MattI found a bug
Cache-control sometimes caches JSON and serves it where HTML should be.
Urgent bug solved
I’ve solved the critical error with Matrix Dreams. I plugin called User Meta auotupdated but the author forgot to include a critical vendor library. Careful manual uninstall by direct database editing solved that issue.
Don’t worry, I tested the fix in a staging copy first.
My ongoing The March 2024 Bug Hunt bugs to hunt list. I worry that the month will end with bugs remaining.
Bugs I am hunting on my main site:
- This is almost certainly my weak theme design at fault
Bugs here on my node:
- I’m still at the guessing stage for this one
Bugs elsewhere:
- Matrix Dreams: There has been a critical error on this website. shite
- Matrix Dreams is not federating correctly. This is a known bug. Fix Requested
- Like a fool, I missed a whole step on my custom homepage headline module. Work in Progress
- Investigate reports of the Author Buzz login link not working as expected. Still to do
Bug hunt update: Reblog button working again
It is with great nerdy joy that I can report that the dysfunction of the reblog button is over. I may be the only human on the planet that this pleases but I am happy nevertheless. One fewer bugs to hunt.
My bug hunt list: Revised and updated
A further updated list for The March 2024 Bug Hunt. The list keeps growing. Why is the list still growing?
Bugs I am hunting on my main site:
Bugs here on my node:
Bugs elsewhere:
- Matrix Dreams is not federating correctly. This is a known bug. Fix Requested
- Like a fool, I missed out a whole step on my custom homepage headline module. Work in Progress
- Investigate reports of Author Buzz login link not working as expected. Still to do
Season of Bug Hunts: A Success
This month is The March 2024 Bug Hunt. The bug that started all this has been pronounced solved and another is in good hands. I’m truly delighted because now all inbound WebMentions can arrive as they should and soon other irritations will be solved.
Bugs I am hunting on my main site:
Bugs here on the node:
Hunting the 403 error – part 1
One of the bugs I am hunting is a 403 error on a request to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. This bug affects only the Friends plugin as far as I can tell. Two sites are affected.
Things I have tried:
- Deactivating all other plugins. Nope
- Removing server-side optimisations. Nope Not using them
- Contact host technical support Nope
- Hosting checked their logs they found some generic PHP errors that could be related but no 403s that matched my IP or testing periods.
- Messaged the plugin author. Pending
- Write this post and try to think of something else to try …
Today I am mostly debugging my website. Part 5 – it wasn’t the cache
Part 4: Today I am mostly debugging my website. Part 4 – cache?
After a break and a burger, I’ve got back on the bug hunt and had a breakthrough. I took a dive into my error logs and found that Zero Spam was throwing errors because tables it needed to use to log IP errors were missing on blogs that were not the root blog in the network.
I disabled Zero Spam in all sites in the network but not the root site. The root site seems to have a working Zero Spam and it also looks to have eaten hundreds of spam a day.
Now I just need to get my patient bug reports to run another test. Sorry.
March: A season of bug hunting
This month has become a month of solving bugs. I have dubbed this The March 2024 Bug Hunt.
Bugs I am hunting on my main site:
Bugs here on the node:
Today I am mostly debugging my website. Part 4 – cache?
Part 3: Today I am mostly debugging my website. Part 3 – actions taken
Did I give up? No, actually.
I wondered if this was part of the annoying and unsolved JSON cache issue. I added an aggressive set of exclude rules for JSON stuff.
Time will tell.