{"id":7873,"date":"2021-05-23T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/23\/cbd-weblog-going-down-maybemaybe-not\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T23:57:19","slug":"cbd-weblog-going-down-maybemaybe-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/23\/cbd-weblog-going-down-maybemaybe-not\/","title":{"rendered":"CB&D Weblog Going Down? Maybe\/Maybe Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

sinking.jpg<\/a>Earlier this week, I received notice that the version of PHP used by this website is going to disappear from the Internet Service Provider we use. Pursuant to their notice, I dutifully went to the ISP control panel and directed that this site be switched to the newer, supported version of PHP. Well, when I switched to the new version, it resulted in a big crash. When attempting to view the site in a browser, I get a “This Page isn\u2019t Working<\/a>” message in my Browser<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Image: An artist’s rendition of the SS Kalifornia’s Final Voyage. We certainly don’t want to be doomed like them. Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n

After consulting the WordPress help pages, I tried a few thigs to see if I could wake the website up, but to no avail. Since I am using a VERY OLD (ca. February 2008) version of WordPress, it appears that I am going to have to upgrade the WP package in order to proceed.<\/p>\n

WordPress recommends that I do the upgrade incrementally (all old versions of WP are available) to avoid potential problems that could be encountered by trying a “long jump” upgrade. I am at version 2.3.3 and need to upgrade to the current WP version which is 5.7.2. That sounds like a lot of incremental upgrades but there is a saving grace; if I can get version 3.7 going, the WP team tells me that there is an upgrade “button” that will take me to the latest version.<\/p>\n

I do have some time to get all this done, not only to this blog, but two others I maintain on the same ISP. The deadline for removal of the old version of PHP is not until December of 2021, so there are a few months in which I can get thigs fixed. I will probably start on one of the blogs soon and others to follow later. <\/p>\n

Some of the custom gadgets I use will be gone since I modified their code to do a few things I like to have like the image viewer and a few others. I also expect the overall appearance of the blogs will change since I do not think the old templates to be compatible. <\/p>\n

Maybe this is all for the better, but if you get a splash page saying the blog is gone, then I might either be working on it or it is gone forever. I will let everyone know the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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