Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings

[Like Ra]

Fixed some glitches that were caused by new version of MyAlerts - all other plugins, that work with MyAlerts had to be reactivated.

[Like Ra]

Fixed some glitches that were caused by new version of MyAlerts - all other plugins, that work with MyAlerts had to be reactivated.

After the last MyAlerts bouncing I missed the ThankYouLike plugin notice, that it should be reintegrated with MyAlerts.... Oh those interdependencies.... Fixed! 😁

[BoundWolf]

I've noticed that the initial page load is over a non-secure connection unless you specifically request the secure version - type "likera.com" into the browser, and it will load as "http://likera.com". Subsequent internal links all serve over https. This is a potential security issue - for instance, if you navigate straight to the forum (type "likera.com/forum/mybb" in the browser bar, which is what I routinely do), then the login will be over a non-secure connection.

I'm not sure the server configuration that you're using, but there should be some way to force https for all pages (possibly using .htaccess or redirects.conf) including on the initial load. Not sure if HSTS would help with that initial page load, but it would help force all future loads.

[Like Ra]

I've noticed that the initial page load is over a non-secure connection unless you specifically request the secure version - type "likera.com" into the browser, and it will load as "http://likera.com".

Yes, you are right, and there is a reason for that. The site is using ModPageSpeed acceleration. And the default HTTPS rerouting breaks it. So far I haven't found a workaround 😟

Subsequent internal links all serve over https.

Exactly, so it should be relatively safe. Also Google saves HTTPS addresses.

[Like Ra]

Upgraded PHP (minor version) and ModPageSpeed to the latest Beta (not many changes, but the owner is Apache now, not Google).

[Like Ra]

The operating system has been upgraded to 20.10.1. And I'm working on upgrading PHP to 8.0.

[Like Ra]

WordPress has been upgraded to 5.7. The upgrade did something with memcache, what affected MyBB. Resetting MyBB cache helped. Everything should work now.

[Like Ra]

MyBB has been upgraded to 1.8.26 (urgent security bug fix). I hope everything is still working.

[Like Ra]

Thanks to @BoundWolf I've discovered, that one of the plugins was throwing MySQL errors. It's disabled now. Only several users were affected - will log a bug for the developers.

[Like Ra]

Ah... During the server reboot PHP 8.0 started first (instead of PHP 7.4) - hence all the errors.

Apparently I need to prepare PHP 8.0 migration ... Sooner or later I'll have to do it anyway ...