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Hi,
I've had to move one of my geeklog sites to a new server.
I'm getting some strange error's in the log files.
firstly, when I had the system dir's outside the http root I didn't seem to be able to include them - I'm sure this is an apache config *censored* up.
I've put my geeklog systems dir in the http root atm and I can at least include the config.php
When I access the site I see the following in the error logs:

PHP Warning: main(<httproot>/geeklog/plugins/Array/functions.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /<httproot>/lib-common.php on line 5998
PHP Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/<httproot>/geeklog/plugins/Array/functions.inc' (include_path='/<httproot>/geeklog/system/pear/:.:/usr/share/pear' in /<httproot>/lib-common.php on line 5998

I'm guessing that for some reason, something's not seeing the correct pear stuff.

The bit that's really confusing me is the failed openig <httproot>/geeklog/plugins/Array/functions.inc line. I don't have a plugins/Array directory, nor have I on any of my geeklog installations.

The system is running FC2 if it helps.
pear seems to be all there as fa as I can tell.

any one offer any advice ? - other than change OS.

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www.plymouthcricketclub.com - providing cricket for all ages in the Plymouth area.

Why is it after posting something, you always find a related topic.
I followed the (what I think is a strange idea) of creating an Array/functions.inc shown here.
This seems to have cured the problem and the site now displays - don't know if it has caused any oddities yet.

This strikes me as a very odd problem. As I understand it, this functions.inc is being required by lib-common.php - pulled from $_PLUGINS. Which says to me that Array must be in $_PLUGINS - erm, but then it would be there on all my installations - I'll have a play with a php staticpage and see if I can find anything out.

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www.plymouthcricketclub.com - providing cricket for all ages in the Plymouth area.

This is very odd indeed.
I'm assuming that $_PLUGINS is supposed to an array that holds a list of plugins installed.
I'm almost 100% certain that it's the foreach that's breaking, basically $pi_name is being loaded with an array - how/why if another question
Now to findout where $_PLUGINS is created.

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www.plymouthcricketclub.com - providing cricket for all ages in the Plymouth area.

Getting somewhere now - slowly
It's not how $_PLUGINS is created. It's something weird with the foreach statement.
A foreach statement seems to create arrays (???).
Here's an exapmle of what I'm talking about.
$_PLUGINS=array('staticpages','spamx','easyfile';
foreach ( $_PLUGINS as $pi_name )
{
print $pi_name;
}

This will give me ArrayArrayArray
if you change the print to print_r($pi_name) you see why. This now gives me
Array ( [0] => staticpages [1] => 0 ) Array ( [0] => test [1] => 1 ) Array ( [0] => test1 [1] => 2 )
Notice the extra array element that's appeared - wtf when did foreach start doing shit like this.

My guess is that this is somekind of RedHat screw up. According to rpm-qa I'm running php-4.3.10-2.4
My normal version of 4.3.10 doesn't do this - so my guess is that RedHat have altered php somehow.

I don't have a permanent work around for this yet - I'm guessing that this problem wil break a hell of a lot of geeklog, and that I'll have a lot of replacements to do.

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www.plymouthcricketclub.com - providing cricket for all ages in the Plymouth area.

See php bugs 31108 and 31134 for a fix - apparently it's a zend problem.

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www.plymouthcricketclub.com - providing cricket for all ages in the Plymouth area.

I've contacted one and one (where this server is) to check that upgrading zend optimizer isn't going to trash the plesk software.

I can't believe no one's pointed thsi out to them before - their base install has problems

UPDATE:
I don't seem to have ZendOptimizer installed. Perhaps I should just install it and see what happens

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www.plymouthcricketclub.com - providing cricket for all ages in the Plymouth area.

CURED

My server didn't have Zend Optimizer installed, but it did have ioncube - I don't know what the relationship between the 2 are.
I installed Zend Otimizer and which added the following to the bottom of php.ini

[Zend]
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-2.5.7
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-2.5.7
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so

My server now borked about ioncube needing to be loaded before Zend.
ioncube.ini was in php.d who contents are effectively appended to php.ini.
I added:
zend_extension=/usr/lib/php4/ioncube_loader_lin_4.3.so
directly after the [Zend] in php.ini and moved the ioncube.ini out of php.d
Restarted httpd and BINGO everything started and now appears to work perfectly.

Jon

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www.plymouthcricketclub.com - providing cricket for all ages in the Plymouth area.

Thanks a lot, Jon, for solving that mystery.

I wrapped it in an FAQ entry: Unknown files or directories with "Array" in their name

bye, Dirk