Comments on: PHP Security Updates: 4.4.7 and 5.2.2

By: Pawan Bahuguna

Pawan Bahuguna — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:29:54 +0000

By when it can be rectified, please provide an idea.

By: Alessandro Ronchi

Alessandro Ronchi — Thu, 31 May 2007 09:03:12 +0000

Is there any xmlrpc solution for wordpress ?

By: James

James — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:29:49 +0000

The status site says there’s not ETA on when things will be fixed but also says things are resolved.

What’s up with that?

They’re “in contact with the load balancer vendor trying to get to the bottom of it all” - what’s next, a “mission accomplished” banner with website inaccessible?

By: Donno Cole

Donno Cole — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:49:17 +0000

We’re running version 1.1.2 of the Simple Machines forum and the PHP updates seem to have broken quite a few pieces of the forum. Registrations aren’t working and we’re getting “error on page” notifications in Firefox and IE 7 for almost all pages in the forum. Anyone else seeing this?

By: ygor.almeida

ygor.almeida — Sat, 19 May 2007 06:28:14 +0000

MySQL has been updated too.
When we will get the update !?

By: Ray M

Ray M — Sat, 19 May 2007 04:05:09 +0000

For ALL Wordpress users of Wordpress 2.1.3 - When DreamHost Upgrades your server to PHP 5.2.2, There is a Bug in PHP 5.2.2, which will prevent you from posting on your Blog. Here is a fix form the Official Wordpress Site:

Problem Posting using Wordpress 2.1.3 and PHP 5.2.2:

Quote From Official Wordpress Website:

Hi!
After having upgraded the server I’m using for my WordPress blog with PHP 5.2.2 it seems that I’m now unable to make any posts using the metaWeblog API. It is working perfectly fine when I use PHP 5.2.1. though so it can’t possibly be my WordPress installation that is the cause of this. (I’m using version 2.1.3)

Is anyone else on this forum having this problem as well?
This is almost certainly the same problem I had here. It turns out there’s a bug in PHP 5.2.2 with the feature WordPress uses to run XMLRPC — which is how all the APIs work.

Fix:

In theory, it will be fixed in the next PHP version. For now, I found that you can work around the problem by adding the following line at the beginning of WordPress’ xmlrpc.php:

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents(”php://input”);

Put it right before the first line that mentions $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, and it should do the trick.

This Fix solved the problem 100% and you will be able to post again, So NO NEED to Upgrade to Wordpress 2.2.

;; Ray M

By: Ray M

Ray M — Fri, 18 May 2007 20:26:17 +0000

My Server is still using PHP 5.2.1, I’m using Wordpress 2.1.3, Does anyone know if I will be safe when Dreamhost upgrades the PHP Version
to 5.2.2?

Loosing a lot of sleep over this because I have a lot of customizations on my site and I think If I have to upgrade to Wordpress 2.2,
I might have to go back to a vanilla site and then add back in all my custom features….

Sleepless on Long Island….

By: Kevin Ghadyani

Kevin Ghadyani — Fri, 18 May 2007 09:13:18 +0000

Thanks for the update! I can’t wait till you finally get to my e-mail server.

By: Yvo

Yvo — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:18:30 +0000

Last time I checked

grammar =! spelling

Oh and if your site is down, OPEN A SUPPORT TICKET don’t comment in a post like this one. People don’t seem to have the ability to read.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:03:20 +0000

Oh how I have waited for this to appear somewhere.

An old friend, an English Major got me on this same thing ages ago.

QUOTE:
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# Lorenzo Says:
May 16th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

… “do to …” — Oye Vey! — If you absolutely must:: “due to”, but I believe proper english grammer suggests “because of”.

OK, OK, I’m a grammer nazi. sorry.

In any case, thanks for the vigilance in keeping things current.
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GRAMMAR not GRAMMER

Sorry had to be done.