Help: CMSMS 1.4.1(MLE) / PHP5 problem / no upgrade available
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:17 pm
Hi all,
I posted this here because the MLE topic is closed.
I've got a very annoying problem here...
In 2007 we created a CMSMS MLE 1.4.1 website for a client.
About a month ago our hoster upgraded his server to PHP5. This seems to generate some problems in CMSMS MLE 1.4.1:
front-end:
- index.php generates a 500 internal server error, but there's no noticable problem in displaying the website
- Forms don't send attachements anymore. They have a job application form where you can attach your picture and curriculum vitae, but those attachements aren't received by the recipient anymore. There's nothing in the server logs about this problem, only some internal server errors.
back-end
- CSS isn't applied anymore. When I view the source, click on the link to the stylesheet, I get the content of the file... But firebug tells me it generated a 500 internal server error. When I enable debugmode in the config.php file, the CSS IS applied...
So I tried some workarounds I've found on this forum for similar problems:
- for the backend-css: change the link from style.php to the absolute path to the css file in the default theme but this doesn't even affect the output of the HTML
- for the backend-css, and internal server errors on other pages: change the rights to 777 for that file, but it didn't make any difference.
So then I downloaded the files and database and uploaded to another hoster (also php5), hoping it would be something in the server config: Same result.
Then I tried upgrading formbuilder, since the attachments problem is the most urgent: no result
Then I tried to find the next versions of the cms mle fork, but that part of the code repository seems to be offline... it looks like it has been developed as a module for a while (these downloads are still available), then as a seperate project where only the current version is available.
As a last resort I tried upgrading to 1.5 (not mle version of course), hoping this wouldn't change the database too much so the mle part still would still work and hoping I could gradually upgrade to a version that would work on php5, but this screwed up the site completely: nothing in the front end but
"Not found
The requested URL was not found on this server."
and the backend still suffered from no css and internal server errors.
So my question is
1) is there a way I could at least get the form working again with attachement
2) is there a way I can solve the internal server errors, which will probably solve the no-css problem in the backend
3) if both answers to 1 and 2 are "no", can I export the pages and data and import it into a new database so I can setup a normal and new version of CMSMS with that data? (because after 3,5 years the client still didn't input the other language, so I guess it's not very urgent)
If you want to see the server errors yourself: http://www.betonac.be
You can already see them in the login page (and in the front-end).
I posted this here because the MLE topic is closed.
I've got a very annoying problem here...
In 2007 we created a CMSMS MLE 1.4.1 website for a client.
About a month ago our hoster upgraded his server to PHP5. This seems to generate some problems in CMSMS MLE 1.4.1:
front-end:
- index.php generates a 500 internal server error, but there's no noticable problem in displaying the website
- Forms don't send attachements anymore. They have a job application form where you can attach your picture and curriculum vitae, but those attachements aren't received by the recipient anymore. There's nothing in the server logs about this problem, only some internal server errors.
back-end
- CSS isn't applied anymore. When I view the source, click on the link to the stylesheet, I get the content of the file... But firebug tells me it generated a 500 internal server error. When I enable debugmode in the config.php file, the CSS IS applied...
So I tried some workarounds I've found on this forum for similar problems:
- for the backend-css: change the link from style.php to the absolute path to the css file in the default theme but this doesn't even affect the output of the HTML
- for the backend-css, and internal server errors on other pages: change the rights to 777 for that file, but it didn't make any difference.
So then I downloaded the files and database and uploaded to another hoster (also php5), hoping it would be something in the server config: Same result.
Then I tried upgrading formbuilder, since the attachments problem is the most urgent: no result
Then I tried to find the next versions of the cms mle fork, but that part of the code repository seems to be offline... it looks like it has been developed as a module for a while (these downloads are still available), then as a seperate project where only the current version is available.
As a last resort I tried upgrading to 1.5 (not mle version of course), hoping this wouldn't change the database too much so the mle part still would still work and hoping I could gradually upgrade to a version that would work on php5, but this screwed up the site completely: nothing in the front end but
"Not found
The requested URL was not found on this server."
and the backend still suffered from no css and internal server errors.
So my question is
1) is there a way I could at least get the form working again with attachement
2) is there a way I can solve the internal server errors, which will probably solve the no-css problem in the backend
3) if both answers to 1 and 2 are "no", can I export the pages and data and import it into a new database so I can setup a normal and new version of CMSMS with that data? (because after 3,5 years the client still didn't input the other language, so I guess it's not very urgent)
If you want to see the server errors yourself: http://www.betonac.be
You can already see them in the login page (and in the front-end).