Monday 18 of August, 2025

SUSE flagged that PHP8.4.11 was part of the next update to Tumbleweed so I took a little more care updating the development machine. As expected it reset the temp directory to it's preferences and I had to flip back to get the new build running, but nothing else seems to be broken. So I moved over to the server and ran the same update, but was a little less successful. As it turned out I had already sorted the redirecting the temp directory so it was not that which prevented PHP running, but something I thought I had fixed ... php-fpm was still set to 'Manual', and I've now checked that it IS 'On Boot' this time.

I've tidied up the Desktop Configuration information page as it had fallen behind a bit, and now I'm going to 'clone' that to produce a new Server Configuration page on this site and retire the lsces.uk entry. I've added a separate section for the Web Services stack which should match on both machines, and the Server has no desktop, so that is the main application section. Plexmediaserver is still running on the old server and I'm still trying to decide what to do about that. My thinking currently is to move the hard disk stack, but neither of the new machines can take the cage mechanically to what I may need to do is swap the desktop kit into the 4U rack and simply shelve the old motherboard. I can then use it's 1Tb SSD drive as a second drive on the new server and move the databases to that which will help performance as only Firebird would access it.

Now back to working on the bits of the web sites that are still not fully functional.