Strict Standards: require_once() [function.require-once]

[IvoLeite]

Hello.

In some parts of the Admin zone I get the this error:

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Strict Standards: require_once() [function.require-once]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Paris' for 'WEST/1.0/DST' instead in /home/canaricu/public_html/index.php on line 54

Warning: require_once(/home/canaricu/public_html/Settings.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/canaricu/public_html/index.php on line 54

Strict Standards: require_once() [function.require-once]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Paris' for 'WEST/1.0/DST' instead in /home/canaricu/public_html/index.php on line 54

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/canaricu/public_html/Settings.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/canaricu/public_html/index.php on line 54.

I don't know why it refers that path (/home/canaricu/public_html/index.php) since the forum is in /home/canaricu/public_html/forum/index.php

For instance, in the Admin I can't use Search (for task/setting) and Features an Options...

Can someone help me please.
Thanks.

[Kindred]

you seem to have a directory setting incorrect somewhere - it is looking for your settings file in the root directory, not your forum directory

What is line 54 of your index.php?

[IvoLeite]

Hi.

The file in the root directory was an old copy (don't know what was doing there so I deleted) of the index.php file that exists in the forum directory.

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// Load the settings...
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/Settings.php');

[Kindred]

and that would be your problem. Should be fixed now by deleting that file.

[IvoLeite]

Unfortunately it didn't. I used the repair settings file and everything was fine.

After I deleted de the index.php from the root this error came up instead of the previous.

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Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


In the server:

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File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/500.shtml, referer: http://www.xxx.com/forum/
File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/crossdomain.xml
File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/crossdomain.xml, referer: http://www.xxx.com/forum/index.php?topic=3771.25

[Kindred]

something is pretty seriously screwed up in your configurations somewhere...

if your forum is in /forum/ then nothing should be looking in the root...

what is the actual link to the topic?

and at this point:
smf version? mods installed? url?

[IvoLeite]

Version: 2.0.2
URL: http://www.canariculturatuga.com/forum/index.php

Mods:
   Google Member Map   2.6   
   Similar Topics   0.3   
   Aeva ~ Auto-Embed Video & Audio   7.2
   PM to New Members   1.2   
   Register Redirect   1.0   
   Advance SEF URLs   1.3.0   
   AutoKeywords   1.4   
   Show Joined, Location, Username In Topic View   1.0   
   Highlight Search Keywords   1.24   
   Polls Can Block New Users   1.2   
   Add IP2Location to Track IP   1.3   
   AvatarSelect   1.2.1   
   Search Focus Dropdown   1.6.1   
   Simple ImgBR Upload Image in CSS - upload by URL   1.0   
   Quick Translation   0.8   
   Users Online Today   2.0.3   
   Pretty URLs   1.0   <----- is off
   Add Social Media Icons To Profiles   1.0.7   
   Scrolling Buttons   0.2.0.2   
   Global Headers Footers   2.0.1   
   Enhancements to purge inactive members   1.2.5   
   SMF Social Network LITE   2.0rc3   
   New Layout for Last Post Info   1.5   
   SA Facebook   2.0 RC4 Rev58   
   FancyBox 4 SMF   0.5   
   Anti Bot: Are You Human/Bot?   3.0   
   Ultimate Profile   0.9.1   
   Highslide 4 SMF   0.8.1   
   InLine Attachments   1.2.1   
   Table Plus BBCodes   1.2   
   Google +1 Topics   1.0   
   More Spiders   1.2   
   SMF Search Enhancement Mod   1.8.2   
   Most Popular Topic Today   2.1   
   Google Route Map 1.0   v.1   
   AJAX Recent Topics   1.1   
   Embed BBCode   1.5   
   Share This Topic   4.1.1   
   ENotify   2.0.2   
   Separate the sticky topics   1.0.0   
   SMF 2.0.2 Update   1.0   
   Picasa Gallery Browser   0.6   
   Advance Facebook Like with OpenGraph   0.2   
   Event Reminder Mod for SMF2   2.02   
   Separated Birthdays from Events   1.1.7   
   PDF Tag   1.2   
   Youtube Integration Mod (0.1)   0.2   
   Socialize   1.8   
   Add Facebook Like to Posts   1.1   
   Register Bar Mod By SMFSimple.com   V3   
   Facebook Slide Like Box   1.3.1   
   EmailValidator   1.0   
   Recent Topics On Board Index   1.03   
   Recent Topics On "Recent Posts" Page   1.2   
   Move recent to the top   2.7

