Hi,

A few years ago I had a site working fine and the client was happy. With the recession and all they stepped away from the site and left it alone. In that time things shifted and I can no longer get into the control panel to make some changes.

Instead I get this -

Entered URL:
http://www.nspropertywatch.com/soup/index.php

Enter Username & Password and get:
Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /nfs/c01/h13/mnt/31922/domains/nspropertywatch.com/html/soup/db/db.mysql.php on line 316

Current Expression Engine: 1.7.3
PHP: 5.15.3

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Chris

Hi Chris,

I’m sorry you’ve run into this! It’s odd, we usually see that error as the result of an out-of-date version of ExpressionEngine being incompatible with PHP 5.

Are you positive you are on 1.7.3? Have you or the client run any updates recently that before you noticed the problems?

I look forward to your reply!

How can I double check my version number?

Hey Chris,

I’m sorry, I should have told you:
/system/config.php

Does it have anything other than 173?

Cheers,

Thanx Dan!

I took a look and I was mistaken - it says $conf[‘app_version’] = “160”;

What would be my next step to getting it to 1.73?

Chris

Ah, yes. If you’re not running the latest version of EE 1, you’ll want to upgrade. That’ll get rid of the PHP errors you’ve been seeing. You should see a download for EE 1 by visiting your downloads page. Then you’ll just want to follow the update instructions here.

Let me know if you need any more help!

Thanx Kevin - I think I’m getting closer. I have now gotten into the Control panel but it is not the control panel I’m use to.

It’s just a white screen with a collection of links - It looks like any CSS for this CP is missing.

Thoughts?

Sounds like you just need to make sure the URL to your theme folder is set. That can be a little difficult to find since the theming isn’t there, so you can also hard-code this preference in your system/config.php file:

That get you back up and running?

Kevin,

I’ve updated the config.php file as follows:

And still no go.

Might I have my permissions set wrong? For when I go to the themes directory I get “Directory access is forbidden.”

Thoughts?

Hmm… well this is strange. Be on the lookout for an email from me, and we’ll have a look at this first-hand.

Just replied to your email - Hope you can help.

Regards,
Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for sending along those details!

We’ll be following up with you there.

Cheers,

Just to close the loop- it was almost the theme url- instead it was the theme path!  That’s set in the general config page of the CP and not typically in the config.php file - though it can be overriden there using:

And since finding the full path can be tricky-if you have trouble with it, see this FAQ.

You should be good to go, swenke!