Send loadXML errors to log file

[whocarez]

Hello,
on a phpbb 3.2.2 board with php 7.0.27-1~dotdeb+8.1 I got on some topics errors like this:

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[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Utils.php on line 76: DOMDocument::loadXML(): EntityRef: expecting ';' in Entity, line: 10
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Utils.php on line 76: DOMDocument::loadXML(): EntityRef: expecting ';' in Entity, line: 12

PHP-Information

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display_errors	Off	Off
display_startup_errors	Off Off
...
error_reporting	24567 22527

config.php

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//@define('DEBUG', true);
//@define('DEBUG_CONTAINER', true);

Somehow these messages are displayed to normal users despite the fact, that error_display and debug mode are switched off. How can I send these messages to the normal php-error.log??? And has someone an idea what can cause this error? Probably an extension?
Thanks a lot!

[whocarez]

ok, this error seems to be caused by unencoded ampersands in urls. Manually changing & to & removed these messages for at least in one post. But the main problem persists, why get users displayed this warning and it is not sent to the log file?

Another post contains this warning:

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[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Utils.php on line 76: DOMDocument::loadXML(): xmlParseEntityRef: no name in Entity, line: 1

[whocarez]

The second error was caused by a & inside the text. Removing that solved the problem.

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

that looks like a mod_security setting being too strict. contact your host and show them what is going on and ask them about mod_security settings.

robert

[whocarez]

hm, you mean this Apache module? I've got only installed nginx 1.12.2 with some of these standard php params.
Tested it with an older PHP Version 5.6.33-0+deb8u1 version, but with the same result. Maybe I should first try it again with all extensions switched off.

[stevemaury]

If you are your own host, this is a server configuration issue. There is no support here for server configuration, sorry.

[whocarez]

I'm sorry, this was a misunderstanding. I'm talking about ampersands in posted URLs and posted texts. This has nothing to do with the server configuration.
This does also not explain why "display_error off" is ignored for these loadxhtml issues. But anyway, I habe to explore first, if it has something to do with an extension.

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

if you are hosting this on your own machine and not with a hosting company then you need to learn about how to setup your server software properly.

this is almost certainly going to be related to a server software setting whether it is apache or nginx.
there seems to be a lot of problems when people are running nginx instead of apache but I don't know anything about nginx and why people are trying to use it when it has so many problems.

robert

[whocarez]

Once again sorry for my unclear post. I'm talking about posts which contains text like this.

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[url=http://domain.com/something&12345&6788.html]this is a link with an ampersand[/url]

This & this is causing errors ....

This has nothing to do with server software and her configuration.

[3Di]

That's what happens if you use those so called SEO MOD/Extensions, usually.
Those links aren't native.

your url in my environment takes you to
.

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that's my config.php (local)
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PHP 7.0.27 like yours, to add, for this test.

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

not trying to be argumentative here, however, when running apache with mod_security set incorrectly, any given letter or character or combination of them can set it off and cause all sorts of strange errors like this.

I have no idea if nginx has anything like mod_security or, if so, if that is what is causing your problem but it is certainly a possibility.

ok, I'm out.

robert

[whocarez]

Once again sorry guys, but this is really a misunderstanding.
I'm talking about posted external links and not only links.
Everytime an ampersand appears inside the text, the XML renderer gives an error.

[3Di]

Once again sorry guys, but this is really a misunderstanding.
I'm talking about posted external links and not only links.
Everytime an ampersand appears inside the text, the XML renderer gives an error.

that's what I did, I posted your URL
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ampersandurlpost.png (10.38 KiB) Viewed 327 times

[JoshyPHP]

And has someone an idea what can cause this error? Probably an extension?

The best way to investigate would be to find a way to reproduce the issue and trigger the error message on a default install. If you can, post the exact steps to reproduce it here. And if you can't, then it's caused an extension and you should try toggling them until you find the one.

[whocarez]

I could identify the extension (phpbbseo/meta), which caused this error while generating the meta description with a standard post like that:

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test &&&&

http://example.com/testurl.html?dfgdrt&xcvdfg&4546456

So @3Di had the right assumption. Thanks for this hint ...

But the opening question is still actual: Why is this warning with switched off debug and error_display not sent to the standard php-error.log and instead shown to usual users?