leak and symlink : disabling stuff on the site?

squaredeye · 2006-11-08 22:24:10

I have a client who is using Yahoo Small Business hosting.
The PHP engine on their site has leak, symlink disabled.
What will this affect in the TXP performance functionality?

M

Diagnostics error.

The following PHP functions (which may be necessary to run Textpattern) are disabled on your server: leak, symlink ?

Mary · 2006-11-09 00:37:17

It won’t affect anything. I have no idea what this “leak” function is, but Txp doesn’t use it anyway. :)

squaredeye · 2006-11-09 01:50:35

Dangit!
That means I don’t know what’s causing this error.
Any idea what would cause the two following issues:

1. The comment tags are not outputting anything.
- The source is showing a table based commenting layout, but my comment_form is done without tables? I have no place on my site that uses tables and yet it is still there. Dumped my browser cache and all…

2. I cannot send any email. I assume this has to do with yahoo smtp settings, but does anyone know what I should be looking for?

Thanks.

M

Mary · 2006-11-09 02:18:01

What does production mode testing/debugging and/or a tag trace reveal?
Is this small business hosting? Check these: 1, 2, 3

squaredeye · 2006-11-09 03:11:42

Mary,
Thank you for the reminder about debugging.
I don’t guess I knew all the ways it could be used.

I found an inappropriate use of <txp:title /> in the page.

This hasn’t solved my email issues though :( and I can’t seem to follow the links you sent me, nor decipher what your search terms were from the URL?
Yes, though, it is indeed small business hosting. Why anyone would choose this is beyond me!

Thx Mary.

M

merz1 · 2006-11-09 18:23:06

SMTP settings? What SMTP settings?

As far as I know TXP tries to get an MX record for the SMTP server where it will send email and then transmits mail via SMTP directly by itself.

So it might be a firewall or SMTP proxy server port problem inside the Yahoo network.

squaredeye · 2006-11-09 19:22:20

Hmm. I dunno. Hopefully I’ll be able to get this client to change servers.

zem · 2006-11-09 20:41:28

As far as I know TXP tries to get an MX record for the SMTP server where it will send email and then transmits mail via SMTP directly by itself.

No. Textpattern relies on PHP’s built in mail function being properly configured and working.

maniqui · 2006-11-09 21:32:48

Hi.

I post my diagnostic here just to avoid opening a new thread about this.
In this case, it says:

The following PHP functions (which may be necessary to run Textpattern) are disabled on your server: dl,passthru,proc_open,proc_close,shell_exec,system,exec

Should I expect something to be broken/not working properly?

Thanks in advance.

zem · 2006-11-10 00:47:57

Should I expect something to be broken/not working properly?

Probably not, but you tell us – short of a code audit, testing is the only way to tell.

Mary · 2006-11-10 22:13:09

PHP’s mail function uses sendmail on Linux and SMTP on Windows. But either way, the php.ini has to be configured properly by your host, or it won’t work.

Sorry Matthew. Go here, and search for “php”. A couple of the results have to do with PHP and sending mail.

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