new issue (check_referrer() error)

Involved Joined: Apr 22, 2006 Posts: 356

Well, I must once agian call upon your help. I now have a new issue that just arose a few hours ago. I can not access the site www.maysvillesports.com. I get the following error:

check_referrer() error)

I am not able to access the site or admin section.

I have been having a few issues due to the spam blocker module but do not know if this is related..

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Even if you enter the domain in the browser's address box?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:38 pm

yes
did you try?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:13 pm

What version of nuke are you running?
I am trying to visit the site and I see the error, time to see where its being called.

registered · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:20 pm

It does sound like a Spam Blocker issue, you may want to disable it

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:05 am

I am running Raven's RavenNuke76 v2.02.02 Distro. How can I disable it, I cannot access the admin section? I guess I can ftp and deleat it.

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:16 am

ok, i commented it out in the mainpage file and the site is back up. Thanks code-author.

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:43 am

Chech referer error should only happen if nukeroot/refer-karma.php is not 'included' correctly, the file is corrupt or it has been edited and an error introduced.
I think it is unlikely that the error would just happen on its own.

Make sure the mainfile edit (as per the readme) is

Code:




if(file_exists('referrer-karma.php')) {include_once ('referrer-karma.php'); }


if(function_exists('check_referrer')) { check_referrer(); }

I specifically did the edit like this to prevent problems if referer-karma.php was removed or damaged during a site update (the check referrer function is located inside this file).

From posts on my site, it appears you had an issue because your ISP is listed in third party balcklists which prevented you from accessing your own site - the Spam Stopper module works extremely well but this is certainly a bad side effect if you are unfortunate enough to have an ISP who has been blacklisted due to some of its other clients sending spam etc.

I would suggest you redo the mainfile edit and upload a fresh copy of referrer-karma.php
Due to the ISP issue you can remove the third party blacklist check by commenting out all the code from

Code:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


// Bad Words


//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

to the bottom of the file (with the exception of the very last line which is the closing php tag.

As soon as I get back from Germany I'll look at this for you.

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:06 pm

This is at the bottom of my mainfile page.

Code:




if (defined('FORUM_ADMIN')) {





    include_once("../../../includes/nsngr_func.php");





} elseif (defined('INSIDE_MOD')) {





    include_once("../../includes/nsngr_func.php");





} else {





    include_once("includes/nsngr_func.php");





}





//if(file_exists('referrer-karma.php')) {include_once ('referrer-karma.php'); }


//if(function_exists('check_referrer')) { check_referrer(); } 


?>

with the exception of having the last two lines commented out

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:04 pm

That looks correct, so there must be a problem with the referrer-karma file.
I'll PM you upon my return for ftp etc.

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:09 pm

ok, no hurries, enjoy your trip.

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:16 pm

Nice looking theme, kevinkap

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:27 pm

thanks

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:28 pm

I am about ready to pull my darn hair out. I have not made any changes to anything after commenting out the lines suggested by site guardian. The site was online fine earlier, now just a white page again in FF and page not available in IE.

Involved Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 252 Location: OKC, OK

Well it seems up again. Did you do anything kevinkap?

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:17 pm

I rebooted and that did not fix it. It just came back up a couple hours later. Really starting to get to me.