PHP 7.1upgrade issues

[Qurius]

Have recently upgraded a VPS server to PHP 7.1 from 5.6 and everything went well including loading Blesta  except when I went to test the backup which now times out. In the process of trying to figure that out I came across this in one of the logs:

[16-Jan-2018 13:00:01 UTC]PHP Fatal error:  The file *****/public_html/clients/app/app_controller.php cannot be decoded by this version of the ionCube Loader.

Blesta would not load without the hotfix uploaded so not sure why the error.  

Thanks

 

Blesta  4.20 ( PHP 7.1 hotfix applied)

IonCube 10.1

PHP 7.1.13

 

 

[Michael]

Whats your PHP from and are you using a control panel?

[Qurius]

Using Cpanel with EA4/MultiPHP Manager . I did manage to resolve the backup issue after discovering that enabling PHP-FPM disables exec by default.  

[Beav]

Hi Qurius,

if you have team viewer or something of the sorts we would be happy to assist you in resolving this. If you have time send us a pm, visit our live chat or open a ticket with us!

[Paul]

It sounds like your CLI version of PHP is missing Ioncube or at least the right version of Ioncube. It's possible you are executing a PHP 5.6 binary in your cron command. You may need to find the correct path to your PHP 7.1 binary and update your cron job to use the correct path.

[Qurius]

Thank you BlestaStore and GosuHost for your offers of help but I think  I can see what's happened and feel kinda stupid for not realizing this sooner.  I believe that the error was related to the cron job which was using the old path to php  (/usr/local/bin/php) and that would have used PHP 5.6 since after the upgrade was set as the default PHP version. When I changed the path to be /usr/local/bin/ea-php71 it doesn't look like the error is repeating.

Thanks again!

 

[Qurius]

LOL... Paul I missed your post before I did mine and you are right 

[Paul]

Just now, Qurius said:

LOL... Paul I missed your post before I did mine and you are right 

I think you were typing when I posted  Quick question for you. Are you running 4.2? And if so, does it show the correct path to your PHP 7.1 binary under Settings > System > Automation? We made a change that should more intelligently display the right path to PHP.. curious how good of a job we did on that in your environment.

[Qurius]

Running 4.2.0 and it is showing    */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /*****/public_html/clients/index.php cron > /dev/null 2>&1 

[MineHarvest66]

12 minutes ago, Qurius said:

Thank you BlestaStore and GosuHost for your offers of help but I think  I can see what's happened and feel kinda stupid for not realizing this sooner.  I believe that the error was related to the cron job which was using the old path to php  (/usr/local/bin/php) and that would have used PHP 5.6 since after the upgrade was set as the default PHP version. When I changed the path to be /usr/local/bin/ea-php71 it doesn't look like the error is repeating.

Thanks again!

 

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