[TriLUG] Odd website behaviour

[John Riselvato]

changed folder permissions?


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com>wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Once again I am digging into the extensive knowledge of this group.
>
>
> I have a database driven web site, Apache + PHP + Informix in AIX, that
> has been running, in this machine, for serveral years.  Of course, the
> code has varied over the years as improvements have been requested by
> the client.
>
> However, this particular feature has worked for a long time, perhaps as
> long as the site has been around.
>
> Just recently, it has stopped displaying images.
>
> The images are stored in the database, and there are two methods for
> displaying them.  Either they are retrieved from the database with an
> external program, stored in /tmp and displayed from that file, or they
> are streamed directly from the database field with an echo.
>
> The web page has an IMG tag that points at the PHP function that
> retrieves the data.
>
> As I say, this has worked for years, until quite recently.
>
>
> There is nothing in Apache's error_log except a warning that headers
> can't be sent twice, but that hasn't stopped anything before.
>
> Apache and PHP have not changed during this period, while it worked or
> afterward.
>
> If I take the picture that is in /tmp, I can display it by addressing it
> directly, but the web site refuses to show it "normally."
>
>
> Any bright ideas?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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John

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