phpBB2 -> phpBB3 Upgrade Script Discussion

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Wernight wrote: I finally found how to solve my "MySQL server has gone away [2006]". One post had a huge amount of text ":cry:". I didn't look for the fault in the convertion tool but here is the SQL of that post.

Reference: viewtopic.php?p=170942#p170942


I get that error on my test site when posting very long posts. It seems 3.x takes longer to post than 2.x.. The same post on the same server doesn't give an error on 2.x.

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JoaoVr wrote:
Nicholas the Italian wrote: Are you placing the new tables in the same database of the old ones?


No, 2 different databases!

Thks!


This is by design and will not be fixed.
http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/viewreport.php?b=7008

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hi

when the convertor gets to the end of conversion it shows cannot connect to host? does anyone else have this it times out alot along the way and i have to do back to the install root and continue with conversion?

thanks very much!

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MKruer wrote:
JoaoVr wrote:
Nicholas the Italian wrote: Are you placing the new tables in the same database of the old ones?


No, 2 different databases!

Thks!


This is by design and will not be fixed.
http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/viewreport.php?b=7008


A bad idea IMHO.

Many hosts have low limits on how large a database can be.

What would work great is having the user copy config.php from their phpBB2 folder, then paste it in the install/convert/ folder and phpBB3 would automatically select the data from that database(actually, that is what we did with the Beta to Beta converters we made, it works very nicely)

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maybe it helps to run the converter local with xampp etc. and when conversion is done you can delete the old tables and put it on the remote server - if two databases are too much for the provider limit.

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Gumfuzi wrote: maybe it helps to run the converter local with xampp etc. and when conversion is done you can delete the old tables and put it on the remote server - if two databases are too much for the provider limit.

Yes it may help. Check the encoding also (latin1/utf-8/...).

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what is best? utf-8, because of the utf-8 feature within Olympus?

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Gumfuzi wrote: maybe it helps to run the converter local with xampp etc. and when conversion is done you can delete the old tables and put it on the remote server - if two databases are too much for the provider limit.


If you have remote access to your database you can run the converter on your local machine using your the database at your provider. But this takes a lot of time if you have a slow internet connection. I got 384kbit and it takes 11 hours converting a board with 65k posts.

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D@ve wrote:
Gumfuzi wrote: maybe it helps to run the converter local with xampp etc. and when conversion is done you can delete the old tables and put it on the remote server - if two databases are too much for the provider limit.


If you have remote access to your database you can run the converter on your local machine using your the database at your provider. But this takes a lot of time if you have a slow internet connection. I got 384kbit and it takes 11 hours converting a board with 65k posts.

Best regards,
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I have just over 15k posts and it took me about 1.5 hours to get it all uploaded... but I did the conversion all on my localhost, so I downloaded the database to my computer and did the conversion.
It was much faster to do the conversion on my computer than it was to do it on the server.
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Handyman wrote: It was much faster to do the conversion on my computer than it was to do it on the server.


Depends on the server. ;) If you're on shared hosting, to run the conversion on one's local PC could well be faster, though if you're on dedicated hosting, less one's local PC is some beefy multi-processor Xeon/Opteron with fast HDDs... running it on the server is far better. ;)
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