Turning cache on gives stray characters

[Karlin]

OK, I have a weird one! When cache is turned off, my webpage looks fine. But when I turn cache on, I get stray pound signs (#) on the page itself, not in any boxes. See for yourself here: Karlin Enterprises

 

I would imagine I just have some stray pound signs in some file somewhere, but I have no idea where to look. Any ideas?

[241]

with cache on where is the cache /tmp/ if so are you on a shared server?

[Karlin]

Hmmm, nevermind. When I opened a fresh browser, the problem went away.

[Karlin]

Well, whenever I refresh, the stray characters come back.

 

I am on a Unix box, and yes, there are other users on the box. I think I am the only user running the osCommerce shopping cart.

 

I created my own temp directory for the cache, so that directory is not shared.

[241]

they stay with me on refresh and are islated to the left column

[Karlin]

Yes, they are always on the left side of the page, and in the exact same place regardless of where I go or what I do.

[241]

a side note:

is your cache temp folder set chmod 777

what are your sessions set for mysql or tmp folder

 

Back on track: are you using SSL

[Karlin]

is your cache temp folder set chmod 777

yes

 

what are your sessions set for mysql or tmp folder

 

I am not sure I understand the question, so in an attempt to answer it, here are my sessions setting:

 

Sessions

 

Session Directory /tmp

Force Cookie Use False

Check SSL Session ID False

Check User Agent False

Check IP Address False

Prevent Spider Sessions True

Recreate Session False

Session Directory /tmp

 

If this is not the answer you were looking for, please rephrase the question so I can get the right answer to you.

 

Back on track: are you using SSL

yes

[241]

Sessions mysql would be found in the configure.php files both of them.

 

do you have all your http cookie and https cookie domain and paths set in catalog/includes/configure.php

 

and these questions are not for market research :P

[Karlin]

what are your sessions set for mysql or tmp folder

 

for /tmp:

found no references for the /tmp directory setting

 

for mysql:

define('STORE_SESSIONS', ''); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

 

 

do you have all your http cookie and https cookie domain and paths set in catalog/includes/configure.php

define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.karlin.com');

define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.karlin.com');

define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/');

define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '/');

[241]

just a suggestion:

 

try either

define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'mysql'); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

or creating a directory for sessions and setting sessions to that directory

 

Session Directory /your directory here

[Karlin]

Well, neither of those things helped. Any other suggestions?

 

Anyone else?

[Noobish-n-stuff]

this might sound dumb, they show up in my browser, but not in the source code.

 

i did notice this:

<!-- categories //-->
         <tr>
           <td>
<table width=120 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
 <td colspan=3>
	 </td>
</tr>

 

i'm kinda wondering what the deal is with the <td colspan="3"></td> ??

a cell needs to hold something, right??

[241]

but also in the view source are the actual # signs themselves

<!-- categories_eof //-->
<!-- manufacturers //-->
         <tr>
           <td>
#            </td>
#          </tr>
#<!-- manufacturers_eof //-->
#<!-- search //-->
 

[241]

Question how did you comment out the boxes in your column_left.php can you post the code

[241]

could each # represent a box that has been commented out?

[Noobish-n-stuff]

from what i can see in the view source, i don't think it's a commenting issue. could be though, it depends on how it was done i guess.

 

have you done a search on this?? i swear i remember seeing something about this a while back. only i think it was /// not ###, if that makes a difference.

[Karlin]

Here is my includes/column_left.php file:

 

 more column_left.php 
<?php
/*
 $Id: column_left.php,v 1.15 2003/07/01 14:34:54 hpdl Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/

 if ((USE_CACHE == 'true') && empty($SID)) {
   echo tep_cache_categories_box();
 } else {
   include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'categories.php');
 }

 if ((USE_CACHE == 'true') && empty($SID)) {
   echo tep_cache_manufacturers_box();
 } else {
//    include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'manufacturers.php');
 }

 require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'search.php');
 require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'information.php');
?>

 

From what I can see, there are no stray characters in this file.

 

Could the lines:

if ((USE_CACHE == 'true') && empty($SID)) {
  echo tep_cache_manufacturers_box();
} else {

 

be causing a problem since they are not commented out, but the line below it is commented out?

 

My intention was to remove the Manufacturer's box from the left column. Should I have commented out all four lines instead of just the one line?

[241]

You have got it in one try this

 

// if ((USE_CACHE == 'true') && empty($SID)) {

// echo tep_cache_manufacturers_box();

// } else {

// include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'manufacturers.php');

// }

 

this = 4 #

[Karlin]

That did the trick! Thank you so much! All pound signs are gone from the web pages! Oh yeah!!! :)