AS 2 Tom Little wrote:A few things, the crew passes use php code. We're using a really old version of php, so my intent to is install the newest version of php on the server which may even solve this issue - HOWEVER this forum uses older version of php and will not allow the newer version (for example if I just change our version of PHP to newest version right now, this forum becomes incapacitated).
So now I need to install the very latest version of phpbb forum in a test environment, but that is going to be a bear (not even sure I can move all of our forum data to the new version this one is so old!). I think though, either way we need to get to the newest versions of phpbb3 AND php... even if it means we lose our beloved older forums here and have to move to new one.
You SHOULD be able to specify what sites or sub-sites use which version of php.
I have the last php 7 on up to the latest php 8 on my server.
A couple of my sites don't like the "latest and greatest" and I keep at lest 1 ver of php7 for the couple of "hokd out" packages out there. But a "good" provider SHOULD AT LEAST passthrough this BASIC functionalty that is included in IIS, nginx and apache. If the provider says it can't be done, demand to talk to another "tech". Ifa so called supervisor or higher tier tech is saying that FIND A NEW COMPANY! AsI said, this is INCLUDED BASIC functionality. Just each package goes about doing it a different way, From poit and click easy to adding/removing lines in ini files.
Of course I do I run IIS on Win2022 with Plesk on my own HP Proliant server on our own 2.5gbs fiber connection. I stopped trusting website hosters MANY MANY MANY years ago because of all the half assed way they do things in the name of profit.