Magento 1.9 custom cache issue - php

I have an issue with Magento Custom Cache.
I have Observer method which launches by cron, i write value to the cache:
Mage::app()->saveCache($visitorsCount, 'cached_google_analytics_visitors_count', [], $twoDaysInSeconds);
Value is successfuly saved and i'm able to extract it from cache here. And files
mage---4ae_CACHED_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_VISITORS_COUNT
and
mage---internal-metadatas---4ae_CACHED_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_VISITORS_COUNT
are here two.
Now it's time to extract value from cache in my block, so i do this way:
$visitorsCount = Mage::app()->loadCache('cached_google_analytics_visitors_count');
But it returns me false. I've investigated that the reason is that there is no CACHED_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_VISITORS_COUNT in metadatasArray in Zend_Cache_Backend_File class, but the file of metadatas exists.
More then, metadatasArray has this value when i'm writting value to the cache.
Hope your help.
Regards, Nikolay

i've got the reason of error:
cron was running from another user than web-server, so php-proccess didn't have permissions to read the file with metadatas. I've launched cron from www-data user and it works correctly now

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Moodle object storage file system "No candidate objects found"

So I've been trying to see if the plugins I've installed for moodle (moodle-tool_objectfs)
is working correctly. It seems like the cronjob is working perfectly but whenever I uploaded any files (etc : sample.png), it's still not stored in s3. When i check the logs in the task_log it says
Execute scheduled task: Object file system upload task (tool_objectfs\task\push_objects_to_storage)
... started 10:51:02. Current memory use 32.1MB.
No candidate objects found.
... used 1 dbqueries
... used 0.0039408206939697 seconds
Scheduled task complete: Object file system upload task (tool_objectfs\task\push_objects_to_storage)
Here's is my config for the plugin
Why is it saying
No candidate objects found.
Did i miss anything or is my setup wrong?
Nvm. I've fixed it by setting the Min. Age to 0 seconds.
Minimum age that a object must exist on the local filedir before it will be considered for transfer

Magento: working XML but install script not running

http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/magento-for-dev-part-6-magento-setup-resources
This is the link from where I am trying to create resource setup. I followed exactly. Everything works perfect except that the installer script is not getting run i.e. when opening any Magento page it is not dying since it is written die statement in installer script.
Start by looking in the core_resource table. Do you see your resource's name? That means Magento thinks it already installed the resource. Delete this row, clear your cache, and try again.
Also, some debugging statements that take a look at the $files variable in
#File: app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php
protected function _modifyResourceDb($actionType, $fromVersion, $toVersion)
{
...
}
should tell you what files Magento thinks it should load.

CakePHP 1.2 - Cache::delete doesn't work in prod

I have a curious problem. I have a shell file runned by cron each 15 minutes to gathers different RSS data. I use cache helper in CakePHP to save the result as this :
echo 'Update cache...';
Cache::delete('AggregatedNews.getHome');
Cache::delete('AggregatedNews.getHome.fr');
Cache::delete('AggregatedNews.getHome.en');
Cache::write('AggregatedNews.getHome',$this->AggregatedNews->getHome());
Cache::write('AggregatedNews.getHome.fr',$this->AggregatedNews->getHome(array('AggregatedNews.language'=>'fr'))); Cache::write('AggregatedNews.getHome.en',$this->AggregatedNews->getHome(array('AggregatedNews.language'=>'en')));
echo 'Cache updated!';
This code works well on my computer and in dev environment on the server. But in prod, nothing happens. If I manually delete the cache file to see if Cache::Write works, it's still the same.... Somebody have an idea?
Thanks!
The most probable reason is you forgot to set write permission to tmp folder.

