Перепробовано, как с 5.6, так и 7.2, а также попытка переключения на mysqli драйвер. Или 500 ошибка сервера или ошибка выше.
В логах эта ошибка:
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 02:44:19 +0000
Error: 1055 - Expression #3 of SELECT list is not in GROUP BY clause and contains nonaggregated column 'mysite_forum.t.tag_meta_app' which is not functionally dependent on columns in GROUP BY clause; this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by
IP Address: 144.76.38.40 - /forum/index.php
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mySQL query error: SELECT t.tag_text, COUNT(t.tag_text) as times, t.tag_meta_app, t.tag_meta_area
FROM core_tags t WHERE tag_meta_app IN ('core','members','forums','downloads','gallery','calendar','blog','membermap','pmviewer','searchactivity','mudd','promenu','shoutbox')
AND t.tag_aai_lookup IN( SELECT p.tag_perm_aai_lookup FROM core_tags_perms p WHERE
( ( FIND_IN_SET(2,p.tag_perm_text) ) OR ( p.tag_perm_text='*' ) ) AND p.tag_perm_visible=1 ) GROUP BY t.tag_text
ORDER BY times DESC
LIMIT 0, 50