My Invision Board is on it's Deathbed

[Web Hermit]

Hello all, thanks for taking the time to read this.

I am currently running an old copy of Invision Powerboard v1.1.2 on one of Jaguar PC's Linux hosts.

A little under a week ago, everything fell apart. Absolutely everything.

On average we have about 50 concurrent users, and at our peak over 100. The board is nothing spectacular, and is something I inheritted. I am maintaining it until I have the time to upgrade it to something of my own designs.

Starting last week, the following problems began. Nothing, I repeat absolutely nothing was changed:

A myriad of header problems, including:
* Spam-Bot Flood Control/Registration Control Images no longer work. More than likely because of the gif header required.
* Members are being logged out without reason.
* The myserious blank page problems.
* Roughly 5,000 magically disappeared.
* Users would log on, see the redirection page, and then be taken back to the index (Logged out)
* Password protected forums no longer worked.

I don't particularly like working with software I didn't write, because it tends to be a hassle to fix. Here are the Error logs for the past minute:

(Edit: Moved to second post, exceeded post limit)

Et cetera. Now, as nearly as I can tell... It's complete gibberish. skin_global.php doesn't HAVE a line 596, if it doesn't it's a blank line.

Trying to decode the above as best as possible, the error is coming from a file that requires skin_global, however... How does the PHP Parser not KNOW what file is calling it? And then we have the obvious "Line 0" problem...

I though I had a phantom brace/semi-colon somewhere in there, or one of the files got corrupted. I took the board offline, reuploaded the copy of all files I inheritted with the copy of the board. I changed all the config settings back over to where they were, and emptied the session table of the database.

It fixed some things for some users, etc. Every user has different problems, none are the same, and they all started around the same time.

Against my better judgement, I went back in and chmodded EVERY single file to 777, just to make sure I wasn't being stubborn and overlooking the obvious... Nada.

Any ideas other than buying a vBulletin license until I can finish my side project?

[Web Hermit]

[Wed Jun 30 23:51:00 2004] [error] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/hogwarts/public_html/rpg/Skin/s1/skin_global.php:596) in Unknown on line 0

I chopped it down to 1 line, the 30 seconds of errors were roughyl 10,000 characters long...

[Web Hermit]

And no sooner do I click submit... I get this from a member:

All the different download options (printable, html, word doc) all just give you the Printable version page now.

[the_ancient]

I suggest upgrading to 1.3 atleast....

[Vin DSL]

Your script[s] are sending the header twice. That's a 'no-no'!

There are three things you can do about it:[list=1][*] Turn 'display_errors' off, which you should do anyway, for security reasons. This PHP error is displaying full path info to hackers...[*] Fix the problem.[*] Both.[/list=1]I suggest option #3, but option #1 will get you by for the meantime, albeit with some 'blank' pages possibly being displayed here and there.