ISSUE SUMMARY:

Does this error message ring a bell to anybody?

500 Application id required. : /community/videos/app/walls

I am getting lots of them (i.e. a lot of different broken URLs ending in .../app/walls), mostly from bots, but still. Those URLs are indeed not working.

Using J3.5 with JS pro 4.1 and sh404sef, on Centos 6, PHP 5.6, mysql 5.0.11

Hi.

Thank you for reporting this. I see this for the first time.
But I'll assign developer to this thread to take a look.

Hi,

I dont see this error, seems I need your backend account and test account to check it, can you provide it please? also I need your FTP access as well.

thank you!

You don't see it because I changed a line in a JS view:

// changed next
// $applicationName = JString::strtolower( $jinput->get->get( 'app' , '' , 'STRING') );
$applicationName = JString::strtolower( $jinput->get->get( 'app' , 'walls' , 'STRING') );

And now I don't get thoese errors anymore, but I'm not sure what sort of side effects this has, or where else I should set
$jinput->get->get( 'app' , '' , 'STRING') to an acceptable value.

I hope we can solved thise without handing out priviliges. Thanks a lot for your help!

Hi Jeroen,

I want to know how you can access this url yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_commun...&app=walls&Itemid=86 , because this URL should be no longer available in the newest version.

thank you

Not sure. As far as I can see, those links are generated by Jomsocial:

[root@httpdocs]# fphg task |grep app|grep walls (fphg searches string inside all PHP files inside current directory)
./plugins/community/walls/walls.php: if(JRequest::getVar('task', '', 'REQUEST') == 'app'){
./plugins/community/walls/walls.php: if(JRequest::getVar('task', '', 'REQUEST') != 'app')
./plugins/community/walls/walls.php: $viewAllLink = CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=profile&userid='.$userid.'&task=app&app=walls');
./plugins/community/walls/walls.php: if(JRequest::getVar('task', '', 'REQUEST') == 'app')
./components/com_community/views/videos/view.php: $viewAllLink = CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=videos&task=app&videoid=' . $video->id . '&app=walls');
./components/com_community/views/videos/view.php: $viewAllLink = CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=videos&task=app&videoid=' . $video->id . '&app=walls');
./components/com_community/views/videos/view.php: $viewAllLink = CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=videos&task=app&videoid=' . $video->id . '&app=walls');
./components/com_community/views/videos/view.html.php: 'index.php?option=com_community&view=videos&task=app&videoid=' . $video->id . '&app=walls'
./components/com_community/views/videos/view.html.php: $viewAllLink = CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=videos&task=app&videoid=' . $video->id . '&app=walls');
./components/com_community/views/groups/view.html.php: $viewAllLink = CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=groups&task=discussapp&topicid=' . $discussion->id . '&app=walls');
./components/com_community/views/photos/view.html.php: $viewAllLink = CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=photos&task=app&albumid=' . $album->id . '&app=walls');
./components/com_community/views/photos/view.html.php: $viewAllLink = CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=photos&task=app&albumid=' . $album->id . '&app=walls');
./components/com_community/views/photos/view.html.php: $viewAllLink = CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=photos&task=app&albumid=' . $album->id . '&app=walls');
./components/com_community/views/events/view.html.php: 'index.php?option=com_community&view=events&task=app&eventid=' . $event->id . '&app=walls'

Hi Jeroen,

May I know how can I replicate this on frontend? because the button already removed there, except you try access it directly from browser address. right?

thank you

I am not quite sure what you mean. Because of the changes I made in
.../views/videos/view.php
.../views/videos/view.html.php
, like this:
// changed next
// $applicationName = JString::strtolower( $jinput->get->get( 'app' , '' , 'STRING') );
$applicationName = JString::strtolower( $jinput->get->get( 'app' , 'walls' , 'STRING') );
, you don't get errors there, but you don't get anything useful on that page either :)

I still get the error in my logs for photo pages, e.e.g:
playak.com/community/photos/1649-or-2011...ct-designs/app/walls
It's strange how this SEF url is not in the sh404sef UTL table, so of course it doesn' t work.

I am slowly getting less such errors, and almost all of them are from Googlebot - no idea where the bot ever found those URLs...

It's all a bit vague. What is this error message 'Application id required' supposed to mean anyway? Just wondering...

Cheers,
Jeroen

'Application id required' this error says the application id is missing.

I just wondering, what can I do / what button should I click to get this URL "/index.php?option=com_community&view=videos&task=app&videoid=29953&app=walls&Itemid=86" because the button for getting that link already removed, on another words, that page cant be used anymore.

Beside that you dont provide me the backend access, so hard for me to check this directly on your site.

I changed 2 lines, in
views/videos/view.php
and
views/videos/views.html.php, like this:

// joempie changed next
// $applicationName = JString::strtolower( $jinput->get->get( 'app' , '' , 'STRING') );
$applicationName = JString::strtolower( $jinput->request->get( 'app' , '' , 'STRING') );

and that seems to help. I was debugging it and noticed that $_GET only contains Itemid when view.html.php accesses it,
but $_REQUEST does have all the needed parameters. So that helps, but I hope you can change that in the master version, as I don't
like running hacks :)

PS what also goes wrong is the SEF generation by sh404sef, which creates the same SEF url for all videos. That's probably because the
jomsocial plugin for sh404sef is still expecting video URLs with the catid included in the URL. Maybe you can also ask the sh404sef guys if they can update that plugin.

Cheers,
Jeroen

Hi Jeroen,

Actually you havent answered my question www.jomsocial.com/forum/modules-plugins-...eos-app-walls#155639 .

Jomsoical has some problem with sh404sef from long time ago and they dont fix the issue, we dont really suggest you to use it.. maybe you can try use another SEF component like AceSEF.

thank you!