Hi Bram, With Version 8.0 of BaseX, the client/server communication was updated. You’ll probably need to update your PHP client [1]. The EVENTPORT option is obsolete, itwas removed in 8.2, see [1].
Does this help? Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Clients [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options __________________________________________ On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Bram Vanroy <[email protected]> wrote: > Good evening all > > I’m sorry to be so pushy with the urgent addendum but we have an event and > some demos coming up and we only now realise that BaseX isn’t working > anymore. (Our own fault.) > > We upgraded from BaseX 7.9 to 8.3 (after going from Cent OS 6 to Cent OS 7). > Thinking we could use the same settings from our .basex configuration file, > I ran the command basexserver as I used to. This works, but I remember > seeing a message in the command line that some attributes were not > recognised and that a new configuration file was created by basex itself, > and that a server was launched subsequently. The issue is, though, that we > use BaseX as a back-end database system that processes requests from an > apache webservice. On Machine A the webservice is running, and basex is > running on machine B. The webservice fires a session request (with PHP) like > so: > > > > $session = new Session("machineB", 1958, "admin", "admin"); > > > > However, the connection fails. First a warning, followed by a Fatal error. > > > > PHP Warning: socket_connect(): unable to connect [113]: No route to host in > basex-client.php on line 17 > > > > Line 17 would be the first one of this clause: > > > > if(!socket_connect($this->socket, $h, $p)) { > > throw new Exception("Can't communicate with server."); > > } > > > > My instinct was that the webservice could not connect to basex because some > settings in the newly created .basex file were incorrect. However, I checked > them and they are definitely correct. Shown below: > > > > # General Options > > DEBUG = false > > DBPATH = /home/obelix/sonarbasex/WRPPH > > REPOPATH = /home/nobackup/Gretel/BaseXRepo > > LANG = English > > LANGKEYS = false > > GLOBALLOCK = false > > > > # Client/Server Architecture > > HOST = localhost > > PORT = 1958 > > SERVERPORT = 1958 > > USER = > > PASSWORD = > > SERVERHOST = > > PROXYHOST = > > PROXYPORT = 9591 > > NONPROXYHOSTS = > > IGNORECERT = false > > TIMEOUT = 30 > > KEEPALIVE = 600 > > PARALLEL = 8 > > LOG = true > > LOGMSGMAXLEN = 1000 > > > > # HTTP Services > > WEBPATH = /home/pricie/sonar/BaseXWeb > > RESTPATH = > > RESTXQPATH = > > CACHERESTXQ = false > > HTTPLOCAL = false > > STOPPORT = 8591 > > AUTHMETHOD = Basic > > > > I did find, however, that unlike the .basex file of our previous version, > this one does not have an EVENTPORT attribute. Is this normal? I can’t find > it in the documentation anymore either. So if it has nothing to do with > ports an access, why would I then get a ‘no route to host’ error? Is there > ANY way that, given my basex file above, this is caused by BaseX? Or is it > more likely to be a network/permission error? > > > > > > Thank you in advance, I’m running out of ideas! > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > Bram
