Thanks! The site was on PHP 7.0. With assistance from my hosting provider, I updated to PHP 7.4 and now I have access to the site again. No database re-import required.
The best you can do is test and report. If you find a contrib that doesn't work in php 8.3, create an issue in its queue so it gets fixed.
In my experience, I've found that 7.4 is safest...
Posted2 days 23 hours ago by Alejandro Cremaschi (argiepiano) on:
Hi argiepiano,
Some contrib will not work in php 7.2 or lower, and some will not on PHP 8.1 or higher.
Is there a way to find out which is the optimal PHP version for a...
Posted2 days 23 hours ago by Antony Milenkov (amilenkov) on:
This sounds like a combination of a buggy module and the "wrong" version of PHP. The fact that you are being redirected to the maintenance page may be an indication that your site was put on...
Posted3 days 42 min ago by Alejandro Cremaschi (argiepiano) on:
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Friendly reminder, that #5927 (Make Backdrop core compatible with PHP 8.2) is still waiting for a final review. A lot of review has happened already last month.
82 changed files are a lot, but on the other hand, the majority of changes are trivial.
(Maybe to motivate a bit: Debian Bookworm, which has been released this month, ships with PHP 8.2 by default.)