No link?

[Marshall]

Heya

I am having a problem which may be fairly common for you, not sure!

After doing a site restore the other day to a specific time point, some downloads on my download system pro are "invalid links", but some arnt. The ones that are unavailable seem completely randomly selected too. They are from a series of dates, new and old, from different people and different file names. What is even more strange is that when re-uploaded, they still don't work, but if I upload something else, it works. After changing the file name of the thing im uploading, it still does not work. It's very strange and I am not sure what is causing this.

Thanks,

Please check it out for yourself too if you wish: http://www.rw-trainsim.co.uk/ (registration needed).

[SMFHacks]

Make sure you backup contained all the files in the downloads folder. That folder is where are all uploads are saved to by Downloads Pro

[Marshall]

I've found the correct filenames from the MySQL database and was able to find all the files, even when they are re-uploaded they don't work

[SMFHacks]

Is it giving an error message if so what is the exact error message

[Marshall]

It comes up with the 500 error page

[SMFHacks]

500 sounds like file permissions. Make sure file permissions set correctly on the downloads folder.

[Marshall]

what should they be set to?

[SMFHacks]

I believe at least 755

[Marshall]

Ok thanks I'll set all to 755

[Marshall]

Still no luck I'm afraid Some (the same ones as before) will not download

[Marshall]

seems to be only ones with pictures added using the picture uploader that comes with download system pro, although some of the downloads with pictures are fine.

[SMFHacks]

If you have access to your server logs check your apache log when an error occurs to see if you can find more detail

[Marshall]

Sorry about the delay in replying, I have found an error log and it shows just the following line when the error appears:

[Wed Aug 24 09:06:08 2011] [error] [client 82.8.66.254] Premature end of script headers: /home/matho3/public_html/rs-trainsim/forums/index.php

Then goes to 500 error script.

Thanks

[SMFHacks]

hmm that is one of the hardest ones to debug since there is no set answer to solving that one. Could be a whitespace in the file,permissions.

[Marshall]

You suggest I re-install the download system? Once un-installed I will go through every modified code and make sure it is all removed too.