phpBB2 -> phpBB3 Upgrade Script Discussion

[Matty05]

I try to convert my Forum on localhost.

But he mean "Could not find path to your former forum. Please check your settings and try again."
I try every path. What can i do ?

Path to old Board: http://localhost/CONVERT2/phpBB2/
Path to new Board: http://localhost/CONVERT2/phpBB2/phpbb2_3/phpbb2/

Whats wrong ?

Sry for my bad english ^^

[_Kilian_]

try ../../../phpBB2/

[Matty05]

Thx it works

[alycad]

I try to convert my Forum on localhost.

But he mean "Could not find path to your former forum. Please check your settings and try again."
I try every path. What can i do ?

Path to old Board: http://localhost/CONVERT2/phpBB2/
Path to new Board: http://localhost/CONVERT2/phpBB2/phpbb2_3/phpbb2/

Whats wrong ?

Sry for my bad english ^^

I have a similar problem...



I specify the prefix... like it is, the path... http://www.phpbb.globalfree.net/forum
it should be ../forum like i used.

but i get this error:
The table prefix needs to be the one used by the software you are converting from.
» Specified table prefix was phpbb_

Thats it... as anoyne found this?

Alvaro

[Matty05]

Have you an other prefix used for your phpbb2 ?

[D@ve]

You'll find the table prefix in config.php of your old Board...

I still have the problem with Internal Server Error.

Code: Select all

Premature end of script headers: index.php

Plain vanilla installation of phpbb3 works fine. The error appears after the screen with:

All pre-conversion steps have successfully been completed. etc....

Regards, Dave

[Nicholas the Italian]

To clarify (at least how I saw it working through two crashes), it picks up from the last successfully completed point. This means that if it's in the middle of converting posts, it will start from the beginning of converting posts, clearing the _posts table and starting over.

Which is, I believe, the longest point to be done.
So, if you have converted say one million posts and then it crashes, you've lost X hrs of work. Can't a way be found to resume from the middle of posts conversion?
I say this because Murphy theorems state that the probability that a process crashes at 99% is proportional to the time the process takes...

[D@ve]

Yes...

Wouldn't it be possible to convert posts automatically by a recursive call of the converter script? So you don't need to sit hours and hours in front of your computer starring at the screen while waiting for the next 200 converted posts...

Dave

[SHS`]

So, if you have converted say one million posts and then it crashes, you've lost X hrs of work. Can't a way be found to resume from the middle of posts conversion?
I say this because Murphy theorems state that the probability that a process crashes at 99% is proportional to the time the process takes...

The converter only does batches of 2000 posts (previously 6000, as we were testing it on the phpBB.com DB), and have successfully restarted it (also by deliberately killing it) with it only clearing out the last partially completed batch (otherwise will get double-converted topics/posts/PMs).

[Nicholas the Italian]

The converter only does batches of 2000 posts, and have successfully restarted it (also by deliberately killing it) with it only clearing out the last partially completed batch (otherwise will get double-converted topics/posts/PMs).

Ook, that's what I wanted to know.

BTW:



8O eheh you can't be surprised that a few tiny bugs come up... and they must have been working on this for months...