When we upgrade php7.4 to php8.1 Images & Forgot password page problem?

Question

Hello,

Please Tell me any hints, Problems:-

1. Images are not showing
2. Forgot password page not working(loading)

When we install q2a from scratch on Apache2 (php8.1) & import data then everything is fine.

But we transfer data (mysql, html) to the newely created instance, these problems are found.

My another q2a site database is very large that cant imported by phpmyAdmin. Please help me so we  can upgrade my instance to UBUNTU 22.04 with php8.1

Answer 1

Your question is a bit vague. For example, what does "Forgot password page problem" mean?

Anyway, based on my own experience with the latest version of Q2A and PHP 8.1, they aren't going to work properly together. In order for that to happen, you will have to apply several code changes.

This is a list of the pull requests that I could identify that are needed, so far:

• https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/pull/951
• https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/pull/948
• https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/pull/947
• https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/pull/911
• https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/pull/906

If this doesn't fix the images issue, along with a few additional ones, then most likely you will need to compile PHP with gd support.

Comments

Did it,  thanks for the answer

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Hi Pupi

Is it safe to use your branch?
I suppose all these changes are applied, right?
https://github.com/pupi1985/question2answer/tree/bugfix-pupi1985

Thanks in advance!

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The GPL license states that "THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION". So whether it is "safe" or not, is up to the user :)

In my case, I'm using the branch in a production environment. Note it doesn't just have bugfixes but also some code changes which I consider improvements.

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Thanks Pupi, I really appreciate your effort to keep this project alive. I will start using your "bugfix" branch, at least while the official branch is updated.