Hi Neal,
I think I've got your blog back up and going - a quick review of what I found:
- the newer (5.x) versions of Wordpress don't play nice with PHP4, so I had to make a couple changes to your .htaccess file to get at least PHP 5.6 enabled for the site
- the database permissions for the blog were set up with an older MySQL permission that no longer worked on newer versions of PHP
- the site 'error-log' file had maxed-out at 2GB, with the last entries being over a year ago, so I cleared the contents out so I could actually see errors again
- one of the plugins ('pretty-link') was using a syntax ('??') that wasn't valid until PHP 7 or later (so immediate error on loading any page)
- because of the above newer plugin, I bumped up the site to PHP 7 so it would render
- the 'statpress' Wordpress plugin has a function (eregi()) that is no longer supported in PHP7, so I moved it to the 'plugins-disabled' folder so the page would load again
I think that should get you to a working site again - lots of the above issues are just caused by very old plugins or the need for a newer PHP. (The latest couple of versions of Wordpress finally started requiring PHP7, so I would recommend making sure all your plugins are up to date or potentially find replacements if they are no longer supported.
-- Joe M
I think I've got your blog back up and going - a quick review of what I found:
- the newer (5.x) versions of Wordpress don't play nice with PHP4, so I had to make a couple changes to your .htaccess file to get at least PHP 5.6 enabled for the site
- the database permissions for the blog were set up with an older MySQL permission that no longer worked on newer versions of PHP
- the site 'error-log' file had maxed-out at 2GB, with the last entries being over a year ago, so I cleared the contents out so I could actually see errors again
- one of the plugins ('pretty-link') was using a syntax ('??') that wasn't valid until PHP 7 or later (so immediate error on loading any page)
- because of the above newer plugin, I bumped up the site to PHP 7 so it would render
- the 'statpress' Wordpress plugin has a function (eregi()) that is no longer supported in PHP7, so I moved it to the 'plugins-disabled' folder so the page would load again
I think that should get you to a working site again - lots of the above issues are just caused by very old plugins or the need for a newer PHP. (The latest couple of versions of Wordpress finally started requiring PHP7, so I would recommend making sure all your plugins are up to date or potentially find replacements if they are no longer supported.
-- Joe M
Statistics: Posted by joemuller — Tue Dec 10, 2024 5:52 pm