What to do with all of these links

[Kendric Beachey]

On Thursday 20 February 2003 01:34 am, Seth Dimbert wrote:
> On 2/19/03 10:34 PM, "Kendric Beachey" <ak at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> > Hey, that's great to hear!  Any of youse any good at figuring out how to
> > fix a PN installation that has gone haywire?
> >
> > My box froze solid a couple weeks ago, and only a power cycle would clear
> > it. After that, the site is mostly non-functional outside the front page.
> > Logging in doesn't work anymore and viewing anything like articles,
> > weblinks, reviews, photo gallery, etc. just gets you a page that says
> > "Sorry, you can't access this file directly..."
> >
> > I've looked for corruption in the mysql tables, but all seems OK.  Any
> > ideas? The site is http://www.beachey.org/ if you want to visit and poke
> > around.
>
> Are you aware of the error message in the footer of your page? It says:
>
> Warning: session_write_close() [function.session-write-close]: Your script
> possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3.
> Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global
> variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can
> disable this functionality and this warning by setting
> session.bug_compat_42 or session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively. in
> /home/httpd/htdocs/index.php on line 129
>
> I'll be honest: I don't know what that means, but it looks like a fixable
> thing. Are you using the latest versions of php, postnuke and mySQL?

I saw that there, and I'm preeeeetty sure it was there before the site quit 
working.

I have been pretty regular with emerging world (this is on gentoo) and I know 
I've seen a fair number of updates to php and a couple of mysql go by.

But I am only on PN .714, whereas they're up to .722 or something.  But I 
don't have a lot of confidence in the upgrade tool working if the site is 
hosed.

I'm starting to think I might have to blow the whole thing away and start it 
over...fooey!

-- 
Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com

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