happen could be many reasons/quirks or 
whatever but since it doesn't seem to be related to the install or the 
DB I would check the permission settings (CHMOD) of your customer's 
server directories via FTP starting with "public_html" (should be set to 
755) and on down. If WordPress is installed in it's own directory, that 
one should be the next one you check under "public_html" and then onto 
the 3 main directories of the WP install itself. For some reason, these 
might be getting changed.

Hope this helps.



Shelly wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm at the end of my search, and I've exhausted everything I can to 
> find the answer to this.
>
> About 2 weeks ago, I was working on a WordPress site.  Everything was 
> going fine, and then the Friday of Labor Day weekend, suddenly we were 
> unable to edit posts, nor create new ones.  This also went for 
> categories, links and Pages as well.  We could do nothing.  The stuff 
> that's there is there, and there's no adding to it, nor editing it.  
> (We get an error in the newer installs that says "An unidentified 
> error has occurred." in the sidebar of the admin panel.)
>
> I've tried many things to fix this - of course the first being that I 
> reverted back to the way it was before I started working on it - to no 
> avail.  Disabled all plugins, reverted to the default theme - same 
> problem.  Deleted the installation, and reinstalled fresh files.  
> Nothing.  Upgraded to 2.6.1 - no change.  I kept checking error logs, 
> and they were clean as a whistle.  I finally came across one that 
> showed more "in depth" error messages on the server, and finally got a 
> single error message.
>
> [30-Aug-2008 09:30:25] PHP Warning:  Module 'ffmpeg' already loaded in 
> Unknown on line 0
> [30-Aug-2008 09:30:25] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load 
> dynamic library 
>
'/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613//usr/local/lib/php/
extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so' 
> - 
>
/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613//usr/local/lib/php/e
xtensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown 
> on line 0
>
> I sent this info to the host, but since it was labor day weekend, I 
> didn't expect a response.  So I went in search of other similar issues.
>
> I've repaired database tables to no avail, and finally, as my last 
> step today, a created an entirely new database with a new user, and 
> made a completely new installation.  Same problem.  I created a second 
> new database and user, and installed 2.5...then again with 2.3.3, and 
> a third time with 2.0.10.  ALL of them have the same problem.  No 
> posting, no creating anything, no editing.
>
> For the record, I'm not talking theme files or file permission issues 
> either.  And if it helps, the server is Linux, running MySQL 4.1.22, 
> Apache 2.0.63 and PHP 5.2.6.  A funny note though - everything is 
> unlimited - bandwidth, email accounts, domain names, FTP accounts, and 
> databases, etc., are all set to "infinity" as the max.  That's 
> something odd I've never noticed before, but I don't know if that 
> would have anything to do with this.
>
> I've posted to the WP forum with no response, as well as a couple of 
> other lists I'm on that have some WP gurus.  When I posted to those 
> two lists, I got three responses that they were experiencing the same 
> issue - but no one can find a solution.
>
> The host got back to me today - they've moved the ffmpeg (although, 
> like me, they don't understand what that would have to do with 
> wordpress at all), they removed it as well (and of course now we get 
> an error that ffmpeg can't be found), trying all kinds of things 
> trying to figure out what's going on, and restarted Apache for me.  
> Still nothing.  No postie-love, not edity-love, no creating 
> anything-love.  New installations don't do squat - 'cept now I have a 
> new installation of WordPress that I cannot use.
>
> So now I'm turning to you all - I have no idea what to do here.  I've 
> been working on this site with no problem for the last 5 months (it's 
> a pro-bono site, for any of you that think I'm getting paid for this - 
> I'm not), and then suddenly poof - it appears he may have to go as far 
> as to try to get a new host and have all of this work go down the 
> drain.  Which seems so bizarre, because WordPress is the *only* 
> application on the server that's having this problem.  i don't know if 
> this is a WP bug, or something with the server, or what - but no one 
> seems to know what to do.
>
> if *anyone* has *any* ideas, or links, or anything that could point me 
> towards a solution, I'd really appreciate it.  Even the host tech guys 
> are stumped, and I can say from experience that they aren't the kind 
> of guys who are easily stumped.  So if anyone has any little inkling 
> of what I could look for, or where i could go to try and find the 
> solution, that would be great.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ~Shelly
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:44:43 -0400
From: Shelly <wordpress at anekostudios.com>
Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Strange issue
To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
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 >>I would check the permission settings (CHMOD) of your customer's  
server directories via FTP starting with "public_html" (should be set  
to 755) and on down. If WordPress is installed in it's own directory,  
that one should be the next one you check under "public_html" and then  
onto the 3 main directories of the WP install itself<<

Hi Kirk,

Well, this is one of the things I've previously checked - and I've  
just rechecked.  Folders are at 755, files at 644.  So again, that  
doesn't seem to be the issue.  but thanks!

~Shelly


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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:45:21 -0500
From: Chris <gaarai at gaarai.com>
Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Strange issue
To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
Message-ID: <48C815C1.2050609 at gaarai.com>
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How about the actual database files? Do all the files have appropriate 
ownership and write privileges to allow MySQL to modify those tables?

- Chris Jean

Shelly wrote:
> >>I would check the permission settings (CHMOD) of your customer's 
> server directories via FTP starting with "public_html" (should be set 
> to 755) and on down. If WordPress is installed in it's own directory, 
> that one should be the next one you check under "public_html" and then 
> onto the 3 main directories of the WP install itself<<
>
> Hi Kirk,
>
> Well, this is one of the things I've previously checked - and I've 
> just rechecked.  Folders are at 755, files at 644.  So again, that 
> doesn't seem to be the issue.  but thanks!
>
> ~Shelly
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:51:56 -0400
From: Kirk M <kmb42vt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Strange issue
To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
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I admit it was a "just to say I did" check but you never know. This is 
definitely an unusual problem. I'll start checking around. Hopefully one 
of the experts here can add their two cents worth.

Shelly wrote:
> >>I would check the permission settings (CHMOD) of your customer's 
> server directories via FTP starting with "public_html" (should be set 
> to 755) and on down. If WordPress is installed in it's own directory, 
> that one should be the next one you check under "public_html" and then 
> onto the 3 main directories of the WP install itself<<
>
> Hi Kirk,
>
> Well, this is one of the things I've previously checked - and I've 
> just rechecked.  Folders are at 755, files at 644.  So again, that 
> doesn't seem to be the issue.  but thanks!
>
> ~Shelly
> _______________________________________________
> wp-testers mailing list
> wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
>


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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:54:59 -0500
From: "Musing Minds" <kimsch at musing-minds.com>
Subject: [wp-testers] comments get 404 error with today's build
To: <wp-testers at lists.automattic.com>
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I put on today's build and when a reader goes to comment, it gets a 404 not
found error.


kimsch
Musing Minds
http://musing-minds.com
kimsch at musing-minds.com





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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:57:13 -0500
From: "Musing Minds" <kimsch at musing-minds.com>
Subject: RE: [wp-testers] comments get 404 error with today's build
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Also - picture uploads weren't showing in a gallery for the post. 

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I put on today's build and when a reader goes to comment, it gets a 404 not
found error.


kimsch
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