site update

[thunderchero]

Hi Everyone,

cleverwise is working on a complete update of server. we hope this will go live within the next couple weeks.

cleverwise has never done any updates on phpbb, that has always been my responsibility

but unfortunately at this time I am having health issue and I may not update at the same time. I for see no issue with using old phpbb that we are not experiencing now. but if there is an issue the site may go down for a couple weeks until I am able to complete my part of update. I will not allow site to run with security risks.

If this does happen you may find more info on discord
https://discord.gg/x2QvyHvF77

thunderchero

[Flocke]

Thanks for the update! I hope all goes well and you recover soon!

[trevtones]

Thanks for the heads up and take care of yourself TC all the best!

[cleverwise]

I got the server upgraded but it sure did fight me. Anyway the site and forums should be working. If you notice errors let me know.

I will say I am aware that the forum statistics are not working on the website. There is something wrong with the plugin and the upgraded PHP. I'll have to fix that later.

As I write this post I have had enough for now.

[Flocke]

Full Editor & Quote doesn't seem to work, but everything else looks to be fine.
Big thanks for your efforts on the server upgrade, and great to see you back again!

[thunderchero]

PM's also not working and e-mail notifications

so new members will not be able to confirm e-mail

stranger thing is they all work on Armada (except e-mail server).

I have contacted cleverwise and may attempt fix later

thunderchero

[cleverwise]

Yes we are hitting new PHP version errors. This phpBB forum software is not really compatible. It needs to be upgraded.

However at least it is mostly working at the moment so that is a start. We jumped up in major versions of everything.

[thunderchero]

It looks like cleverwise has all phpbb issue resolved now.

he will look at phpbb_stats on main page when he has more time.

Great job cleverwise

thunderchero

[trevtones]

Awesome very nice thanks cleverwise and TC thanks for keeping this site up and running all these years. We really do appreciate the efforts to keep botf alive and well steaming towards it's 3rd decade! Shocking!!!

[cleverwise]

I have the site loading phpBB stats again. For whatever reason the plugin wouldn't run the activation code, so I just disabled it.

I just do not have time to track down why the latest server PHP is crashing on that code. However it is not needed as that was for the WordPress repos and I have quit maintaining this code base for other sites.

So we are good to go for now. Eventually the theme and other items need some upgrades but to my knowledge all front end access has been restored. We are just generating some warnings in logs behind the scenes.

If you do find something report it and I'll look into it... eventually.

Enjoy all!

[Benman2785]

hi, sry i was so inactive the last 2 months -> i could have helped with the server, as i have one on my own and are also a programmer

hope thunderchero (and everyone else) is fine and healthy again