maximum execution time line 54 functions_vbseo_misc.php

hi,

my error_log shows this error several times

PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in <<removeddd>>includes/functions_vbseo_misc.php on line 54


line 54 is:

preg_match('#<title.*?\>(.+?)</title.*?\>#is', $ptext, $tmatch);


This only starting appearing after patching the file in recent security 'patch' upgrade


Please advise

thanks

Hello,

could you please compare the date/time of the error log entry with access log to find out which URL was requested?

hey oleg, i checked the access_log file but didn't see anything matching that time

There definitely must be an entry with that timestamp (or close to it), can you check other error entries time? (you mentioned there are a few of them)

[edit]

i should be comparing the timestamps in error_log to those in access_log right?

thx for ur help !
peace

That's right.

don't see anything odd or suspicious from either day... very typical messages appear on these dates and near the times of the errors in error_log

do not see any errors related to vbseo in the access_log after greping thru it

Hey m0rgulvale,

You shouldn't see errors in your access logs but what you are looking for it what file/URL was access when the error happened. That way you can find out what is causing the problem.

So at the same time as the error is timestamped (or maybe a few seconds before) what file was accessed?

Ceri

thanks for the input ceri

i had another error today:


[02-Dec-2009 08:25:43] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /<removed>/includes/functions_vbseo_misc.php on line 54

i saw this stuff in /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log

[Wed Dec 02 08:23:32 2009] [error] [client removedipaddr] Invalid URI in request GET HTTP/1.1
[Wed Dec 02 08:45:53 2009] [error] [client 79xxxx7] Invalid URI in request GET HTTP/1.1
[Wed Dec 02 08:45:55 2009] [error] [client 1xxxxxxx] Invalid URI in request GET HTTP/1.1

Can you check the access_log file for the same timestamp and see what url they were trying to access when this occured?

access_log has

2xxx - - [02/Dec/2009:08:23:32 +0000] "GET HTTP/1.1" 400 2025

7xxx - - [02/Dec/2009:08:45:53 +0000] "GET HTTP/1.1" 400 2025
1xxx - - [02/Dec/2009:08:45:55 +0000] "GET HTTP/1.1" 400 2025
(same IPs as in post 9)

these were all bad requests not sure if this casued the problem

note that between GET and HTTP there is a character not being seen , not sure if its an extra space or not, might need to open the access_log in hex editor to find that out

There's no URL or referral in there? it seems really odd to not have the actual access request included there.

This is saying the script returned a 400 error (bad request), but returned 2025 bytes of data.... but its missing the script call itself.

dont see any referral urls in entire /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log