By animator-1 on

Hello,

I recently made a Drupal 5.1 fresh installation on a Cluster/(Enhanced Apache) Web server.

In the Status Report i get a warning:

"Unable to determine your web server type and version. Drupal might not work properly."

All other reports are checked working fine.

Do i have to ignore the above message or this will make a problem to my site?

Please help

Thank you in advance

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dwees’s picture

dwees commented

This has happened to me and I have no problems so far. I can only assume that the system administrator of my site has disabled a command that would allow this to be determined.

Dave

TopKnot’s picture

TopKnot commented

I have the same problem plus a few others. Fresh 5.0 install about 6 days ago. I get the message "Unable to determine your web server type and version. Drupal might not work properly." I'm a newbie to Drupal so that could be my problems too?

I am having problems with the core theme "Garland". I use to have the cool feature with the "color wheel" but that feature disappeared after my first color change. No other config changes were made after my color change.

The other problem is with the FCKeditor Module: I installed it and read all the configs required to get it working but no FCKeditor shows up. I did try using the pop-up feature on the FCKeditor configuration panel. Sure enough, I get a pop-up window but it's blank.

The FCKeditor isn't a probelm yet!!!! I can probably work through this but with two problems already on this fresh install, I'm thinking maybe the "Unable to determine your web server type and version. Drupal might not work properly." might be a problem?

I contacted my web host and their opinion is..."I can assure you that you can safely ignore this warning. It will not cause any problems running Drupal CMS on the our server."

Any thoughts? Maybe a fresh install???? Heck I have to upgrade to 5.1 anyway.

Ian Hargest’s picture

Ian Hargest commented

I've seen the same error message ever since I put Drupal v5.0 in my development environment. I've since deployed Drupal v5.1 in my production website, and it's still there. The site's stable, so I've just been ignoring it. FWIW, my webhost is ipower.com

Regards // Ian

mrfrazzlebottom’s picture

mrfrazzlebottom commented

The source of the message is the System module (modules/system/system.install), and is saying that Drupal was looking for a web server identification such as "Apache 2.3.0" (or whatever), and is based upon the $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] variable.

One would assume that as long as one's server actually is supported by Drupal, everything should be okay.

Perhaps a future version of Drupal will have the diagnostic updated to include the $software string. (See file mentioned above, lines 28-54.)

mrfrazzlebottom’s picture

mrfrazzlebottom commented

I just realized that Drupal DID display the $software string, and can be seen in the "Status Report" (admin/logs/status).

In my case the, the $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] variable contains the name of my Web hosting company.

One can view one's PHP server info by uploading a php file whose contents is:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

to your website. I.e. if the file is named phpinfo.php, do this:

www.yourwebsite.com/phpinfo.php

[EDIT: One can view some of this same info in Drupal (I am still learning 5.1): admin/logs/status/php]

references:

http://us3.php.net/phpinfo
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.s...

inforeto’s picture

inforeto commented

http://drupal.org/node/126780