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...
A client at CiviHosting who runs MediaWiki recently ran into errors with VisualEditor. We then discovered this error in their error log: [23-Dec-2019 04:13:48 Europe/Sofia] PHP Warning: fopen(/tmp/mw-UIDGenerator-UUID-128): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/username/www/www/includes/utils/UIDGenerator.php on line 445 out of the blue. We fixed this issue by manually defining this variable: $wgTmpDirectory = '/home/username/private';...
The team at HostingAdvice has featured CiviHosting in a new article called CiviHosting: Reliable Shared and Virtual Server Solutions Backed by Stellar Customer Support from a Family-Like Team. One quote from the Contributing Editor Christine Preusler that we liked is: CiviHosting delivers shared and VPS hosting solutions built to keep sites secure and running quickly....
This week our pro-active monitoring systems (automated and human) found two issues on client sites. We alerted them and are helping them to fix the issues. The first was one was using a vulnerable version of the IgniteUp WordPress plugin. The second was a client with Drupal 8 had a vulnerable version of PHPUnit. This...
On CiviHosting, it's very easy. First step is to install MediaWiki. See our page How to Install MediaWiki for details on that. Second step is to run these commands from the command line: mkdir -p ./extensions/SemanticMediaWiki chmod ugo+rw ./extensions/SemanticMediaWiki composer require mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki "3.0.0" --update-no-dev composer require mediawiki/semantic-result-formats "3.0.0" composer update --no-dev Third step is to...
CiviHosting has been featured in "Industry Leaders" section of the Website Planet blog. See here: CiviHosting Interview for the full post. We thank the Website Planet for their recognition of CiviHosting. :)
We have been asked more frequently recently about migrating wiki owners from Referata to our servers. Referata runs Semantic MediaWiki, but as of this writing in October 2019, they are using MediaWiki version 1.25.5 which was released March 4, 2016, meaning it's very old and has known security issues. Our servers run the latest stable...
MediaWiki works fine on shared hosting, but there is (at least) on catch. When uploading files, MediaWiki, by default, saves a lock file in the /tmp folder without randomizing the file name. This will cause a conflict with multiple installations on the same server. As a solution, we you must add the following line to...