Dizkus

Webwarrior.net has been running PostNuke for a number of years and has been upgraded several times, had other issues come and be resolved etc.

Currently on .726

Anyway, I just physically moved the server from MN to CT, took a few weeks to get the new DSL and new static IP setup and just got it running a few days ago.

I had to grant all privs in mysql to the userID/password to get rid of the database connection problem (from switching IPs I am sure).

The weird problem I have noticed is that I cannot post medium or larger size text files to the website.

I can do a short "test" article or forums post just fine, but if I try to post 27k worth of a news article (and I have done bigger before the move), it clocks/hourglasses/hangs for about a minute and then goes back to the administration page. No new article, no error.

I have the same issue in posting to the phpbb forums too. short text is fine, posting larger text is an issue.

I am at work when I am trying to post this information. The pages normally load in 5seconds or so. When I get home I will try it from there as well with the longer text to see if I can even do it locally (non network issue).

Any ideas what might cause this/resolve this? Any help and suggestions appreciated. I am at a loss. No other settings for the site changed...just the physical move to the new static IP address and the resulting need to grant all...to the PostNuke database for the PostNuke's userID/password.

Everything else is working fine so far as I can tell right now.

Oh, it runs on a FreeBSD 4.9 box with apache (apache+mod_ssl-1.3.26+2.8.10 The Apache 1.3 webserver with SSL/TLS functionality) with mod_php4-4.2.2 (PHP4 module for Apache)). php4-4.0.4pl1. mysql-server-3.23.49

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My only guess is that, for whatever reason, MySQL is not storing everything. Could be some configuration thing that just happened to get switched. Is this something you can see in existing data? Where existing items got truncated, or is it new data that's being affected?

It hasn't truncated or messed up any old data, from what I have seen so far.

I was specifically trying to post this news article:
http://www.sfbg.com/38/49/cover_censored.html

It would just hang/hourglass/clock for a minute and then go back to the administration page without having posted the article.

I was able to do a "test" message just fine. I just posted an article (same category "all topics" as the news article was trying to be posted to) with the word test in each field.

I thought it might be the performance at work, so I tried it at home and was able to post the following two news posts absolutely fine from at home (local). The webserver is on the same network as the machine I posted from.

http://www.webwarrior.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5630&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0

http://www.webwarrior.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5631&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0

The second one is the exact same story I was having a problem with from work, so I doubt that it has anything to do with PostNuke. Maybe a timing out issue with MySql.

So the big question remains as to why I can post small text articles and not large text ones. Hmmm. Puzzling. Wish I knew more about the backend/programming.

Does this help shed some light on what happened? Thanks for the quick reply mhalbrook. I will try to post the same article again from work and see if it does it again. Maybe something funky with a firewall/filter/cache delay, shrug. I can't imagine that if it posts locally that mysql would suddenly refuse it from remote (unless it is timing out somehow).

Sorry, just thinking out loud. I will try the post tonight from work and report back.

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The first article (posted from home today) is 4k and the 2nd is 30k.

I just tried from work again and both failed to post (just went back to the admin panel page without the post working, as before).

When I came back to work this evening, my IE had a "malformed multipart post" error on it. Which I think was from me trying to send an email out from my "webmail" that I have on the site.

Trying to just hit "preview" does the same problem with both files.

I tried to post a 3k article and it failed. Then was able to preview and post a 831 bytes file. When I hit preview it took under two seconds to show the preview and under two seconds to post it.

So the network connection from work seems fine, but there is some problem with the length of the posting itself and PostNuke isn't handling it, but isn't able to give what the error/problem is.

Could that aforementioned malformed multiparted post message be it? Could some system at work be separating the post into smaller pieces and that is what is causing the problem?

Any ideas? Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot/check further?

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I downloaded mozilla and tried posting with that browser with the same results (the 831 byte post worked, the 2k and 29k posts did not).

I even tried IE with putting the site as trusted.

I am at a loss. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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