session_start hangs

since a few hours our server hangs every time you do a session_start.
For testing purposes i created a script which looks like this:
<?php
session_start();
?>
Calling it from the console hangs and it can't even be stopped with ctrl-c, only kill -9 works. The same for calling it via Apache. /var/lib/php/session/ stays empty but permissions are absolutely fine, www can write and also has read permissions for all parent folders.
According to the admins there were no changes made on the server and there is no special code registered for sessions. The Server is CentOS 4 or 5 and yesterday everything was working perfectly. We rebooted the server and updated PHP, but nothing changed.
I've ran out of ideas, any suggestions?
UPDATE
We solved this problem by moving the project to another server, so while the problem still exists on one server there is no immediate need for a solution anymore.
I will keep the question open in case someone has an idea for others having a similar problem in the future, though.
There are many reasons for that, here are a few of them:
A. The session file could be opened exclusively.
When the file lock is not released properly for whatever reason, it is causing session_start() to hang infinitely on any future script executions.
Workaround: use session_set_save_handler() and make sure the write function uses fopen($file, 'w') instead of fopen($file, 'x')
B. Never use the following in your php.ini file (entropie file to "/dev/random"), this will cause your session_start() to hang:
<?php
ini_set("session.entropy_file", "/dev/random");
ini_set("session.entropy_length", "512");
?>
C.
session_start() needs a directory to write to.
You can get Apache plus PHP running in a normal user account. Apache will then of course have to listen to an other port than 80 (for instance, 8080).
Be sure to do the following things:
- create a temporary directory PREFIX/tmp
- put php.ini in PREFIX/lib
- edit php.ini and set session.save_path to the directory you just created
Otherwise, your scripts will seem to 'hang' on session_start().
If this helps:
In my scenario, session_start() was hanging at the same time I was using the XDebug debugger within PHPStorm, the IDE, on Windows. I found that there was a clear cause: Whenever I killed the debug session from within PHPStorm, the next time I tried to run a debug session, session_start() would hang.
The solution, if this is your scenario, is to make sure to restart Apache every time you kill an XDebug session within your IDE.
I had a weird issue with this myself.
I am using CentOS 5.5x64, PHP 5.2.10-1. A clean ANSI file in the root with nothing other than session_start() was hanging. The session was being written to disk and no errors were being thrown. It just hung.
I tried everything suggested by Thariama, and checked PHP compile settings etc.
My Fix:
yum reinstall php; /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Hope this helps someone.
To everyone complaining about the 30 seconds of downtime being unacceptable, this was an inexplicable issue on a brand new, clean OS install, NOT a running production machine. This solution should NOT be used in a production environment.
Ok I face the same problem on 2 PC, 1 is MAC mini XAMPP, 1 is Windows 10 Xampp.
Both is php spent infinity to run session_start(). Both PHP version is 7.x.x
I found that session files is lock to read and write. So that I added code to make PHP read session files and immediately unlock when done with
<?php
session_start([
'read_and_close' => true,
]);
?>
or
<?php
//For PHP 5.x
session_start();
session_write_close();
?>
After this PHP unlock session file => Problems solve
The problem: -
Iv experienced (and fixed) the problem where file based sessions hang the request, and database based sessions get out of sync by storing out of date session data (like storing each session save in the wrong order).
This is caused by any subsequent request that loads a session (simultaneous requests), like ajax, video embed where the video file is delivered via php script, dynamic resource file (like script or css) delivered via php script, etc.
In file based sessions file locking prevents session writing thus causing a deadlock between the simultaneous request threads.
In database based session the last request thread to complete becomes the most recent save, so for example a video delivery script will complete long after the page request and overwrite the since updated session with old session data.
The fix: -
If your ajax or resource delivery script doesnt need to use sessions then easiest to just remove session usage from it.
Otherwise you'd best make yourself a coffee and do the following: -
Write or employ a session handler (if not already doing so) as per http://www.php.net//manual/en/class.sessionhandler.php (many other examples available via google search).
In your session handler function write() prepend the code ...
// processes may declare their session as read only ...
if(!empty($_SESSION['no_session_write'])) {
unset($_SESSION['no_session_write']);
return true;
}
In your ajax or resource delivery php script add the code (after the session is started) ...
$_SESSION['no_session_write'] = true;
I realise this seems like a lot of stuffing around for what should be a tiny fix, but unfortunately if you need to have simultaneous requests each loading a session then it is required.
NOTE if your ajax or resource delivery script does actually need to write/save data, then you need to do it somewhere other than in the session, like database.
Just put session_write_close(); befor Session_start();
as below:
<?php
session_write_close();
session_start();
.....
?>
I don't know why, but changing this value in /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini worked for me:
;session.save_path = "/var/lib/php/sessions"
session.save_path = "/tmp"
To throw another answer into the mix for those going bananas, I had a session_start() dying only in particular cases and scripts. The reason my session was dying was ultimately because I was storing a lot of data in them after a particularly intensive script, and ultimately the call to session_start() was exhausting the 'memory_limit' setting in php.ini.
After increasing 'memory_limit', those session_start() calls no longer killed my script.
For me, the problem seemed to originate from SeLinux. The needed command was chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t [www directory] to give access to the right directory.
See https://askubuntu.com/questions/451922/apache-access-denied-because-search-permissions-are-missing
If you use pgAdmin 4 this can happen as well.
If you have File > Preferences > SQL Editor > Options > "Auto Commit" disabled, and you just ran a query using the query tool but didn't manually commit, then session_start() will freeze.
Enable auto commit, or manually commit, or just close pgAdmin, and it will no longer freeze.
In my case it seems like it was the NFS Share that was locking the session , after restarting the NFS server and only enabled 1 node of web clients the sessions worked normally .
Yet another few cents that might help someone. In my case I was storing in $_SESSION complex data with several different class objects in them and session_start() couldn't handle the whole unserialization as not every class was loaded on session_start. The solution is my case was to serialize/jsonify data before saving it into the $_SESSION and reversing the process after I got the data out of session.

