Site Stalling

[Gerk]

Ok thanks.  I'm wondering if that was something that was still stuck in cache with the old MP3 player attached to it.  I didn't see anything interesting in the logs at that point so that's my best guess... I haven't had a single freezeup since removing the player and clearing my cache.

[snowdoguk]

Ok thanks.  I'm wondering if that was something that was still stuck in cache with the old MP3 player attached to it.  I didn't see anything interesting in the logs at that point so that's my best guess... I haven't had a single freezeup since removing the player and clearing my cache.

no problems at my end since the mp3 was disabled, was possibly once but I cleared everything in the cache recently too and haven't had a problem since

[Gerk]

Ok that's good news.  I've read a little bit more about this issue related to other stuff and I'm pretty sure that's what was going on here.  The way this forum software builds its sessions is a bit old-school ... which is not the supported way of doing things anymore and it would be a significant undertaking to try and rewrite those bits.  I'll see if I can figure out a different way of doing the MP3 previews.  I have a pretty good idea but not sure if/how it will work.  When I have a bit of time I'll try and hack it into place and see what happens!

[NickT]

Thanks mark. I just got a notice of the html 5 updates from codecanyon. I'll download and and throw them up in a folder for you to play with.

Cheers bud!

[Gerk]

The thing I have to invent is a wrapper around it all so that it doesn't try to fire off a dozen (or more) sessions at once, that's what was breaking things.  I can probably still use the previous player, just have to build some more javascript in front of it all so that they are only done on demand instead of on load!

[NickT]

Just slap a condom on it! 

[Gerk]

I had another stall issue again just now

I'm honestly at a loss, the only thing I can think of is that the software we're using is super old and should not even be able to work with this modern version of PHP and the hack we are using is causing issues.  It's nowhere near as widespread but still happens occasionally.  Not sure I can do much about it at this point.

[napoleonboot]

Hi

it's happening for me every day, and I only spend a few minutes on the site.

G

[NickT]

I had another stall issue again just now

I'm honestly at a loss, the only thing I can think of is that the software we're using is super old and should not even be able to work with this modern version of PHP and the hack we are using is causing issues.  It's nowhere near as widespread but still happens occasionally.  Not sure I can do much about it at this point.

i had a glitch posting yesterday. But it did post, just took a while. That was the first time in a long time.

[Gerk]

I found another couple of small tweaks that I made.  Kinda grasping at straws but might be related.  Again please report back if you see any other stalls.

[NickT]

Stalled hard 05/05/2020

i was getting a site not secure message. But when the site can up, All was secure.

Site setting 3 cookies.

Nick

[Gerk]

Stalled hard 05/05/2020

i was getting a site not secure message. But when the site can up, All was secure.

Site setting 3 cookies.

Nick

Ok thanks, that's good information to know.  I think I'm on the right track then.  It's definitely session/cookie related and the settings changes I made are related to cookies specifically (I restricted some things from being in cookies).  This is likely a result of the changes I made and your browser doing some funky things trying to get them sorted out.  For the insecure site thing it was probably because your browser auto-filled in an http instead of https and the stall happened on the redirect.  I would suggest logging out and clearing all cookies if you want to be proactive, then the two cookies will be remade on the next login.

[NickT]

The post never finished back to the thread. Just hung,but the new post was there.

Interesting. I'm just giving info Mark. I figure the more you see, the better it can be used to flag something.

Thanks brother.

[NickT]

FYI. Site is screaming now.

[NickT]

mark,

Did you catch any strange logs at the time marked when it stalled?