Very strange error : Page cannot be found (not a 404 error!)

bullet350

Greetings everyone,

I have been having a very strange error with a web-based application I developed (PHP, MySQL, some JavaScript (no AJAX)). Let me start at the beginning.

I was working on making an update of an earlier version, the scope of the update is very large and the site couldn't be taken offline so I made all changes in an offline version (on my computer) as I always do and uploaded the stuff to a second folder on the website so that the owner could try it out.

All things worked perfectly, database connection, queries, parsing etc, everything worked fine, there is only one very odd problem: none of the forms submit, basically the entire site works through one main index page which "includes" other pages as required.

Now, the form is submitted to a second "processing" page which is in a different folder on the site, none of the forms submit! When submitted, they give a "Page cannot be found error" - important to note is that this is not a 404 error (generated by Firefox)!

Moreover, some aspects of the site use the same old code from the earlier version, these don't work as well! I get the same error.

The earlier version, still uploaded works fine... no problems there.

I would really appreciate any help on this, I have been breaking my head over this for past 10 days! If anyone needs any more information, please let me know.

Many thanks to everyone.

bullet350

Dear all,

Just a quick append to the question, the actual error says "File not found" (in firefox), similar in Safari and Chrome, different from the 404 error thrown by the server...

Thanks,

bradgrafelman

Can you show us the HTML code of one of the problematic forms?

Also, is there any chance we could get a link to one of these pages?

bullet350

Thanks for the reply bradgrafelman,

Here is the code:

<tr>
            <td align="right" valign="top" style="padding-right:15px; padding-top:15px;"><strong>Post Reply</strong></td>
            <td valign="top" style="padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:5px; border-top:1px solid #AAAAAA;"><form action="phpstuff/process_message.php" method="post">
            <textarea name="message_post" cols="40" rows="8" id="message_post" style="padding:2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px; border:1px solid #AAAAAA; "><?php if(isset($_POST)) echo $message_post;?></textarea>
                <br />
                <br />
                <input type="hidden" name="subjectid" value="<?php echo $subjectid;?>" /><input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
            </form></td>
          </tr>

Very strangely, this is working fine on my local testing server, a test (online) server - but not on the production server (all are exactly same configuration).

Many thanks again,

bradgrafelman

Any chance you can give us a link to this page on the production server?

bullet350

Thanks for the reply bradgrafelman,

Now for the reason the production server is not working from here, the address of the server is http://74.152.179.82 does it work for you?

thanks,

bradgrafelman

bullet350;10966273 wrote:
the address of the server is http://74.152.179.82 does it work for you?

Well, that IP address does bring up a website... though from the looks of it, I'd have to guess it's an ARRIS Touchstone cable modem web GUI rather than the server you're accessing. If you're on the same LAN as the server behind this cable modem, then I'd guess that port 80 isn't being port forwarded to that server.