Strpos - empty needle in Zend HTTP.php

Question

Since upgrading our Magento 1.8.0.0 to 1.9.2.1 I have noticed that we're getting hundreds of errors in the log file:

2015-11-11T16:20:01+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: strpos(): Empty needle in home/directory/public_html/lib/Zend/Controller/Request/Http.php on line 508

Having had a look at the file, I can see:

if (0 === strpos($requestUri, $baseUrl)) {
  // full $baseUrl matches
  $this->_baseUrl = $baseUrl;
  return $this;
}

if (0 === strpos($requestUri, dirname($baseUrl))) {
  // directory portion of $baseUrl matches
  $this->_baseUrl = rtrim(dirname($baseUrl), '/');
  return $this;
}

The last thing I want to do is edit this core file to make a cheap fix. Does anybody know what could be the cause of this problem? My base URL is obviously set do I don't understand what could be causing the issue!

Answer 1

In my case the exact same error occurs every minute, on the minute. It seems the problem lies with core_email_queue_send_all, as this is the only job that is called every minute.

Somehow, but I am yet unsure why, the error message is caused by the way the cron job in Magento is called. I tested this in version 1.9.2.2

Starting cron by a call to cron.sh reproduces the error:

sh public_html/cron.sh > /dev/null

while calling cron.php directly does not cause the problem, using the following call:

wget -O /dev/null -q http://www.myserver.nl/cron.php > /dev/null

Answer 2

I had the same issue, I search on web and I found a potential solution. It seems correct

I modified /magento_root/cron.sh at line 39

PHP_BIN=which php => PHP_BIN=which php-cli

Source: https://github.com/AOEpeople/Aoe_Scheduler/issues/233

EDIT : I made the change yesterday, and today I had 3 new orders, but no mail was sent. So I edit back and I received my mails. So my solution seems NOT correct !

Answer 3

I had the same issue for a while didn't pay too much attention to it although i knew it was related to cron as it appeared every 5 minutes, same as my cron was configured to run. Today i decided to have it resolved and i fixed it by going to CLI of my server and typing: whereis php. It came back with a bunch of php possibilities so i took the most generic one: /usr/bin/php and in cron.sh i changed PHP_BIN=which php to PHP_BIN='/usr/bin/php'. Notice the quotations. Error wet away. I had some other errors in there and surprisingly they seem to have gone away as well.

Answer 4

Error:
2017-12-29T04:20:02+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: strpos(): Empty needle in /home/hillcountry/public_html/lib/Zend/Controller/Request/Http.php on line 508
2017-12-29T04:20:02+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: strpos(): Empty needle in /home/hillcountry/public_html/lib/Zend/Controller/Request/Http.php on line 514

Comment: This problem is in defintion of base URL, because is running on cron script.

Possible solution: I think the possible solution is add the environment variable what set $baseUrl in lib/Zend/Controller/Request/Http.php on setBaseUrl function.

I am new to the forum. We do not want to modify the core. Is this where I should report the bug? If not, please help.