[wp-hackers] Need Help, I cannot figure this out.

Fri Feb 5 00:29:19 UTC 2010

Hi everyone,

I'm the system administer on this box.

Filling in some more detail;

Internet Explorer 8 appears to not have the problem.

Once, I saw the URL in Firefox change to "mrsec.com/feed" when it
should have been "mrsec.com/tags/tennessee".  I've tried digging
through mod_rewrite logs, but haven't come up with anything
conclusive.  Then again, I also haven't seen the URL change since that
one time yesterday.

Not always does the problem page come up as a rss feed.  I've also
seen it bring up the forum/discussion page, as well as direct stories.

The problem seems to be either load, or time related.  The problem
pages will come up in bursts, then go away for some period of time.
Consequently we can't absolutely say that the situations we believe to
work (below) truly work.

Setting up both alternative apache configurations, and alternative
directories have produced nothing understandable.  mrsec.com and
testing.mrsec.com have functionally identical apache configurations.
~mrsec/httpdocs and ~mrsec/subdomains/testing/httpdocs are supposed to
be identical.  That being said;

mrsec config   -> ~mrsec/httpdocs                     = error
testing config -> ~mrsec/subdomains/testing/httpdocs  = works  (see
time/load above)
mrsec config   -> ~mrsec/subdomains/testing/httpdocs  = error
testing config (renamed to mrsec) -> ~mrsec/httpdocs  = error
testing config (without rename)   -> ~mrsec/httpdocs  = works  (see
time/load above)

Although I had conclusively determined squid was not a factor in this
problem previously (by ssh tunneling directly to apache on the box,
and setting my browser's proxy to point to the tunnel), at Jeremy's
request I removed squid completely this afternoon.  The problem still
exists.

Overall the problem appears more often during the daytime, when the
server is being hit.

Server setup:
Debian Lenny (5.0.3)
Apache Server version: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian)
Apache Server built:   Nov 14 2009 21:07:23
Squid Cache: Version 3.0.STABLE8  (currently removed)

Shane Chambers

On Feb 4, 11:18 am, "Potkanski, Jason" <jpotkan... at tribune.com> wrote:
> It looks like your Apache server is fronted by a Squid proxy server. I would bet your issue lies there. Are there multiple backends and frontends involved?
>
> I would disable the proxy and have Apache serve up on port 80 until you get the issue resolved.
>
> --
>
> Jason Potkanski
> Application Developer, Blogs
> Tribune Technology
>
> On 2/4/10 10:07 AM, "Jeremi Bergman" <jere... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was using wp-super cache, but it's currently turned off and only have the
> standard .htaccess entries from wordpress.
>
> Jeremi Bergman
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Matthew Phillips <kestrach... at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > I had the same response when visiting the site as Eris described.
>
> > are you using a caching plugin or configured .htaccess in a special way?
>
> > Matthew
>
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:14 AM, ErisDS <eri... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Just so you know you aren't going mad
>
> > > The first time I tried I got RSS feeds, the second time I got a dialog to
> > > download the file stating file of type application/x-gzip
>
> > > Something is wrong with the way the files are being served to the
> > browser.
>
> > > I was trying to take a look with firebug, but there are errors in your
> > > Javascript which are preventing me from getting very far.
>
> > > Sorry I can't be of more help.
>
> > > Eris
>
> > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Navjot Singh <navjotjsi... at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Same here. No problems detected.
>
> > > > Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2)
> > > > Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
>
> > > > --
> > > > Navjot Singh
>
> > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Guy <wp... at nullamatix.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Jeremi Bergman <jere... at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > I need some help, and we're willing to pay someone to help us.
>
> > > > > > We have a wordpress powered site, mrsec.com.  In Firefox, when I
> > > click
> > > > > on a
> > > > > > team logo at the top, which takes you to the archives, or even when
> > > you
> > > > > > click on About us which takes you to a page, more often then not I
> > > get
> > > > an
> > > > > > RSS feed, even though the url is correct (meaning it's not the feed
> > > > url).
>
> > > > > > If I do a SHIFT+Refresh while on the Rss feed page, the correct
> > > archive
> > > > > page
> > > > > > them loads.
>
> > > > > > [snip]
>
> > > > > > Jeremi Bergman
>
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>
> > > > > Jeremi,
>
> > > > > - From here, the linked logo at the top
> > > > > (/wp-content/themes/mrsec/images/logo.png) goes to the index, and the
> > > > > "About Us & Contact Us" link goes to "/about-2" with some text about
> > > > > "John Pennington." No refresh necessary, no RSS feed displayed, even
> > > > > after multiple clicks.
>
> > > > > Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.16)
> > > > > Gecko/2009121609 Firefox/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-3)
> > > > > Proxy: Squid Cache: Version 2.7.STABLE3
>
> > > > > Anything else I can (should) do to replicate the behavior? All seems
> > > > > fine from here.
>
> > > > > Guy
> > > > >www.nullamatix.com
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