Solution for: SEO / SEF not working at PHP 5.0.4

[NicP]

Hi,

I have just spent ages trying to find out why SEF was not working on a site I'm working on. It works OK on my local server and on a staging server, but not on the clients server.

I put so much debug code in to find out what was going on but have now got it working. It seems to be a PHP bug. The JURI class users the php function parse_url to split up the url into component parts. in php 5.1 this seems fine but php 5.0.4 it produces a completely wrong answer. So the esiest solution is to change the following code

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	function _parseURL($uri)
	{
		$parts = array();
		if (version_compare( phpversion(), '8.4' ) < 0) // np-007 was 4.4
		{

this is about line 719 in /libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php

I hope this helps someone.

[pe7er]

Thank you for sharing this info!
I'm sure that other users with the same problem will benefit from your solution!

[ndserra]

Master NicP,
I really dont have words to express how much that information was precious to me.

Is that kind of atitude that makes life so beautifull !!!!

I was desperated with that issue and you came to save my skin ...

The most important thing is that i have no more to upgrade my entirely server with almost 50 domains in use to fix this issue to only ONE especific case.

I will be eternally gracefull to you because of this.

YOU ARE A GOOD SOUL !!!!

thanks again and have sure you made a new friend.

Thank you again.

[humvee]

Reported to Joomla! Bug Squad for clarification

[ircmaxell]

Very simple, php 5.0.4 is not supported. That version_compare is done for a reason. The way php 5+ does it is significantly faster than the regular expression.

In short, this will not be added in, as 5.0.4 is not supported (for more than just SEO reasons. If you chose to use it on 5.0.4, be advised that you may experience some extremely bad/unwanted behavior)..

http://help.joomla.org/content/view/1938/310/

[jilusan2]

Unhopefully, i have php5.0.4.

I have VPS with 1and1, and they dont want to give me the support for upgrading my php.

What to do?

Is it easy to upgrade php version???

Tx.

Jilu

[happybunny]

I have made the code change, and it "seems" to work with php 5.0.4 & joomla 1.5.4

1) Has anyone found any problem with joomla 1.5.x and 5.0.4 with this fix in place?
2) Has anyone found a way of updating the php version in a 1&! root server with FC4? Doing a "yum update" doesnt do anything (as the conf file points to 1&1 update servers). If you point yum at real update servers, I have a horrible feeling that updating php will break php and/or plesk. Anyone tried it? I cant re-image the server with the latest centos (which comes with php 5.2.x) as there are about 50 domains on it.

Simon.

[rippleminder]

yes i replaced '4.4' with '8.4' in uri.php and now the urls appear to work OK, joomla 1.5.4 on php 5.0.4.

for an example see

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http://www.redriverroughstock.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=47&Itemid=68

note: i have not done a lot of testing.

my website is rather simple-minded.

[brad]

BTW, you should probably now, after all that effort, keep php up to date. The latest is 5.2.6

[natashatr]

I've just registered to say THANK YOU!

Actually in Joomla 15.0.4 it is the line #722. I recommend using this variant in respect of PHP updates

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		if (version_compare( phpversion(), '4.4' ) < 0 OR version_compare( phpversion(), '5.0.4' ) == 0 )

Bug report for developers:

When running Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) PHP/5.0.4 Server, Joomla produces incorrect URLs appearing in various modules: Latest news, Popular and Read more link in an article.

With the all options set by default the URLs appear like that:

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http://mysite.com/content-layouts&catid=29:the-cms&Itemid=38?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=2

and they cannot be handled even with the mod rewrite active.


Affected:
Joomla 1.5.2
Joomla 1.5.4

Not affected:
Joomla 1.0.x
Joomla 1.5.x (early betas not for production sites)

[natashatr]

I have made the code change, and it "seems" to work with php 5.0.4 & joomla 1.5.4

1) Has anyone found any problem with joomla 1.5.x and 5.0.4 with this fix in place?

Yes, the URLs will be incorrect if you enable Use Apache mod_rewrite in Joomla SEO settings.

[ircmaxell]

Please note, the use php 5.0.4 with Joomla 1.5 is NOT SUPPORTED. I'm going to have a moderator lock this thread here. If you want to use Joomla! 1.5 on 5.0.4, go ahead, but be advised that you will not get any official support.

As we've stated MANY MANY times, there is a lot more than just URL's that are an issue with 5.0.4. It's HIGHLY recomended NOT to run 1.5 on that version. Basically, use at your own risk.