Jamroom 7 Beta Kickoff

Hey everyone!

I'm excited to kick off the Jamroom 7 beta today - this is something we've been working on for quite some time "on the side" and we're ready to get feedback on any issues anyone may run in to with Jamroom 7.

Jamroom 7 primarily focuses on stability, bug fixes and updates to run correctly with PHP 8+ which contains a large number of changes that make it harder to maintain backwards compatibility. Thus for Jamroom 7 the minimum PHP requirement is PHP 7.1 - and that COULD change to higher as we move through the beta. My goal is to keep it at 7.1 since roughly 40% of Jamroom sites are on that version or older.

Jamroom 7 should be a clean upgrade for anyone running Jamroom 6.5 - we've already upgraded dozens of sites to the new release candidate and it's been very stable. However, I would recommend not upgrading your production sites quite yet - please test the new Jamroom 7 + updated modules on a staging or development site first and please let us know if you run in to any issues.

We also have some new modules we will be rolling out as part of the Jamroom 7 beta:

- Analytics - this is a new simple analytics module that we've started to build that we are hoping to turn into an alternate for Google Analytics for those of you who care about your user's privacy.

- Rate Limiter - this is a new module that adds a rate limiter to your site to prevent and block users/bots who hammer your site with requests

We have a few others we will be taking the wraps off of in the future as well.

If you would like to help test Jamroom 7 with us, you can do so by:

- Logging in as your admin account and going to Core -> Marketplace -> Tools -> Marketplace Channels
- Enter the Jamroom 7 beta channel code - 2r2r548l83hr4rt7 - in the "Channel Invite Code" field and then save

Now when you go to "System Updates" you should see the new Jamroom 7 Core - after updating you'll see the module updates as well. If during the Core upgrade it seems to NOT work, run an integrity check and refresh caches - that should get it working for you and you'll not need to do that going forward.

Please let us know if you run in to any issues! We hope you like the new releases.

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Greetings Brian, kudos on the new release of JR 7 Beta. I am very excited to be a tester. The update from 6.5 was seamless, module updates occurred in the same fashion. So far I am not having any issues with speed or any other beta related bugs. However when I attempt to open my JR dashboard I get the error that’s attached in the photo. If it helps, my php version is 8.1 thanks again

Thanks for the update! I'm developing on PHP 8.1 so that SHOULD all be working. This should have created an error in the public_html/data/logs/error_log file - can you check that out via FTP and let me know what the LAST lines of that file are?

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Hello Brian, Thanks for getting back to me. this is a huge line I didn't know where to start so I took everything from the time of timestamp. hopefully something is helpful here. I alsomget the same error when checking error log, Redis Cache stats and dashboard.

[21-May-2023 13:17:02 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class "Redis" not found in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/modules/jrRedis-release-1.2.4/views/server_info.php:93
Stack trace:
#0 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/modules/jrCore-release-7.0.0rc1/lib/module.php(314): view_jrRedis_server_info(Array, Array, Array)
#1 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/modules/jrCore-release-7.0.0rc1/router.php(119): jrCore_run_module_view_function('view_jrRedis_se...')
#2 {main}
thrown in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/modules/jrRedis-release-1.2.4/views/server_info.php on line 93
[21-May-2023 13:18:26 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 719547536 bytes) in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/modules/jrCore-release-7.0.0rc1/views/php_error_log.php on line 59
[21-May-2023 13:25:05 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 719547768 bytes) in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/modules/jrCore-release-7.0.0rc1/views/php_error_log.php on line 59

Looks like you have the Redis module installed but do NOT have Redis support active in your PHP install. If you are on a debian based linux system (i.e. Ubuntu, debian, etc) you can install the Redis extension like:


Replace "8.1" with the actual PHP version that is active on your system. Then restart your web server.

Let me know if that helps.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

actually I'm running on Centos 7.9

OK yeah I don't use any RPM based linux distributions - maybe this would help:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-php-redis-on-centos-8-rhel-8-linux/

EDIT: Looks like that is for PHP 7.4 - so search through your packages and see if there is one for PHP 8.1

OR disable the Redis module


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
updated by @brian: 05/21/23 11:46:55AM

will do, thanks so much Brian. if I figure it out, I'll keep you posted as an rpm user

I appreciate that! Make sure you install the actual Redis server as well.

