The Original Murga-Linux Forum Runs Again.

[rockedge]

Since I first did the project of taking the original Puppy Linux Discussion Forum from a code base of phpBB-2.0.21 to version phpBB-3.3.3, which then has been continuously upgraded to the version it is now. I have wanted to do another run of the conversion to use the experience of doing it a few times already, to improve on the MySQL database conversion.

To be able to run phpBB-2.0.21 a web server running PHP5 is required. Today running an Apache2 web server on Noblepup64 using PHP8.3 is normal.

Five years ago I used an old DELL tower that had just such a web server running on a Tahr-6.0.5 then a newer DELL Optiplex 990 to do the complete conversion.

Here comes in XAMPP! By running side-by-side XAMPP with php5 and an install running XAMPP php7 and my Zoneminder server running php8

I have fiddled with the original copy of the murga-linux.com/puppy and have it running again on the XAMPP with php5 LAMP!

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[Clarity]

Am I correct in your desire to run the latest XAMPP with php8+ for each of the 3 platforms you mention so that you dont have to support multiple different verstoned platforms. If so, I see the benefit you might be projecting.

I am well aware of issues developers run into with the varied versions of php. Movements from-to versions is ... "well you know."

Further, v8.4 is late.

[rockedge]

@Clarity I am running 2 different XAMPP web servers and a full web server all 3 side-by-side on a Noblepup64.

The 2 XAMPP installs are Apache2 with one having PHP5+ and the other PHP7+. I need this because phpBB-2.0.21 runs with PHP5+ and phpBB3 needs PHP7+

The conversion entails setting up phpBB2 and importing the 3 G database then regenerate the search index (this takes an hour or 2) and once the original forum is running smoothly, do a mysqldump with all the right settings of the oldmurga database.

Then using bigdump.php to load the giant database .sql dump into a new database created on the XAMPP with PHP7+. Hopefully this happens correctly because it takes an hour,

Using a special convertor that is version specific, in this case phpBB-3.0.7.pl1 that needs the path to the original phpBB-2.0.21 in the XAMPP PHP5+ and a connection to the original Murga database now loaded in XAMPP with PHP7+. Once that is finished I'll upgrade to phpBB-3.014.

This is the short summary. On this particular machine there is also a main server installed with Apache2 and PHP8.3 that runs a Zoneminder 1.37.65 DVR/camera security system.

With this localhost server I will upgrade the phpBB-3.0.14 all the way to the latest phpBB-3.3.14.

[rockedge]

Bigdump.php completed:

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Conversion attempt #1:

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