Possible problems on website after account migration from other control panels to cPanel

21-09-2018 Kristjan cPanel, FAQ, PHP, Websites

Here I try to explain possible problems and solutions on website after migration to cPanel server.

1. PHP shows wrong time or timezone missing / differs from MySQL’i timezone
2. Website shows old/wrong info

1. PHP shows wrong time or timezone missing / differs from MySQL’i timezone

Other control panels may have their own Timezone in place. cPanel has default timezone as UTC.
If Your website shows error as:

Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function.

Or Your website/php script gives wrong time or timezone, You should manually change timezone:
1. Via cPanel -> SOFTWARE -> “MultiPHP INI Editor” per domain manually:

date.timezone = Europe/Tallinn

2. In index, autoload, bootstrap or config PHP script, after php tag:

ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/Tallinn');

2. Website shows old/wrong info

1. Upon HTTPS – did You move Your websites files prior migration from under private_html/www/… folder to public_html?
(cPaneli does not have sepperate folders for websites WWW or HTTPS – everything is shown from under public_html folder!)
2. “Blank page” or WSOD (“White screen of Death”)
– activate error_reporting via MultiPHP INI editor, refresh Your webpage and check for any errors/error_log files
– Check You PHP version via cPanel -> MultiPHP Manager – if there is a wrong version there, You can change it.
3. 503 error on webpage – if prior migration Your webpage worked, there may be either problem with account limits or You are using wrong PHP version. Try to activate error_reporting and check for any logs!

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