I'm moving a site to a new server.
The site is currently running 2.5.0. It was hacked so I'm want to install that version on the new server, import the database and assets, then upgrade to 2.6.5. However, After I run the setup for 2.5.0 and attempt to login to the manager I get a 503 error, page not found on the manager. I'm getting 500 server error on the front-end. I tried running the setup multiple times.
Thinking there might be a corrupt file, I deleted the entire installation, re-uploaded the zip file and repeated the setup. Same result.
This is on A2 hosting where I've got a dozen other sites running perfectly (not on this account).
Apache Version 2.4.34
MySQL Version 10.1.31-MariaDB-cll-lve
For my first attempt the the server was running php 7.0. Thinking an older version of modx might prefer an older version of php, I downgraded to 5.6. No change.
There were no errors or warnings during any of the setup routines. There are no errors in any logs that I can find.
The htaccess is not in play.
I've looked at the config.inc.php file all seems in order, paths look good, database server, name, pw all look fine to me.
I also worked with A2 tech 2nd level support, they tell me that the server is not generating any errors and the problem is at the application level.
I read in a forum post from last year MySQL MariaDB is not supported. Yet it seems to be working fine on my other sites hosted at A2 where that is being used. Is it possible this older version won't work with this? If so what are my options?
If that's not the issue, what else? How do I get past this?
