Corrupt files problem is back!!!

Corrupt files problem is back!!!

by Marc Dastous -
Number of replies: 3

Ok folks,

This is the first time in 9 months that I have had a problem with a Moodle upgrade.  I went from 1.3.1 to 1.4 dev and I lost the ability to create backups and view user images on one of my sites!! 

If I FTP the files from Moodledata, they look fine, but if I access them within Moodle they are corrupt.  I thought this might be a permissions problem, but everything seems to be fine.  My host requires 755 on main directories (moodledata) and everything else inside it is 777).  One interesting note though, I installed the exact same upgrade to a different server and it looks fine, hmmmmmm.

The "bad" site is http://webclassroom.gis4u.com

and the "good" site is http://classroom.socialstudies4u.com

Any ideas?

Marc

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Re: Corrupt files problem is back!!!

by Tom Murdock -
Marc,

Probably a couple things are going on here, but the first thing to check is whether your sites will run on standard themes. I noticed that your "bad" site (http://webclassroom.gis4u.com/theme/gis4u_033004/styles.php) is missing some of the styles.php info that does, in fact, appear in the "good" site (http://classroom.socialstudies4u.com/theme/ss4u/styles.php).

Can you be specific about the error message you are getting with the corrupt files? Are you accessing them via a resource (what is your method)?

Do the user images appear as question marks? Or do they not exist at all?

Don't worry. We'll figure this out.

Thanks,
Tom
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Re: Corrupt files problem is back!!!

by Marc Dastous -

Tom,

Thanks for chiming in.  Actually, I don't know what happened, but everything is working fine now.  Personally, I think this was an issue of the host changing the PHP settings.

It seems like it was more of a binary/ASCII issue.  I was getting the X for the images and all the binary resources like Word docs, PDFs and PPT files were coming back corrupted.  EXCEPT, when I accessed them through FTP.

I deleted the entire Moodle directory and started fresh.  Now seems to be working fine.  A few left over glitches, but I am re-uploading those files to correct the problems.

Thanks again.

Marc

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Re: Corrupt files problem is back!!!

by Tom Murdock -
Glad that you are rolling. I don't know if you have explored the CVS stuff, but it makes upgrading a real breeze. Also, it avoids binary/ASCII issues.

-Tom
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