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Cron for CiviCRM in Joomla 4

It doesn't work. :( Well that's not really correct. It was broken, but they fixed it as of CiviCRM 5.56 as per the Cron issue with Joomla 4 issue. We ran into this recently -- cron was all set correctly, but it just wouldn't work. The client had CiviCRM 5.54. We just upgraded that, and...

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May 30, 2023
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Visual Editor on Upgraded Wiki

Upgrading a MediaWiki site to the latest version allows you to run VisualEditor, with no need for a third party Parsoid server. However, there is one fix that you may need. That is to add this line to your .htaccess file: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^(VisualEditor)

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May 21, 2023
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CiviCRM Works with Drupal 10

We ran an install today of Drupal 10.0.9 with CiviCRM 5.61 and it worked fine and everything proceed normally.

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May 10, 2023
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Converted and Upgraded

Converted and upgraded a client site today: Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 PHP 7 to PHP 8 MySQL 5 to MySQL 8 All went well and no data was lost.

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April 23, 2023
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Linux Upgrade on Our Servers

We would like to inform you that we will be upgrading the operating system (Debian GNU/Linux) on all our servers from the current release Buster to the new stable release Bullseye. The upgrade process has already begun and will be completed in stages over the next few weeks. Several servers have already been successfully upgraded...

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March 1, 2023
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Upgrade MediaWiki and local Parsoid Server

If you upgraded a MediaWiki installation from an older version where Parsoid was not included, youo must remove the $wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid'] line from LocalSettings.php. You also must add the following directive to the .htaccess file: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^(VisualEditor) if you have one.

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January 4, 2023
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CiviCRM and Drupal 10

As of this writing (January 4, 2023) it's not possible to install CiviCRM normally on Drupal 10. There is this script: https://lab.civicrm.org/-/snippets/84 that claims to do it, but we tried that and it failed. Instead, we are installing Drupal 9.5.0 with CiviCRM for now, using this: composer create-project drupal/recommended-project:9.5.0 . composer require civicrm/civicrm-{core,packages,drupal-8}:'~5.56' until the...

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January 4, 2023
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MediaWiki Upgrade

We migrated an old MediaWiki site today. Version 1.26. The client said "best it has looked in months 😄" and we are now working on upgrading his site to the latest stable version.

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December 27, 2022
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Domain Name Price Change

CiviHosting has always offered domain name registration at cost, meaning we make zero profit. Due to rising costs, and credit card processing fees, we are going to have to change that policy and raise our prices a bit. This change will take affect sometime soon after October 15th, 2022. We unfortunately do not yet know...

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September 18, 2022
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