Shop suddenly doesn't work anymore, descriptions are gone, unable to determine page link etc.

[r00ki3]

Dear All,

 

Almost 6 months ago I set up a webshop using oscommerce 2.2. MS2.

After that I implemented some contributions and changed the layout etc. like everyone does!

 

Last week the person I made this webshop for told me that he wasn't able to add products, view invoices, backup, change configuration etc!

When I logged in the admin panel I saw that something was wrong.

One of the errors I got was when I clicked on "Customers" the following error appeared:

 

Error!

Unable to determine the page link!

Function used:

tep_href_link('', '', 'NONSSL')

 

I also noticed that the whole adminpanel was using this kind of text: TABLE_HEADING_CONFIGURATION_TITLE, TABLE_HEADING_CONFIGURATION_VALUE etc.

It's like the system cannot retreive the normal descriptions (definitions)

Furthermore I can still click on things but can't change anything! I'm not able to change configuration, add products or get subcategories on the screen!

When I've a look at the webshop you see some products but when you click on them it appears that the product doesn't exist...

It's like the whole shop is kind of "frozen"!

 

I restored ALL the files of the webshop with a backup from 1 week ago. (when everything was still working fine!)

Too bad...no result!

Before I restore the database to an earlier point in time I was wondering what you guys think of this?

 

Any suggestions, solutions, help etc. is much appreciated!!

Thnx in advance!!

[♥FWR Media]

Quite possibly the $language variable is not being populated .. this in turn tends to be related to the server upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5.

 

A side effect of this is e.g. PHP5 as standard has register_globals off.

[r00ki3]

Quite possibly the $language variable is not being populated .. this in turn tends to be related to the server upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5.

 

A side effect of this is e.g. PHP5 as standard has register_globals off.

 

Sounds like the way to go...

Last week my webhost indeed upgraded to PHP5 and has register_globals off.

However I already heave "php_flag register_globals on" in my .htaccess.

Does somebody know how to fix these $language variables?

[BryceJr]

Sounds like the way to go...

Last week my webhost indeed upgraded to PHP5 and has register_globals off.

However I already heave "php_flag register_globals on" in my .htaccess.

Does somebody know how to fix these $language variables?

>>This might help.

[r00ki3]

>>This might help.

 

What exactly is causing all this trouble? Since my webhost upgraded from PHP4 to PHP5...nothing seems to work anymore.

I'll try to fix the language variables but still I don't get it why it happens out of the blue!

Hopefully I'll get it working again...

 

In case not...do I've to upgrade my whole shop to another OScommerce version??

I hope not...

 

Any suggestions/statemenst to clarify etc. are welcome!

[r00ki3]

Dear All,

 

Almost 6 months ago I set up a webshop using oscommerce 2.2. MS2.

After that I implemented some contributions and changed the layout etc. like everyone does!

 

Last week the person I made this webshop for told me that he wasn't able to add products, view invoices, backup, change configuration etc!

When I logged in the admin panel I saw that something was wrong.

One of the errors I got was when I clicked on "Customers" the following error appeared:

 

Error!

Unable to determine the page link!

Function used:

tep_href_link('', '', 'NONSSL')

 

I also noticed that the whole adminpanel was using this kind of text: TABLE_HEADING_CONFIGURATION_TITLE, TABLE_HEADING_CONFIGURATION_VALUE etc.

It's like the system cannot retreive the normal descriptions (definitions)

Furthermore I can still click on things but can't change anything! I'm not able to change configuration, add products or get subcategories on the screen!

When I've a look at the webshop you see some products but when you click on them it appears that the product doesn't exist...

It's like the whole shop is kind of "frozen"!

 

I restored ALL the files of the webshop with a backup from 1 week ago. (when everything was still working fine!)

Too bad...no result!

Before I restore the database to an earlier point in time I was wondering what you guys think of this?

 

Any suggestions, solutions, help etc. is much appreciated!!

Thnx in advance!!

 

To solve all these problems the best thing you can do is upgrade...I found out!

 

Use this addon to perform the upgrade: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6654

 

Upgrading osC from 2.2 Milestone 2 to 2.2 RC2a "only" took 5 hours....but I've to admit that I did every change mentioned manually in order to see what's changed!

 

Everything is solved now!