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#158 Cannot vote on new contests

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PHP version
8.3.20

Latest post by b2z on Monday, 23 June 2025 08:50 EEST

voxcommunication

Please consider we have been using NorrCompetition on this website since five years at least, updating with each new version. We're on the latest now, just installed.

How to reproduce the issue:

https://ponir.mit.gov.it/contest-2025/foto-2025

login then go again to the above url (the navigation is not public yet), then try voting. It shows Request Failed as you can see in the image here:

https://postimg.cc/1V4sS3c5

Tests performed

I tried with PHP8.2.28 and php 8.3.20, it logs nothing during the failed call to:

POST https://ponir.mit.gov.it/index.php?option=com_competition&task=participant.ajaxVote&format=json

[HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error 76ms]

Not a single line is written in the logs (but other pages log correctly with maximum + everything level to /home/ponir/public_html/administrator/logs/everything.php

 

Can you help me out please? I read the code and it seems like it should log, I found no option for the logging level in Norr Competition

Please help me figure out how to enable voting.

 

b2z

Hello Valentina!

Thank you for being so long a NorrCompetition user. Really appreciate it!

500 Internal Server Error is PHP error and it is not logged to Joomla logs. Such errors are logged to webserver's error.log.

In the browser developer console after vote I see a strange response:

Web Page Blocked!

The page cannot be displayed. Please contact the administrator for additional information.

URL: ponir.mit.gov.it/index.php

Client IP: 194.***.***.116
Attack ID: 20000008
Message ID: 001055210927

No sure where it comes from. May be some vote request data is prohibited and your webserver / hosting does not like it and has some kind of protection.

Can you please try to disable tracking data in the contest voting options and see will it help?

Kind regards,

Dmitrijs

b2z

Hello Valentina!

Haven’t heard from you in a while! Have you resolved your issue?

Kind regards,

Dmitrijs

voxcommunication

Hello Dmitrijs,

sorry for not getting back to you: yes, you had found the issue; I duplicated the server on another hosting and it was fine, in the end it was the peripheral firewall in the server farm that was blocking the request, so we just asked the system support to allow the message through and it worked fine, we have a contest running until the end of the month and everything seems to be working smoothly.

Thank you again for your support

Valentina

 

b2z

Hi Valentina!

We are glad that everything is running smooth.

If you are happy with our support, we would be grateful if you took the time for a small review or just a vote on Trustpilot. https://www.trustpilot.com/review/norrnext.com or leave a review about our NorrCompetition at the JED https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/norrcompetition/

Should you still experience problems, please open a new support thread. I am closing this thread.

Kind regards,

Dmitrijs

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