Re: Maia Guard and Freebsd 12. Problems with PHP..ini

Interesting data point. Not sure why FreeBSD would be different - maybe
something about the php build?

On the Linux side, centos 6,7,8, Debian 10, and Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04 all
prefer smarty 2.

jake

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:11 PM Janky Jay, III <[email protected]> wrote:

> That is interesting. I just checked both the stats page and the
> unconfirmed non-spam just to be sure and they both work as expected on my
> Maia server using Smarty3. Certainly has me curious.
>
> Regards,
> Janky Jay, III
>
> On 4/22/20 2:04 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> As for the smarty 2 vs smarty 3 question, it's interesting if you're
> seeing no difference between them on FreeBSD.
>
> What I've found is that with Smarty 3, configtest.php works fine, and I
> can log into maia and some things work.
>
> But I can see 2 things right off that bat, that break when I swap smarty 2
> for smarty3:
>
> 1. Accessing stats.php results in server error
> [Wed Apr 22 12:57:40.780994 2020] [php7:error] [pid 14744] [client
> 192.168.111.139:34542] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught  --> Smarty Compiler:
> Syntax error in template
> "file:/var/www/html/maia/themes/desert_sand/templates/stats.tpl"  on line
> 65 "{$lang.text_efficiency}  {$eff_pct*100|string_format:"%.2f"}%" unknown
> modifier 'string_format' <-- \n  thrown in
> /usr/share/php/smarty-3.1.34/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
> on line 65, referer: http://maiatest.mainphrame.net/maia/welcome.ph
>
> 2. Clicking on unconfirmed non-spam results in server error
> 192.168.111.139 - - [22/Apr/2020:12:55:44 -0700] "GET
> /maia/list-cache.php?cache_type=ham HTTP/1.1" 500 394 "
> http://maiatest.mainphrame.net/maia/welcome.php" "Mozilla/5
> .0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
> Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"
>
> Switching back to smarty2 fixes everything.
>
> YMMV of course,
>
> Jake
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:32 PM Janky Jay, III <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'll take a crack at making this a little less confusing.
>>
>> The php.ini entry:
>> The entry in the php.ini file is telling PHP what it can access when it's
>> called. So, the entry that you have of "include_path =
>> "/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/share/smarty3-php72” is telling PHP that
>> it is allowed to access both the /usr/local/share/pear and the
>> /usr/local/share/smarty3-php72 directories. So, when your HTTP server
>> starts a PHP process, it can access the pear and smarty data.
>>
>> The Maia Smarty directory:
>> The directory that Maia expects to exist for smarty is located in the
>> Maia web base directory (likely /usr/local/www/maia if installed using the
>> port/pkg) under "libs/Smarty" (So, the full path would be
>> /usr/local/www/maia/libs/Smarty). This directory *MUST* be named "Smarty"
>> (not "smarty" or "Smarty2", etc...). If this directory does not exist, Maia
>> will choke. The FreeBSD port automatically creates a symbolic link from
>> /usr/local/www/maia/libs/Smarty to /usr/local/share/smarty3-php72. With the
>> php.ini entry above in place, it allows the Maia PHP code to access the
>> smarty data in /usr/local/share/smarty3-php72.
>>
>> If you've used Smarty2 instead of Smarty3, only the symbolic link in the
>> Maia web directory would need to be changed. So,
>> /usr/local/www/maia/libs/Smarty would need to be symbolically linked to
>> /usr/local/share/smarty instead of /usr/local/share/smarty3-php72. Also,
>> just an FYI, I haven't heard of any issues with Smarty3 and Maia on
>> FreeBSD. Thousands of installs running perfectly out there so you shouldn't
>> *NEED* to use Smarty2 but you certainly can.
>>
>> I hope this helps!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Janky Jay, III
>>
>> On 4/22/20 12:55 PM, Jason Hirsh wrote:
>>
>> OK  now  don’t feel so good
>>
>>
>> Going to quit  till tomorrow.  I am back beyond confused
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 2:46 PM, jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> If the directory is already named "Smarty" then there is no need for a
>> symbolic link.
>>
>> The symlink would have been needed if the directory was named "smarty", "smarty3-php72"
>> or anything other than "Smarty"
>>
>> What does configtest,php say now?
>>
>> jake
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:42 AM Jason Hirsh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> OK. I changed the Smarty 2 directory to Smarty since that seem easier
>>> then rewriting Smarty
>>>
>>> (See *jjs - mainphrame <[email protected] <[email protected]>>)*
>>>
>>> *Changed the path to*
>>>
>>> include_path = "/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/share”
>>>
>>> *Lawrence Mulder <lmulder-iL7gtBVyNKCGUxFv0Br65wC/[email protected] <lmulder-iL7gtBVyNKCGUxFv0Br65wC/[email protected]>>*
>>>
>>>
>>> Bit I am confused on the symbolic link
>>>
>>>
>>> ln -s /usr/local/share/smarty Smarty
>>>
>>> *jjs - mainphrame <[email protected] <[email protected]>>*
>>>
>>> Shouldn’t that now be
>>>
>>>
>>> ln -s /usr/local/share/Smarty Smarty
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks guys
>>>
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 2:25 PM, Lawrence Mulder <lmulder-iL7gtBVyNKCGUxFv0Br65wC/[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jason,
>>>
>>> I think what Derek is saying, is that you have the smarty directory
>>> included in your include_path… it should only be the parent directory.  You
>>> want to find the smarty folder at that include_path, not the smarty files.
>>> So, shorten your include_path to:
