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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...
CiviHosting has a feature we call our "Marketplace" or "Client Area." Managing your existing services and ordering new ones, including domain name transfers, is all available easily online at one place. The URL of our Client Area is https://clientarea.dev.civihosting.com/ but to login most easily for the first time, visit your hosting Control Panel and click...
We recently migrated and then upgraded a MediaWiki, and the upgrade was a major upgrade. It run successfully, but then tome pages, such as the home page, showed errors like this: MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionAccessException from line 1676 of /home/mysite/www/www/includes/Revision/RevisionStore.php: Main slot of revision 38921 not found in database! We found several reports of this error online and...
Let’s Encrypt recently announced a very serious issue called the CAA bug. You can read up for more details about it on the Let's Encrypt Community site Arstechnica blog Sucuri Blog CiviHosting was quick to act. Our system administrators checked all the Let's Encrypt certificates installed on our servers, and we reissued any affected ones,...
Semantic MediaWiki by default comes with a set of words that it will not search on. See here for details: Full-text_search Recently we had a client who wanted to disable this on his site so that users could search for words like "everybody" and "everything" on his site. So we changed the MySQL table type...
There are two basic steps to installing a MediaWiki Extension. One is to add the code and the second is to active the extension. Below we will detail various options how to accomplish each step. Add Extension Code On each Extension page, there should be installation instructions, that include the location of the code. Normally,...
If your shell script errors on a CiviHosting server, just prefix it with /bin/sh -x like this: /bin/sh -x myscript params etc...
Recently a client contacted us that exporting Contact data in CiviCRM was failing with this error: Error: Cannot unset offsets in CRM_Export_BAO_ExportProcessor->setAdditionalFieldsForPostalExport() (line 169 of /home/username/www/www/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Export/BAO/ExportProcessor.php" This appeared to be the same issue that was reported here: Error “Cannot unset string offsets” exporting using custom field mapping and so we upgraded their site and that...
Recently a client contacted us with this message: We updated CiviCRM on the 5th Dec to 5.19.4 but the cron jobs stopped when we did this. The error message from the Control Panel is Warning: Unsupported declare 'strict_types' in /home/username/www/www/sites/all/modules/civicrm/vendor/league/csv/src/functions.php on line 12 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting '{' in /home/username/www/www/sites/all/modules/civicrm/vendor/league/csv/src/functions.php on line...