Bad INI cache generated in multisite configuration eZPublish 4.2.0

Thursday 26 November 2009 1:40:51 am

I have setup 3 siteaccess on a eZPublish 4.2.0 base :

• dev1
• dev2
• admin_dev

I am not able to access the 3 sites simultaneously, the INI cache generated by dev1 doesn't works for dev2 and admin_dev. The problem is the same with the INI cache generated by dev2 or by admin_dev.

The site.ini.append.php are configured to use :

• ezwebin design/extension for dev1 and dev2
• admin for admin_dev

They are accessed by host/uri (with the corresponding virtualhost configuration)

The host system is Solaris 10 configured with UTF-8 charset, Apache 2.2.14, PHP 5.2.11 and eZPublish 4.2.0 running on an Oracle 10g database.

The 2 following procedures were formerly used and succeeded in making the 3 siteaccess work but they do not anymore :

1. Start by the admin_dev site :

• rm the content of var/cache and var/ezwbin_site
• connect to the admin_dev url ==> OK
• login as an administrator ==> OK but the top menu is replaced by a serie of ????1???????????????????
• clear all the cache (with the menu on the right) ==> OK and the top menu is back
• connect to the url of dev1 and dev2 ==> OK

2. Start by the dev1 or dev2 site :

• rm the content of var/cache and var/ezwbin_site
• connect to dev1 or dev2 url ==> OK
• connect to admin_dev url ==> OK
• login as an administrator ==> OK

Now thoses solutions fail, I am able to display (after cleaning var/cache and var/ezwebin_site) only dev1 or dev2 or admin_dev.

I have the following trace in the error log when accessing a second siteaccess :

[ Nov 26 2009 08:54:05 ] [192.168.1.247] eZINI:
Undefined variable: 'LogDir' in group 'FileSettings' in site.ini
[ Nov 26 2009 08:54:05 ] [192.168.1.247] eZINI:
Undefined variable: 'LogFilePermissions' in group 'FileSettings' in site.ini

In the Apache error_log :

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function processFile() on a non-object in /export/home/mrs/products/apache/htdocs/ezpublish/lib/ezutils/classes/ezexpiryhandler.php on line 58

It seems that eZPublish is unable to read the ini file and then is unable to load the expiry.php file.

Thursday 26 November 2009 4:32:43 am

Thank you for your feedback,

As you mentionned, everything works out of the box on a linux/mysql platform (our first test).

On the Solaris/Oracle one, the manual installation procedure provided with ezoracle extension lead us to the problem described in the first resolution (???1????????? in the admin interface). I think this problem is linked with encoding issue.

Indeed, the 3 siteaccesses are using the same database and the same vardir (var/ezwebin_site), I am sure it is done correctly because when I access individually dev1, dev2 or admin_dev : var/ezwebin_site is created each time.

To answer your last question, the configuration is not an ez-cluster one, the server is single-one.

Thursday 26 November 2009 11:27:21 am

Good to hear it works now.

Can you file a bug about

- the rss link being present when all feeds have been removed

- this generating problems with the ini cache?

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