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#8904 invalid headers

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:12 CDT

brianteeman
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I searched the forum before posting? yes
Have I read the Troubleshooting Wizard before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting? yes
Joomla! version: 1.5.23
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (private server Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)
Akeeba Backup Professional version: (latest)

jpa extracts locally on MAMP but gives "Invalid header in archive file, part 0, offset 23571" on remote server

the md5 on the local and remote servers are identical

have read https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/troubleshooter/kscantextract.html

the root of your to-be-restored website was already set to 0777

unable to use ftp mode as ftp not enabled on the server

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Hi Brian,

Um... "latest" is not a meaningful version number :) It can either mean 3.2.7 (the latest stable) or 3.3.a3 (the latest alpha). However, you're lucky on this one because I haven't made any changes to the JPA between those releases.

Please try using the latest dev release of Kickstart. Make sure that the server does have the gzip PHP extension installed - the lack of it is the most frequent cause of this error message. I assume that the server also uses PHP 5.3.5, right?

If this doesn't work and there's no pressing deadline, please send me a PM with the URL to this site and FTP/SFTP connection details so that I can try debugging it directly on the server.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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brianteeman
oops sorry its Akeeba Backup 3.3.a3

The server is using PHP Version 5.3.3-1ubuntu9.5

phar gzip compression enabled was that what you meant?

Unfortunately the sever is firewalled so I cant give you access.

I'm going to try with a zip instead of a jpa

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
ZIP's a good alternative. If all else fails, well, you have to go through the scenic route, extracting locally and letting the files upload while you get a good night's sleep :(

It's very strange that this happens. My local Ubuntu 10.10 box doesn't do that.

Crazy thought: does PHP run as a CGI module on anything else than Apache?

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!

brianteeman
i'm planning on trying to extract the zip remotely

just noticed that php has the suhosin patch if thats relevant

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Hi Brian,

Sorry for the late reply. It wasn't really a good day yesterday for me to reply to anything :(

I checked again with my Ubuntu 10.10 box. It seems that the Suhosin patch is installed by default on all default PHP installations of Ubuntu. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the problems you have with Kickstart.

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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