Admin can post a new story.

When a regular user posts, the followind error appears:
" Unfortunately, an error has occurred rendering this page. Please try again later."

The URL is: http://dilbert.bmh.com/submit.php?type=story&topic=PMESII_POSTINGS


I have checked and rechecked all configuration settings I can think of. Any insight into this problem will be appreciated.

dilbert.bmh.com doesn't resolve.

Anyway, check your error.log and also the FAQ: Unfortunately, an error has occurred rendering this page. Please try again

bye, Dirk

It sounds like turning on debuging will greatly improve my chances of solving this problem.

Your response said:

"If, however, the problem occurs before you had a chance to log in, you can edit your config.php file and change the $_CONF['rootdebug'] variable like so:

$_CONF['rootdebug'] = true; "

However, I have not been able to find the file "config.php". I have searched the entire tree and have not found any place where $_CONF['rootdebug'] was being set.

I am running GeekLog 1.5.0. Everthing appears to work fine except that non-admin users can not post a story.

Again, Thanks for the help!

Did you check your error.log? The error message should be logged there.

If that doesn't help, the 'rootdebug' option is now in the Configuration admin panel:

Configuration > Geeklog > Miscellaneous > Debug

(and, yes, that FAQ article has to be updated for 1.5.0 ...)

bye, Dirk

Well, I captured an error but I am not sure what to do with it:

An error has occurred:
2 - strtotime() [function.strtotime]: Called with an empty time parameter. @ /var/www/system/classes/story.class.php line 1226

array(1) {
["item"]=>
string( "unixdate"
}

(This text is only displayed to users in the group 'Root'

This looks like a program error rather than a configuration error but it is hard to believe that could be the case. Again, any insight will be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Ed R.

How is this recreated on your site?

Is this a submitted story with no submission queue?

If so, the fix over here will resolve for you:
http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=83466&lastpost=true#83596

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but with the same result. The error occurs both with and without a submission queue configured.

The error occurs when a non-admin user attempts to contribute a story. That is, when such a user clicks on "Contribute", no story entry form is displayed and the error occurs.

I am getting this same error on two different machines with new Geeklog 1.5.0 installations, a machine on my home network and one at work.

I know very little about PHP. Is there any way to get something like a stack trace in order to figure out how the failing function is being called?

Can you please email me your story.class.php file, and the output of your phpinfo?

(Create a file called phpinfo.php on your serverthat contains the following:

Visit it in a browser, save the page and mail it me, I'll pm address)

Fix committed.

The fix was received and applied. It works great!

Thanks for the outstanding help and response, Mike and Dirk!


Ed R.