Problem - content is displayed but can not be saved in backend

[imandreas]

I'm facing a real strange and big problem. The PW installation is 10 months old, but somehow in the backend all content is displayed, also the edit forms are displayed, but when saving the content, no change is saved.

Also when creating a new page, it is possible to create the page, but not to publish. Page is saved as unpublished. Clicking "Publish + Exit" is still keeping on the page/edit.

There are no log files created beside "session" logs, even the debug mode is enabled.

Installed modules are:

- ProFields: Custom
- ProFields: Repeater Matrix

But also creating a page, that is not using any complex field, instead only one, the behaviour is the same.

Maybe there is an issue with the primary field required for all pages/templates: "PageTitleLanguage"

It is a real strange and scary, that it is not possible to debug and get hints for the problem.

Help is really much appreciated!

[virtualgadjo]

hi,

hard to really answer not knowing the exact situation, local, online...  but the first thing that comes to mind would be if online,, has your hoster suddenly changed the php version (a simple phpinfo in your website root will tell you)
if yes, can you choose your php version and go bak to the one used when everything went well before updating your pw install and then, why not, upgrading again the php version up to one with which eveything is ok

of course, all this if there was a time when averything went well, usually the case with pw 🙂 if not, let us know with some more details about the full situation, config, online or not, pw release, php version and so on

have a nice day

[imandreas]

Hi @virtualgadjothanks a lot for your suggestions. Yes, PHP version and hoster changed. But it was also not working on my localhost.

There was one hint, it throwed sometimes the exception message "This request was aborted because it appears to be forged.". But anyhow, this happens sometimes, and does not really indicate any problem. 

But now I found the reason! The reason is anyhow the module "Session Handler Database" :( If I remove it, then its working!

The really strange things are, that even the Session handler is somehow not valid, you can create a page, but saving the fields of a page, it struggles. Maybe it would have been clearly earlier, that something is on the session, if I wouldnt had disabled the above mentioned exception. But again, it is strange, creating a new page with a malformed session is possible, but not the fields.

I don't know, why the Session Handler Database is not working. There are parameters in the module:

- Track IP addresses in session data
- Track user agent in session data?
- Disallow parallel sessions?
- Session lock timeouts (seconds) = 50

But I don't know, if any of them affect it.

So after de-installing this module, I re-installed it, and now it is working as if nothing happend before.

[virtualgadjo]

Hi @imandreas

really glad you solved it! 🙂
and wow, 50 secosds for a session lock, you have to be typing faster than ussein bolt 😄 have you checked if re-installing the module has changed this curious delay?

have a nice day

[imandreas]

@virtualgadjoyes, I'm still exhausted from debugging and researching, but glad, it works again. Uh, I have no idea about the 50, it's just there again, I didn't changed anything and have no clue on this setting. 

[virtualgadjo]

@imandreas really funny this short delay but sure there must be something else allowing it to start again from every movement in the admin or you would be unlogged all the time and get crazy 😂

i'll have a try at this module to try and understand a little more how it works but it still doesn't tell us where the problem was... maybe it simply needed an update due to the php version and re-installing it did that update by itself!?

have a  nice day 🙂