pope framework messes with apache error code & displays php errors

  • Resolved Becki Beckmann

    (@becki)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hello there 😉

    first thanks a lot for your awesome plugin!

    I want to report a really strange issue with nextgen gallery plugin.

    I’m running an OpenSuSE Box 15.1 with PHP 7.2.25 but also testet with PHP 7.3.14

    And I’m 100% sure that this is because of nextgen gallery plugin because if I disable the plugin all is fine.

    What is the problem?

    I have PHP setup to not show any errors via php.ini display_errors = off
    If I then force an error by calling a wrong function name, e.g. add_filter123() the PHP error gets displayed right in the browser.

    Error thrown
Call to undefined function add_filter123()

    Which I really don’t want as I don’t want to leak any error infos via the web browser.

    another really strange thing is that Apache does not report the error with a 503 error code as it should
    apache simply gives a 200 status which is really not what I want.

    93.213.227.172 - guest [01/Feb/2020:11:07:14 +0100] "GET http://kohphangannews.org/ HTTP/1.1" 200 89 "https://kohphangannews.org/wp-admin/"

    So i checked and looked and double checked and double looked to find out what causes the error?

    If i de-activate nextgen gallery plugin and produce the same error as above via add_filter123() apache then reports a 503

    93.213.227.172 - guest [01/Feb/2020:11:20:35 +0100] "GET http://kohphangannews.org/ HTTP/1.1" 503 280 "https://kohphangannews.org/wp-admin/"

    and no php error is displayed in the browser as it should as php.ini says display_errors = off

    I then did a bit more digging by renaming folders / files to find out which part of nextgen gallery plugin is causing this weird behaviour?

    My search ended up with the pope framework /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/pope/lib

    in that folder thers’s an autoload.php
    If i then rename e.g. class.pope_cache.php to class.pope_cache.php.123 to produce an error all goes back to normal.

    Apache reports an error:

    93.213.227.172 - guest [01/Feb/2020:11:30:57 +0100] "GET http://kohphangannews.org/ HTTP/1.1" 503 280 "https://kohphangannews.org/"

    PHP reports an error

    [Sat Feb 01 11:37:01.335558 2020] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 4346:tid 139872698353408] [client 93.213.227.172:58706] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Warning: require_once(class.pope_cache.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /.../.../wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/pope/lib/autoload.php on line 5PHP message: PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'class.pope_cache.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php7:/usr/share/php7/PEAR:/srv/common/libs') in /.../.../wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/pope/lib/autoload.php on line 5', referer: https://kohphangannews.org/wp-admin/plugins.php

    and no php errors displayed in the browser

    If i rename the file class.pope_cache.php so it gets loaded all is back to strange behaviour

    the php error is displayed in the browser

    Error thrown
Call to undefined function add_filter123()

    apache gives me a status code of 200 instead of a 503

    93.213.227.172 - guest [01/Feb/2020:11:40:39 +0100] "GET http://kohphangannews.org/ HTTP/1.1" 200 89 "https://kohphangannews.org/"

    and the error log doesn’t report any errors at all which is really not what I want.
    php should report an error as it does once I disable the nextgen gallery plugin:

    [Sat Feb 01 11:20:35.146293 2020] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 4344:tid 139873075361536] [client 93.213.227.172:58362] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_filter123() in /.../.../wp-content/themes/KohPhanganNews/functions.php:27\nStack trace:\n#0 /.../httpdocs/wp-settings.php(497): include()\n#1 /.../httpdocs/wp-config.php(157): require_once('/srv/www/wpmult...')\n#2 /./httpdocs/wp-load.php(37): require_once('/...')\n#3 /.../httpdocs/wp-blog-header.php(13): require_once('/wpmult...')\n#4 /.../httpdocs/index.php(17): require('//wpmult...')\n#5 {main}\n thrown in /.../httpdocs/wp-content/themes/KohPhanganNews/functions.php on line 27', referer: https://kohphangannews.org/

    I double and triple checked everything! the error is in the pope framework and I can reproduce this strange behaviour all the time.
    from what i can see pope framework seems to be a couple of years old?

    https://bitbucket.org/photocrati/pope-framework/src/default/lib/

    perhaps it is not compatible with newer PHP versions?

    I would really, really love to get this fixed.

    as php errors not being reported by apache as 503 instead sending a 200 status code?
    and displaying the errors in the browser even though display_errors is set to off?

    this is really strange! Can we fix this?

    thanks a lot for your time, help & service 😉

    greetings
    Becki

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  • Thread Starter Becki Beckmann

    (@becki)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hello again 😉

    just to make things sure I reproduced this behaviour on another server. It’s also an OpenSuse 15.1 Box with PHP 7.2.5

    Running the latest wordpress 5.3.2 with standard theme twenty sixteen and latest nextgen gallery 3.2.23 which is the only plugin being activated.

    then I went into theme twentysixteen functions.php and modified function code to force an error function_exists(…) -> function_exists123(…)

    refresh the page and voila … php error displays right in the web browser.

    Error thrown

Call to undefined function function_exists123()

    even though php.ini states display_errors = off. Also apache does not report a 500 fatal error. just a 200 OK

    79.242.28.21 - guest [02/Feb/2020:10:01:25 +0100] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 200 75 "https://wpdev.beckspaced.com/"

    once i de-activate nextgen gallery plugin all is back to normal.

    no php error messages in the browser.

    apache gives a 500 error

    79.242.28.21 - guest [02/Feb/2020:10:19:57 +0100] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 500 2850 "https://wpdev.beckspaced.com/"

    and the php error shows up in the logs

    [02-Feb-2020 09:20:45 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function function_exists123() in /.../.../functions.php:35

    As nextgen gallery states php 7.3 in the requirements I also installed php 7.3.14 on the server with the exact same results.

    perhaps someone can look into this? I would be more than grateful 😉

    thanks a lot for your help
    greetings
    Becki

    gabyimagely

    (@gabyimagely)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hello @becki,

    We have already shared this forum thread with the development team.
    As soon as we have some feedback, we will let you know.

    Thread Starter Becki Beckmann

    (@becki)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hello @gabyimagely ,

    thanks for getting back on that issue.
    looking forward to some feedback from the dev team.

    greetings
    Becki

    gabyimagely

    (@gabyimagely)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hello @becki,

    Our developers let us know that it seems a conflict with the shutdown handler we register in nggallery.php.

    You can avoid the problem by adding define(“NGG_DISABLE_SHUTDOWN_EXCEPTION_HANDLER”, TRUE); to your wp-config.php

    Nevertheless, this is known to break the attach-to-post popup window partially (it results in some different margins and paddings — but still usable).

    We hope that this helps!

    Thread Starter Becki Beckmann

    (@becki)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hello @gabyimagely,

    thanks for the quick fix! Applied, tested and it is working 😉
    perhaps the dev team will be able to also fix the attach-to-post popup in a future release? that would be awesome!

    thanks again & greetings to you & dev team for your time, help & service
    Becki

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