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Originally Posted by Paul M

Get your server (apache) fixed.

$GLOBALS is created by php, not vbulletin, if its missing then any php software is going to have problems.

Paul if you could expand on this comment I would be pretty grateful...

So far I've tried disabling all plugins, removing all suspect files and over writing all install files several times. But I haven't been able to fix this and I've had the problem for more than a year and a half. I've enabled maximum log levels (trace8 and E-ALL) in Apache and PHP but still no smoking gun. Even stranger I have two identical copies of vBulletin and plugins running different web sites off the same PHP and Apache installation but only one has ever had the problem. The only lead I have is that whenever I get the error or crash OpenSSL errors seems to be logged such as:

OpenSSL: read 5/5 bytes from BIO#7fde28011fe0 [mem: 7fde48011463] (BIO dump follows)
OpenSSL: read 26/26 bytes from BIO#7fde2c016610 [mem: 7fde3000dda8] (BIO dump follows)
AH02001: Connection closed to child 128 with standard shutdown (server www.example.com:443)

Also whether this might be related to a bug in mod_ssl with small chunked files, based on searches for the above. And that I can consistently reproduce the problem if I rebuild search with a number of items to update less than 5000, but if I use a number far in excess, say 10000, the problem happens much less often if at all. Could there be some link there? I don't know.

PHP 5.6.29 using php5-fpm
MariaDB 10.1.20
OpenSSL/1.0.1t
Apache 2.4.10