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Server supports only PHP 7 (HostEurope)

philipp_d — Oct 15, 2018, 07:30 PM

Hello together,

we provide our homepage via HostEurope WebHosting and use MODX as content management system. All is working fine so far!

But next week HostEurope is going to disable PHP 5.x and will only support PHP 7.x. When trying to switch the server's PHP version from 5.6 to 7.x, the part of our homepage which uses MODX can't be used any more (HostEurope error page). Everything else works fine.
The MODX documentation says that PHP 5.3.3 and above is required (refer to https://docs.modx.com/revolution/2.x/getting-started/server-requirements).

Does this mean that PHP 5.x must be run on the server to use MODX? Do we have a chance to use MODX on HostEurope after PHP 5.x was turned off?

Thank you in advance!
Philipp

Re: Server supports only PHP 7 (HostEurope)

BobRay — Oct 18, 2018, 10:20 PM

I'm not disbelieving you, but what you're saying seems impossible. Removing the content tag fixes things, but making the content just hello world doesn't (and other pages with HTML work fine)?

What happens if you replace the content tag in the template with the hello world HTML.

Be sure to manually clear the cache after making any changes. I recommend the CacheClear extra for this since it wipes the whole cache (clearing the cache in the Manager doesn't).

Re: Server supports only PHP 7 (HostEurope)

philipp_d — Oct 18, 2018, 07:55 AM

Thank you! We removed flowplayer, but there is still the problem when running on php7.

I played around with the homepage and found out that after removing the

[[*content]]

tag from our main template, it is running on php7. But because that can't be a satisfying solution, I tried to change the code from our start page. Even when I use

Hello World!

in the corresponding resource, the problem still exists.

We use a package called "Flexibility 4", could this one cause the problem or is this just written in HTML and JS (no PHP)?
Another package which seems to be quite old is "phpThumbsUp". It has PHP 5.3.x as minimum requirement.

I hope you can help me!

Re: Server supports only PHP 7 (HostEurope)

BobRay — Oct 17, 2018, 07:04 PM

Wayfinder is definitely OK, so I would suspect flowplayer, especially since it is version 1.0.0 from 2012!

Re: Server supports only PHP 7 (HostEurope)

philipp_d — Oct 17, 2018, 04:10 PM

Thank you for your reply!

All packages are up-to-date. There are two packages which are older than January 2017 and these are:

flowplayer (1.0-pl2, 2014-11-11)
Wayfinder (2.3.3-pl, 2014-10-18)

They are up-to-date but much older than the other packages. Could one of these packages cause the PHP upgrade problem?

Re: Server supports only PHP 7 (HostEurope)

BobRay — Oct 16, 2018, 10:23 PM

Check the extras in Package Manager (go to Extras -> Installer on the Top Menu).

Yes, 2.6.5 is the current version right now.

Re: Server supports only PHP 7 (HostEurope)

philipp_d — Oct 16, 2018, 07:53 PM

Hi Anton and BobRay,

thanks for your fast replies! We use version MODX Revolution 2.6.5-pl, is this the latest version?

additionally it will be good to check all Extras too, I saw that PHP version update influenced some of them as well

Which extras do you mean for example or where can I find them (sorry, I'm new to MODX and our homepage project)?

Greets
Philipp

Re: Server supports only PHP 7 (HostEurope)

BobRay — Oct 15, 2018, 10:46 PM

I've run MODX on PHP 7 for quite a while. You may have a few extras that cause an issue and need to be updated. I'd suggest upgrading MODX to 2.6.5 with the UpgradeMODX extra (there are critical security reasons for doing so), then updating all Extras before the PHP upgrade. Once that's done, you should be fine and your site will run a lot faster.

Re: Server supports only PHP 7 (HostEurope)

himurovi4 — Oct 15, 2018, 08:30 PM

Hi Philipp,

What MODX version do you use now(additionally it will be good to check all Extras too, I saw that PHP version update influenced some of them as well)?

If you don't use the latest (2.6.5) I believe update to this one may help you probably.