Server setting breaking php email, phpmyadmin, export tools???

[divinelighting]

I've recently set up a new server, and I think I was too strict in security settings. I have a variety of issues that may be related. Perhaps someone here knows what the cause could be.

1. when I try to access phpmyadmin, I get error 500 blank page. Nothing shows in apache logs.
2. get 'can't instantiate email error', my email method is set to php.
3. 3rd party mod m1export is not showing in admin, though it is still working, and none of the files or database was changed in the migration.

These are the only issues I have noticed so far.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Limitless]

I've recently set up a new server, and I think I was too strict in security settings. I have a variety of issues that may be related. Perhaps someone here knows what the cause could be.

1. when I try to access phpmyadmin, I get error 500 blank page. Nothing shows in apache logs.
2. get 'can't instantiate email error', my email method is set to php.
3. 3rd party mod m1export is not showing in admin, though it is still working, and none of the files or database was changed in the migration.

These are the only issues I have noticed so far.

Thanks for any suggestions.

What version of php?

If this is a new server, 5.4 might have broken some things.

[divinelighting]

php 5.3, and I just figured out the issue for phpmyadmin. I had disabled ini_set in php.ini
Taking that out of the disabled list fixed phpmyadmin, but I found another problem.

When I try to refund with paypal payments pro, I get this error:

The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.divinelighting.com/xxxx/o...ction=doRefund. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.

Currently, my php.ini has

disable_functions = exec,system,passthru,shell_exec,escapeshellarg,escapeshellcmd,proc_close,proc_op en,dl,popen,show_source

When I disable this line, I still have the paypal refund error.

[Limitless]

Is curl installed/enabled?

[divinelighting]

Solved the email problem. It was a typo in the form of name@!domain.com. For some reason, the email validator did not catch the ! during signup, then the customer sees a blank page with this message

Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function. Please check Admin->Configuration->Email Options->Email Transport.

This seems like a bug, and the customer is warned about an invalid email address for other errors, such as missing @. I am using 1.3.9h.

[divinelighting]

I am still getting the error retriveing orders.php when I try to refund. Here is my curl info:

cURL support enabled
cURL Information 7.19.7
Age 3
Features
AsynchDNS No
Debug No
GSS-Negotiate Yes
IDN Yes
IPv6 Yes
Largefile Yes
NTLM Yes
SPNEGO No
SSL Yes
SSPI No
krb4 No
libz Yes
CharConv No
Protocols tftp, ftp, telnet, dict, ldap, ldaps, http, file, https, ftps, scp, sftp
Host x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
SSL Version NSS/3.13.1.0
ZLib Version 1.2.3
libSSH Version libssh2/1.2.2

[divinelighting]

Ok, I found the problem, sort of. Yesterday I installed Google Checkout, and it had edits to orders.php, which broke paypal refund functionality. I'll go over to GC thread and see if I can figure it out.

Thanks for the help Limitless.

[Limitless]

But is it enabled in php.ini?


Also, in regards to M1Export, do you have the Zend or Ioncube encoded files? Do you have them installed and enabled?


When I was testing my backup/restore procedures to a different server, my admin panel, M1 tools, etc. were failing due to missing ioncube.

Maybe post up relevant section of php.ini (extensions)

[divinelighting]

The only place that curl is mentioned in php.ini is under windows extensions, all of which are commented out. Should this be changed?

; Windows Extensions
; Note that ODBC support is built in, so no dll is needed for it.
; Note that many DLL files are located in the extensions/ (PHP 4) ext/ (PHP 5)
; extension folders as well as the separate PECL DLL download (PHP 5).
; Be sure to appropriately set the extension_dir directive.
;
;extension=php_curl.dll

[Limitless]

Yes, I believe curl is used for Paypal, not 100% certain though.