Not able to load Home page after upgrading

[ilayangudi]

I have updated from 1.0.4 to 2.1. I have gone through all the steps in the admin panel and successfully upgraded. However, when I go to Home page, Chrome displays the following error
www.xyz.com page isn’t working
www.xyz.com redirected you too many times.

and IE displays the following error
Warning!

The flood protection on this site has been activated and you are warned that if you carry on requesting pages you could be banned.

Please help.

[LaocheXe]

Did you have any old plugins installed at the time of the upgrade?

[ilayangudi]

I have some old plugins during the upgrade. I tried uninstalling the all the old plugins (in the upgraded site). But still the same error.

[LaocheXe]

I had to go into the database and remove them manually

[Moc]

Those plugins should not cause any issues during the upgrade.

@ilayangudi Are you still able to go into the admin area?
If yes try this:

1. Update files to latest version:

• Go into Preferences > Advanced features > Enable developer mode
• Go into Tools > Database > Sync with Github and synchronize with github

2. Check for database updates

• Go into Tools > Database > Check for updates

3. Check site URL and redirect options:

• Go into Preferences > (Site information, is loaded by default) > check site URL (could be / or the full URL)
• Set "Redirect all requests to site URL" to disabled

4. Check to see if the issue is resolved.

[CaMer0n]

@ilayangudi I'll be happy to troubleshoot this with you via the chatroom. https://gitter.im/e107inc/e107

[ilayangudi]

I followed the steps provided by Moc. Still the same error.

[Jimmi08]

@ilayangudi
Is that screen from your old 1.4 site?
Content plugin can cause problem. This version works under V2 https://github.com/Jimmi08/content. (tested under 2.0)
Links page plugin can cause problem. There is new version that you can download from plugins, but I would suggest to update folder manually from this https://github.com/Jimmi08/links_page (I am not sure if you can download plugin if it already exists) There is database update needed.
(tested under 2.1)

All Father Barry's plugin can cause problems, but they can be used with little modification. This was solution for Birthday plugin: http://e107help.org/1633/birthday-plugin-by-father-barry-under-version-2?show=1633#q1633 (tested under 2.0)

You need to uninstall and delete them (not tables) before upgrade.

[ilayangudi]

@Jimmi08 yes, the screen is from my old 1.4 site. After the upgrade, I have uninstalled all the plugins to see whether it resolve the problem. But, error remains. The new plugins you mentioned suppose to be installed after the upgrade, is it ?

[Jimmi08]

@ilayangudi check via phpmyadmin in database if plugins are really deleted from plugin table. (True, in my case it was in 2 alpha, but unistalling after upgrade didn't help). After backup just delete old folder, replace files and install plugins. If any problems, post issues on their github folders. LinkPage is actively maintained, because I use it.
Personally I did the update by: run upgrade to get v2 database, install clean v2 with new database on the same server (to exclude server issues, f.e. in subdirectory), then delete all files from original and replace them by new installed version (clean), modified e107_config to original database. And if site stops, then problem is in database and it's easy to check diffs when you have 2 database (find uprade issues).

Is your frontpage index.php?

Addition: plugin On This Day works under V2 with one modification. In file onthisday_menu.php the same changes as are on the link about Birthday menu plugin

[ilayangudi]

@Jimmi08 I have followed instruction as per your comments (as per in para 2) . Now, I am able to see the site. I copied the content plugin from old site to the new upgraded site and activated the menu in the Menu function. It causes the site to display 'Too many redirects' again. I removed the Content Menu from the Menu function and it appears ok. Therefore, Content plugin is causing the problem.

I have lot of articles in the Content plugin. I downloaded the Content-master plugin in https://github.com/Jimmi08/content. I copied manually to the e107_Plugin folder. But the Plugin is not displayed in the Plugin Manager for me to install. Additionally, It displays the following message when I click Refresh button in the plugin manager

Success
'' is missing from the plugin db table

Please let me know how do I install the plugin and upgrade my contents.

[Jimmi08]

@ilayangudi - '' is missing from the plugin db table - it's normal. I will update my demo site to 2.1.1 and see if there are some problem. I didn't test to use menu, I will check it, but send your issues about this plugin to it's github directory, please.

edit: you are right, update cause redirect issues. Give me some time.

[ilayangudi]

@Jimmi08 will wait for your update. Thanks.

[Jimmi08]

@ilayangudi Now you can download it, look at existing issues before installation. Nobody needed this plugin, so I stopped to care.

@Moc @CaMer0n
The reason for redirections was that in 2.1 version (or better not in 2.0) $pref stopped have value and this test (very common in old plugins)
if (!isset($pref['plug_installed']['content']))
caused problems. Solution was add
$pref = e107::getPref();
or replace new way

if (!e107::isInstalled('content'))
{
    e107::redirect();
}

[ilayangudi]

@Jimmi08 I have downloaded and copied to Plugin directory. But, it is not appearing in the 'Not Installed' plugin list for me to install. is there anything I missed out ?

[ilayangudi]

@Jimmi08 It appears that plugin.xml is missing. I am not sure whether it is required. Additionally, this plugin is not listed under the 'Find Plugins' menu under the Plugin Manager.

Content Management is heavily used in my side. Please help.

[CaMer0n]

@Jimmi08 Normally it shouldn't have changed. $pref if used right throughout class2.php. Can you explain a little more? How and where was if (!isset($pref['plug_installed']['content']))being used?

[Jimmi08]

@CaMer0n
I had 2.0 site with fully working content plugin (not version 2, but working under v2 and replaced some things), but it worked.
Then I updated to 2.1.1 (or better 2.1.2 with github sync) and replace content folder with github version. And I got redirect error. After testing file by file I found reason
https://github.com/Jimmi08/content/commits/master
Todays changes are changes I did to get it works.

[Jimmi08]

@ilayangudi move please here: https://github.com/Jimmi08/content/issues/15
did you replace name from content-master to content?

[Jimmi08]

@CaMer0n I was able to reproduce this.
Version from 22.2 causes redirect (worked under v2.0), when I replace it actual version, it works. Only changes are commits from today. I will try to test this more, but you are right, $pref can't be empty.

I was able to narrow it to problem with handlers folder. There are files loaded before this.

[Jimmi08]

@CaMer0n
I made you some screens. Because condition I supposed problem with prefs. Ok, it works now, but it's really weird.
https://github.com/Jimmi08/content/issues/16

[KiraTheUltimate]

HI guys! This is an old issue, but I want to running OnThisDay plugin on my e107 v2 website, and it doesn't work. I see that the solution is the same as the birthday plugin, but i don't understand what should I change... so, somebody help me? Thx!

[Jimmi08]

@KiraTheUltimate upload that plugin to your github account please

[KiraTheUltimate]

It's not my plugin. Downloaded on this link: http://keal.me.uk/e107_plugins/download/download.php?action=view&id=149

and I confess, I dont know how can uploaded to github. :S

[Jimmi08]

@KiraTheUltimate you should learn to work with github, believe me, I was in your position some years ago. e107 made me!!!

It's open source, you can upload what you want.
Original author is still active https://github.com/G4HDU

[Jimmi08]

@KiraTheUltimate I found problem only with menu. Do this:

Jimako-e107-plugins/e107-old-plugins@77e3395

[KiraTheUltimate]

It works! Thank you very much!

[CaMer0n]

Closing. Thank you.