Is the environment at your production site and your development site the same?
Could you create a dummy application, with only the problematic form/ view, and test it? If the issue is still there, can you provide the dummy application or the view for us to test? Enjoy, John On Nov 3, 1:45 pm, Tonu Tusk <lvot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > OK - if this also helps anyone to offer any suggestions, here is what > I have just done. > > 1) generated a smaller (tested working) form with what seems to be > acceptable to cake > 2) Altered the main index.php entry file to just echo a message and > then exit > 3) uploaded this to the site > 4) Posted the generated form from step 1) > 5) This corrcetly used the altered index file to display the message I > have set > > 6) Revert the index.php file back to how it was to enable cake to work > 7) Generated a large problematic form > 8) Uploaded the revised index.php with just the echo message and exit > command > 9) Post the form from step 7) > 10) White screen - i.e this does not seem to even be accessing > index.php ! > > I guess this then suggests that it is a mod_rewrite / apache issue, > but hard to track down as it is > the shared host that I need to be running production on and so will be > hard (and maybe pointless) to try and > replicate this on my dev server. > > Could the doctype affect the way that apache / mod_rewrite module > handles this? > > As mentioned in an earlier post, I can setup a target for the > problematic post data that just vardumps the post variable and that > is handled on the same server (but outside of the cake htaccess > jurasdiction) and this works fine. > > Any more insight would be helpful. > > cheers > BREWER > > On Nov 2, 9:52 pm, Tonu Tusk <lvot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > I also set the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size to 128M > > and the available memory size to 256M > > > Probably not going to make the shared host happy, but phpinfo is > > reporting these values as having been set. > > > It's a mystery. > > > I am going to try and replicate the problem on a clean install to try > > and track it down. > > > On Nov 2, 7:52 pm, Dragos Chiriac <dra...@secured.ro> wrote: > > > >http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#limitrequestbody > > > upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in your php.ini file. > > > Each name/value is limited to 1024 characters, if the form type is not > > > multipart. > > > Also look at memory size available for script ... the default 16M is not > > > enough, as cake itself uses about 6-9 of them for a not very complex > > > app. Notice that on certain distros the ini files for cli and apache > > > module are different, and that you need to restart apache after every > > > change. I suppose you use apache. > > > Also notice that certain browsers (cough, ie, cough) , in my experience, > > > have a hard time and break your post data if using many inputs and not > > > setting a multipart form. > > > > Considering WSOD, is probably to have with your server (apache) > > > settings. Can you try to post the form to a simple php that's <? > > > print_r($_POST) ?>ing the form data ?, with reporting E_ALL ? > > > > #tail -f the error.log file of the server to see realtime what's the > > > server saying about your attempt. > > > > Dragos > > > > Tonu Tusk wrote: > > > > Hi, This is going to sounds a bit vague to start with, but I basically > > > > have a form that has a lot of input boxes in it > > > > ( > 500 text input boxes) and when this is posting back to the > > > > controller I get the WSOD. > > > > > I have turned off all of my actual processing code in my controller > > > > and it did all work with a smaller number of input boxes, but now it > > > > just white screens. > > > > > As I mentioned, rewriting the controller code to just not even touch > > > > the POSTed data but just to show some indication of status does not > > > > affect things, there should be no (or next to no) processing of this > > > > going on, but the controller definitely still works with exactly the > > > > same code generating the forms, just a fewer number of inputs in the > > > > form. > > > > > I have altered my php settings from 8M post memory to 128M as well as > > > > massively upping the memory allowed for > > > > php scripts but still white screen. > > > > > I don't know where to start I have tried chainging index.php in the > > > > main entry call between generting the form and > > > > posting it anywhere but again, I am just getting a whitescreen. > > > > > Any help at all to point me where to look next would be welcome. If I > > > > can't debug cake then it will be a good couple of months work down the > > > > pan and I'll have to choose another option for framework etc as I > > > > can't waste any more time on bumbling around blindly. > > > > > thanks in advance --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
