Php On Tommy

[n747mm]

As part of moving from Stevie to Tommy, I'm trying to install a PHP-based utility on my site but am having problems. I'm not seeing any specific errors, just blank pages or lack of response. Are there any differences in how PHP is set up on Tommy that might explain this? It used to work fine on Stevie.

 

Thanks,

n747mm

 

[Krydos]

Stevie used PHP 5.3. On Tommy you can pick between PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, and 7.1. I believe 5.6 is the default. Maybe try changing it to 5.4 to be closer to the 5.3 that your scripts used to run on? Also if you post links to the exact script(s) that are causing problems I can take a look.

[n747mm]

OK, sounds like trying 5.4 should be the next step. I did look in cPanel for something regarding PHP version but can't find it. I hate to admit defeat, but where is that setting?

[Krydos]

https://tommy.heliohost.org:2083/frontend/paper_lantern/multiphp_manager/index.html

[wolstech]

It's worth noting that the above link will not work and the options are invisible if you use the x3 theme. If that's the case, switch to paper lantern and try again.

 

The icon for Krydos' link shows up under the Software section IIRC.

[n747mm]

Thanks guys, not sure how I missed that. Changed to PHP 5.4 but no difference in behaviour. Any help you can give with the scripts would really be appreciated. Here's some more detail.

 

I'm installing the ORS resource scheduler (http://ors.sourceforge.net) latest version 3.8.1. The first stage of install is at scheduling/install/index.html and clicking on the start install link works fine, bringing up the page at scheduling/install/install.php which identifies the PHP version (so basic PHP is definitely working) and says step 1 is complete. But here's where it starts to go wrong. The next link goes to scheduling/upgrade.php, but here I just get a blank page in FIrefox. Using 'wget -S' to retrieve that page from a Linux command line, I just get a 500 Internal Server Error with no content. Using cPanel to check the error logs, I see no errors at all. Presumably something is up with upgrade.php, but I can't see what...

[Krydos]

Have you searched on the ORS website, forums, or asked them for support?

[n747mm]

I did search the ORS forums but didn't find anthing relevant. ORS isn't very active these days -- last version was released 2010 which is why it didn't seem like it would be an ORS bug. However, with a bit of digging I found the problem and it is indeed a bug in the ORS code (a function was using $_POST as a local parameter variable and PHP was not happy about it). It's now working fine for me and I've posted a message in the ORS forum about the bug. I'm going to revert the PHP version to the default as I think the bug showed up due to a difference in tolerance between PHP 5.3 and 5.4 but now it's fixed the exact PHP version shouldn't matter.

 

Thanks for your help!