forumProfile broken

[spartan263]

Hi,

I am having trouble with accessing the forumProfile page, where users will add in information such as birthdate and screen-name.  When the Profile Forum Information link is de-referenced, a call is made to the php server but nothing changes.  I have repaired my Sources directory, but no change.

Server php info:
http://php.scripts.psu.edu/clubs/up/ecos/php/phpinfo.php [nofollow]

Any Ideas?
George

[Ben_S]

What exactly happens?

[spartan263]

As far as I can tell, the current screen refreshes, or at least the browser status bar returns `done'.

Firefox 1.0 / external MySQL hosting / Curve Theme / No Denied Permissions

I have set up a member user account if you are interested:

Username: test_account
Pass: forumProfile
http://php.scripts.psu.edu/clubs/up/ecos/mboard.html [nofollow]

[Ben_S]

Hi, see what you mean, in general your board is very very slow.

All I can think of is your apache timeout is very low and that apache is killing off the request before it is completed (although I could be miles wide of the mark).

Pages should not be taking over a second to create, should generally be 0.1 or lower on an empty board. I suspect the server is highly loaded, also PHP 5.0.1 is fairly old now, if you can get them to upgrade to 5.0.3, you may have better luck (and will avoid the security hole in that version too).

[spartan263]

Hi,

We are using a MySQL from non-localhost, and the internet connection is the slow-down point.  (That is, the MySQL server is just some computer out on the internet.)  I haven't seen the loading time go for more than one second, and the board loads fine at the moment.  It is a temporary solution before we get dedicated hosting.

I have doubts that PHP will be upgraded, but that part is beyond my control.  The only problem we have (besides file uploads) is the Forum Profile.  Does that page contain any unusual functions?  Unless the PHP server time is set to milliseconds, I receive a Cannot find Server/DNS error in under two seconds on IE.  The local PHP server should have a lighter load at all times.

[Ben_S]

Does anything show in the error log? Admin > View Forum Error log?

[spartan263]

Only errors due to a lack of support of zlib, but these happen when I try the Package/Mods features as admin.  Does SMF have extensive error reporting?

[spartan263]

One other thing I did not notice:

The same thing happens with Attachment Manager, except with a `Cannot display page' error on IE.  (No action on Firefox.)  All attachment upload permissions are set to disallow, view attachments is set to allow.

I feel this is a PHP problem more than a MySQL one; Penn State has multiple virtual hosts (I am fuzzy here) for PHP.

[spartan263]

I think that if you talk to yourself enough, you can solve any problem. 
Everything works fine when I remove the following instances from all code:

while ($line = $dir->read())
while ($file = readdir($dir))

Our IT dept. has said that this is a bug they are working on.

-George

[[Unknown]]

Sounds like a problem with the attachments directory/etc.

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