Notification Type
Technical Information
Date
July 22, 2009 8:50 AM
Service Affecting
No
Message
If since yesterdays (July 21st 09) upgrade your website is experiencing any problems with permissions or similar then the fix for you is simple.Here's an overview of the changes:
php5 is now runs as an apache module.
php4 is only available as cgi.
php5 can be apache module or cgi.
Magento works best on php5 cgi if you previously had it on php5-cgi (ensure php4 is disabled)
Oscommerce works best on php5 apache module with register globals enabled in a .htaccess
wordpress is fairly robust and will work on either.
Joomla seems happy on php5-cgi (php4 disabled)
Almost all issues with webspaces can be resolved by changing to php5 as apache module and disabling php4. As php4 is EOL since December 2007 people should try not to use it at all.
Let us know if you have issues with your site, most problems are trivial to resolve and can be done by performing the above actions.
I had issues: I installed Wordpress under PHP4 - file permissions were incorrect. Support told me to change to PHP5 and reinstalled. Still issues.
Initially I was unable to do my usual Wordpress tasks, upload modules themes, upgrade Wordpress. Then I couldnt change edit Wordpress themes through the Wordpress admin.
Ive been advised to install manually. Just waiting for the old installation to disappear.
Its been more work than usual to install a Wordpress site. Perhaps I'm not used to the control panel, but Ive done this on other control panels and its never been this time consuming.
OsCommerce:
Rewrite Rules in .htaccess file stopped to work;
$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] now points to /usr/bin
All these just broke website.
Dmitry - If you contact our support desk with your account details they should be able to assist you
I've had very unusual FTP issues today.
(a) When I uploaded a file it uploaded as the correct filesize but when I view the file it reported 0 bytes .... this seems to be fixed now
(b) NOW, I am getting "451 Transfer aborted. Input/output error" and cannot upload an urgent file. Have tried 2 different FTP programs with the same error.
Any solutions?
This has also broken a Drupal 6 installation.
Now receiving a .htaccess: Invalid command 'php_value_output_handler'
no solution yet.