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CGI Space changes ...
20-12-2013 4:52 PM
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So two questions:
1. Where is the information in question?
2. Will the "improvements" allow any kind of command line access to our CGI space? This has severely limited its use since command line tool access (TELNET etc etc) was banned.
Hoping for something positive ...
Kenneth Spencer
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20-12-2013 5:12 PM
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20-12-2013 6:07 PM
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Quote from: Gabe Support Pages
Good grief. Support document in MS Word format?
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20-12-2013 7:10 PM
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The FAQ doesn't say so (yet) but PHP scripts need to be outside /cgi-bin.
David
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20-12-2013 7:28 PM
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20-12-2013 7:33 PM
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20-12-2013 8:11 PM
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20-12-2013 8:20 PM
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So today as part of my troubleshooting I was going to start the long process of reacquainting myself with the version number of the server software, the SQL and my WordPress version (which I haven't updated for an age due to the server restrictions). And then this news broke about the migration.
In the small amount of troubleshooting that I've done today the words phpinfo.php and PHP.ini came up as possibilities to solve my problem. So I thought it was very coincidental that only 1 day later we receive the news of the migration and, in addition, the phpinfo.php and PHP.ini mentioned in the Migration FAQs as mentioned as being unsupported on the new platform.
In short the migration is good news and it has come at a good time. Although I am left a little puzzled by the recent malfunctioning of my site. And I'm wondering whether I should try and fix it now (leaving myself open to it breaking when the migrations happens) or whether I should wait and see if it fixes itself with a combination of new server and updating WordPress finally.
All that I'm asking is if anyone else has experienced any gremlins in the past few days.
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20-12-2013 9:59 PM
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Quote from: spraxyt concerning placement of Perl and .cgi scripts. On the new platform these *must* be in the /cgi-bin folder
Or you can add
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
to your .htaccess and then they work as before.
Quote from: Chris we might not be able to answer until the end of next week or the start of the following one due to the main person on this being away on holiday (Bob).
Good timing.
Gabe
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20-12-2013 11:16 PM
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Quote from: hominid Although PlusNet have mentioned January 2014 as being the date for the changes I was wondering if any of the processes have been started already. Maybe it's coincidence but only yesterday I found a serious problem with WordPress on the server. I can no longer upload photographs as an error message comes back: 'missing a temporary folder'.
As far as I'm aware nothing Plusnet might have done as preparation should have affected the operation of anyone's current website. As stated in the email in the new year we should receive another one advising when our sites will be migrated.
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21-12-2013 9:54 AM
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I currently have a domain pointed to plusnet and within the website access ccgi....
Thanks,
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21-12-2013 10:50 AM
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I don't think anyone should be surprised if there's still no command-line interface. It was a boon when it used to be available, but it's just too much of a security risk IMHO.
Temporary folder could not be found. Please check your PHP installation.
21-12-2013 12:50 PM
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I've uploaded a phpBB3 board to my cgi space. It works, but on trying to upload a user avatar I get an error:
Quote Temporary folder could not be found. Please check your PHP installation.
I have found suggestions that this is down to the upload_tmp_dir setting in php.ini On the ACP for my board this is reported as 'no value'
Changing php.ini seems to be within Plusnet's control not mine. I found a post in the Webspace Archive Forum saying that putting
Quote ini_set ("upload_tmp_dir", "tmp");
at the top of config.php and index.php would fix it, but it hasn't. The archive post was about Force9 rather than Plusnet so may not be applicable.
I have also seen it stated that the Plusnet php.ini can be overridden by a local php.ini in the folder the script runs from, but I'm new to php and don't know what it should contain. And have also noted that user php.ini files won't be permitted in the 2014 upgrade.
Thanks for any help
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21-12-2013 4:15 PM
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Quote from: odeno Does anyone know if all hosting is being moved?
So far as I know, just ccgi.
Quote from: Chris3005 I have also seen it stated that the Plusnet php.ini can be overridden by a local php.ini in the folder the script runs from, but I'm new to php and don't know what it should contain. And have also noted that user php.ini files won't be permitted in the 2014 upgrade.
There is a script that should fix that for you, but at this stage, I'd just wait for the migration.
Gabe
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21-12-2013 4:49 PM
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The MySQL version is quite recent and Installing the latest WordPress 3.8 is no problem.
On current ccgi upload_tmp_dir is unset which means it uses the system default which is /tmp. My guess is that uploads are currently failing because /tmp needs old files clearing out. I believe a scheduled job does this but I'm not sure how often it runs.
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