PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

DazzaJay · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:40 pm Post subject: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

I've been using PH2_Blue on my website for about 5 years, and its been great.
We upgraded to 9.2 about 6 months ago, and its all been good.
Had to update to a 9.2 version of PH2_Blue, but we found one and it worked. and has worked well for months.

However recently a strange issue occurred with it. in which in some browsers, the site stopped loading.

More to the point, it loads, but loads as a blank page.
This first occurred to a friend of mine using Firefox 4 beta a few days ago.
The next day, the same thing happened to me, in both IE and Firefox 3.6 then it happened to a few other mates using different versions of Firefox.

Screwed around with the site a bit and discovered that it was only happening with PH2_Blue
So, I have been forced against my will to change theme.

The interesting part was, if I loaded the site in Firefox's Private Mode, the site would load. but it only loaded about 3 times before that was affected also.

So using chrome I changed the theme.

I have since been around looking for new themes, and have discovered that some other sites using PH2_Blue are suffering the same issue.

Has anyone seen it before, and if so, how to fix it?
as I really want PH2_Blue back Sad

greenday2k · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

Have you/ your host changed/updated the php version?

DazzaJay · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:34 pm Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

When we updated to Debian Lenny (about 6 months ago) but it hasn't been touched since.
and the site was running fine over the last 6 months, untill about 2 days ago.

(realises i should update my server specs in my sig)

:::EDIT:::
Just updated my server info
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greenday2k · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

This ste uses the PH2 theme, does it shows the same issue to you?

www.cmsdreams.co.uk/

I've signed up on your site but my account got suspended 'deleteme' =/ was trying to reproduce the error.

DazzaJay · Last edited by DazzaJay on Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:13 pm; edited 1 time in total

oh, that was you. :-S my bad, I took the username literally, thinking that someone had signed up, then didn't want an account at PS.

I will un-suspend the account and enable user-theme switching.

as for CMS Dreams, I was googling around for a new theme after I worked out that only PH2_Blue was having issues, I came across CMS Dreams and it wouldn't load, then I remembered it had PH2_Blue also (cos ive been there before)

I just reloaded it then and grabbed a screenie....
I also just checked with 2 of the other 3 people (That I know of) that had the issue on my site, One of them can load it (FF 3.6.6 (Same version of Firefox as me)), the other cannot (Firefox 4 Beta).

:::EDIT:::
Found it! there was a rule in AdBlock plus blocking some segment of code that was causing it to all break - gaurenteed thats whats happening on the other's pc's also.
the bad part is, i disabled the rule in ABP thinking id be able to get the code it was blocking out of the list again.... wrong. it failed like a giant sack of .... you get the point, either way apparently disabling the rule deletes it... so....
ROAR! - when scarface gets online (one of the others that had the issue) iil get him to get me the offending code in it, and iil post it here. cos it was just a small section, unique to PH2_Blue, no idea what from in the theme, but it was causing Adblocker to block the entier site in one hit.

Kendle · 500+ Posts Club Offline Joined: Dec 16, 2004 Posts: 552

CMSDreams is my site, I can see it fine in IE5.5, IE6, IE7, IE8, FF3.6.6, Opera 10 and Safari 5.

DazzaJay · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

Hey Kendle, you were replying while i was editing Razz

i found the issue. theres a string of code that AdblockPlus was blocking on mine and scarface's and Andres' PC's Andres' fixed itself, i was a moron (as quoted below) hopefully i can get the line thats in it from Scarface.

DazzaJay wrote:

:::EDIT:::
Found it! there was a rule in AdBlock plus blocking some segment of code that was causing it to all break - gaurenteed thats whats happening on the other's pc's also.
the bad part is, i disabled the rule in ABP thinking id be able to get the code it was blocking out of the list again.... wrong. it failed like a giant sack of .... you get the point, either way apparently disabling the rule deletes it... so....
ROAR! - when scarface gets online (one of the others that had the issue) iil get him to get me the offending code in it, and iil post it here. cos it was just a small section, unique to PH2_Blue, no idea what from in the theme, but it was causing Adblocker to block the entier site in one hit.

greenday2k · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

Ive logged on your site using firefox 3.6 with ADP on windows and no issues using "hp2_blue_brokenFF". Have you fixed the code?

