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Guess who has two thumbs and (temporarily) wrecked her website! It's me! (And I got it fixed too!)
Haha, I wanted to do one thing with my website, and then I found other stuff I should do with it, and somewhere in the midst of it all, I discovered that it was all running on PHP 5.6! (Current is somewhere in the sevens/eights, for reference.) Long ago, I had meant to keep one subdomain (a version of Legend of the Green Dragon) running a then-slightly outdated version because it wouldn't work on newer ones, but apparently now either everything would be running insecure PHP or everything would have to be upgraded in one fell swoop. I took a moment to say goodbye to my LotGD install, toggled the upgrade stuff in cPanel, and clicked a button to finalize it.
And then nothing on my website would load!
Because of a snippet of decrepit code dating back to 2003!!
And then my famously spotty rural internet cut out!!!
I got it worked out though! Eventually. I don't remember what all went into the repairs, so maybe some rare helpful gremlin took pity on my stressy self and slipped something back into place, instead of out of it.
So that's sorted. Now if I can just convince Jellyfin to let me play my Christmas playlist... (Hopefully that's simpler. Strongly suspect the playlist simply no longer has a valid owner, and manually editing one in may fix it. We shall see!)
Haha, I wanted to do one thing with my website, and then I found other stuff I should do with it, and somewhere in the midst of it all, I discovered that it was all running on PHP 5.6! (Current is somewhere in the sevens/eights, for reference.) Long ago, I had meant to keep one subdomain (a version of Legend of the Green Dragon) running a then-slightly outdated version because it wouldn't work on newer ones, but apparently now either everything would be running insecure PHP or everything would have to be upgraded in one fell swoop. I took a moment to say goodbye to my LotGD install, toggled the upgrade stuff in cPanel, and clicked a button to finalize it.
And then nothing on my website would load!
Because of a snippet of decrepit code dating back to 2003!!
And then my famously spotty rural internet cut out!!!
I got it worked out though! Eventually. I don't remember what all went into the repairs, so maybe some rare helpful gremlin took pity on my stressy self and slipped something back into place, instead of out of it.
So that's sorted. Now if I can just convince Jellyfin to let me play my Christmas playlist... (Hopefully that's simpler. Strongly suspect the playlist simply no longer has a valid owner, and manually editing one in may fix it. We shall see!)
