PHP version bump causes 9 months of downtime
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 7:18 pm
Hi,
Pleased to inform you that after 9 months of downtime (due to mandatory php version bump last year that I was not at all ready for) our forum is finally back up and running. My older blogs still spew 3-4 PHP warnings but at least they work and are therefore low priority. (Fixing SSL certificates next.)
Story:
My webhost decided PHP5.2 was insecure and forcibly upgraded everyone to PHP5.3+ in april of 2019 (with may being the actual deadline for stragglers). Needless to say we went down for a few months while I upgraded phpBB and rewrote most of my modifications for it. Meanwhile new versions kept coming out which broke more things. Anyway, I'm rocking PHP7 now, with phpBB3.3 and SQL8 (Apache2 of course.)
Will slowly enable the various mods over time. For now; Let the bug hunting commence!
--3ICE
p.s.: Even found a bug in my webhost's admin control panel while trying various things to fix my broken forum.
Edit: HTTPS is working! https://forum.3ice.hu/
Pleased to inform you that after 9 months of downtime (due to mandatory php version bump last year that I was not at all ready for) our forum is finally back up and running. My older blogs still spew 3-4 PHP warnings but at least they work and are therefore low priority. (Fixing SSL certificates next.)
Story:
My webhost decided PHP5.2 was insecure and forcibly upgraded everyone to PHP5.3+ in april of 2019 (with may being the actual deadline for stragglers). Needless to say we went down for a few months while I upgraded phpBB and rewrote most of my modifications for it. Meanwhile new versions kept coming out which broke more things. Anyway, I'm rocking PHP7 now, with phpBB3.3 and SQL8 (Apache2 of course.)
Will slowly enable the various mods over time. For now; Let the bug hunting commence!
--3ICE
p.s.: Even found a bug in my webhost's admin control panel while trying various things to fix my broken forum.
Edit: HTTPS is working! https://forum.3ice.hu/