php5.2 mysql5 upgrade....uploads no longer convert

Hi, I updated my server to php5.2 and mysql5 and now did a multi import from the admin panel and the videos are not converting...they just sit there....

has this ever happened to anyone?

To Import videos from folder, you need to do the following

1. Create a folder "import" inside templates_c folder.

2. chmod 777 import folder you just created.

3. Upload the videos to import folder with FTP.

4. chmod 777 all uploaded videos.


Go to Video Processing = > Process Queue => clik on convert now

i am very familiar with the process and have done it many times...

what is happening is also when i try to upload from within the site i get a 500 error.

I tried the link on another post that tested the perl on your server and it says there is a misconfiguration


how is it supposed to be configured? and what files? Where can I get original files from???

Are you using the upload progress bar? Are you getting the 500 error after you hit the upload button, or after the progress bar says complete?

I get it as soon as I click it the first time...500 error pops up.

The same is true when I try to convert in the admin panel. When I finish the form to do the multi upload it just sits there and doesn't convert.

I think there is an issue with Perl.

I did just do a bunch of upgrades to my server.

I saw in another post that this means perl is messed up. What I would like to know is how am I supposed to configure Perl, what files should I alter, and if possible could I get the originals as it seems they may have been corrupted somehow...

I installed this software abt a year ago and it's been a while since I ve dealt with the actual base install portion.

see for yourself.

my site is on my profile...(i didnt wanna post it in the forum, it gets indexed on google)

I'm not a Perl programmer so I'm not too sure. Your best bets are going to be Perl.org or cpan.org for Perl related help. Because Perl is a default system language on Linux (similar to how C and C++ are default languages on Windows), chances are Perl is not messed up, but due to your upgrades, you may have messed up some Apache configuration files that connect into Perl. What all did you upgrade?

i upgraded php to 5.2 and mysql to 5

I also upgraded the Zend optimizer to 3.33

Based on what you upgraded, you should not be seeing anything Perl related that is wrong. How did you upgrade PHP and mySQL? Did you just visit their websites and download and install the upgrades?

http://video.bizhat.com/cgi-bin/uu_upload.pl

when I click on this link this is what I get



ERROR: Invalid parameters


This is a link ADMIN posted to check see if your Perl was working right......

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1671&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a


Is there a way i can get the original files....i dont currently have them on my machine...

yum update mod_php

then I had to download the new Zend optimizer and i unzipped the tarball and installed it as su -

then I upped the mysql by changing values in the .conf file then doing a yum update

now I actually get errors related to perl I think hold ill post em

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Apache::Log) for package: perl-Apache-ASP
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Apache::Response) for package: perl-Apache-ASP
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Apache::Connection) for package: perl-Apache-ASP
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: mod_perl < 2.0.0 is needed by package perl-Apache-ASP
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Apache::Response) is needed by package perl-Apache-ASP
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Apache::Connection) is needed by package perl-Apache-ASP
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Apache::RequestRec) is needed by package perl-Apache-ASP
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Apache::RequestIO) is needed by package perl-Apache-ASP
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Apache::RequestUtil) is needed by package perl-Apache-ASP
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Apache::Log) is needed by package perl-Apache-ASP

so the obvious question now is...just install these dependencies and be on your way right? Wrong....

it is becoming increasing ly tedious, since every time I install something perl related it says it needs a dependency...

is there a yum command i can run or a few liners taht would allow me to get all the dependencies I need? and get this working again? My site is crippled right now :(

oh and nice site btw.... ;) where did u get the design inspiration ;)


>>>>> my site d u t t y c l i p s [d o t ] [c o m ]

I believe I see your problem. One last question, however, to be sure. Did you originally install php, mySQL, apache, etc, using yum? Or, did you just use yum to update those packages?

I just used yum to update them, they were already installed when I got my VPS

VPS? Does your VPS have a control panel installed (Cpanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin)?

yip...but here is the problem.

I have plesk

and Zend optimizer and Plesk dont play well together.

when i installed zend it killed plesk, this has happened b4 tho...I just need to find out how to get it working again...but im sure all of this is related.

