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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
Hello,
I’m having troubles on the production site after upgrading to 4.4.0 (MLP related).
Is it safe to go back to 4.3.0? Did the upgrade make changes to database structure or content?
Thanks
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
Upgrade for one site on hostgator goes without problem using standard upgrade (disconnect from backend, copy all textpattern folder and index.php, css.php connect on the backend, delete setup directory)
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
Manaus wrote:
Is it safe to go back to 4.3.0?
No. Definitely not.
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
Manaus wrote:
I’m having troubles on the production site after upgrading to 4.4.0 (MLP related).
Changes in TXP 4.4.0 shouldn’t effect MLP. Most of the changes in 4.4.0 are security related, and the latest version of MLP works as fine as it did with 4.3.0. If you have a set change that effects MLP and causes problems, please let us others know.
As Ruud said, no you should not downgrade.
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
As I mentioned in the MLP thread, if I publish a new article, it’s not visibile in the MLP articles table.
And this is the top of iceberg, because my client reported that publishing a Eng article, it comes up in the italian section and so on…
Last edited by Manaus (2011-04-07 08:50:10)
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#81 2011-04-07 09:16:49
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
Manaus wrote:
And this is the top of iceberg, because my client reported that publishing a Eng article, it comes up in the italian section and so on…
Manaus, I know what that situation must feel like.
I would try to hire one of the TXP pros/Devs to help you sort it out.
Otherwise you could also ask your host to restore the entire site (including the database) to the state just before the upgrade, and then work first on a local copy of the site upgrading it to 4.4 and see if you can figure out what causes the problem. Once you have everything running fine locally, you can copy that site to the server.
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
Ok thanks masa, sorry for the worry ;)
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
Can some kind soul tell why the preview link structure has changed? Before it was kind of ‘clean articleurl’?txt.previewnnn.nnnnnn which allowed me to see the actual URL before going ‘live’.
The old behavior allowed me to time/prepare some links using the correct ‘live’ URL. Now I have to assemble this url manually which is a nice error source.
No big deal but why did the preview url change?
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
gomedia wrote:
Is there any advice on whether we need to do anything with the newly added (but commented-out) line in .htaccess:
#ErrorDocument 403 default
I’ve upgraded a bunch of sites without uncommenting this line. What is it that this does, exactly?
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
updates went smoothly for me so far, so thx for that!
i do have a question about the new htaccess in /files though:
# Inhibit directory listing
Options -Indexesmhm, i use +Indexes and fancy indexing sometimes in /files … shouldn’t i?
but the second directive is much more difficult:
# Inhibit direct file downloads
RedirectMatch 403 .*i use direct links to files on a regular basis. there is no other way sometimes, e.g. when you want to stream MP3s or video. in which circumstances might i end up with a vulnerable site?
cheers, -f
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
funtoosh wrote:
i use direct links to files on a regular basis. there is no other way sometimes, e.g. when you want to stream MP3s or video. in which circumstances might i end up with a vulnerable site?
I think that’s why Robert renamed the .htaccess file to .htaccess-dist, so that it wouldn’t break sites that depend on direct download links. [Based on this thread and the versioning check-in comments]
I’ve run podcast sites pretty well using only Textpattern’s download links and link tags, so blocking direct downloads is no problem for me.
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
john, thx for pointing me in the right drection, hadn’t seen that thread. will go to sleep untroubled now ;-}
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
merz1 wrote:
No big deal but why did the preview url change?
The old preview method had security implications.
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
Thanks Robert, only one minor point which comes to my mind:
Bloke Stef, as the new preview URL still shows the article ID … Are those security implications maybe still valid for your short url plug-in?
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Re: Feedback for the Textpattern 4.4.0 release
gomedia wrote:
Is there any advice on whether we need to do anything with the newly added (but commented-out) line in .htaccess:
#ErrorDocument 403 default
johnstephens wrote:
I’ve upgraded a bunch of sites without uncommenting this line. What is it that this does, exactly?
Aha! Apologies for polluting this thread with a question Google was able to resolve. I found the answer here.
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