Geeklog Forums

Months ago I updated GL 1.3.9 to 1.3.9-sr1; I started seeing the following when trying to update RSS feeds:



The standard answer for this problem is to check that lib-common.php is properly updated everywhere. I found some old versions, copied the new versions in, and got rid of any stray ones still lingering around. I restarted Apache - no change.

Then I remembered that I installed php_accelerator a while back, so I shut down Apache again, whacked all the php_accelerator cache files, and brought Apache back up - success!!!

So if you're having trouble after updating, or you've fixed a problem but the changes don't seem to be propagating, see if you're running a PHP accelerator and flush its cache.

correct me if i'm out of place, but how many copies of lib-common.php do you have on your site and why more than one? I have only one copy and when I updated, it was replaced.

Three. With the 1.3.9 distribution, there's one in the distribution, one in the public_html directory that's copied under the docroot (rather than being aliased), and one from the 1.3.9-sr1 update (unnecessary to keep after upgrade.) The others that were eventually tarred up and deleted were from the 1.3.8 installation plus the sr2 update, plus a scattering from moving the old installation around.

Minimally, if you copy the public_html directory under the docroot and keep the remaining files (config.php, etc.) under the dist directory outside the docroot, you'll have two.

Regardless, once I made all the versions consistent, Geeklog didn't behave until I flushed the accelerator cache.

Excuse me?! There's only one lib-common.php in the distribution and you only need one.

If you have (and need!) more than one lib-common.php on your site, then your install is in a pretty weird state. You'd better fix that ...

bye, Dirk