June 2023 work summary

Not too much work in June which was fine by me as I’m more selective in taking on work.

  • Renewed SSL certificate for domain which was expiring after 1 year for technology challenged client
  • Renewed SSL certificate for domain for technology challenged client
  • Updated a board from phpBB 3.3.2 to 3.3.10. Updated we_universal style from 2.6.4 to 2.6.5, advertisement management extension from 2.0.3 to 3.0.0, Digests extension from 3.3.11 to 3.3.18 and PHP from 7.4 to 8.1. Installed Cleantalk and enabled Spam Firewall to deal with spam bots and resource overloading. Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ issue. config.php showed mysqli enabled but it was likely some mysql vs. mysqli conflict. Suggested GoDaddy tech support fix it. They were aware of the issue and subsequently fixed it.
  • Updated phpBB from version 3.3.2 to 3.3.10. Updated German casual honorifics pack. .svg logo though went missing. Will reapply if customer can supply it.
  • Updated phpBB from 3.3.8 to 3.3.10. Updated Cleantalk extension to 5.7.6 but warning message didn’t go away. Put in support request with Cleantalk. Updated prosilver_se style to latest and advanced BBCode box from 3.3.4 to 3.3.5.