HowTo: Disable mbstring in Cpanel

[rockergrrl]

Hey Guys,

If you're on a cpanel box, and have root access to your server, here's how to disable mbstring in php in order to get Polls/Search to work correctly -- in php 4.2.3 (see this thread (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56291) )

Login to your server via SSH/telnet, etc as root.

/scripts/easyapache

choose advanced mode

and make sure these modules are selected

* User bandwidth leech protection
* Bytes logging Module
* Frontpage Module
* Raise HARD_SERVER_LIMIT
* Rewrite Module
* SSL Module
* suEXEC Module

also select
PHP Modules -->

and uncheck whatever you want (PHP modules) i.e. mbstring


and then select EXIT, and have apache/php recompile (it takes about 5 minutes or so).

And then you're good to go.

[Bosco]

My host advised me that others on our shared server want the mstring option on. Now what do I do? It stinks not having the time show of last post and the admin panel missing 1st 4 characters, however by providing 4 spaces I was able to work around the forum name, contact url and home page url by adding 4 spaces before it.


Help :(

[rockergrrl]

The best advice, truely, is to find another host, unfortunately.

From what I hear that vB v3 is going to rely solely on having this disabled to get the board to work.

If you need help finding a host that has it disabled, contact me (trying not to sound to sale pitchy ;) ).

[Bosco]

Thank you. I can not believe this problem was found. I think it should be a show stopper without a doubt. I may buy a dedicated server, will see. Very fustrated at this time, but life goes on beyond forums :)

[rockergrrl]

Of course -- sometimes its better to have your own box, instead of relying on other ppl, as far as problems go.

[eva2000]

nice although recompiling php if dynamically compiled would have the same effect :)

[JasonBrice]

Will doing this restore the characters lost from the begining of the strings?

I just noticed after adding four blank characters to the beginning of a bunch of the admin settings that there was an additional problem.

The names of folders in my user's PM area is also affected by the mbstring bug, and I don't know how to correct it in this instance. Any clues?

[tubedogg]

Doing this will only ensure future polls/pms/whatever will not be affected. It does not fix existing problems.

[00k]

Once this has been changed should all the timecodes start showing up again? Mine haven't.

[JasonBrice]

You need to go through and fix all the settings yourself, unfortunately. It's very irritating.

[waddy]

4.2.3 = a nightmare.

I am on a dedicated server - for some stupid reason I upgraded to php 4.2.3 -- It broke a fully working site, my forums broke and half my site has died ....

If i compile without mbstring apache wont start...

Its been driving me nuts .. heh

I cant understand why the PHP developers havent brought out a fix.... as i am sure we arent the only ones having this issue

:(

[TheForumHost.com]

4.2.3 = a nightmare.

I am on a dedicated server - for some stupid reason I upgraded to php 4.2.3 -- It broke a fully working site, my forums broke and half my site has died ....

If i compile without mbstring apache wont start...

Its been driving me nuts .. heh

I cant understand why the PHP developers havent brought out a fix.... as i am sure we arent the only ones having this issue

:(

Same goes for MySQL, Our customers were getting errors after the MySQL upgrade. a problem with threads becoming corrupt... running repair.php did the trick. Nuke had issues too and required 18 find and replaces between the index, news, downloads and link files.