My SMF forums not working, White/Blank Page. Even on repair_settings.php

Started by żεχเ๏ภ, June 15, 2019, 01:59:07 AM

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żεχเ๏ภ

Hi guys, I have an old SMF 2.0 and an even older SMF 1 forum on my website. I hadn't visited them in a month or so because I got busy with other things and they're kind of dead. But the information contained on them is important and I don't wish to lose it.

Both forums are completely giving me a white/blank page of death.

SMF 1: https://mainmedia.blastbox.co.uk/forum/index.php
SMF 2.0.3: https://www.blastbox.co.uk/forum/
phpinfo page: https://www.blastbox.co.uk/phpinfo.php
PHP Version 7.2.19

I uploaded and pointed my browser to repair_settings.php on BOTH forums, and still get the white page even on repair_settings! Never happened to me before. I think my webhost might have migrated over to new servers, and possibly some settings got changed, not sure. I also have 2 wordpresses giving me the blank screen of death, but 1 wordpress AND a mediawiki Wiki I have on the SAME server is working normally (albeit slowly) and NOT giving me the blank screen. (1 of the 2 dead wordpresses died after I tried updating it in admin console. Not sure if thats relevant info though)

Can anyone please help me to determine what could be causing this? I don't want to bother my webhost until I know what is causing this, so I know what to ask him to change/modify to fix this.

Thanks for any help I can get

br360

Neither 2.0.3 or SMF 1 work with PHP 7

Are you able to change your php version in your cpanel (or equivalent)? If so, see if you can go down to php 5.4. Then you can patch your 2.0.3 until you get to 2.0.15 which does support php 7.1

If you want to go back up to php 7.2, you can install this mod https://www.smfhacks.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;id=215 (only after you have patched up to 2.0.15)


SMF 1 is EOL  and you should really upgrade that forum to 2.0.15 as well. You could do this once you downgrade your php to 5.4. Not sure what version of 1 you are on, but you may need to upgrade to smf 1.1.21 first and then upgrade again to 2.0.15 after.


żεχเ๏ภ

Quote from: br360 on June 15, 2019, 03:17:52 AM
Neither 2.0.3 or SMF 1 work with PHP 7

Are you able to change your php version in your cpanel (or equivalent)? If so, see if you can go down to php 5.4. Then you can patch your 2.0.3 until you get to 2.0.15 which does support php 7.1

If you want to go back up to php 7.2, you can install this mod https://www.smfhacks.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;id=215 (only after you have patched up to 2.0.15)


SMF 1 is EOL  and you should really upgrade that forum to 2.0.15 as well. You could do this once you downgrade your php to 5.4. Not sure what version of 1 you are on, but you may need to upgrade to smf 1.1.21 first and then upgrade again to 2.0.15 after.

Thank you, setting it to 5.6 fixed my website. I truly appreciate your help

br360


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