Script Timeout / Copyright Problem

DjDrakk · Post by **DjDrakk** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 8:08 pm

i'm running my webserver and my shoutcast station off my own computer. When i configure RTB to output to the default "catcher.php" when it's located in "/rtb/catcher.php" on my website, it says script timeout. When i put "catcher.php" in /cgi-bin/ it gives me an error saying there is a copyright problem in the script and it shuts down RTB immediately. You then have to remove the link from the .ini file to get RTB to start up again. Any suggestions as to how i get it to output to "catcher.php" without any problems? I DO have PHP on my server, i just installed it and it still doesn't work.

DjDrakk · Post by **DjDrakk** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 10:02 pm

Okay never mind, problem solved

Post by **Jay** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 12:29 am

I love problems that solve themselves, makes the world a happy place

DjDrakk · Post by **DjDrakk** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 12:34 am

How about new problems that crawl out from behind the rock when the other problems are gone? It now says my script is updated, but all it's done is rearranged the text in the config.php and catcher.php files. There's been nothing added to the includes.php file. I'm using the PHPtriad setup, it's parsing the PHP properly, just not writing to includes.php . . . any suggestions for this one?

Post by **Jay** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 2:43 am

hmm I can't see how it would rearrange the text in the config.php file?

What happens if you go to the catcher url in your browser?

DjDrakk · Post by **DjDrakk** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:13 am

***
Copyright RadioToolBox.com another great application from Jay Krivanek

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: phpinclude() in c:\apache\htdocs\rtb\catcher.php on line 1
***

And what I mean by rearranging the text, is it makes it into 3 or 4 long lines instead of being neatly organized from top to bottom like it is when it's originaly unzipped

Post by **Jay** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 3:46 pm

hmmm what OS is the catcher script run on? But whatever is causing the file to become binary is what is causing PHP to not read the file

You aren't using the FTP Service are you?

DjDrakk · Post by **DjDrakk** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 10:48 pm

I'm using Win95SE, Apache, and I'm not using the FTP service. I copied new copies of the PHP scripts from the zip file and now it's copying blank variables to the includes.php file, and returning a bad password error to RTB. It's leaving the catcher.php intact, but still stretching out the include.php

This is getting really confusing. I hope it's worth it in the end

DjDrakk · Post by **DjDrakk** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 10:49 pm

And yes I did edit the config.php file with the right user and password

Post by **Jay** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 2:18 am

hmm windows95 wow, haven't tested it there yet.

Does it give you any parse errors or fatal errors when you go to it in your browser?

is $mode set to flat_file?

I am currently rewriting this entire script as it's grown old and moldy and it does have some bugs. I will see if I can get this out to you in the next day or so.

It will have much better error handling built into to kind of help in these types of situations where Bad password is just not a descriptive enough error. Stay tuned.

DjDrakk · Post by **DjDrakk** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 11:06 am

Oops, i gotta stop staying up till 2 in the morning working on this stuff, I meant windows 98, but i was helping a friend with some 95 problems.

although it will be nice to actualy know what's killing the script

DjDrakk · Post by **DjDrakk** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 11:15 am

Okay, i changed

phpinclude("config.php")

to

phpinclude($includes_path."config.php")

And I'm no longer getting the bad password error, but it took all the formatting out of catcher.php again and there's still just blank variables in includes.php because it hasn't output anything there since last night.

DjDrakk · Post by **DjDrakk** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 2:30 pm

Okay, i fixed it. There were some things I changed in the catcher.php script as follows.

I changed all the // coments to /* coments just in case it realligned the code for some reason.

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<?phpinclude($includes_path."config.php");

to

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<?php include("config.php");

and in config.php i changed

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<?php$mode='flat_file';

to

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<?php $mode='flat_file';

I hope that helps

it worked for me. Also, if i get bored again, I may write you a script to output to SQL as well