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.

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.

Whoa. 2.x is a blast from the past! 🙃

 

P.S.: However, the last version should be 2.3.6(?). 😋

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?

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.

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.

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.

4 minutes ago, Philip_B said:

thanks, received and replied. Not received any more since.

Thank you. I just now sent the files again.

thanks, nothing received 

** for completeness also checked the spam folder

Edited January 16Jan 16 by Philip_B

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.

replied with a couple of alternatives!

received with the first alternative. Many thanks!

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

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.

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. 

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.

 

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.

Clear your browser cache of all cookies. It more than likely is a corrupt cookie.

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!