We are now working on a custom web site test suite written in Playwright running in Node.js. What is Playwright? The npm, Inc. site says on their Playwright page says Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable...
This week we completed an export and then conversion of a knowledge base, from a third party commercial "online knowledge base" provider, to DokuWiki format. A software firm from New Zealand contacted us to do this job for them, and then host their new wiki.
Migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 isn’t a straightforward upgrade; it’s a complete site rebuild. This means that for anyone currently running a site on Drupal 7, transitioning to Drupal 10 will involve recreating the entire structure, design, and functionality of the website. Alternatively, this transition could also be an opportunity to consider other...
The latest PHP version, PHP 8.3, is now available for all accounts on all servers. For a detailed overview of the enhancements and features introduced in PHP 8.3, see the official PHP documentation here: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration83.php PHP 8.1 will remain the default PHP version for new accounts and subdomains on our servers. As always, you can...
After upgrading MediaWiki, it is not uncommon to see this error message: Error creating thumbnail: File missing This can happen when all the images are indeed in the correct locations. One easy way to fix this is to set the $wgCacheEpoch variable as per the manual: $wgCacheEpoch
We were honored to provide an interview for SafetyDetectives. Here it is on their site: How CiviHosting Ensures Web Hosting Security
We had a chance to provide an interview for Website Planet, and here are the results: https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/civihosting-interview-2/
As per this statement called Board/Policies/20230615-Statement Miraheze will be shutting all operations. Bottom line is: We will give at least 7 days notice, but between September 1st 2023 and October 1st 2023, Miraheze will cease to exist as a wiki farm. We have begun to transfer wikis from Miraheze to our servers. They also mention...
A client asked us to fetch Google search results via API for their project. The docs here: Custom Search JSON API have the code ready for Javascript. You must of course enter your API key. The only other point they don't mention is the parameters for the search call. The 'q' parameter is the standard...