>>>
>>> include_path = "/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/share”
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Larry
>>>
>>> *From:* Maia-users <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Jason
>>> Hirsh
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 22, 2020 1:04 PM
>>> *To:* Derek Atkins <[email protected]>
>>> *Cc:* Maia-Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Maia-users] Maia Guard and Freebsd 12. Problems with
>>> PHP..ini
>>>
>>> Doesn’t this do that ??
>>>
>>>
>>> include_path = "/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/share/smarty”
>>>
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Add /usr/local/share to the list so that smarty/Smarty.php can be found.
>>>
>>> -derek
>>> Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>>>
>>>
>>> On April 22, 2020 1:58:14 PM Jason Hirsh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK Appreciate all the help but I am now completely confused
>>>
>>>
>>> To recap.  I down grade to Smarty 2.0
>>>
>>> It is is located in /usr/local/share/smarty
>>>
>>> Php.ini (one and only at /usr/local/etc/php.ini)
>>>
>>> Has the following
>>>
>>> include_path = "/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/share/smarty"
>>>
>>> Configuration failed for Smart Template Engine
>>>
>>> There is also a comment here that says
>>>
>>> "here should be a symbolic link to "/usr/local/share/smarty3-php72"
>>> from "libs/Smarty". For example, in my "/usr/local/www/maia/libs"
>>> directory, there is a symlink that looks like "Smarty@ ->
>>> /usr/local/share/smarty3-php72". “
>>>
>>> I am using smarty2. And this would appear to start the issue with case
>>> sensitivity again
>>>
>>>
>>> Thought for a confused old man??
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 1:13 PM, jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From what you have written, it looks like you're very close to working,
>>> There's just one thing you haven't done.
>>>
>>> Make sure that maia finds "Smarty/Smarty.class.php" in the path. If that
>>> doesn't fix the problem, I'd be shocked.
>>>
>>> Jake
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:10 AM Jason Hirsh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have made the mistake of following too many courses of action and
>>> advice at once
>>>
>>> The maia installations is pretty much hosed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Have to step back and look at how to recover
>>>
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 12:03 PM, jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 'smarty" won't work. I just did a quick test on my local maia server.
>>>
>>> This works:
>>>
>>> # ll /usr/share/php/
>>>
>>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    8 Apr 22 09:00 Smarty -> Smarty2/
>>> drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Mar 22 11:41 Smarty2
>>>
>>> This fails:
>>>
>>> # ll /usr/share/php/
>>>
>>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    8 Apr 22 09:00 smarty -> Smarty2/
>>> drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Mar 22 11:41 Smarty2
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:49 AM Jason Hirsh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> The directory is lower case   “smarty”
>>>
>>> The file is Uppercase. “Smarty.class.php”
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 11:43 AM, jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Keep in mind that it's case sensitive. "smarty" != "Smarty"
>>>
>>> Jake
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:40 AM Jason Hirsh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jake
>>>
>>> Path to that on my server is   "
>>> /usr/local/share/smarty/Smarty.class.php"
>>>
>>> So I should have that covered unless the following is wrong
>>>
>>>  include_path = "/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/share/smarty"
>>>
>>> Thank again
>>>
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 10:44 AM, jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Remember, it's looking specifically for "Smarty/Smarty.class.php" (case
>>> sensitive)
>>>
>>> Jake
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:50 AM Jason Hirsh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok. New day tried again
>>>
>>> Removed smarty 3 and installed smarty 2 which installed under
>>> /usr/local/share/smarty
>>>
>>> Using include_path = "/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/share/smarty"
>>>
>>> Pear is loaded happy but no smarty according to the configtest.pl
>>>
>>> Can’t get any access to Smarty Mailing list or Forum
>>>
>>> Took me a month to get Maia installed originally   now its dead after a
>>> simple upgrade
>>>
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In general, I find that Smarty3 breaks maia, and I've always had to
>>> install Smarty2 to get a 100% working setup.
>>>
>>> I've always installed Smarty under /usr/share/php. Do you have a single
>>> php.ini for cli and web versions?
>>>
>>> Jake
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:37 PM Jason Hirsh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>  And SmartI recently upgraded my Server running Freebsd 12.1 1. PHP.
>>> 7.2.29   PEAR 1.10.6    and smarty3-php72-3.1.32
>>>
>>>
>>> My Configuration tester says that all is OK except for smarty.  I think
>>> I am messing up the php.ini. include_path
>>>
>>>
>>> My current is
>>>
>>> include_path = "/usr/local/share/pear:/usr/local/share/smarty3-php72”
>>>
>>>
>>> The Maia config test is happy except for Smarty. Where it says “Failed
>>> Not Installed”.  The reference page has been no help
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions??
>>>
>>>
>>> Jason
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