[Mediawiki-l] 'Failed opening required' error

Thu Oct 13 15:40:40 UTC 2005

OK, here's the current situation with this problem. If anyone has any ideas
as to how this can be resolved please let me know. If not, since it is
apparently not a mediawiki software issue, but a server issue, I'll stop
updating this list about it.

I noticed this morning that phpinfo, run from the web, shows that I'm
running php version 4.0.6. I reported this to the support people (we were
on php 4.3.9 until a few days ago!), and they ran php -v at the command
line and reported that I'm in fact running version 4.3.9.

Why would the web show a different php version? I don't know yet.

But on the web phpinfo reports php on a different server from my server! [
noir.*.* vs. mormonstoday.*.* -- *.* is the provider's common domain name
for all machines it provides]

In contrast, normal http requests are being sent to the mormonstoday
server. Why php requests are redirected elsewhere I don't know. I've sent a
message to the support people and will call them in a few minutes.

But if someone has an idea of where I can check see how this can be fixed,
please let me know.

I strongly suspect that my provider has screwed up something. But I don't
know what.

Kent

At 9:28 AM -0400 10/13/05, you wrote:
>At 6:54 AM +0200 10/13/05, you wrote:
>>Maybe those Warnings exists from the beginning but are hidden by the level
>>of the shown errors which could be set to zero or only fatal errors.
>
>Possible. That's why I focused on the last one -- the Fatal error. That's
>the one that referred to array_key_exists.
>
>>
>>Maybe your update changed that.
>>
>>E.
>
>What update? I haven't updated any of the software involved.
>
>
>
>>
>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>De : mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
>>[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] De la part de Kent S. Larsen II
>>Envoyé : jeudi 13 octobre 2005 06:19
>>À : MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
>>Objet : Re: [Mediawiki-l] 'Failed opening required' error
>>
>>
>>OK, here's a bit more to chew on.
>>
>>The original error was:
>> Fatal error: Failed opening required 'UtfNormalUtil.php'
>> (include_path='.:/***/Litdb:/***/Litdb/includes:/***/Litdb/languages') in
>>  /***/Litdb/includes/normal/UtfNormal.php on line 36
>>
>>I noticed that the directory that includes the missing file, normal, isn't
>>in the include_path. So I added it in LocalSettings.php (that's where its
>>defined).
>>
>>I then got a new set of errors:
>>
>>  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
>>/home/www/lusobraz/Litdb/includes/WebRequest.php on line 56
>>
>>  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
>>/home/www/lusobraz/Litdb/includes/WebRequest.php on line 56
>>
>>  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
>>/home/www/lusobraz/Litdb/includes/WebRequest.php on line 56
>>
>>  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
>>/home/www/lusobraz/Litdb/includes/WebRequest.php on line 56
>>
>>  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
>>/home/www/lusobraz/Litdb/includes/WebRequest.php on line 56
>>
>>  Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
>>/home/www/lusobraz/Litdb/includes/WebRequest.php on line 56
>>
>>  Fatal error: Call to undefined function: array_key_exists() in
>>/home/www/lusobraz/Litdb/includes/User.php on line 716
>>
>>
>>Particularly illuminating is the last, fatal one.
>>
>>array_key_exists is a php native function -- at least in versions after
>>4.1.0
>>
>>I'm running 4.3.9, so array_key_exists should be valid. But I'm still
>>getting this error.
>>
>>Ideas on what would suddenly make a native php function undefined? How to
>>fix it?
>>
>>Kent
>>
>>
>>
>>At 11:59 PM +0100 10/12/05, you wrote:
>>>You don't need all the permissions set to 777, for one. But that isn't
>>>likely causing this error; more, I thought I'd bring it up as a
>>>security thing.
>>>
>>>It makes no sense for the inclusion to stop working. I'll ponder over
>>>this one for a while.
>>>
>>>
>>>Rob Church
>>>
>>>On 12/10/05, Kent S. Larsen II <kent at lusobraz.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That was the first thing I checked. It was in the  includes/ folder
>>>> like it should be.
>>>>
>>>> In general, I have not moved files around from the install. The only
>>>> way it wouldn't have been in the proper place is if the install
>>>> hadn't put it in the right location.
>>>>
>>>> Kent
>>>>
>>>> At 10:02 PM +0100 10/12/05, you wrote:
>>>> >Does the UtfNormalUtil.php file exist in the includes/ or languages/
>>>> >folder? If not, then the problem is simply that it can't be found
>>>> >because it doesn't exist.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >Rob Church
>>>> >
>>>> >On 12/10/05, Kent S. Larsen II <kent at lusobraz.com> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> OK, for some reason my wiki has changed from working normally to
>>>>giving the
>>>> >> following error:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Fatal error: Failed opening required 'UtfNormalUtil.php'
>>>> >> (include_path='.:/***/Litdb:/***/Litdb/includes:/***/Litdb/languag
>>>> >> es') in /***/Litdb/includes/normal/UtfNormal.php on line 36
>>>> >>
>>>> >> *** -- base path to directory (Litdb) where wiki was installed
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The only thing that I know changed was that my service provider
>>>> >> reported the following change at about the time things stopped
>>working:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> "Default group was over the domain quota. Set quota to unlimited."
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Now that could be just a coincidence, but I don't understand what
>>>> >> the problem is or how to solve it.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I know it has something to do with the process of connecting to
>>>> >> mysql through php, but what is broken is beyond my knowledge.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I've not changed the software at all. I have tried the following:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 1. reviewed permissions, ownership and groups of all wiki files --
>>>>all are
>>>> >> set to be the owner and group that are the same as other html
>>>> >> files. The files' permissions are also all set to 777
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 2. reviewed httpd.conf and php.ini -- the only recent change to
>>>> >> these
>>>>files
>>>> >> was in httpd.conf, and that change happened several days before
>>>> >> the
>>>>problem
>>>> >> occurred. The apache server was restarted several times during
>>>> >> those
>>>>days.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 3. reviewed entries in LocalSettings.php that control access to
>>>>mysql. The
>>>> >> user exists in the mysql database and that user's permissions seem
>>>> >> to be correct. The password appears to be correct also, as does
>>>> >> the
>>>>database name
>>>> >> and the host name ('localhost')
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Don't know what else to check.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I have two other software packages that use php to connect to
>>>> >> mysql. The older of the two is working fine (don't know what to
>>>> >> call it -- it is a heavily modified commerce package that seems to
>>>> >> be without name in
>>>>the code.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The second, Drupal, I installed recently to allow me to host blogs.
>>>>It was
>>>> >> also up and running and at about the same time, (I was trying to
>>>> >> get it configured properly) it also stopped working with errors
>>>> >> that point to a similar error.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If anyone has some insight into this problem, I would really
>>>>appreciate it.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Kent
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
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