#7154 – plugin crashing site on php7

Hi

This error would suggest:

- you're not using a recent version of sh404SEF
- some parts of sh404SEF have not been transferred from old site to new one.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Hi

PHP 7 is not the problem at all with any sh404SEF version published in the last 2 at least, probably more. In any case, even PHP 7.4 would just cause a few warnings but not cause any operational problem. Which exact PHP version are you running?

. I copied the new version of your plugin over

What do you mean "copied"? exactly? unzipped and copied the files over? you must use the Joomla installer only to install extensions, you cannot just copy the files over old ones. Some files need to be removed, some database operations are done by the installer, etc

1 -

when I enable the sh404sef - System plugin

But you do have all other elements of sh404SEF published? including the shLib library?

2 - I would suggest you go to Joomla configuration andd:

- Set Debug system to Yes
- set GZip to No
- Set Display error to maximum

Then make sure all of sh404SEF parts are enabled. If you still get the error message, then copy/paste here the entire message including the full list of files involved, this should be 5 or 10 lines of code at least.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Hi again

I was reading this and that reminded me of your issue:

I have copied over my entire www directory from the old server and the db. What could I be missing?

HOW did you copy those files over and did you run chown and chmod commands after the copy?

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Hi again

More accurately, Joomlatools has a specific help topic on this:

Note that the command they suggest:

chown -R apache:apache *

is probably not the right one in your case, you have to first find the proper user for that folder.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr