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#11339 .htaccess changes break Uploadify

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 02 March 2012 16:48 CST

Thursday, 01 March 2012 20:45 CST

user56529
PHP Built on: Linux box747.bluehost.com 2.6.32-46.1.BHsmp #1 SMP Tue Sep 6 12:18:02 MDT 2011 x86_64
Database Version: 5.1.60-community-log
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.17
Web Server: Apache
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.22 Stable [ senu takaa ama woi ] 04-November-2010 18:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2
Admin Tools version: 2.2.0

My app uses Uploadify (http://www.uploadify.com/about/) to do asynchronous file uploads (image files and such). Uploadify uses a SWF object to upload the file asynchronously.

This feature stops working when I install the Admin Tools Pro created .htaccess file.

Firebug is not showing any HTTP errors (as seen in the Net panel), but the Uploadify code generates an error when uploading the file. My guess is that the SWF object is uploading the file and Firebug can't see what is going on within it.

The Admin Tools Pro .htaccess file is somehow restricting what Uploadify is trying to do.

Any ideas? How can I further debug this to assist you?

Allan



Friday, 02 March 2012 04:16 CST

nicholas
I believe you have to disable the "Protect against common file injection attacks" option in .htaccess Maker.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Friday, 02 March 2012 08:11 CST

user56529
I already have "Protect against common file injection attacks" turned off.

Any other ideas? Suggestions for how to see the HTTP requests the SWF object is making?

Friday, 02 March 2012 10:43 CST

nicholas
Most likely it's trying to call a PHP file directly. Even though you won't see it in the net panel of any browser debugging tool (Adobe Flash files run inside their own sandbox process) the documentation of that thing should tell you which file is being called so that you can add it in .htaccess Maker's exceptions list.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Friday, 02 March 2012 15:30 CST

user56529
The problem file is uploadify/uploadify.php

Added that to the exception list solved the problem.

Friday, 02 March 2012 16:48 CST

nicholas
I'm glad it's working now!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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