How to clear APC cache entries?

I need to clear all APC cache entries when I deploy a new version of the site.
APC.php has a button for clearing all opcode caches, but I don't see buttons for clearing all User Entries, or all System Entries, or all Per-Directory Entries.
Is it possible to clear all cache entries via the command-line, or some other way?
You can use the PHP function apc_clear_cache.
Calling apc_clear_cache() will clear the system cache and calling apc_clear_cache('user') will clear the user cache.
I don't believe any of these answers actually work for clearing the APC cache from the command line. As Frank Farmer commented above, the CLI runs in a process separate from Apache.
My solution for clearing from the command line was to write a script that copies an APC clearing script to the web directory and accesses it and then deletes it. The script is restricted to being accessed from the localhost.
apc_clear.php
This is the file that the script copies to the web directory, accesses, and deletes.
<?php
if (in_array(#$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array('127.0.0.1', '::1')))
{
apc_clear_cache();
apc_clear_cache('user');
apc_clear_cache('opcode');
echo json_encode(array('success' => true));
}
else
{
die('SUPER TOP SECRET');
}
Cache clearing script
This script copies apc_clear.php to the web directory, accesses it, then deletes it. This is based off of a Symfony task. In the Symfony version, calls are made to the Symfony form of copy and unlink, which handle errors. You may want to add checks that they succeed.
copy($apcPaths['data'], $apcPaths['web']); //'data' is a non web accessable directory
$url = 'http://localhost/apc_clear.php'; //use domain name as necessary
$result = json_decode(file_get_contents($url));
if (isset($result['success']) && $result['success'])
{
//handle success
}
else
{
//handle failure
}
unlink($apcPaths['web']);
I know it's not for everyone but: why not to do a graceful Apache restart?
For e.g. in case of Centos/RedHat Linux:
sudo service httpd graceful
Ubuntu:
sudo service apache2 graceful
This is not stated in the documentation, but to clear the opcode cache you must do:
apc_clear_cache('opcode');
EDIT: This seems to only apply to some older versions of APC..
No matter what version you are using you can't clear mod_php or fastcgi APC cache from a php cli script since the cli script will run from a different process as mod_php or fastcgi. You must call apc_clear_cache() from within the process (or child process) which you want to clear the cache for. Using curl to run a simple php script is one such approach.
If you are running on an NGINX / PHP-FPM stack, your best bet is to probably just reload php-fpm
service php-fpm reload (or whatever your reload command may be on your system)
If you want to clear apc cache in command : (use sudo if you need it)
APCu
php -r "apcu_clear_cache();"
APC
php -r "apc_clear_cache(); apc_clear_cache('user'); apc_clear_cache('opcode');"
Another possibility for command-line usage, not yet mentioned, is to use curl.
This doesn't solve your problem for all cache entries if you're using the stock apc.php script, but it could call an adapted script or another one you've put in place.
This clears the opcode cache:
curl --user apc:$PASSWORD "http://www.example.com/apc.php?CC=1&OB=1&`date +%s`"
Change the OB parameter to 3 to clear the user cache:
curl --user apc:$PASSWORD "http://www.example.com/apc.php?CC=1&OB=3&`date +%s`"
Put both lines in a script and call it with $PASSWORD in your env.
apc_clear_cache() only works on the same php SAPI that you want you cache cleared. If you have PHP-FPM and want to clear apc cache, you have do do it through one of php scripts, NOT the command line, because the two caches are separated.
