Recurring error - please help me fix it!

[Guest]

Clicking on 'my account' or 'checkout' in the top bar results in this:

 

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/maisy/public_html/includes/languages/english.php:340) in /home/maisy/public_html/includes/functions/general.php on line 29

 

 

The relevant (I think...) code in general.php is....

 

////

// Redirect to another page or site

function tep_redirect($url) {

if ( (ENABLE_SSL == true) && (getenv('HTTPS') == 'on') ) { // We are loading an SSL page

if (substr($url, 0, strlen(HTTP_SERVER)) == HTTP_SERVER) { // NONSSL url

$url = HTTPS_SERVER . substr($url, strlen(HTTP_SERVER)); // Change it to SSL

}

}

 

header('Location: ' . $url);

 

tep_exit();

}

 

 

(lines 20 - 32)

 

Please help!

 

 

Also, if you know why my top bar and bottom bar stick out so far past 'new products', that'd be a handy piece of information!

 

Shannon

[equilla]

Hi Shannon,

 

it's your includes/languages/english.php file that is the problem. Most likely you have characters (i.e. a space or a blank line) after the last ?> in the file.

 

If you PM me with a link to your site I could have a look at the other problem for you. Are you running MS2? If so, I have a hunch that this is the php bug that causes partial tags to be served and usually causes the right column/footer to become incorrectly formatted. This can be fixed by commenting out a line in the .htaccess file in the catalog folder.

 

Regards,

 

 

 

Mark

[Patrick Taylor]

Hi Mark. Which line? I'm having major footer problems. In fact, what is the catalog/.htaccess file actually for?

 

Regards,

 

Patrick

[equilla]

Hi Patrick,

 

The line in question is this one:

 

# php_value session.use_trans_sid 0

 

The fix is to remove the "#" to uncomment the line. I had to do this on my server as I have yet to upgrade to php 4.3.x, which does not have the problem.

 

There is a bug report or 2 for osc which in turn refer out to php bug reports on this one - I was struggling with my formatting problems for a few hours before I found them!!

 

The purpose of the various bits in the .htaccess file are reasonably well explained by the comments in the file.

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

Mark

[Patrick Taylor]

Thanks Mark. I uncommented that line when I was trying to fix my disappearing footer but it actually made it worse so I've commented it out again. Also in the .htaccess file is:

 

# This is used with Apache WebServers

#

# For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to

# the AllowOverride configuration

#

# Example:

#

# <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">

# AllowOverride Options

# </Directory>

#

# 'All' with also work. (This configuration is in the

# apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

 

That suggests that this should be uncommented for an Apache server, but a non-programmer like me wouldn't know what to do to include the parameter, nor what overriding means, etc etc. Should this be uncommented for an Apache webserver?

 

Regards,

 

Patrick

[equilla]

Hi again,

 

well for the technical explanation of this directive see here:

 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html...l#allowoverride

 

But I have to say say that I haven't uncommented this on either my server or my laptop (both running apache). In either case, this wouldn't work if I did uncomment it as the filesystem structure on both are different to that assumed (/usr/local/apache/htdocs).

 

I suspect your problem is in a different area then. Happy to take a look if you PM me with a URL....

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

Mark