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Known Issues

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This page does not cover bugs in individual releases. Rather, it is for pre-installation errors and problems that both arise under very specific circumstances and cannot be fixed by updating to the latest version (due to how they either prevent updating or cause fatal errors, or because updates cannot fix the issue).

If you saw error messages about missing system requirements during installation and disregarded them, first refer to Installing Without All Requirements: What Won't Work

This page is a work in progress. As new common/recurring issues are encountered, they will be addressed here.

Troubleshooting

Description Affected Instances How to Fix
Locked out of application after update (login attempts redirect to the login page) X2CRM versions before 2.0, after updating to a version after 2.0 Empty (delete all records) in the x2_sessions table.
Invalid path in "protected/runtime/..."
  • PHP built without posix library
  • Windows-based servers

This is caused by installing with a directory ownership mismatch that wasn't caught and reported in the requirements check. In some PHP builds, the necessary POSIX functions for running this check are unavailable due to one of the following reasons:

  • The --disable-posix flag is enabled and the POSIX library hasn't been separately installed
  • The server's operating system is Windows

To see if this is the case, upload requirements.php to your server again and search for "posix" in the phpinfo() output.

Installation error: deprecated function "mysql_escape_string"

All versions up to 2.2.1 on some servers

Replace all instances of "mysql_escape_string" with "addslashes" in initialize.php, or simply remove those function calls. Note that if you perform the latter action, you must ensure that the values you put in the "Application Name" and "Administrator Email" fields of the installation form do not contain any apostrophes (otherwise, the resulting installation will be broken).

"No input file specified"

All versions, on GoDaddy hosting

All web applications featuring human-friendly URLs (i.e. Joomla!, Drupal, Wordpress) will have this issue on GoDaddy. The error is caused by the URL rewriting engine being disabled in GoDaddy's hosting environment. See the following articles on how to rectify the issue using .htaccess overrides:

Update notifications do not work, cannot enable them

Installed at 1.6.1 or earlier and updated to a version in the range 1.6.5 - 2.0

  • Enable fopen_allow_url in the hosting environment (updates themselves won't work without this option; it's the crux of the remote update process)
  • Set value of the column unique_id in table x2_admin to "none", i.e.
    UPDATE `x2_admin` SET `unique_id`='none'
    
    Then, go to "Updater Settings" ("General Settings" in versions earlier than 2.0), ensure "Enable Software Update Notifications" is checked, and submit the form.
  • Run the update manually
Cannot view or create quotes

Installed at 1.6.1 or earlier and updated to a version in the range 1.6.5 - 1.6.6

Run the following SQL:

Versions earlier than 2.0:

INSERT INTO x2_fields (modelName, fieldName,  attributeLabel,  modified, custom, type,  required, readOnly, linkType, searchable, relevance) 
 VALUES ("Quote", "products",  "Products",  0,  0, "varchar", 0,  0,  NULL,  0, ""), 
        ("Quote", "existingProducts", "Existing Products", 0,  0, "varchar", 0,  0,  NULL,  0, "")

Versions 2.0 and later:

INSERT INTO x2_fields (modelName, fieldName,  attributeLabel,  modified, custom, type,  required, readOnly, linkType, searchable, relevance,isVirtual) 
 VALUES ("Quote", "products",  "Products",  0,  0, "varchar", 0,  0,  NULL,  0, "", 1),
        ("Quote", "existingProducts", "Existing Products", 0,  0, "varchar", 0,  0,  NULL,  0, "", 1)

Running Updates Manually

In some cases, it may be desirable to bypass the update notifications and go straight to the updater to check if there is a new version available, because of update notifications disabled or an improperly set unique_id in the x2_admin table. To run an update or check for an update manually, log in as the admin user and in the browser's address bar, replace "index.php/site/whatsNew" with "index.php/admin/updater", and hit enter to run the action.

Note: in versions 2.2 and later, it is possible to go directly to the updater through a link in the admin console under the "System Settings" section.