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

Fri Feb 5 19:21:52 UTC 2010

2 of the 3 of us on our end have not experienced this "rss issue" since
yesterday after removing squid.  Can those of you on the list that
experienced the symptom of being served rss data instead of the link, retest
for us (In Firefox).

The About page redirecting is strange, but this is not the original symptom
that led me to post on the list.

Thanks for all your help so far!

Jeremi Bergman
865-951-5354

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Shane Chambers <knoxpics at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Here's the rewrite logs from when I ask for the "/about" url;
>
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] strip per-dir prefix:
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/about -> about
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] applying pattern
> '^admin(.*)$' to uri 'about'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] strip per-dir prefix:
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/about -> about
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] applying pattern '.' to
> uri 'about'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (2) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] rewrite 'about' ->
> '/index.php'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (2) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] trying to replace prefix
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/ with /
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (1) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] internal redirect with
> /index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e2728/initial/redir#1]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] strip per-dir prefix:
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/index.php -> index.php
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e2728/initial/redir#1]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] applying pattern
> '^admin(.*)$' to uri 'index.php'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e2728/initial/redir#1]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] strip per-dir prefix:
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/index.php -> index.php
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e2728/initial/redir#1]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] applying pattern '.' to
> uri 'index.php'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:42 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e2728/initial/redir#1]
> (1) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] pass through
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/index.php
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] add path info postfix:
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/story -> /var/www/vhosts/
> mrsec.com/httpdocs/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] strip per-dir prefix:
> /var/www/vhosts/
> mrsec.com/httpdocs/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball ->
> story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] applying pattern
> '^admin(.*)$' to uri 'story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] add path info postfix:
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/story -> /var/www/vhosts/
> mrsec.com/httpdocs/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] strip per-dir prefix:
> /var/www/vhosts/
> mrsec.com/httpdocs/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball ->
> story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] applying pattern '.' to
> uri 'story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (2) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] rewrite
> 'story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball' -> '/index.php'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (2) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] trying to replace prefix
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/ with /
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27d9a68/initial]
> (1) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] internal redirect with
> /index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e5f88/initial/redir#1]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] strip per-dir prefix:
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/index.php -> index.php
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e5f88/initial/redir#1]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] applying pattern
> '^admin(.*)$' to uri 'index.php'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e5f88/initial/redir#1]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] strip per-dir prefix:
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/index.php -> index.php
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e5f88/initial/redir#1]
> (3) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] applying pattern '.' to
> uri 'index.php'
> 74.93.48.82 - - [05/Feb/2010:14:13:43 --0500] [www.mrsec.com/sid#2266900][rid#27e5f88/initial/redir#1]
> (1) [perdir /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/] pass through
> /var/www/vhosts/mrsec.com/httpdocs/index.php
>
>
> Shane
>
> Jeremi Bergman wrote:
>
>  In my example, I was able to request (from lwp-request) the URL "/about"
> and
>
>
>  was served "/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball<
>
>
>  http://www.mrsec.com/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball>".
>
>
>  "about" is not a valid page, it's about-2.  But I dont know what would be
> redirecting it...
>
>  Jeremi Bergman
> 865-951-5354
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Dave Viner <dave at vinertech.com> <dave at vinertech.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  In my example, I was able to request (from lwp-request) the URL "/about"
> and
> was served "/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball<
> http://www.mrsec.com/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball> <http://www.mrsec.com/story/about-12-minutes-of-good-basketball>".
>  Do you see anything in the rewrite logs for that?  I left the date in the
> email (Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:50:53 GMT) so that you can track it
> closely.
>
> If not, then we're pretty certainly in the issue of WP making that redirect
> happen.  In which case, it would be helpful to know what plugins you're
> using and what your permalinks settings are.
>
> Dave Viner
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Shane Chambers <knoxpics at gmail.com> <knoxpics at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  Mike, Dave,
>
> PHP is sitting at the newest Debian release, with security patches.
>
> root at server-new: php --version
> PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny4 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Nov 22 2009
> 01:50:58)
> Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
> Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
>   with XCache v1.2.2, Copyright (c) 2005-2007, by mOo
>   with Suhosin v0.9.27, Copyright (c) 2007, by SektionEins GmbH
>
> Apache logs the correct request, at least for all the times I've gone
> looking at it.  (which is quite a few times)
>
> I've looked though the rewrite logs, and couldn't find anything
>
>
>  conclusive.
>
>
>   Nothing referencing changing say "tags/vanderbilt" to anything having to
>
>
>  do
>
>
>  with feed.  (that's why the RewriteLogLevel was set to 9, I wasn't seeing
> anything at 3, so I bumped it up to max logs)
>
> The rest is going to have to wait for Jeremi to chime in about.
>
> Shane
>
>
> Mike Little wrote:
>
>
>
>  Jeremi
>
> A couple of things to check, when the wrong page is delivered, e.g. rss
> feed
> instead of about page, what does the apache log record? It will likely
>
>
>  be
>
>
>  difficult to check when the site is busy but looking for a know ip
>
>
>  address
>
>
>  at a specific time will help you tie it down. Does the apache log record
> the
> the request was for about or for the feed? If for the about page, then
>
>
>  you
>
>
>  can rule out external, influences. I suspect you have got to that stage
> already.
> The next thing is to tie that request in with the rewrite logs  - I
>
>
>  think
>
>
>  Shane has already determined that things look ok.
>
> So you are probably back to something going wrong within WordPress'
> execution chain.
>
> It may be a shot in the dark, but I once had a vaguely similar issue
>
>
>  with
>
>
>  a
> client's site. In this case the page title was being set to the wrong
> thing.
> So the home page might  have a title tag of search results! It
> was intermittent (but was then cached by a front end caching server!)
>
>
>  but
>
>
>  was defintiley happening under high load.
>
> I had just enabled All in one SEO plugin, and when I turned it off
>
>
>  again,
>
>
>  it
> went away.
>
> I think it was going wrong because AIOSEO does whole page buffering and
>
>
>  I
>
>
>  believed that there might be a threading issue  with specific versions
>
>
>  of
>
>
>  PHP and output buffering. So that the buffered contents of one request
> were
> returned to the code running a different request. In my case the site
>
>
>  was
>
>
>  running an out of date version of PHP, and running on Windows.
>
> I see you are not running on Windows, but I think it is worth checking
> these
> two things.
> Are you running a plugin that does lots of output buffering?
> and is your version of PHP up-to-date?
>
> Another thing I would try: When you get a wrong page - save the HTML and
> headers. Then access the page you received directly and save the HTML
>
>
>  and
>
>
>  headers. Compare the two pairs (possibly ignoring time stamps). If they
> are
> identical, then the error may well be in the template/redirection logic
> within WordPress and it's plugins.
> If they are different, then I would more strongly suspect output
> buffering.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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