"&tab=friends" Errors - Any body know how to fix?

[jnrdavo]

Hi Guys,

My websites have been crashing for the past month.
Local hoster says it's to do with the amount of errors on the pages... See https://validator.w3.org/check etc..

So I ran this, can cleaned up what I can.

Most of the errors I have now are along the lines of:

?ber.php?u=1&tab=friends" rel="nofollow">

If you meant to include an entity that starts with "&", then you should terminate it with ";". Another reason for this error message is that you inadvertently created an entity by failing to escape an "&" character just before this text.


Any ideas how to fix this? I looked in the member.php file but can't find specifically what is causing it.

the sites that have the errors are:

http://www.ozaudi.com/forums/forum.php
http:/www.ozbmw.com/forums/forum.php

The others I have probably have the same issue, so I'm sure if I can fix it on one, I can fix the others.

All and any help is really appreciated.

[RichieBoy67]

First off, the errors you are talking about are not actual errors but you are seeing them in the validator page?

What do you mean your site is crashing? Are you getting any database errors?

[jnrdavo]

correct. If you run the website in the page, it comes up with the errors.

Server is unresponsive... can still ping, but can't putty some times and timeouts.

Latest from the server hoster/supplier:

The maintenance did in server settings is to improve your server performance like increasing swap space.
But if one of your site et too much resources like ozaudi.com will cause of server crash.

1. Extend swap from 512 MB to 5 GB.
2. Change ulimit on server.
3. Change setting on my.cnf.

Is this related to the work your guys did on the backend?
-the backend improvement is to increase the limits of your server settings above to have it boost the server performance.
But as you can see, one of your site ozaudi.com has too many errors which cause by scripting loop and it cause server resources to reached the limits. This is the reason why server keep crashing.
Site errors must be fixed so that server will be stable.

The backend maintenance is just to increase the server limits to give more room for server resources.
Still site errors must be fixed so that it won?t eat all resources in your server.


I don't believe that's the reason it's crashing. I'm no unix expert unfortunately, so I've been lost on trying to find a fix.

Other notes "--the main issue is your server load reached the limit due to some apache and mysql overload processes.
Further checked, one domain ozaudi.com has eat to much CPU, memory and mysql process which also causing the server hangs. Site script for domain ozaudi.com need to be optimize to reduce memory, cpu and mysql processes."

[RichieBoy67]

The real problem here sounds like it is your server resources being limited. I would suggest you either upgrade or find a better host.

[Paul M]

Things like this just tell me your host doesnt really have a clue, so they just make up something about its your fault when not really making a lot of sense.

But as you can see, one of your site ozaudi.com has too many errors which cause by scripting loop and it cause server resources to reached the limits. This is the reason why server keep crashing.

Scripting loop ? What loop ?
Where is the evidence of any sort of loops ?
They would cause a fatal php error, are really quite rare, and would almost certainly be a modification issue.

The errors you listed are trivial, and just url link issues, they would not cause any sort of crashing.

[jnrdavo]

yeah, thanks for that.. I wish I knew more about unix to find out what was happening!

I've got a feeling it's something to do with corrupt/bad install of sql causing it...

[RichieBoy67]

What issue? Are you getting database errors?

My first guess is that your host is limiting your resources. Are you on a shared server?