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Bug Reports / Re: Attachment Permissions change..
Last post by Steeley -Quote from: Spuds – Did you try 775 as well ?
But yeah all of my attachment directories are 755 and my PHP files are all 644 .. As you noted, its likely your host did some update such that web user/group under which your PHP runs has changed.
No, I just threw 0777 at it and the problem went away so I called it good. In the course of chasing it down I noticed the following Webserver info:
Database client version: libmysql - mysqlnd 8.1.27
PHP version: 8.1.27
That was released 21 Dec 2023, and I suspect that was patched in very recently and that was the offending action.
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Feature Discussion / Re: Moderation information
Last post by Steeley -Anyway, my host was unable to find a clue, and outlook's support, to their credit, responded in a timely manner (although their first email response had no message payload which gave me no information except that my trouble ticket number listed in the subject indicated my submission had generated "something", but otherwise gave me no positive "first impression" of how the troubleshooting effort might play out - and the time stamp of that message indicated it wasn't "auto-generated"). However, my "WTF" reply to the empty message elicited a response fairly quickly and over the course of the next few hours revealed no existing blocks by outlook.com.
Anyway, what was not part of the moderation information I had was "when" the bounce message was received for 'moderation". I checked the member account (the only one with an outlook.com email) and verified was not configured to receive email notifications of posts so I concluded the message sent earlier in the day was not the culprit. My error logs revealed, however the member signed up on the 28th and tried to access the account on both the 28th and then again on the 29th, and was rejected because the account had not been authenticated. However, there are no accounts awaiting authentication, and the new member account is now valid (without my intervention), and the log showed sign up on the 28th, and last active on the 29th, so I assumed the member found the authentication message in his spam folder, and completed the sign up process.
Now, the authentication email is not the only possible email-exchange scenario between the member and Elkarte that I can imagine, just the one that I know for sure occurred, and is the most likely trigger - if something else went on that I'm not aware of, well, by the very nature of that, I'm not aware of it.
All told, it occurred to me that this dive into all the rabbit holes I could think of chasing the error only to come up empty (because of the transient nature of this particular one) could have been avoided if the moderation notification included the date and time of the moderation flag, narrowing down the event horizon..
I would think a timestamp memorializing the event on the temporal plane we're all flying on could he helpful information regardless of what actually activates the moderation flag, not just for a received email.
And thusly, a timestamp included with setting the moderation flag is the full width, breadth and depth of my "product improvement request".
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Bug Reports / Re: Attachment Permissions change..
Last post by Spuds -But yeah all of my attachment directories are 755 and my PHP files are all 644 .. As you noted, its likely your host did some update such that web user/group under which your PHP runs has changed.
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Feature Discussion / Re: Moderation information
Last post by Spuds -Well first its Email, and its intended to be infuriating! I thought 1.1.6 had the bounce detection functions in the maillist section?
That was intended to log bounced emails for "cause" and (optionally) disable the users "send me email" options. The intent being to detect bounces and then prevent re-sending which "if" it was a valid TLD to not to get blocked for trying to continually send email to a blocked (or non existent) address.
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Bug Reports / Re: Attachment Permissions change..
Last post by Steeley -Quote from: radu81 – I just checked my forums and the main folder \attachments and also the other ones like \attachments\2024 are all set up as 755.
Using 1.1.9 version
I hear ya.. but now if I change it back to 0755, ElkArte admin attachment configuration tells me the directory is not writeable (and the interface gives you an error message on "post" "....either timed out or the attachment is too large.. ")
It "USED" to work just fine.. Change it to 0777 and everything is happy again.
I changed nothing on my end that would goof that up. Don't know if the server now thinks the DB or the Application accessing the directory isn't "owner" anymore and needs group or site write permissions, or what's going on, but it appears something changed on the host side.
(They have a habit of doing that without telling anyone.. and the only way you know they did is suddenly something's broke).
Just a heads-up... whatever it is may be coming to a street near you in the near future.. I don't think it's version dependent.
"Incompatibility is just an upgrade away"
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Bug Reports / Re: Attachment Permissions change..
Last post by radu81 -Using 1.1.9 version
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Bug Reports / Attachment Permissions change..
Last post by Steeley -I'm just posting this in case someone else gets bushwacked by their host upgrading something without telling you assuming that's what it was.
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Feature Discussion / Moderation information
Last post by Steeley -I spent the better part of the day chasing the reason for a "blocked message" sent to a new member, only to discover that flag was from a week ago when the member signed up (email authentication is enabled) and apparently cleared the next day, and was not a response to a post sent this morning (after which I logged in as admin and discovered the moderation flag on the bounced message).
Whatever the blocking problem was on the recipient's end, it resolved itself the next day apparently and emails are now going through to that domain from the forum, and I've been chasing a fairy that has already moved on from that mail server...
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Showcase / Re: Largest ElkArte boards?
Last post by radu81 -and also this: https://talkrational.org/index.php which seems to migrate to phpBB, without importing the old data from Elkarte