Move board to new location/server/website

[ChriZathens Chris]

To be honest, I've never even heard of Navicat...

EDIT : Ok, I just googled it and I'm going to check it out..
Problem is that my localhost's on Windows and windows version is a 30day trial
(Perhaps it is time to replace my PSU on my old pc and install a nice linux distro to it)

[lostcs Alex]

Hi again. It's easy to perceive written messages with the wrong voice. I didn't think you were being rude and after 7 attempts at that point and your message I came to the conclusion I needed to contact my hosts tech support. They came to my aid in moving the forum and did the dump for me.

However I now reach the point when I type in the URL I get this

message_die() was called multiple times. This isn't supposed to happen. Was message_die() used in page_tail.php?

I again contacted tech support and they said they cannot help because it's a phpbb issue.

Now since Tech support did the process I cannot backtrack and see where the trail went wrong.

Just dandy huh?

This is the only forum I found in a 120 search pages that remotely provided instructions that didn't predate 2004 and everything pertaining to phpbb 2.0.x seems to have been removed... which only serves to add to my frustration.

So what textbook do I need to read to figure out what that message means? I'm rather tiring of the message on the phpbb information base that "this has been removed".

If you can point me to any references it would be a help otherwise I have to wait until next week to buy some textbooks.

Alex

[..::Frans::..]

Well alex,

The message you got was one of these message you really can't do much about. I'm not sure wheter it's on your new or old board (3.0 or 2.xx) but i can point you to phpbb.com, they still have as much information about 2.xx as before.

There are more boards that provide support for the 2.xx series, but you should find links to them inside the appropriate section at .com.

STG is focused on the new series, 3.0 and up, so if you want help with that, please do not hesitate. Although there is sometimes a barrier because of the language (i'm no english native) we will certainly try to understand the problem eand help you fix it.

[lostcs Alex]

Well it seems my hosting service has an unusual high level of tech support. They are physically doing the change over for me.

It will take a few months I think before I bite and make it a phpbb V3 forum.

Thanks
Alex

[roobarb]

Hi Frans,

I followed your walkthrough closely and it works well, but there are a couple of things missing that you have to do at the end in order to get the board functioning properly - set the cookie variable to your new domain (especially if your old domain still exists) and in Security, down at the bottom there's something called 'tie session variables to guest' - mine had defaulted to 'on', breaking most of the board's user-defined links which now had a session variable appended to them. I turned it off and now everything seems to be OK. You also need to ensure the uploaded image directories are writable by the server, because ftp sets them to 644, and you need to purge the cache. I think the cache should be purged when the old board is disabled and before transferring it across.

Now i'm looking for a way to purge the old server hardlinks from the board and replace them with the new URL. I guess this will be in mysql?

[grawat]

Hi, first of all your tutorial is extremely useful. I'm trying to move a phpbb forum i created with wampserver2 on my pc to my webhost. Now, I tried doing everything as it is listed. But, I get an error when I try to access the webpage "SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Access denied for user 'grawat'@'localhost' to database 'database' [1044]". I'm not sure what I might have done incorrectly but this is what my config.php looks like

<?php
// phpBB 3.0.x auto-generated configuration file
// Do not change anything in this file!
$dbms = 'mysqli';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbport = '';
$dbname = 'database';
$dbuser = 'grawat';
$dbpasswd = '******';

$table_prefix = 'phpbb_';
$acm_type = 'file';
$load_extensions = '';

@define('PHPBB_INSTALLED', true);
// @define('DEBUG', true);
// @define('DEBUG_EXTRA', true);
?>

Is the $dbhost field supposed to be "localhost" ?

Also, where it says Set script_path to (our example!!) 'forum' .... the name of my new database is database so I just entered 'database' in that field is that correct?

Am I doing something else wrong ?

[..::Frans::..]

user grawat isn't allowed access to the database named "database" at your database (hmmm, i would have picked another name for the database....)

That's it, and what exactly the error is, well, it's just a guess. All of the info your NEW provider provided must be filled in correctly, and it is apparently not.

PS: Yes, most of the time, localhost needs to be named localhost, but that is info you also got from your provider...

[..::Frans::..]

Hi Frans,

I followed your walkthrough closely and it works well, but there are a couple of things missing that you have to do at the end in order to get the board functioning properly - set the cookie variable to your new domain (especially if your old domain still exists) and in Security, down at the bottom there's something called 'tie session variables to guest' - mine had defaulted to 'on', breaking most of the board's user-defined links which now had a session variable appended to them. I turned it off and now everything seems to be OK. You also need to ensure the uploaded image directories are writable by the server, because ftp sets them to 644, and you need to purge the cache. I think the cache should be purged when the old board is disabled and before transferring it across.

Now i'm looking for a way to purge the old server hardlinks from the board and replace them with the new URL. I guess this will be in mysql?

Thanx for the feedback and yes, you are correct (e.g. the chmod remark) BUT the only thing we agreed on was putting board on location A to the same working board but at location B. That means in my opinion that you need to set (for example) the chmod for the same dirs as before. Furthermore, settings you name can be set accordingly one's preference, but then again, it is NOT neccesary when only moving the board.

[nightclaw]

Hi,
i try to move my board to a new server
i followed the instructions, as i've done this before and it worked.
now i only get a blank page when visiting the new url.
and as i'm typing this post i realize that i triple-checked my config.php database settings, but never the sql version.
so i changed it from sqli to sql and it works.
thanks for your attention, maybe this will help someone someday.

[ameisez ameisez]

Hi,

I wanted to move my forum in a fresh installed phpBB3 because somewhere along the way i think i messed up with MOD install. All the images in my board (attached or bbcoded) is not showing inline.

It shows as [ img ] linked to the image.

Someone said that it might be because of a MOD that I installed.

Mod that was installed are the following

Arcade by JRSweets http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 25&start=0
Ajax chat by handy man
Last Post Title by LEW21 http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 9&t=579026

Im using Glacier Style by Ika - Shadowflames http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 85&start=0

Can I follow this tutorial to solve my problem or its easier to hunt the bug?

Thanks