Note that I'd highly recommend getting Redis working if you can - the new Analytics module will work better with it since the Redis module allows us to store additional info in a performant way. After you get it working, make sure and create the first redis server in the module, then you can setup Redis for caching (Core -> Global Config Caching -> Active Data Cache) and for user sessions (Users -> Global Config -> Sessions -> Active Session System).

Redis is excellent as a caching and sessions DB for Jamroom.

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Also - here's our docs on using the Redis module:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/5016/redis-cache

Note that if you are using Jamroom Hosting and on one of our new servers, you're already setup and ready to go


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Hi Brian, looking forward to seeing Jamroom 7 Beta develop!

I've installed jrRedis and Analytics, but don't seem to have Redis active on the server.



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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Education, learning resources, TEL, AR/VR/MR, CC licensed content, panoramas, interactive narrative, sectional modules (like jrDocs), lunch at Uni of Bristol. Get in touch if you share my current interests or can suggest better :)

This should be fixed up for you now - sorry about that. Your server along with our dev servers was one of the first we moved over and I was still tweaking configs at that time.

Let me know if you see any other issues.

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Thanks Brian, that's fixed.


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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Education, learning resources, TEL, AR/VR/MR, CC licensed content, panoramas, interactive narrative, sectional modules (like jrDocs), lunch at Uni of Bristol. Get in touch if you share my current interests or can suggest better :)

Hello @Brian although I am running on a different OS, would you be kind enough to disclose what it was that you did to fix the issue? I’d be able to push the fix on my end. I’m getting the same exact error as @ultrajam, using the same Redis version. Also I’m still getting the “unable to process your request” when I click dashboard.

Yeah the command I ran is not going to be same for you on CentOS - but I ran:


Then:

I know you're running your own server, but as an FYI we did recently update our hosting plans so you get a lot more CPU/RAM/disk than you used to if you were interested in checking out hosting:

https://www.jamroom.net/hosting

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

awesome, now it will be a matter of finding a secure equivalent package for my OS and run the equivalent commands. I hope it get this to work lol
thanks again btw
updated by @trickyricky: 05/29/23 12:46:57PM

If you have some one at your hosting provider that can help, I'd recommend migrating off of CentOS since it is no longer developed or maintained:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS

Just an FYI


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Yes, I just put in a ticket with them to have them provision it in php 8.1. For the latter part, I went back to php 7.4 and everything works fine. In regards to migration, I will need a RHEL based distro because my internet radio panel is only compatible with RHEL & Debian. I need RHEL because my host runs WHM/cPanel which is also RHEL based. to sum it up, I have my work cut out for me I currently have until next June to migrate to AlmaLinux & hopefully by then my radio panel is compatible with AlmaLinux before then

Hi @Brian

Woow!!! I am so impressed to sse how smooth was the upgrade from JR 6.5 to JR 7. I have successfully managed to upgrade my JR site.

Thanks a lot and congratulations for the upgrade. You guys have done a great work.

I was getting sad and kind of discouraged to use JR again because of the lack of innovations and major upgrades, specially to support PHP 8, but this J7 version made me smile again. Thank you so much.

By the way, will the skins (Follow Me, Elastic etc) also need to be upgraded?

Also, please could you mind to make JR7 to work with a S3 Compatible Storage like 'Wasabi' to lower hosting costs? I have a Wasabi account that I use with my other projects. I would like to use it with JR as well.

I have tried to follow the tutorial you posted here:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook/3387/use-amazon-s3-storage-to-lower-hosting-costs

Unfortunately, it seems that the Amazon S3 Media Module was removed from the Marketplace. I couldn't find it. Please advise.

Thanks

Yep we still have the S3 module - it's just in a private channel now since it was a module that required extra support for those that would turn it on and not really understand what it was which could cause some issues. Shoot me an email to support and I can get you access to the marketplace channel.

Glad the upgrade went smooth

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Yeah we have updates to skins coming as well that should make sure they function correctly on PHP 8+.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net