I have been inactive on my Omeka exhibits for over a year. Now whenever I try to access my sites or the admin site instead of opening or giving me an error message , my Chromebook tells me the files have been downloaded. Is the problem with my account or the Chromebook?
URL: https://archives-wcpl.net/Archive7_Appalachia/project/admin/users/login
I get the same. This is going to be an issue with how your webserver is configured in some manner. It’s odd behavior, I’ll give you that
Yeah, it’s an issue with the server configuration; if you don’t control the server you’ll have to talk with your admins or IT or hosting.
Two things are happening here: the most important is that your server isn’t actually executing the PHP code for Omeka. The other is that it’s triggering a download… that probably is something that will just resolve itself with the PHP setup fixed on the server.
Probably both stem from this fact: the Content-Type being returned is “application/x-httpd-ea-php71”. That would normally be a flag to your server to execute the code with PHP, specifically version 7.1. What I’d bet has happened is that your server no longer has PHP 7.1 so this doesn’t work anymore. Probably there’s a file or a setting that can be updated somewhere to get things working again, and it is likely something your host can help with.
John, I looked at the hosting site (Bluehost). According to them, WordPress has installed PHP version 8.2 .Also looking at phpMyAdmin I note that Server Connection SSL is not being used. Is that a problem? Interestingly, when I visited my File Mgr. I saw that the most recent upgrade (.htaccess.phpupgrader.207f6cfa) was in March '22
I would guess that you have a line like this in one of your .htaccess files:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php71 .php
that you’d need to get rid of, or update to a currently-supported version. See this docs page from Bluehost. But I can’t really offer any more Bluehost-specific help beyond that.
John, I spent about an hour on the phone with Bluehost support. I shared what you had said about the issue with php71. The individual was very patient and worked his way through the ht-access files. Bottom line is I still can’t access my site, I tried it this morning on a public computer at the Library and got an error message (“Not secure: your connection isn’t private”; Net:: ERR_CERT_Common_Name_Invalid. ) I am pretty discouraged. Wondering if I should transfer my files to a different ISP to host the site. Any thoughts before this topic closes?
I don’t see any change at all: it looks like the same problem I described before, and I don’t see any certificate issue.
It’s still quite likely that this is a configuration issue. It’s not guaranteed to be an .htaccess problem but I’d still bet that’s where it is. In particular I’d look for .htaccess files in:
and see what they contain. (That’s “Archive7_Appalachia/project” and everything “above” it in the folder structure.) You could post their contents here if you’d like.
As for changing hosts, that’s something you could do for sure. There’s no general incompatibility between Bluehost and Omeka, but many/most other hosts should work fine also.
The problem is, I can’t open those files. If I click on them to open the vanish into a black hole never to be found. I’ve decided to scrap the site, and replace it with a new website, using whatever files I can find. I may take an online coding class. Thanks, John, for your patience and help. Will