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typo3 update to 4.3.3

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all systems nominal. TYPO3 is now available in version 4.3.3 and it was easy to update for all of the projects i´m responsible for that where on 4.3.x already. good work, coredevs! looking forward to meet you at the t3dd

the changelog can be found in the TYPO3 wiki. the source can be found on sf.

my systems run without any changes. so just put the symlink to the right directory and the system is safe once more.

why update anyway?

you may delay ignore update, if following conditions are met.

  1. If you use TYPO3 in version  4.3.0, 4.3.1 or 4.3.2 (+ development releases of 4.4 branch).
  2. at least one of following PHP configuration variables set to “off”:
    • register_globals (“off” by default, advised to be “off”),
    • allow_url_include (“off” by default)
    • allow_url_fopen (“on” by default)
  3. You are using Suhosin and haven’t put URL schemes in configuration variable ”suhosin.executor.include.whitelist”.

these details were taken from the current security bulletin. TYPO3 is also a that good cms because the security team does their job that good.

The requested page didn’t have a proper connection to the tree root

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Just a fast snip i was hunting today:

It might be helpful to you, if

  • you use RealUrl
  • get the errors after following links to pages what definetely are correct and visible
  • the errors shows “mp vars”

Get yourself the ‘realurlmanagement’  extension and list the pages in backend hat are the target of the links with it (use ‘pages’ option in module´s view)

The extension may show you several different paths to your page. Just flush them all and you´re good to go.

I was searching for user errors on a larger system for an hour, and did check the realurl caches at last.

And if you´re here but the above solution is not working for you, check the first obvious thing in your shortcut / linking page:

Did you specify the target page? :-)

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get user ip from behind reverse proxy setup

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small problem, wide reach. if your TYPO3 is set up behind a reverse proxy (like pound) and you need the ip connection information of the visitors, T3´s userfunction method comes in handy.

fileadmin/scripts/fwdip.php


<?php
class user_fwdip {
 var $cObj;
 function main($content,$conf){
  $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
  return $ip;
 }
}
?>

This is the file you´d like to ask for the ip from within TYPO3.

To be able to use this file in a userfunc style you´ll need to include the file in TypoScript, i put it into an own TS template on one special page.


page.includeLibs.fwdip = fileadmin/scripts/fwdip.php

You now could put the stuff on the same TS template but i recommend this neat extension to generate the output to one special page in a content element. The extension wraps the TS in a COA.


20 = USER
20 {
 userFunc =user_fwdip->main
}

Now the page you put the element on should show your real ip address, instead of the proxy ip.

Simple, but fully worth a snippet.

nice TYPO3 extensions

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just wanted to post five neat extensions you can get freely from the TER i find worth to be mentioned since they really give me no headache but useful features:

  • stg_clearcache
    allows you to clear cache of user-owned branches in one big installation, so it’s not only clear cache of this one special page and also not clear all page cache. useful if you run a large system or microsites.
  • kb_filequota
    allows you to have a quota on filemounts, either by giving a size limit on the filemout itself or for each user. useful if you’d like to save space and suppress waste in the filemounts.
  • rscliem
    allows you to automatize the extension updates on your system. i use it as nightly extension-cache update and it notifies me by mail, if extension should be updated for the very TYPO3. useful if you’d like to take steps in automatic administration.
  • realurlmanagement
    allows you to view and manipulate a lot of stuff relating to RealUrl extension. simple alias and page-path editing. useful if the system works with RealUrl.
  • nc_staticfilecache
    allows you to cache the pages from your system to server disk and serve them from there (waaay faster!) and so have the site up and running even if the your TYPO3 is ill. useful, if you have mostly static pages and mod_rewrite going.

even if some of them might be well known, i wanted to put a link to give the extension authors a big up! yeah great stuff, keep on going!

if you think this short list was helpful, just leave a comment. i would appreciate, if you send me your missing extension entry for here ;-)

tt_news 3.0.0 outputs “?>”

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the extension update yesterday was not as simple as i thought and what happenened when i came to work today? tons emails complaining about broken web layout in frontend. ha! it’s a pity, the extension is really a good piece of code – but in one file the php ending tag was appearing twice. this generated a ?> just before the output of TYPO3 ( the doctype declaration and else ).

after finding out that it definitely was tt_news i quickly found the bug in the bugtracker :)
alywas look in the bug tracker first.

and the solution is that simple:

in typo3conf/ext/tt_news/lib/class.tx_ttnews_cache.php remove the last line (which is the doublette “?>”) and the system does not print out that tag before the website begins.

but still, it’s a pity that firefox again handles even this error and displays the website the first time after clearing cache with the ?> and the next times without it. But the internet explorer is as dumb as we expect it to be. broken layout due to malformed code – no css inclusion.

typo3 4.3 up and running

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most of my projects are updated and as expected the update to TYPO3 4.3 hadn’t been a problem. everything went well and the new backend look is charming.

all went well

the sites get even faster,i did not instatiate the new caching factory, though. the new recycler is great and a must for every mid sizes website. the new recycler works way better when deleting tons of entries from a table.

the update of the extension templavoila to version 1.4.1 was also no problem, though on the biggest site i administrate (with more than 60 backend editors) i’m preparing for some bug reports. newest tv style finishes the new interface design at all – a feature that impresses them all is the drag and drop feeling.

tt_news 3.0.0 – don’t update live

but beware of upgrading tt_news too fast from version 2.5.2 (which is the highest in the 2.x branch) to 3.0.0 if you not have checked how the templates change! the whole morning was consumed by the fixing of tt_news styling. tt_news come with new caching mechanism that promises to speed up some data work that needs to be done every time news are rendered. tt_news 3.0.0 comes with that cool new update script that checks for possible problems – where it removes relations to templates as far as i remember.

falling back to the standard template coming with v3 the title wrapping changed from h3 to h2 and stuff like this – thus breaking the layout of the website on every page. if you’re using tt_news as main function for a big web site that should not be done “live”. ;)

also there had been problems in the realurl configuration after the update. solution was to grab a selection of the content of res/realUrl_example_setup.txt in the tt_news ext folder and drop it in typo3conf/realurl.php and so the errors were gone.

i don’t know why this was necessary, but tt_news showed a nasty red bordered error if now singlePid was set (which can be done in the constant editor) even if the site worked before with tt_news 2.5.2 due to single-page target was set per plugin settings.

another thing you might want to avoid is the output of some php stuff before the website’s head section.

all in all i’m happy away how simple it’s getting to create web content management. many of the tricks you need to learn are now turned into guides (i.e. compare database is the final step of the update in form of a button in the update wizard process – before that you just “needed to know” that).

great job TYPO3 core team!

mysql replace http://typo3/http://

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remember when the links out of the rte looked like http://typo3/http://yourlink.tld/ ? well, as i still prod at links looking like this, i’d rather post the relieving sql statement here. it’s simple but handy. the replace function just makes backend work even faster.

UPDATE tt_content SET bodytext = REPLACE(bodytext, 'http://typo3/http://', 'http://');

TYPO3 Unknown column error

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Little problem after update to TYPo3 4.3 alpha3 i.e. with domain entries. After changing the domain record for a site (in a multi domain tree setup) the following error is displayed:

SQL error: ‘Unknown column ‘redirectHttpStatusCode’ in ‘field list” (sys_domain:3)

Simple solution: go to tools>install enter the password and start the database analyser and let the compare module do it´s job. after that, most problems like the above should be gone. consecutive action might be the db check>Check and update global reference index.

For most, it is obvious that the compare module is the successional move to finish the incremental update. But if you forget, you might find that blog post. things done ^^