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#19276 utf8 to unicode error

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Latest post by BruceRyan on Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:28 CST

BruceRyan
#1. Brilliant software. Reviewing your support has solved numerous 'interesting' problems. Thanks.

Upgraded to Admin Tools Pro. On my localhost install - it's all good. Installed it on a personal site (different hosting company) All good.

Upgrading my live site, it still throws this odd Warning: uft8 to unicode error. The live site is using mySQL vs mySQLi on my localhost. Live site runs phpSuExec as a CGI. Yet everything seems to work properly! I've tried changing the database collation, repairing tables and checking (what I know) in phpAdmin. This drove me crazy moving work from my localhost to the live site and back again. (see#1)

Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

#2. Can you point me to a guide (for amateurs) explaining .htaccess commands that will NOT run under phpSuExec? -or- can the Admin Tools .htaccess commands simply be placed in the php.ini file to harden the joomla install. ;)
~Yours

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
1. This doesn't come from your database, Joomla! or Admin Tools. It most likely comes from some third party plugin. Which one, I don't know, sorry :(

2. .htaccess and PHP are unrelated. .htaccess is parsed and executed by your web server (Apache) a very long time before PHP has even got a chance of running at all.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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BruceRyan
Obscure error was a server issue... missing the mbstring module under Apache. Nothing to do with third party plug-in. Showed up in another section of the site provisioning IPv6 domain names. Thanks. You guys rock.

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