Conversion help? Driving me crazy!

[Engelwood]

Whats up everybody?

I've been lurking for a long time, and I've fianlly decided to sign up and make the conversion from YaBB gold to Yabb SE. I run a fairly small board (1000 members) on Yabb gold 1.3.1. It's been fine, but after seeing the improvments on SE I decided to make the switch

I did a fresh install of Yabb SE 1.5.3 and that went fine. I uploaded the converter tool as well with no problems. On trying to convert the board, I ran into some problems and was wondering if you could help me out? On step 3, I get the following errors:

Converting Settings...

File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/YaBB/Variables/agreement.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/YaBB/Variables/censor.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/YaBB/Variables/membergroups.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/YaBB/Variables/membergroups.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/YaBB/Variables/oldestmes.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/YaBB/Variables/reserve.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/YaBB/Variables/reservecfg.txt not found
Editing table (yabbse_settings). Setting agreement=..
Editing table (yabbse_settings). Setting news=..
Editing table (yabbse_settings). Setting maxdays=..
Editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Setting matchword=0..
Editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Setting matchcase=0..
Editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Setting matchuser=0..
Editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Setting matchname=0..

I know the files are there, and the path seems to be correct. could some of my problems be:

1.) Permissions set wrong?
2.) Path is wrong?
3.) Uploaded converter.php in wrong mode?

I've done some searching on here with no avail.

It's been driving me crazy, and I've been trying to solve this problem for the past 2 days with no luck  
Any help would be welcome! My current forums are at:

http://www.dj-quik.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl

Thanks a bunch,

-Engelwood

[Shadow's Pawn]

Your problem is that you told the converter that the files were in the YaBB folder, but your forum is in the yabb folder.  Make sure you are using the right case, because it IS case sensitive.


Hope that helps.

[Engelwood]

Thanks for the help! I tried what you suggested, but still no luck   Same errors this time.

Converting Settings...

File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/agreement.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/censor.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/membergroups.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/membergroups.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/oldestmes.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/reserve.txt not found
File /home/dj-quik/public_html/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/reservecfg.txt not found
Editing table (yabbse_settings). Setting agreement=..
Editing table (yabbse_settings). Setting news=..
Editing table (yabbse_settings). Setting maxdays=..
Editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Setting matchword=0..
Editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Setting matchcase=0..
Editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Setting matchuser=0..
Editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Setting matchname=0..

I'm really at a dead end here! I've tried near everything I can think of with still no luck! I bet it's something simple as well, and I'll be hitting my head when I see what it was!

[Shadow's Pawn]

Double check the entire path.  Actually go into FTP and find these files yourself, and then make sure that the path you are feeding the converter are *exactly* the same, case and everything, for every single folder name in the path.

If you continue to have problems, you could always just create a folder in the path that the converter is looking for, and upload copies of the needed files into that folder.

[Trol]

I'm having the exact same problems. Here are the errors I get (I did not put the proper username in for the SQL access so you could see the path to the converter):

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File /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/agreement.txt not found
File /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/censor.txt not found
File /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/membergroups.txt not found
File /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/membergroups.txt not found
File /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/oldestmes.txt not found
File /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/reserve.txt not found
File /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/cgi-bin/yabb/Variables/reservecfg.txt not found

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/yabbse/converter.php on line 271
Error editing table (yabbse_settings). Unable to set agreement=

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/yabbse/converter.php on line 271
Error editing table (yabbse_settings). Unable to set news=

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/yabbse/converter.php on line 271
Error editing table (yabbse_settings). Unable to set maxdays=

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/yabbse/converter.php on line 292
Error editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Unable to set matchword=0

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/yabbse/converter.php on line 292
Error editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Unable to set matchcase=0

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/yabbse/converter.php on line 292
Error editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Unable to set matchuser=0

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/jraley/wrathofgod-www/yabbse/converter.php on line 292
Error editing table (yabbse_reserved_names). Unable to set matchname=0


I have even tried using the path with just home and not home2. My YaBBSE 1.5.1 installed to that path with no problems.

[Engelwood]

Doh!

I just figured it out. For some reason I had the variables directory chmodded to 766. Needed to be at 777. I fixed that and it sorted out my problems. Thanks again for your help! I'll let you know how it goes!

[Trol]

I just tried CHMOD all of my folders in the yabb directory to 777 and it converted with no problems. Now I cannot log in:

Password incorrect - (username): **********

I used the forgot password option and it emailed me a new password but I still got that error with the new password.

[Engelwood]

Good to see I'm not alone in my problems!  

Everything's running smoothly, but now I've run into YET another problem. This time though, It's on my Internet explorer's side. When converting the messages over, my IE times out! I know the converter is working, but it gives me a

The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.

Is there anyway to let the converter do it's thing without having IE timeout? Off to google I head.

[Trol]

I fixed my problem by clearing my SQL Database and reinstalling YaBBSE, then running the converter again. Only problem I have is one board did not convert over but I'll take this to another thread.

[EnDi]

Good to see I'm not alone in my problems!  

Everything's running smoothly, but now I've run into YET another problem.

I see you are still on the sp 1.3.1  
Is it your finals conversions step (settings and template) was normal? I failed on this.  

OFFTOPIC:
How much traffic your website eats? I am askng because I have about the same members and topics.
Mine is about 30 GB.

[[Unknown]]

YaBB SE takes a lot less bandwidth.

A lot of these are path problems...

-[Unknown]

[EnDi]

perhaps it eats less because of php and mysql using?
seems only the flats files and all perla nd cgi based forums eats more.
though I heard that even php based forums eats a lot, because generate pages every time for every user and don't use cache.
May be I was mistaken or understand something wrong.

[crash5456]

I just did this, go to this thread, and follow the intructions and I forsee no problems.

http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?thread=24165

[Shadow's Pawn]

PHP forums only eat a lot of bandwitdh if you host enormous files on it or have a million users.

[Chris Cromer]

And perl forums could be just as fast as php forums if they are coded properly and use a database like MySQL instead of flatfile. Also the server configuration affects the speed as well. PHP by default is supposed to be an Apache module which means PHP is always loaded up and stays started while apache is on. But most hosts put perl as a cgi interpreter instead of a module which means it has to start and stop perl each and every time you use a perl script. But if they would put it as a module using mod_perl it would be as fast as php and it's forums.