Developer Tools Error Message Every Time

[bumba000]

ZC 1.5.5e on PHP 7. I have just added Ultimate SEO Urls and Colorbox mods. Working on the next I find out that Developers Tools is no longer working. I am now getting an error message at the top of the dev tools admin page "Error: No Configuration Key or Text was entered to search for ... Search was terminated"
No matter what I search for... even searching for "zen-cart" in any of the search fields I get this message.
What's going on here?

Thank you,
John

[mc12345678]

Hard to say how to approach, USU affects uris, colorbox should have no impact on the admin side when installed as expected other than to execute the installer code. Improper installation of either could cause a problem, though it seems more like there is possibly a sanitization issue occurring when posting the developer's toolkit information that is causing all of the entered content to be sanitized out/removed. I might actually suggest starting with activating the debug for admin/includes/classes/AdminRequestSanitizer.php to see what is happening with the data that is posted (assuming that it makes it there) and then try to figure out what changes were made to "get things to work" to ensure the correct fix was applied to the correct area.

To enable the logging, suggest temporarily adding a file to the admin/includes/extra_datafiles folder that has this content in it:

<?php define('DO_DEBUG_SANITIZATION', 'true');

Then attempt to search again from within the developer tool kit and look in the logs directory for the most recent file that was generated related to sanitization and review/post the results. Should see a sort of input set of post data which should contain your search criteria and then an output section to show what was done with the sanitization. If not then, certainly seems like more investigation is necessary to resolve the issue(s).

[bumba000]

This is out of control. I'm really not such a noob. I can normally get this stuff hashed out... I can't log into the admin now. I have no failed attempts being logged in the admin table in the database either. I've put up a fresh /admin/ directory and added the correct /admin/includes/configure.php file for the database I'm working with. ... nothing... can't get it send me a new password either.

[bumba000]

I forgot. I have also installed USU (https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=132). I just found out that I can also no log into customer accounts on the front end either. Getting the message that the email doesn't exist.

[bumba000]

it's the htaccess file causing all of these issues. now I just need to figure out why. Sorry I forgot to mention USU. Thanks for the help.

John

[bumba000]

in my htaccess - this is what's causing the problem. I just don't know why...

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Removing these entries and everything works well. Adding either of these two entries and the above mentioned problems re-emerge.

Thank You,
John

[mc12345678]

And in your includes/configure.php or admin/includes/configure.php, settings related to HTTP_SERVER, HTTPS_SERVER, ENABLE_SSL, etc???

Also, where in the htaccess file are those rules applied? I thought USU "instruction" identified the recommended location for such information.

[bumba000]

The rules in the htaccess file are at the top just below
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Removing them allows the site to be accessed with or without www, but zc adds www to all links which creates duplicate content.

in admin configure
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.domain.com');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://www.domain.com');
ENABLE_SSL is false for time being

in front end
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.domain.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.domain.com');
ENABLE_SSL is false for time being