[1.3.5] Database down: index.php looping

[schneck]

Hi,

running 1.3.5 on OpenBSD-4.1 with PostgreSQL 8.2

Due to some problems with PostgreSQL, the database server was down (which I didn't notice immediately).

When trying to log in to the PHP frontend with index.php,
I got an immediate redirect to index.php?with-some-errormsg,
which gave me ... guess what ... a redirect to index.php?with-same-errormsg
which gave me ... ok, I guess you've got it by now :-)

telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /zabbix-1.3.5/index.php HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 17:04:22 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
        window.location = 'index.php?message=Error connecting to database';
//-->
</script>
Connection closed by foreign host.

Having the database server down should not be the preferred mode of operation (:-) and fixing such a bug is not release-critical imho, but not looping *is* probably better.

I admit that I havn't checked 1.3.6 or HEAD yet, but from the ChangeLog nothing was touched in that area so I'm afraid it's still lurking out there.

\Bernhard.

[Alexei]

Thanks for reporting this. Fixed!