Kirby sites down after hosting server updated MySQL to 5.6

Just a blank page. If I comment out the AddHandler line, /info.php loads just fine, but again shows displays 5.2.17, so as far as I can tell, the line in .htaccess intended to make the subdomains use a different php version from the drizzlegames root (~/public_html) doesn’t seem to work.

At one point during the most recent chat with bluehost, the bluehost rep manually switched the root to 5.6, which totally broke everything, including the primary domain, being drizzlegames.com, and both subdomains, being smashified.com art and artsyomni.com, and none of the 3 info.php pages would load at all, again, being a blank screen.

This is the .htaccess for the root:

# Use PHPBETA as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-phpbeta .php

Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about it.

Try to use the same settings as in the root .htaccess, setting PHP to version 5.4

# Use PHP5.4 Single php.ini as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

But it is a problem Bluehost has caused, so they should be able to fix it. If not, think about changing your provider.

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For anyone else coming here experiencing the same issue on Bluehost – what solved it for me was updating php to 5.6. Bluehost defaults to php 5.4 for whatever reason.

Ideally, you would update to PHP 7.x. 5.6 only gets security updates until the end of this year.

http://php.net/supported-versions.php