[Kindred]

holy mackerel that's a lot of mods...

I'm thinking that at least one of them is misconfigured to look in the root.

[MrPhil]

OK, so you're running in /forum/index.php. That's fine. The server is looking for a custom 500 error handler in / by default (as /500.shtml). That's an Apache brainfart that it's raising a 404 trying to find it, but let it pass. You can define your own error handlers for at least the common errors (400, 401, 403, 404, 500) to minimize this nonsense.

The next thing to figure out is why you're getting a 500 error. Might it be a consequence of this missing crossdomain.xml file? Why would viewing a topic invoke an .xml file? Possibly it's a hacked post? Or might such a file be requested by one of the mods? If so, why would it be hard coded as being in root (public_html/) rather than the forum's root (public_html/forum/)? Anyway, if you can figure out where this reference to the wrong root is (and whether this crossdomain.xml has any business being called), you should be much of the way home. Is the BBCode for some new tag hard coding the old root, or is the post code itself? After that's cleared up, if the 500 error hasn't gone away, it can be attacked.

[Kindred]

iirc, aeva may desire a crossdomain.xml file to process some external video type stuff...

or it could be one of those ads that you have...


basically, with that many mods, it's going to be tough to track down the actual culprit...

[MrPhil]

So, scan all the .php files for "crossdomain" and try to find who is dealing with this file. See how it builds the full path to the file -- is it getting something from the database (possibly Aeva-unique) that needs to be updated?  Presumably it's not getting something from a theme, but just in case, did you ever do the admin thingy to update theme database entries after you ran repair_settings?

[IvoLeite]

Hello again.

I found some mentions about AEVA and crossdomain.xml so I made one with that code and I've upload to the root. Don't know if that's the right code but at least that error has stoped. 

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?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="www.nhfragswap.com" />
<allow-access-from domain="nhfragswap.com" />
<allow-access-from domain="*.nhfragswap.com" />
</cross-domain-policy>


Also I've uninstalled some of the Mod's, the ones that don't need manual intervention, so now I "only" have:

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Aeva ~ Auto-Embed Video & Audio 7.2
Similar Topics 0.3
PM to New Members 1.2
Register Redirect 1.0
Advance SEF URLs 1.3.0
Show Joined, Location, Username In Topic View 1.0
Highlight Search Keywords 1.24
Quick Translation 0.8
Users Online Today 2.0.3
Pretty URLs 1.0
Add Social Media Icons To Profiles 1.0.7
Global Headers Footers 2.0.1
Enhancements to purge inactive members 1.2.5
SMF Social Network LITE 2.0rc3
SA Facebook 2.0 RC4 Rev58
Anti Bot: Are You Human/Bot? 3.0
Ultimate Profile 0.9.1
Table Plus BBCodes 1.2
Google +1 Topics 1.0
More Spiders 1.2
Most Popular Topic Today 2.1
Google Route Map 1.0 v.1
AJAX Recent Topics 1.1
Embed BBCode 1.5
Share This Topic 4.1.1
ENotify 2.0.2
Separate the sticky topics 1.0.0
SMF 2.0.2 Update 1.0
Picasa Gallery Browser 0.6
Advance Facebook Like with OpenGraph 0.2
Event Reminder Mod for SMF2 2.02
Separated Birthdays from Events 1.1.7
PDF Tag 1.2
Youtube Integration Mod (0.1) 0.2
Socialize 1.8
Add Facebook Like to Posts 1.1
Register Bar Mod By SMFSimple.com V3
Facebook Slide Like Box 1.3.1
EmailValidator 1.0
Recent Topics On Board Index 1.03
Recent Topics On "Recent Posts" Page 1.2
Move recent to the top 2.7

I was wondering, since it will be very hard to find out what's causing this error, maybe it's better to make a new fresh install, right? So what do I need to do? What parts of the DB should I backup since all the Mod's will be installed again and some won't be compatible so I don't need that part of the DB.