Nevermind, I did a quick check on your site. Your VPS is running under Virtuozzo which means that it is Plesk. Do you want the good news first or the bad news?

spill the beans

The good news is that you can probably very easily recover from your mistake. The bad news is that the recovery will likely wipe out your VPS (requiring you to have to make a backup of your site onto your computer and, depending on what version of Plesk is installed and your allowed options, either restore the VPS yourself or have your host do it).

Here is the problem:

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are not the same as Virtual Machines (VM) even though they are very similar. In a full VM, you have a physical server, a piece of software known as a type-I hypervisor, followed by a virtually installed operating system. You know what a physical server is obviously. A type-I hypervisor (in a nutshell) is basically a set if instructions that take the hardware on the server and presents it virtually so that multiple "guest" systems can utilize the hardware. Lastly, you have the virtualized operating system which includes virtualized drivers and such. In a sense, a VM is a physical machine operating virtually (known as DOM1) rather than operating directly on the physical hardware (DOM0). A VPS, however, you have a physical server, a type-II hypervisor, and then a paravirtualized operating system. The differences here are the type-II hypervisor and the paravirtualized operating system. With a VPS, a type-II hypervisor is an operating system in itself that is running a virtualized abstraction layer. All this means is that you have a OS that is running an application (similar to VMWare Workstation). However, from there, you have a paravirtualized operating system. This means that the OS that you install virtually "borrows" key pieces and elements from the host (so as to not have to use virtualized drivers). The benefit here is that you get a speed boost, which is highly noticeable if you are dealing with a type-I hypervisor (such as Xen) and not so much when you are dealing with a type-II hypervisor (such as Virtuozzo).

So, I said all of that above to say this... in a Virtuozzo environment, while your VPS is private from other VPS's on the physical server, each VPS share certain pieces of code from the main OS running the physical server (they are not fully separate). This means that if you run certain commands from your VPS (commands that do not normally cause damage on a normal dedicated server), you can actually break functions within the VPS, causing it not to work correctly. That's the Virtuozzo part (I'll explain why I mentioned this in just a second). The second part of this is that you have Plesk installed, which is a full web-server control panel. Likewise, running certain commands from your VPS will break Plesk, causing a lot of your web server applications to not work correctly. So here are your mistakes:

1. First, you ran a yum update mod_php. This command merely updates the PHP module and not the full PHP application. You would normally run a yum update php to update php and everything associated with it.

2. You changed values in mySQL so that yum would detect it being out of date.

3. You installed Zend Optimizer on Plesk manually.

4. You ran a yum update, which not only updates outdated applications, it also updates critical system files (some of these files are not actually present on the VPS because of the code sharing I mentioned above).

What you should have done:

1. Asked your web hosting provider to upgrade Plesk for you, which would have upgraded all of your software.

Getting back to the full control panel thing, Plesk actually installs custom versions of programs like Apache, PHP, mySQL, etc. However, when you run yum, you are in a sense, installing the default prepackaged versions of the applications and/or updating the Plesk versions of the applications to the prepackaged ones. For Plesk, this can create problems as it tends to break a lot of things in Plesk (the only commercial panel that I know of in which this does not happen is DirectAdmin, mainly because DirectAdmin installs the prepackaged versions of the software via applications like yum). This is even more dangerous when you are sitting on top of Virtuozzo. I would highly suggest that before you run any kind of upgrade or update program, you do a quick Google search to see if other people with your version of Plesk and Virtuozzo have run into any incompatibilities.

i actually understood everything you said...but here is the problem...

Godaddy will NOT install or UPGRADE ANYTHING for you on a VPS. not even with the Expert hands service which I asked to PAY for.....the only thing they were willing to do is to reinstall plesk lol

If that is the case, I would seriously consider switching to another provider. To be honest, there are companies out there that provide dedicated servers that are in the price range of most VPS services. Some even offer managed services (meaning that they will manage the box for you, which includes updates, etc). I know of a decent service that will provide you with a managed dedicated server that includes:

2.4GHz Processor
1GB Ram
120GB Hard Drive
1500GB Bandwidth per month
100Mbit port
Free DirectAdmin control panel

All for about $59 per month. PM me if you would like details.

that is a really good deal...

but what control panel?

DirectAdmin is included for the price. If you want Plesk or CPanel, there would be an additional charge.

how much is CPANEL