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#265001 08/10/2021 11:30 AM
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I'm taking over a forum that is running UBBThreads 6.4.4. I will likely be migrating away to Xenforo very soon, but in order to use an importer script to XF it looks like I'll have to upgrade to the latest version of UBBThreads... so it looks like I'll have to upgrade first to 6.5 then to 7.7.5 - does that sound right? Are all those upgrade scripts available in the Members area? I assume I'll have to buy a new license and then decide if it makes sense to pay for the professional upgraded service - not sure what potential issues I might run into in the upgrade process.

Any input from the UBB development staff would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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First of all yes all versions are in the members area.
But only for the license holder and only up to the version he was paying for access.

I am not sure of the version you stated , could it be wwwthreads or classic not ubbthreads.
The difference is classic does not use mysql where wwwthreads and ubbthreads uses mysql.

As far as upgrading if you have classic you will need to upgrade to the last version then import to say ubb7.57 or 7.60 then to the current.

If you provide the url to your site any of us can tell what it is.

Last edited by Ruben; 08/10/2021 12:29 PM.

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Thanks Ruben, here's the site:
https://www.galantvr4.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php

In the admin area it shows this: Powered By UBB.threads™ 6.4.4

But the link points to infopop.com which redirects to crowdstack.com.

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Okay that appears to be UBBThreads.
So yes you would upgrade to 6.5.5 then at least two more upgrades.
You would upgrade to ubbthreads 6.5.5 then import to like 7.57 or 7.60 before upgrading to the current version.

the caveats are.
One around ver 7.2 global moderators were introduced which sometimes causes a issue with moderators.being placed in the wrong group
Not really hard to fix.

The other is kinda big that is you need to downgrade your php version to like 5.4 to 5.6 till you get to the UBB7.7.X then you can change to php7.x
If your host does not allow that then you would need to do it on a local host then upload. Which you probably are already on say php 5.3 or 5,4 at your current host .


I think if you go through the upgrade you will find that if you look you will find many enhancements and bug fixes that are not in your current version and may decide to stay with UBB,

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Any idea if UBB.threads™ 6.4.4 will run on PHP 5.4? I'm trying to figure out what versions of PHP and MySQL to set up on my server to get the forum to run so I can perform the upgrade. The server it's coming from is running PHP 5.3.3 and MySQL 5.1.73. My server runs cPanel, which only goes back as far as PHP 5.4, so I'm wondering if I can get it to run on that in order to begin the upgrade process. I've tried it but am getting server 500 errors, not sure if that's due to a PHP version conflict or something else.

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Looks like that version doesn't like PHP 5.4. I was able to fix the server 500 errors and get the site to display, but now I'm getting MySQL errors which I'm told is due to the difference between PHP 5.3 and 5.4.

[12-Aug-2021 23:13:47 UTC] PHP Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/mywebsite/public_html/ubbthreads/mysql.inc.php on line 139


If I could just get the DB connection to work I could probably just run the upgrade even if there are conflicts with PHP. Otherwise it looks like I'll have to copy it all to a server where I can install PHP 5.3. frown

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These versions of UBB.Threads weren't meant to be run on PHP5, they were written in a time of PHP4.

I just dug through the archive.org and it looks like UBB.Threads v6 had the system requirements listed as:
UBB.threads v6.5.3-v6.5.5
• MySQL versions 3.x and 4.x and will not run on MySQL version 5.x.
• PHP 4.1 and higher (4.3 and higher recommended)

UBB.threads v6.4-v6.5.2
• MySQL versions 3.x and 4.x and will not run on MySQL version 5.x.
• 4.0.1 and higher (4.1 and up recommended)

These can be now referenced at UBBWiki Server Requirements and Suggestions - UBB.threads Historic Recommended System Versions


The recommended upgrade path to the latest build would be:
Upgrade UBB.Threads 6.4.x to UBB.Threads 6.5.5
Import UBB.Threads 6.5.5 into UBB.threads 7.2
Upgrade UBB.threads 7.2 to the latest build (7.7.x)

So you'd be looking at your project consisting of:
php 4.4.9 - ubbthreads-6-5-5.zip
php 5.2 to 5.6 - ubbthreads-7.0.0 to ubbthreads-7.6.2
php 5.4 to 7.4 - ubbthreads-7.7.0 to ubbthreads-7.7.4

Older builds of XAMPP will get you there
http://code.iamkate.com/articles/xampp-version-history-apache-mysql-php/
PHP4 - 1.6.8
PHP5.4 - 1.8.2 for PHP5.4.27 or 1.8.3 for PHP5.5.11


I'm not sure at what build Xen requires for their importer, not my script.


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wow ,
Good find on the way back when machine Mr. Peabody.

I now seem to recall those extremely old versions would bark back for installing but would run on slightly newer php versions.


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