Tks.

[MrPhil]

What errors are you getting now that you've supplied a crossdomain.xml file?

[IvoLeite]

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[Thu Nov 15 13:58:35 2012] [error] [client 188.80.243.50] File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/apcte
[Thu Nov 15 13:58:17 2012] [error] [client 188.80.243.50] File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/apcte
[Thu Nov 15 13:15:26 2012] [error] [client 186.236.223.15] File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
[Thu Nov 15 12:53:00 2012] [error] [client 72.14.199.2] File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/apcte
[Thu Nov 15 11:59:23 2012] [error] [client 195.53.180.9] File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/apcte, referer: http://canariotimbrado.no.sapo.pt/
[Thu Nov 15 10:47:37 2012] [error] [client 109.163.229.179] File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/apcte, referer: http://canariculturatuga.com/apcte/index.php?option=com_jambook&Itemid=10&limitstart=20
[Thu Nov 15 10:47:24 2012] [error] [client 109.163.229.179] File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/apcte, referer: http://canariculturatuga.com/apcte/index.php?option=com_jambook&Itemid=10&limitstart=20
[Thu Nov 15 09:52:16 2012] [error] [client 72.14.199.2] File does not exist: /home/canaricu/public_html/apcte


The aptce folder was an old folder, that doesn't exist for more than a year.

[MrPhil]

It looks like different visitors are trying to directly invoke this apcte folder, and you might still have a page or two installed that refers to it. Do you still have some mod installed that refers to it? Check all your installed mods. If you have some that you no longer use, try to disable and uninstall them. You might end up having to overwrite all your .php files with a fresh copy, and reinstall the mods you plan to keep using. In any case, back up your database and your site's files before doing anything, and make sure you know how to restore a backup!

[Kindred]

you could also just ass a line to your htaccess which redirects anyone trying to get to /apcte  to bounce back to the root. (looks like it was a joomla installation)


as for the apple touch icon... looks like you may have an apple app or have the icon defined somewhere?

[IvoLeite]

It looks like different visitors are trying to directly invoke this apcte folder, and you might still have a page or two installed that refers to it.

No Mods were connected to that folder, it was a site for an organization of one friend of mine. Maybe it's the search engines because I've summited the site (apcte folder) using a software a few years ago.

you could also just ass a line to your htaccess which redirects anyone trying to get to /apcte  to bounce back to the root. (looks like it was a joomla installation)


as for the apple touch icon... looks like you may have an apple app or have the icon defined somewhere?

I'll use the cpanel to handle the redirect issue. About the Apple icon... never had, unless it was the Tapatalk mod (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2504)

[Kindred]

yes... it is probably tapatalk.

I prefer htaccess over anything in cpanel, myself...

[IvoLeite]

Thanks Kindred and MrPhil.

I'll mark this topic has solved because is secured by wires and am limited so I'll make a new SMF installation. Should I save the table structure or just the table data (the most important) because the db will still be in the server.

Also, can I delete all the files/folders from the forum folder and leave it empty?
Tks

[Kindred]

you can delete everything in the forum root, the Themes and the Sources folders and all subdirectories of Themes and Sources.
KEEP A COPY of settings.php forum root.
Don't clear the other directories like avatars and attachments.

Then load a clean set of forum files (extract the large upgrade package into the forum root with Sources and Themes.)

now you'll have a clean forum installation with all the database stuff still there.