I have backups of the database and site files of several old self-hosted Invision Power Board forums. I'm trying to get them running again locally so that I can create a static archives and make the information in them accessible again. The oldest documentation I can find online is for IPB4, but the board I'm trying to run at the moment is IPB2. Where can I find an archive of the documentation?

Thanks for your help.

 

I have backups of the database and site files of several old self-hosted Invision Power Board forums. I'm trying to get them running again locally so that I can create a static archives and make the information in them accessible again. The oldest documentation I can find online is for IPB4, but the board I'm trying to run at the moment is IPB2. Where can I find an archive of the documentation?

Thanks for your help.

I don't think that there is any on this site. At least I haven't seen one.

 

I have backups of the database and site files of several old self-hosted Invision Power Board forums. I'm trying to get them running again locally so that I can create a static archives and make the information in them accessible again. The oldest documentation I can find online is for IPB4, but the board I'm trying to run at the moment is IPB2. Where can I find an archive of the documentation?

Thanks for your help.

I just updated 2.3 -> 5.03. Ideally you will want to move to 4.x first to give more modern PHP and MySQL support.

Do you want to run these online or just locally?

 

I just updated 2.3 -> 5.03. Ideally you will want to move to 4.x first to give more modern PHP and MySQL support.

Do you want to run these online or just locally?

Just locally.

Will send over later today from my notes

 

Will send over later today from my notes

My hero, thank you!

• download and install, XAMPP 5.6.14 (sourceforge.net) uncomment in php.ini extension=openssl

this will work for 3.x. suggest upgrading any 2.x so you have a consistent version.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I think the problem I'm having is different than the one that XAMPP solves though, I already have an apache server running and can run modern Invision forums with it. My confusion is that downgrading my PHP version to one that ought to work with old Invision forums (5.6) results in the check_requirements.php page saying everything is fine, but every other page being blank with no error messages in the logs.

That said; I was able to use waybackmachine to view an archive of a few pages on the site I'm trying to recreate, and that's allowed me to make some progress with a static site conversion tool I'm building. I'll share it with the community if I can get it working somewhat reliably. It still has a ways to go, though.

requirement checker should tell you what diffs you have and what is unsupported. I went through countless test runs and tweaks and above XAMPP works well with the php.ini change.

Look forward to seeing the conversion tool