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After activating needed PHP 5.4 I get a following error:
Especially "old-passwords flag" sounds confusing... And is this needed with CMSMS?

What tasks I should do to get CMS Made Simple site running again?

your cmsms-version?

staartmees wrote:your cmsms-version?

1.11.11

That is a server issue I believe...

you might need to remove the old-passwords flag from your my.cnf file

Dr.CSS wrote:That is a server issue I believe...

you might need to remove the old-passwords flag from your my.cnf file

Yes - this is a server issue. But after some googling, the workaround isn't the easiest one. I assume that quite many CMSMS sites have to upgrade to PHP 5.4 some time and then this problem may occur.

I got lucky, 'cause my host provided an easy way out. I just changed SQL-password and everything was running fine again. But I don't think that every host has the same service.

You are correct, I am having exact issue you had right now and working with the hosting ppl to see if this can be resolved. I was trying to upgrade my php from 5.3X to 5.5X and lost the database connection.

@twen88

Did you managed to get the site running again? If so, what did you do?

The error almost literally says what you could do:
Note that is about sql statements on your mysql server.

I got lucky, 'cause my host provided an easy way out. I just changed SQL-password and everything was running fine again. But I don't think that every host has the same service.

I hope many hosting providers provide that service. Or at least provide tools to do that yourself. Either by their web-based admin or phpmyadmin or...

It is not an PHP upgrade issue but more an MySQL upgrade issue. I doubt whether it's a cmsms problem, because I think many cmsms websites run on php 5.4 and MySQL 4.1+ a long time.

velden wrote:The error almost literally says what you could do:

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Please use an administration tool to reset your password with the command SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('your_existing_password')

Based on what I've read before my host corrected the problem, this isn't solved so easily. There are many quite complecated instructions available. Luckily I didn't have to try those.

As you said, this is not CMSMS problem, but quite many CMSMS users will face this problem. It would be great if there could be some kind of info/help beforehand. But maybe I'm just worrying too much

urheat wrote:@twen88

Did you managed to get the site running again? If so, what did you do?

No, not yet, the hosting ppl have spent a few days so far to resolve this issue but I have not yet seen a conclusion.

The simple solution (I have not tested it since I don't have a site with this problem).

Go into your cpanel click on MySql Database in the database section (if you don't have that you should be able to do it in PHPMyAdmin), scroll down to the MySql users section, find the user for your CMSms install and click set password.

That being said if you have a host that can't figure this out, you need to find a new hosting provider.

Thanks,
Jeff

Jeff wrote:Go into your cpanel click on MySql Database in the database section (if you don't have that you should be able to do it in PHPMyAdmin), scroll down to the MySql users section, find the user for your CMSms install and click set password.

In addition, if you set another password than the previous one, change database password in config.php too.

The weired thing is that

1)when I switch the site to php5.5, I got this message:

Database Connection Failed
Error: The server requested authentication method unknown to the client (2054)
Function Performed: CONNECT

2) when I use php5.3, everything is fine except some of the CG modules are having some issues.

3) when I run the script below under php5.5, I got a "Database Connected successfully" message。

<?php
mysql_connect('db_host', 'db_username', 'password') or die('Could not connect the database : Username or password incorrect');
mysql_select_db('db_name') or die ('No database found');
echo 'Database Connected successfully';
?>

Therefore, I think the database is fine, it is the cmsms that is having some issue with connecting to the database under php5.5. And I did try resetting the password with the same result.

this is my site info:

Here is my system info:

CMS Version 1.11.11

CGExtensions 1.44.3
CMSMailer 5.2.2
CMSPrinting 1.0.5
FileManager 1.4.5
MenuManager 1.8.6
MicroTiny 1.2.7
ModuleManager 1.5.8
News 2.14.4
Search 1.7.11
ThemeManager 1.1.8
FrontEndUsers 1.24.1
FEUMailer 0.9.4
CustomContent 1.10
FEmessages 1.2
SelfRegistration 1.8.2
TinyMCE 2.9.12
CGCalendar 1.14.3
CGSimpleSmarty 1.7.4

I use cmsms 1.11.11 under php 5.6.4 without any problem.

What is set in config.php for:
And could you post whole system information? And note there is a special format of system information for pasting into forum posts. The link is at the right to and named "View Text Report (suitable for copying into forum posts)"