encoded by the ionCube Encoder for PHP 5.3 and cannot run under PHP 7.1 or later

[alexscj]

Hello,

I've moved a site from server to server, all existing files and db, updated config.php, common.php etc. New server PHP 7.3, old server PHP 5.3.

Now getting 500 error across the site on the new server:

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PHP Fatal error:  The file /../index.php was encoded by the ionCube Encoder for PHP 5.3 and cannot run under PHP 7.1 or later.
Please ask the provider of the script to provide a version encoded with the ionCube Encoder for PHP 7.1. in Unknown on line 0

Is there anyway to update etc. without installing TCMS from scratch on the new server ?

It would save a lot of time, I have a lot of sites to migrate.

[alexscj]

Thinking of taking an /admin/update.php from a PHP 7.1+ site and run it at the problematic site

[admin]

https://smartcj.com/wiki/doku.php?id=faq#php_update

[alexscj]

Surprisingly it worked Thanks!

I'll leave the command to rsync php files only for others:

rsync -avh --include '*/' --include '*.php' --exclude '*' source_path destination_path

Note 1: Save (& restore after the rsync) config.php & common.php from existing install or they'll be overwritten.

Note 2: Above command will not copy over the required files /includes/libs/geoip.inc and /includes/libs/geoipcity.inc. For these 2, copy manually or modify rsync parameters to include .inc files:

rsync -avh --include '*/' --include '*.php' --include '*.inc' --exclude '*' source_path destination_path

Note 3: source_path must include TCMS directory, destination_path must be the directory one level above TCMS directory.

[admin]

Thank you! I'll add it into the wiki )

[alexscj]

Updated the info above for the required .inc files.

[admin]

yeap , thank you!