DazzaJay · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

Nope, havent found what caused it, thats why im waiting for Scarface to get back, when he gets online iil get him to find it for me. as soon as i have it i will post it here.

greenday2k · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

BTW i'm using easylist + Easylist from germany on ABP.

DazzaJay · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:26 pm Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

Started with Easylist USA, then grabbed the rest. so im using all.

(Still waiting for scarface to come online - Damn he sleeps a lot)

:::EDIT:::
Scarface just came online and gave me the info i was looking for.

Found what AdBlock Plus was picking up on.
Any idea where the following codes are written into the theme? and what id have to tweak to stop ABP detecting it?

Code::

Filter: ~mail.google.com##table[cellpadding="0"][width="100%"][style^="border: 1px solid rgb("]
Addres: ##table[cellpadding="0"][width="100%"][style^="border: 1px solid rgb("]

Quote::

[05:35] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: ok, can you load this site
[05:35] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: www.cmsdreams.co.uk/
[05:35] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: see if it does the blank page thing PS was doing
[05:35] Scarface: Blank page
[05:35] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: Cool
[05:35] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: ok, right click on AdBlock Plus
[05:36] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: click view blocable items
[05:38] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: the one thats blocking the site load will be listed in red
[05:38] Scarface: Filter: ~mail.google.com##table[cellpadding="0"][width="100%"][style^="border: 1px solid rgb("]
[05:38] Scarface: Addres: ##table[cellpadding="0"][width="100%"][style^="border: 1px solid rgb("]
[05:39] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: Excelent
[05:39] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: now one more part
[05:39] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: www.potholestudios.com...prefs.html
[05:39] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: and set theme to PH2_Blue_BrokenFF
[05:39] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: when it fails to load, is the same code string there?
[05:40] Scarface: Address: ##table[cellpadding="0"][width="100%"][style^="border: 1px solid rgb("]
[05:40] Scarface: Filter: ~mail.google.com##table[cellpadding="0"][width="100%"][style^="border: 1px solid rgb("]
[05:41] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: Excelent, whats the Type coloum have in it?
[05:41] Scarface: Hidden
[05:41] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: cool, iil use this info to fix it
[05:41] Scarface: np
[05:41] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: dont remove the filter line
[05:41] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: as i dont have it anymore (removed it before noteing it like a moron)
[05:42] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: you are the only person that can test if ive fixed it
[05:42] Scarface: mkay
[05:42] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: just disable ABP on PS For a while
[05:42] [PS]DazzaJay[AU]: we dont have ads anyway

DazzaJay · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:06 am Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to find what this filter is actually picking up on in the theme. any ideas would be appreciated.

greenday2k · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:08 am Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

Guess, open header.html of
themes/hp2_blue/templates/header.html

and find:
style="border: 1px solid #000000;"

and replace with
class="table_border"

then open:
themes/hp2_blue/style/style.css

and add:
.table_border {border: 1px solid #000000;}

And test.

Also, Easy list is enough for blocking ads.

InspectorClueNo · Heavy poster Offline Joined: Mar 26, 2008 Posts: 211

why an ads block filter would block this?

DazzaJay · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:05 am Post subject: Re: PH2_Blue broke for no reason.

greenday2k wrote:

Guess, open header.html of
themes/hp2_blue/templates/header.html

and find:
style="border: 1px solid #000000;"

and replace with
class="table_border"

then open:
themes/hp2_blue/style/style.css

and add:
.table_border {border: 1px solid #000000;}

And test.

Also, Easy list is enough for blocking ads.

Thanks, I will look into it. I see where I went wrong in looking for it also, I was searching through the files for exactly how the filtering rule was written, but as you have pointed out it wasn't exactly the same - that's why I couldn't find it.

InspectorClueNo wrote:

why an ads block filter would block this?

Guessing by the fact that the filter has in it mail.google.com in it, a random stab in the dark guess would say it may have something to do with a bad detection for blocking adds on gmails site. but I'm not sure.