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#20039 Configuration data is empty after decryption

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 09 May 2014 11:30 CDT

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Description of my issue:

When the setting to encrypt the configuration in the global Akeebabackup settings is on then the command line (cli) akeeba-backup.php script gets an empty ini_data_local variable in the AEPlatformAbstract->load_configuration function after decryption.
This causes the script to run with the default settings and not the profile settings.

When this security setting is off then the ini_data_local variable holds the profile settings string to parse and the right profile settings are used.

I debugged this by just echoing and catching the output in the cronjob email.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Your PHP CLI binary doesn't have the PHP mcrypt extension enabled or it does have it enabled but doesn't support the rijndael-128 (AES128) cipher. Please remember that the PHP CLI used in CRON jobs and the PHP CGI/FastCGI/mod_php used in your web server have different configuration (php.ini) files and may even be different versions of PHP! If you don't have a say on the php.ini of PHP CLI, e.g. you are on a shared server, the only thing you can do is disable configuration encryption in Akeeba Backup. Not the ideal solution, but the only thing you can do if php.ini is out of reach for you.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Thank you for explaining the issue. I am going to look into the possibility to enable mcrypt for the php cli.

Kind Regards

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You're welcome!

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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