There was a recently discovered serious vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin: Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk. You can rad the full report here: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/05/sql-injection-vulnerability-patched-in-cleantalk-antispam-plugin/ Due to the severity of the vulnerability and its high potential impact, we proactively upgraded this plugin on all websites on our servers to the latest stable version provided...
PHP 8.0 is now available on all CiviHosting servers. To test PHP 8 on your account, you can easily change the PHP version via the hosting Control Panel > PHP settings tab. You can control the PHP version of each subdomain separately. Enjoy. :)
To copy a site on our servers, whether from one account to another, or from a different subdomains within the same account, is not hard. You indeed must have some technical skills, but beyond that, the process is fairly straightforward. The first step is to copy the files and also the databases. The files can...
The CiviCRM Installation Guide for Drupal 9 says to run these three lines of code: composer config extra.enable-patching true composer require civicrm/civicrm-asset-plugin:'~1.1' composer require civicrm/civicrm-{core,packages,drupal-8}:'~5.39' We edited that last one to end with the latest version of CiviCRM, which today is 5.39, but anyhow if you run these commands today, on the second and third...
This week one of our clients asked if we could help to convert a large Word document to MediaWiki pages. His document was separated into 30 small "chapters" and he wanted each one to be its own page. We said no problem and we converted that for him, including footnotes. How did we do it?...
We have now had our third client complaint that public CiviCRM pages don't work -- no data appears on the page. We investigated and could not find a cause. Two clients said that Event pages didn't work and one said that a Contribution page didn't work. The solution we can offer for such cases is...
CiviCRM uses the URL: /libraries/civicrm/extern/soap.php for unsubscribe links and other tools. On a default Drupal 8 install, such a URL is blocked by the .htaccess file. To fix that, add these lines: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/authorizeIPN.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/cxn.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/ipn.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/open.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/pxIPN.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/rest.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/soap.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}...
A client contacted recently to ask for help in automating data entry to their Google Spreadsheets. They were copying and pasting information from form submissions, and also donations, into their spreadsheets manually. They hired us for a few hours of labor and we used the Google Sheets API and set up for them a system...
All of our servers now support PHP 7.4. You can read more in the official guide for migrating from PHP 7.3.x to PHP 7.4.x here: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration74.php PHP 7.4 brings performance improvements over previous PHP versions. From now all new accounts on our servers will have PHP 7.4 as the default PHP version. Existing accounts can...