I have written CacheTool, a command line tool that solves exactly this problem and with one command you can clear your PHP-FPM APC cache from the commandline (it connects to php-fpm for you, and executes apc functions)
It also works for opcache.
See how it works here: http://gordalina.github.io/cachetool/
As defined in APC Document:
To clear the cache run:
php -r 'function_exists("apc_clear_cache") ? apc_clear_cache() : null;'
If you want to monitor the results via json, you can use this kind of script:
<?php
$result1 = apc_clear_cache();
$result2 = apc_clear_cache('user');
$result3 = apc_clear_cache('opcode');
$infos = apc_cache_info();
$infos['apc_clear_cache'] = $result1;
$infos["apc_clear_cache('user')"] = $result2;
$infos["apc_clear_cache('opcode')"] = $result3;
$infos["success"] = $result1 && $result2 && $result3;
header('Content-type: application/json');
echo json_encode($infos);
As mentioned in other answers, this script will have to be called via http or curl and you will have to be secured if it is exposed in the web root of your application. (by ip, token...)
if you run fpm under ubuntu, need to run the code below (checked on 12 and 14)
service php5-fpm reload
The stable of APC is having option to clear a cache in its interface itself. To clear those entries you must login to apc interface.
APC is having option to set username and password in apc.php file.
apc.ini
apc.stat = "1" will force APC to stat (check) the script on each request to determine if it has been modified. If it has been modified it will recompile and cache the new version.
If this setting is off, APC will not check, which usually means that to force APC to recheck files, the web server will have to be restarted or the cache will have to be manually cleared. Note that FastCGI web server configurations may not clear the cache on restart. On a production server where the script files rarely change, a significant performance boost can be achieved by disabled stats.
New APC Admin interface have options to add/clear user cache and opcode cache, One interesting functionality is to add/refresh/delete directory's from opCode Cache
APC Admin Documentation
A good solution for me was to simply not using the outdated user cache any more after deploy.
If you add prefix to each of you keys you can change the prefix on changing the data structure of cache entries. This will help you to get the following behavior on deploy:
Don't use outdated cache entries after deploy of only updated structures
Don't clean the whole cache on deploy to not slow down your page
Some old cached entries can be reused after reverting your deploy (If the entries wasn't automatically removed already)
APC will remove old cache entries after expire OR on missing cache space
This is possible for user cache only.
Create APC.php file
foreach(array('user','opcode','') as $v ){
apc_clear_cache($v);
}
Run it from your browser.
My work-around for Symfony build having loot of instances at the same server:
Step 1.
Create trigger or something to set a file flag (eg. Symfony command) then create marker file ..
file_put_contents('clearAPCU','yes sir i can buggy')
Step 2.
On index file at start add clearing code and remove marker file.
if(file_exists('clearAPCU')){
apcu_clear_cache();
unlink('clearAPCU');
}
Step 2.
Run app.
TL;DR: delete cache files at /storage/framework/cache/data/
I enabled APC but it wasn't installed (and also couldn't be installed), so it threw Call to undefined function Illuminate\Cache\apc_store().
"Ok, I'd just disable it and it should work".
Well, nope. Then I got stuck with Call to undefined function Illuminate\Cache\apc_delete()
We had a problem with APC and symlinks to symlinks to files -- it seems to ignore changes in files itself. Somehow performing touch on the file itself helped. I can not tell what's the difference between modifing a file and touching it, but somehow it was necessary...

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