[geeklog-devtalk] DB writes appear to silently fail

[Vincent Furia]

It sounds like you don't have register_globals turned on.  Check
phpinfo() to make sure, the configuration file you copied over from
your previous server may be in the wrong locations (different
distributions keep configuration files in different places).

-Vinny

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:09:07 -0700, Steve Sloan <steve at finagle.org> wrote:

> I've recently migrated my geeklog (1.3.9) installs to a new server (running

> Fedora 2), and ever since they've been broken in a very strange way:  the

> sites display just fine, and hit counters update, but anytime I try to make

> any change -- leave a comment, post a story, update a static page -- nothing

> happens.  It's as if it's trying to update the DB and failing, but there's no

> mention of it in any of the logs.

> 

> When I migrated I simply copied the geeklog trees over and did a dump/restore

> of the DB.  I replicated the PHP (4.3.8) and Apache (2.0.50) configs, so

> nothing should have changed there.   I've also verified that I can make the DB

> change manually, connected as the user specified in the config.  I even tried

> doing it in multiple browsers, just in case.

> 

> Anyone have any ideas?

> 

> -- Steve

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