[solved] 3.2.2 to 3.2.4 Update: app.php returns http error 500

[citroen]

Thank you very much for your help.
I'm uploading files now.

It's either going to be a long night or a short one.
I'll let you know how it works out.

[citroen]

When I run the installer after following the KB I see the following two errors in the server log. I changed the first part of the server path to "myserver" in order to redact it.

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PHP Warning:  require("myserver"/web/forum/php2/vendor/composer/../react/promise/src/functions_include.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in "myserver"/web

and

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PHP Fatal error:  require(): Failed opening required '"myserver"/web/forum/php2/vendor/composer/../react/promise/src/functions_include.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in "myserver"/web/forum/php2/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 66, referer: https://www.proaudiodesignforum.com/forum/php2/install/

autoload_real.php

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function composerRequirea8b16e37f78f42ffba002866ac0c640b($fileIdentifier, $file)
{
    if (empty($GLOBALS['__composer_autoload_files'][$fileIdentifier])) {
        require $file;

        $GLOBALS['__composer_autoload_files'][$fileIdentifier] = true;

[3Di]

Looks like you missed some step.

1 - delete the /vendor and /cache folders.

2 - upload the /vendor and /cache folders from the 3.2.4 package.

[citroen]

Looks like you missed some step.

1 - delete the /vendor and /cache folders.

2 - upload the /vendor and /cache folders from the 3.2.4 package.

I did the above originally. But, just to make sure, I deleted /cache and /vendor from /php2 and re-uploaded them from the local 3.2.4 /cache and /vendor folders again.
Then I did a file comparison between the local copy and the uploaded copies.
They are identical.

The error is exactly as before:

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PHP message: PHP Warning:  require("myserver"/web/forum/php2/vendor/composer/../react/promise/src/functions_include.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in "myserver"/web/forum/php2/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 66, referer: http://proaudiodesignforum.com/forum/php2/install/

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PHP Fatal error:  require(): Failed opening required '"myserver"/web/forum/php2/vendor/composer/../react/promise/src/functions_include.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in "myserver"/web/forum/php2/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 66, referer: http://proaudiodesignforum.com/forum/php2/install/

Thanks for your help everyone.
I built my board 11 years ago and have maintained it myself.
Since about 3.1.X or so upgrading has become a pain, a real pain.
I don't think I'm qualified to do this anymore so maybe its just time to quit and never update the board.

EDIT: I uploaded 3.2.4 to a completely different directory and attempted a clean bare metal install. (not an upgrade/update)
The installer will run.

[Paul]

If the vendor/ directory from both the old version as the new version is exactly the same, you didn't upload the vendor/ folder correctly for the new version with the phpBB 3.2.4 version of vendor/

[citroen]

Thanks Paul.

The /vendor and /cache folders in /php2 (3.2.4 path) on the server are the same ones in the local uncompressed 3.2.4 zip file...

If you're thinking I uploaded/copied 3.2.2 /vendor and /cache files to the new 3.2.4 install path, /php2, I didn't.

I compared the local extracted 3.2.4 /vendor and /cache folders to the server's /php2/ /vendor and /cache folders to prove it.

app.php still returns a 500.

[Paul]

Can you post the content of web/forum/php2/vendor/react/promise/src/functions_include.php please?

[citroen]

It's missing. You may have nailed it.

What I found is that for some reason, the local uncompressed copy of 3.2.4 did not have several /vendor subfolders including react.

The local copy was extracted using Win Explorer in November.
Comparing a local copy to the server did not reveal the missing files because they were missing on both machines.

I went back to the November 3.2.4 zip download "previewed" the unzipped archive and looked at it: The missing files/subfolders are there.
For whatever reason they were not extracted from the zip.

(When I uploaded the new bare metal install today I did it from a fresh 3.2.4 download.
It has the /vendor files and therefor runs.)

I'm going to delete the entire 3.2.4 install in path /php2 and re-extract the whole package using 7Zip then re-upload everything.
At this point I don't trust anything I've unzipped with Windows Explorer.

Bet it will work. Will follow-up.

Note to self: Don't trust Windows unzips.

Thank you!

Missing vendor files


Complete(?) vendor files

[citroen]

OK, a quick update.

I did a complete 7-zip extraction of 3.2.4 and uploaded it to /forum_324 as a bare metal install.
I can now run /install and it displays a welcome screen.
I did not run that installation to update the existing forum however since I have more work to do.

I think we can mark, at this point, this particular problem solved.

The moral of this story that I come away with is to do not trust Window Explorer's zip extraction.
It simply did not extract all the files to the archive in /vendor and who knows where else.
Comparing an upload to a bad zip extraction provided a false sense of confidence.

[citroen]

Success!

My original strategy of using /forum and /forum_324 to build the board in parallel worked as expected.

When I get the /forum_324 subfolder assembled correctly as per the KB I just take the old board offline, rename /forum to /forum_322, rename /forum_324 to /forum and run install.

I then rename /install to /install_324 to deactivate it. When I'm in that subfolder, seeing the disabled install folder with the version number appended helps avoid confusion.

Converting the database took seconds and the new board was back online with the old one down for only a minute or two.

The logic is correct; missing files were the problem.

Thank you 3Di and Paul for your help.
It's too early for a beer here so I'm having coffee.