Permission issue solved only clearing the cache

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Re: Permission issue solved only clearing the cache

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I don't know what is misunderstood but that error is related to OPcache, it has absolutely nothing to do with phpBB. You need to contact your host to resolve it.
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Re: Permission issue solved only clearing the cache

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My hosts says it is DDOS protection the culprit for these errors. In fact, like many others, I'm flooded by facebook crawlers.

Can they be right?
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Re: Permission issue solved only clearing the cache

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No.
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Re: Permission issue solved only clearing the cache

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Based on the error message, your host has misconfigured OPCache. The max_file_size setting only takes K, M, and G suffixes, but your host has specified B. They need to change that to something PHP actually recognizes.
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Re: Permission issue solved only clearing the cache

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They say to have fixed the issue, after they claimed that I... didn't have OpCache :o .
I showed them my control panel proving them wrong, they apologized and said that they fixed the misconfiguring.

I checked now the error log, and I've got this:

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08/06/2024 02:45:54	[error] - www.lordphobos.com - AH00286: server reached MaxRequestWorkers setting, consider raising the MaxRequestWorkers setting
So maybe I should really disable DDOS protection, as facebook is flooding my site with his crawlers and I don't want to block them as I need to appear on FB.

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Re: Permission issue solved only clearing the cache

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I still have this problem.

Example: my registered user CANNOT use attachment.
There is a group that allows attachments.

So, a registered user who joins that group CAN use attachments.

But...

When he joins, he gains no permissions at all.
If I go in ACP and see the assigned permission, it is set to "NO" even after the calculation.
Said group shows "NO" instead of "yes" for attachment (yes, if I go to see the group's permissions they are correctly set).

If I clear the cache, magic!, everything is fine.

What is causing this annoying issue?
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Re: Permission issue solved only clearing the cache

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I told you in my first post in this topic what the possible issue is:
If clearing phpBB's cache solves the issue that would suggest phpBB's cache files are possibly being cached by the server and are only invalidated by deleting them.
The easiest way to diagnose if this is the problem is disable OPcache. Your host can do this by blacklisting the path to your files in OPcache's configuration or more specifically blacklist the path to phpBB's cache folder. If they are unwilling to help you diagnose this issue then find someone that will.

Just to reiterate phpBB works fine with OPcache. I'm guessing you do not have permission to invalidate files in the server cache or some other configuration/misconfiguration that is preventing that from happening when the script executes.
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