I will be working on the site quite a bit on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009, and will be turning off the board. I will try to have the board turned back on as soon as I can.
Between some point on Saturday to almost 8:00am on Sunday, my webhost moved the accounts on the server that we were on to another server. Last Tuesday, our server was shut down to replace a part that was failing and causing problems. (Only I didn't know about it until later in the week because I don't always read my email every day.)
If anyone posted after the time the webhost copied the accounts but before the installation on the new server, those posts would be missing because they would not exist in the copy.
We would like to inform you that the PHP developers have announced they will stop providing support for PHP 4 by the end of this year.
Here is an extract from the developers: *********************************************** [13-Jul-2007] Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
Read more at www.php.net ***********************************************
Since the PHP developers will no longer provide support / bug fixes / security updates for PHP 4, we will be forced to discontinue providing this service and make PHP 5 as the default version of PHP.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused you however we believe that continuing to provide PHP 4 after development has stopped will make our servers more vulnerable and prone to attack. This will eventually result in hacking attempts and may even cause server outages / downtimes which will be in no-ones interest.
We have always believed in keeping SECURITY our NUMBER ONE priority so you can focus on what’s important; running your business.
Therefore, we will be retiring PHP 4 in the first or second quarter of next year.
As advised by the PHP developers, please use the rest of this year to make your applications suitable to run on PHP 5.
I think one of those modifications I added was supposed to make this forum compatible with php5. I don't know for sure if it'll work, but there isn't much I can do really. So, if you've got stuff you'd like to keep, it might be a good idea to copy it off, just in case.
This board software was the last free version from Invision Power Board. I'm not sure if upgrading to the current paid version would still allow the portal (for the blogs) and Coppermine (the gallery) to keep the necessary references to the member accounts. Also, the new version of IPB has database changes that would probably "break" things around here too.
From Blog Wolfegar's Blog: Well, installing the new portal was easy enough. Configuring it took all day though. I'm still not done with some of the stuff but it's usable anyway. I've got links from the portal to the board and the gallery and back. I also put links in to go to my original home page.I th ...
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