I appreciate you are all private developers and volunteers. I'm sorry for my lack of patience. When the issues are fixed I hope you'll allow me to provide you and whoever is helping you with some sort of tangible thank you for your work. You are more than worth it.
In config.inc.php I changed:
- From: 'SEARCH_FRIENDLY_URLS' => '1', [as it was successfully for years with PHP5]
- To: 'SEARCH_FRIENDLY_URLS' => '0',
All appears to be working again. I was able to post, edit and edit community information.
Great, at least now any turnover rate can be minimized since users can again access the site.
1) The web host said they were going to do a restart when they upgraded to EasyApache4. I will ask if they actually did, and to restart now. Then I'll put the above setting back to "0" and see what happens and report back. After that I won't do anything until I hear back from you. [I'm guessing it is better to resolve everything before upgrading from 7.7.0 to 7.7.1.]
That's a fairly painless test; but yes, I'd recommend not preforming an upgrade through a server issue.
2) RE: 17 year old settings (like the MySQL password issue)? I don't know what to think about that. I never thought about it before. Every now and then I get a notification from the web host that they will be installing or upgrading something. I never considered that they might be leaving MySQL alone for 17 years. I do know that I have not purposely changed hosts for probably a decade, though several web hosts have been bought out and absorbed by other companies until the current one. I can ask if they can move me to another machine. I'll hold off on doing this until you tell me it is the next logical move. [Maybe you want to further investigate the issue? Or maybe it so rare it is just easier to request a move to another machine?
Philipp: Thanks for your information about Nginx proxy plugin (NginxCP) for cPanel. I'll hold off on doing anything about until Gizmo makes a recommendation.
Look like you are using an old Nginx proxy plugin (NginxCP) for cPanel? This may cause issues with your new EasyApache 4 setup.
Well, philipp's comment kind of goes along with what I was saying about ancient settings on the machine, if those little things were off, what large things have also been neglected?
