Minor new issue: Composr cannot access the file from the given URL

I'm not sure if this is related to the latest update to Composr or not, as I don't go to the Forums on my site much. It seems like one of the members would have mentioned it, though, so it *might* be a new issue, and it might have always been there.

When entering one of the forums, we have 2 messages at the top:

Composr cannot access the file from the given URL (https://witches.chat/uploads/catalogues/2).
Composr cannot access the file from the given URL (https://witches.chat/uploads/catalogues/d).

The forum still works just fine. This doesn't happen in any other forums. There is an error message in the logs, but it's not related…it was a warning about something during the update to Composr, but that all went just fine.

Is this some sort of pointer to a catalogue that got deleted in the past?

(updated this post a few hours later with the following)

Getting there messages in several places now. The screenshot above makes me think there's some invalid catalogues, or, that string being the same length, is being truncated somewhere.

(one more new edit here)

Scrolling down a Catelogue, images filepaths are being truncated, so the images don't show, and strings in fields of the Catalogues are truncated, too.

for:   https://witches.chat/index.php?page=catalogues&type=category&id=magical-ingredients

and some other pages, the pages are blown up because some truncation somewhere in strings



I just now saw the bug reports that talk about this issue. But maybe the screenshots will help.

Which hotfix should I use? I see perhaps 3 of them mentioned.

I used https://compo.sr/tracker/file_download.php?file_id=1927&type=bug ( https://compo.sr/tracker/view.php?id=4417 (catalogue truncation) )
The big error messages went away, and much of the catalogue system is back to normal. A few fields (I assume because they are custom fields) in some catalogues are still truncated. Some pictures in some catalogues are missing – probably because of truncated file paths.

Okay last update on this for my site: solved. Turns out that hotfix did solve the issue 100%, but some cache showed old data on 2 pages. I came back in after cleaning the garage and it's all good now.
 

Right, sorry for this bug. It was a really nasty one and affected basically everyone.

No biggie...Composr is remarkable and provides cms solutions that simply aren't available with other systems. Like the others said about this bug...onward we go!

I take photographs for print and online magazines, sometimes, and sometimes I write articles about current events for them. As a curious person, I've always wondered how you came to develop this CMS? Did this stem from the days of BBS's or Waffle (Telnet BBS), or out of some necessity to provide a cms structure as a project?
 

Thanks, I appreciate the moral support .

Okay, so as you may know, before Composr v10 there was ocPortal v9. Composr is basically a rebranding of ocPortal, although the v10 update moved the project on a long way.

Going all the way back to ocPortal v1, this was essentially an amalgamation of a number of code-bases for a network of 3 Star Trek gaming fan sites.

1. Robbie was a huge fan of Star Trek Elite Force, and had one of the biggest fan sites. That had a very active forum, galleries, downloads, lots of pages. That's actually where most of the code came from. Technically Robbie is the original developer, but he did it in an authoring program that helped write the PHP code – at some point I took it over and made a proper CMS around it.
2. In/before university I was making my own free 3D Star Trek game, and had written a 3D engine for it (from scratch, no 3D graphics card needed), a 3D modelling program, and lots of code for interoperability with the pre-existing 3D models of all the main Star Trek games (so I could get ships in). This was a pretty ambitious project, so it had a community website to organise and document things, and the game itself had an inbuilt wiki-like database which was also available online.
3. We had a reference site which contained lots of images and information, to help build the game, or whatever else people might have wanted to build. Much like a wiki, before Wikipedia was known (I'm not sure, we may have been before it).

It was really all a big effort to make a unified online community, with our own game, by pulling in a diverse group of Star Trek nerds. A lot of that stuff was successful, but the game itself didn't get much past early demo of simple space battles.

After university I had to think of what I could throw my time into that would actually bring in income, and decided to launch ocPortal. I'd just finished a business programme as a part of my degree too.

Most of the people involved with developing ocPortal in the early years were members of the above communities.