Intermittent errors on cPanel installation

doggonemess · Post by **doggonemess** » Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:36 pm

Greetings,

I installed phpBB using cPanel provided by inmotion hosting. It was handled by Softaculous and reported that it installed properly. I keep getting intermittent errors. It mostly seems to happen when I try to post a new topic. Sometimes it just happens when visiting parts of the admin panel. The error coming back (which isn't always logged) is:

You have requested a non-existent service "profilefields.type.googleplus"

From what I've seen, this usually happens when someone is using an outdated version of phpBB. I have a fresh installation of 3.3.2. The Inmotion tech support doesn't seem to be able to fix it. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks!
Jamie

Post by **Brf** » Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:57 pm

We do not support host installs, such as Softaculous. You should be using the installer downloaded from here.

doggonemess · Post by **doggonemess** » Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:03 pm

I suspect that could be the problem here. I'll try doing the install manually and get back to you.

Thanks for the very fast response!
Jamie

EA117 · Post by **EA117** » Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:34 pm

doggonemess wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:36 pm
You have requested a non-existent service "profilefields.type.googleplus"

Did you also happen to install any extensions after the successful phpBB 3.3.2 installation?

phpBB 3.3.2 itself is fully aware that the Google+ profile field has been removed ever since phpBB 3.3.1. But extensions which have not yet been updated to "phpBB 3.3.1 and later" compatibility could still be assuming that the field should exist, and could also result in this kind of message.

I agree that if all that has been done is to use Softaculous to install phpBB 3.3.2, without updating from an older version or adding any extensions, then it sounds like the Softaculous installation itself is suspect.

doggonemess · Post by **doggonemess** » Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:26 pm

I did not install any extensions. I went right from the install process to the placeholder forum to test adding a new topic.

I just did a full manual reinstall and I'm getting the same errors when trying to post and sometimes when trying to view a topic. I'm still trying to get my error log so I can what it is saying now, but for some reason, the logs are blank. It's probably the php.ini editor messing things up. I'm working with Inmotion Hosting to get my errors to log properly now.

Lumpy Burgertushie · Post by **Lumpy Burgertushie** » Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:10 pm

fwhen you did your manual install, did you completely remove all the existing files and folders?
did you start with a fresh database?

that is what you need to do. It looks like the host install is a mess if it is showing the current version but
still having things that were removed from phpbb several versions ago.

robert

doggonemess · Post by **doggonemess** » Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:16 pm

I did do a clean install - removed all directories and created a new database with no tables.

Post by **stevemaury** » Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:50 pm

Backup the profiles table and then delete that field from the table.

doggonemess · Post by **doggonemess** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:05 pm

The google plus profile isn't in the table. But now I suspect that the error is related to something else. I can't actually tell because the errors are not appearing in my error log file. They appear for everything else, just not phpBB errors.

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