Answered Site completely down

No changes made to the site in months and suddenly my down detector emails that site is down.

Site has white page with error in top left. Nothing else.

I can login to manager and see all backend and if I do this then try and browse the site I get :-

Trying to get property of non-object
« MODX Parse Error »
Error : Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
Error information
ErrorType[num] WARNING[2]
File /home/stevea/public_html/assets/.md5
Line 352

Basic info
REQUEST_URI http://steveallenphotography.com/
Resource [1] Stock Photography by Steve Allen
Referer
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_2) AppleWebKit/604.4.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0.2 Safari/604.4.7
IP 2a02:c7f:5a2c:7a00:f17f:ca09:a22b:1ac1
Current time 2017-12-11 13:55:38

Benchmarks
MySQL 0.0147 s (39 Requests)
PHP 0.1346 s
Total 0.1493 s
Memory 6.0737457275391 mb

Backtrace
shutdown()
on line

Attachments aren't working - that is something to do with the forum

Back to your site:

What version of Evo are you using ?
When was the last time your host updated the server ?
What PHP version is running on the server ?

If your version of Evo is not compatible with the current server setup, you will get the error

Quote from: iusemodx at Dec 11, 2017, 02:40 PM

Attachments aren't working - that is something to do with the forum

Back to your site:

What version of Evo are you using ?

1.2

When was the last time your host updated the server ?

Updated in what way? I run a dedicated cPanel server so it's updated often, sometimes daily as patches and upgrades come through.

What PHP version is running on the server ?

I have tried it on PHP7 and PHP 5.6 with PHP-FPM both on and off

If your version of Evo is not compatible with the current server setup, you will get the error

It says the error comes from: /home/stevea/public_html/assets/.md5

What is or what's in ".md5"

Also, if you have access to the manager, try turning snippets and or plugins off one at a time and then attempt to view your homepage - if you can view it when something is switched off, thats probably / possibly the culprit.

The question ref. server update was related to any securty and or PHP changes that could affect running Evo

That error looks familiar from when I did some work on the easy2gallery snippet, if you use that for a gallery it could be the issue.

I've googled these and they are checksum files apparently. They exists for milliseconds and then are removed so there isn't a .md5 file to look at.

Quote from: iusemodx at Dec 11, 2017, 08:00 PM

It says the error comes from: /home/stevea/public_html/assets/.md5

What is or what's in ".md5"

Also, if you have access to the manager, try turning snippets and or plugins off one at a time and then attempt to view your homepage - if you can view it when something is switched off, thats probably / possibly the culprit.

Yeah, tried that :-(

The question ref. server update was related to any securty and or PHP changes that could affect running Evo

You could try deleting the Cache via the Manager: Site > Clear Cache

It may be better to delete the cache via ftp or ssh but I can't remember the location of the cache directory in Evo. I think it may be in: /assets/cache/

Yeah, tried that - doesn't help I'm afraid :-(

Quote from: andytough at Dec 12, 2017, 02:34 PM

You could try deleting the Cache via the Manager: Site > Clear Cache

It may be better to delete the cache via ftp or ssh but I can't remember the location of the cache directory in Evo. I think it may be in: /assets/cache/

I think it may be cache related though. I searched for site:steveallenphotography.com

From all the pages returned I visited http://www.steveallenphotography.com/59.html

The page rendered OK.

Then I refreshed my browser to visit the page a second time and got 'Error'

I don't have any advice to offer to go along with that observation - but hopefully the behaviour described will provide you with a clue or trigger someone's memory.