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Posted January 16Jan 16 I believe I need a 3.x version and from there upgrade to 4.x. Different PHP support which I have covered. How do I access a 3.x version? Sent an email to accounts and sales and heard nothing back. Paying customer.
January 16Jan 16 Looks like this morning at 10:40am Eastern time my colleague replied back with the upgrade files required to jump to version 3. Please let us know if you haven't gotten this.
January 16Jan 16 Whoa. 2.x is a blast from the past! 🙃 P.S.: However, the last version should be 2.3.6(?). 😋
January 16Jan 16 Author 2 hours ago, Jim M said: Looks like this morning at 10:40am Eastern time my colleague replied back with the upgrade files required to jump to version 3. Please let us know if you haven't gotten this. Thanks I didn’t receive them. Perhaps the email size is over some limit?
January 16Jan 16 Author 2 hours ago, teraßyte said: Whoa. 2.x is a blast from the past! 🙃 P.S.: However, the last version should be 2.3.6(?). 😋 Yes! Built a forum from scratch in the interim, front to back but in the end didn’t release it. Keeping up with nuances of the WYSIWYG editor was too time consuming and not something I’m an expert in. Now going to upgrade what I have and work on some peripheral areas.
January 16Jan 16 52 minutes ago, Philip_B said: Thanks I didn’t receive them. Perhaps the email size is over some limit? Sent you an email without an attachment just to confirm you can receive emails from us and then I'll send again with the attachment once you reply back.
January 16Jan 16 Author 22 minutes ago, Jim M said: Sent you an email without an attachment just to confirm you can receive emails from us and then I'll send again with the attachment once you reply back. thanks, received and replied. Not received any more since.
January 16Jan 16 4 minutes ago, Philip_B said: thanks, received and replied. Not received any more since. Thank you. I just now sent the files again.
January 16Jan 16 Author thanks, nothing received ** for completeness also checked the spam folder Edited January 16Jan 16 by Philip_B
January 16Jan 16 38 minutes ago, Philip_B said: thanks, nothing received ** for completeness also checked the spam folder Can you reply with an alternate email we can try. It is just a zip folder which is pretty small, 8MB.
January 16Jan 16 Author replied with a couple of alternatives! received with the first alternative. Many thanks!
January 18Jan 18 Author Upgraded 2.4 -> 3.4.9 (thanks for the files) and no longer able to login to the forum or ACP. Checked pass hash and salt and nothing changed. Anything obvious I’m missing, connect to license server? This is running https on localhost. If not I will step through the code when I’m back
January 18Jan 18 Don't need to connect to the license server to login. As this is outdated software, ensuring your server is running PHP 5.6 is required. Please keep in mind that version 3 is not supported so you will need to work with a third-party provider if you are having any issues.
January 18Jan 18 I’ll be honest here. For something that old not already running in production, you would be much better served starting from scratch. Otherwise you risk bugs or things that happen during the upgrade process along with the headache of stepping through multiple versions of PHP and MySQL compatibility.
January 18Jan 18 2 hours ago, Philip_B said: Upgraded 2.4 -> 3.4.9 (thanks for the files) and no longer able to login to the forum or ACP. In what way aren't you able to login? Are you getting any errors? If so, what errors are you getting? Is the login the only issue that you are having? What about your php version, what is set to? The more details you give us the better.
January 18Jan 18 Have you tried resetting the password from the front end? Alternatively, you could upgrade straight from 3.4 to 4.7. You can use a constant to bypass the upgrader login page.
January 19Jan 19 Author On 1/18/2025 at 5:30 PM, teraßyte said: Have you tried resetting the password from the front end? Alternatively, you could upgrade straight from 3.4 to 4.7. You can use a constant to bypass the upgrader login page. great advice with the upgrade. I did that after updating PHP and MySQL with the constant bypass. There is some issue with my login (another account with the same email), removed that, copied over a known hash and salt and everything worked. Other accounts login fine so will figure it out in the next test run. On 1/18/2025 at 7:38 PM, Cloaked said: Clear your browser cache of all cookies. It more than likely is a corrupt cookie. thanks tried + another browser. Also removed the cookie_domain which I thought might have been an issue if called from a different domain (localhost). On 1/18/2025 at 4:17 PM, Randy Calvert said: I’ll be honest here. For something that old not already running in production, you would be much better served starting from scratch. Otherwise you risk bugs or things that happen during the upgrade process along with the headache of stepping through multiple versions of PHP and MySQL compatibility. we have 30k members and 7m posts so need to make sure its all converted Appreciate everyones help here. Amazing community!
January 25Jan 25 Author hello - upgraded the forum - now on v4.7.19, having an issue with the theme. Is there a way to rebuild?I added a new default theme and deleted the previous one to try and solve this but now the CSS calls are pointing to ccs_build_8 which does not exist.Chmod for /uploads is 777 and dont see any clear way forward with this. Help appreciated!
January 25Jan 25 20 minutes ago, Philip_B said:hello - upgraded the forum - now on v4.7.19, having an issue with the theme. Is there a way to rebuild?I added a new default theme and deleted the previous one to try and solve this but now the CSS calls are pointing to ccs_build_8 which does not exist.Chmod for /uploads is 777 and dont see any clear way forward with this. Help appreciated!Give the Recovery Mode a try ad see if it will help. The secition you need is called: "Recovery Mode (Self hosted only)” Edited January 25Jan 25 by Miss_B
January 25Jan 25 Author thanks I tried that and received an error - i dont have any plugins - fresh install with upgraded DB1S107/3 Before you are able to use the Admin Control Panel, you must edit 'constants.php' and remove the following line:define( 'RECOVERY_MODE', TRUE ); Edited January 25Jan 25 by Philip_B
January 25Jan 25 Clear your cache. When you then attempt to login to the ACP with that constant it should walk you through recovery. When it finishes, remove that line and login again.
January 25Jan 25 1 hour ago, Philip_B said:thanks I tried that and received an error - i dont have any plugins - fresh install with upgraded DB1S107/3 Before you are able to use the Admin Control Panel, you must edit 'constants.php' and remove the following line:Like the message says, you will have to remove that line from the aformentioned file.
January 25Jan 25 Author thanks all looks like my storage file system URL was incorrect.File System: /var/www/html/forums\uploadsChanging to File System: /var/www/html/forums/uploads and everything started to work