I was given a CMSB site, now would like to get it working on my server
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Last Post: March 26 (RSS)
Hi!
I got two zip files from a client, one the website, the other the mysql db.
I installed the files on my server, changed some settings in /admin/data/settings.dat.php and some of it seems to be working :)
I found out the people (who originally created the site for my client), who I can't ask for help (long story), used a version of CMSB.
I don't know how old (some of) it is, but I guess old as I got some error solutions saying that kind of php has been obsolete since 5.4
I can enter the admin part, and edit quite a lot. Although the "start" page of the admin section is, apart from the side bar, blank (but keeps growing after opening).
The homepage of the site still does this:
https://www.ceciledumoulin.es/
(It's a mess)
Now I'm a bit stuck and would really appreciate some help, some pointers as how to tackle the problems one by one.
Yesterday I did try to look if it was possible to enable php 5.4 on my server (which is not a good idea, I know), but anyway, that's simply impossible so I'll have to work on the site itself to get it working.
Thanks for any ideas!
(If you'd like more information, I'm happy to share whatever I can of course.)
Hi lext,
Welcome aboard! I'd be happy to help. Here's a few steps I'd recommend to get you started:
- Short Tags: Viewing source on the page shows <? tags. There is a PHP directive called "short_open_tags" that let's you use shorthand <? tags instead of <?php. You need to either replace all the <? tags with <?php or enable short_open_tags in your php.ini file so the server can parse the code in those tags.
- SSL Certificate: The server returns an SSL error, you'll want to update the SSL certificate to a valid one (let's encrypt is free and what we use). This can often be done automatically through website control panels.
- PHP 8: You're probably better off upgrading to PHP 8.0 or better and cleaning things up. If you back everything up you can then upgrade to the latest CMSB from here: https://www.interactivetools.com/download/ In general you can just upload the files over top and it will work.
Let me know when you get that far and have some new challenges. Also feel free to send in a second level support request here when you have more issues. When we're able to take a look at the code it makes it quicker to resolve issues. https://www.interactivetools.com/support/request/
Hope that helps!
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