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Re: Active forums

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2023 4:48 pm
by Fuzz_Ball
Barbie wrote: Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:11 pm I did several of them. Best way for me was to create a new installation with the same PHP, PHPBB and database versions (maybe in a VM), transfer the custom files, backup the database at the old host and import it at the new host.
Then update all related software, if needed in multiple small version steps.
Thanks Barbie. I am trying to update the PHPBB3 version offline and then uploading the refreshed site to my server space.
PHPBB3 forum has a lot of support suggestions which have so far, not solved my problem.
https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... /upgrade3/

These are the steps I am attempting with no success:
I have tried on Ubuntu Linux (absolute pain in my ass!) and Win11:
Installing and configuring XAMPP can't ever run anything under the proposed site without massive errors.
/Install, /STK, /phpMyAdmin.
I have several database backups and the entire directory structure and the original host site has been shut down.

Importing the DB sometimes succeeds but I am not able to see anything on the site after replacing to proper files.
The best I can ever get is a directory list of files when accessing the site's root.
I am learning that different versions of PHP and PHPBB3 are not all compatible.
This has wasted well over 6 hours of my time and I will figure it out eventually.

:mad2: :facepalm: :noidea :???:

Re: Active forums

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:42 pm
by Deepu
I just updated my forum to latest phpbb without any issues.

Re: Active forums

Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2023 7:41 pm
by EvilGrins
Beyond Unreal is running sluggishly:
https://forums.beyondunreal.com/threads ... ly.208961/

Re: Active forums

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:31 am
by EvilGrins

Re: Active forums

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:32 am
by EvilGrins

Re: Active forums

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:02 am
by EvilGrins
https://www.oldunreal.com/phpBB3/index.php is being assaulted by spambots!   
Auto merged new post submitted 16 hours 30 minutes later
https://www.unrealsp.org/forums/ is down, sorta.

Usually the forum presents fine, but clicking any menu or search kicks up an error page "Bad gateway Error code 502".

Sometimes the forum won't load at all.

Re: Active forums

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:56 pm
by Barbie

Re: Active forums

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:35 pm
by EvilGrins
It was up this morning but now https://hofgamingclan.com/ is down.

Re: Active forums

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:20 am
by EvilGrins
https://forums.beyondunreal.com/ appears to be down, the site as well as the forum.

https://skaarjvalley.freeforums.net/ is having login problems.

Re: Active forums

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:46 pm
by EvilGrins
Adding a new forum (for me anyway) to the list · https://eatsleeput.com/all

Re: Active forums

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:13 pm
by EvilGrins
https://www.unrealsp.org/ is currently down.

Re: Active forums

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:25 pm
by EvilGrins
Helen's forum http://birdieman.com/cgi-bin/bin260/YaBB.pl is currently down.

Re: Active forums

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:52 pm
by EvilGrins
https://forums.beyondunreal.com/ appears to be having... a conniption fit, or something.

It's there, but it's not exactly all there...ish.

Takes forever to load, and even when it finally does it looks weird!

Re: Active forums

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:08 am
by OjitroC
EvilGrins wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:52 pm https://forums.beyondunreal.com/ appears to be having... a conniption fit, or something.

It's there, but it's not exactly all there...ish.

Takes forever to load, and even when it finally does it looks weird!
Now getting this from that forum
An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later.

Re: Active forums

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:20 pm
by EvilGrins
https://www.hermskii.com/forum/ is currently down.

http://www.oldunreal.com/phpBB3/ is there but it's operating so slow posting is impossible.

http://hofgamingclan.com/ was working but then crashed.

https://www.vulpinemission.com/index.php is practically frozen.