Empty home/index page and all photos gone

[jeremycherfas]

While trying to do this:

Upgrade to latest commit in dev 604d55c

I encountered this error:

My home page https://stream.jeremycherfas.net is now completely blank.
Individual posts, like this one are present but the images (and all other images, appear to have vanished.

Some other notes:

The Uploads folder is still present; I took care not to overwrite it. There is a folder 34d735f13a45e96ad37ed1bdfd08be1b within Uploads that I think contains all the images, but I do not know how to check whether Known is looking in that particular folder for images.

Give us some context:

• It'd also be really handy if you could tell us the contents of your version.known
  file: version = '1.6.1' build = 2023111501
• What database are you using? (e.g. mongo, mysql, postgres)
  mysql
• Any warnings or errors in your admin/diagnostics page?
  No warnings, but I notice that the full diagnostic contains 'dbstring' => 'mongodb://localhost:27017', although I am using mysql. I do not know whether this makes any difference.
• If this is a programming bug, can you include examples of any Micropub / API calls / webhook pings you make? Otherwise please don't worry about what this means!
• Bonus points - are you able to illustrate the issue with a unit test? If so, submit it as a pull request!

[benwerd]

Hmm. Is your configuration/config.ini file still intact? If not it's possible that the update overwrote it.

You can create a new one with the following values:

database = 'MySQL'
dbname = 'your database name'
dbpass = 'your database password'
dbuser = 'your database username'
dbhost = 'your database hostname'

filesystem = 'local'
uploadpath = 'full path to your Uploads folder'

[jeremycherfas]

config.ini is still intact.

# This configuration file was created by Known's installer.

database = 'MySQL'
dbname = 'jc_withknown'
dbpass = 'pw is correct'
dbuser = 'user is correct'
dbhost = 'mysql.stream.jeremycherfas.net'

filesystem = 'local'
uploadpath = '/home/jeremygrav/stream.jeremycherfas.net/Uploads/'
session_hash_function = 'md5'
Loglevel = 4
debug = true

If it were not, would the site be able to display individual posts?

The bulk of the uploads are in home/jeremygrav/stream.jeremycherfas.net/Uploads/34d735f13a45e96ad37ed1bdfd08be1b and there are four additional folders under Uploads that contain cryptically named files. I assume Known created those.

Later: as a test I added a new photo and it shows up, but I am at a loss to understand where it was stored.

[benwerd]

Sorry for delay. Your site is returning a 500 error. Is anything showing up in your web server logs? A PHP error should be illuminating.

If there's sensitive info in there feel free to take this to email: ben@benwerd.com

[jeremycherfas]

I too have had to delay. The most obvious error is this:

[Tue Jan 02 05:58:05.270831 2024] [fcgid:warn] [pid 355689:tid 140192673416960] [client 173.236.201.69:40570] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error: Declaration of IdnoPlugins\\Checkin\\Checkin::jsonSerialize() must be compatible with Idno\\Common\\Entity::jsonSerialize(): mixed in /home/jeremygrav/stream.jeremycherfas.net/IdnoPlugins/Checkin/Checkin.php on line 113

I just re-uploaded a fresh copy of the Checkin plugin before getting that error. The same error was present before uploading the fresh copy.

[benwerd]

Got it - that's helpful. Thanks! This points to a need to update the jsonSerialize implementation in all non-core plugins (checkin isn't considered core anymore). I'll make this change today and you should see an improvement.

[jeremycherfas]

Great. I look forward to the results.

[benwerd]

The signature should be fixed now. I'm curious if that fixed it for you?

[jeremycherfas]

Thanks. I can confirm that this release fixed the issue of the home page being blank. I noticed that in the new version, css folder is now called CSS and idno folder is now called Idno.

Can I delete the old versions?

There remain problems with Checkins (not using correct Stamen maps provider and not recognising a location). I will try and see whether I can make the necessary changes to the current version of the plugin.

Also, all images are still missing, including things like profile avatar images. I can confirm that my Uploads folder is present with home/jeremygrav/stream.jeremycherfas.net/Uploads/34d735f13a45e96ad37ed1bdfd08be1b and that Uploads is 179.2 MB in size, which suggests that the image data is present there.

How can I point Known to the correct location for image data? (Or should I open a new issue for that?)

[jeremycherfas]

There remain problems with Checkins (not using correct Stamen maps provider and not recognising a location). I will try and see whether I can make the necessary changes to the current version of the plugin.

I updated the map tile provider as I had previously done in my own fork and Checkin is now functioning as expected.

Not sure how to create a pull request fir this, but my commit 5232a5 at https://github.com/jeremycherfas/known contains the necessary changes. I made the changes to tile.stamen.js and renamed that to tile.stamen.js.min

Hope that helps.

[mediaformat]

Just setup a server and running into the images issue.

No warnings, but I notice that the full diagnostic contains 'dbstring' => 'mongodb://localhost:27017',

Same, though I have mongodb on this machine, it doesn't seem to have been used by known.

[benwerd]

Still working on this. I think it's to do with a fix for the image cache, which had created a security hole. More to follow.

[jeremycherfas]

Any progress on this?

I can confirm that new photo uploads are going into ~/Uploads/stream.jeremycherfas.net/ and are displaying correctly.

Old images are all in ~/Uploads/34d735f13a45e96ad37ed1bdfd08be1b/.

In config, I have uploadpath = '/home/jeremygrav/stream.jeremycherfas.net/Uploads/' and that has not changed since I first installed Known.

Is there any way I can copy the old existing data to the new folder so that they will be displayed on my site?

Thanks