Import Problems from UBB 6.x to vB3

[Bulgogs]

hello - love vBulletin 3 (dumped phpBB for this product as soon as I saw it on Subdreamer.com). Anyhow i've successfully installed Impex and most everything seems to work except 2 issues (if u have an answer please email me!!):

1. I can't figure out how to correctly map the "path to the UBB CGI-BIN folder relative to the vBulletin folder"

The above problem may be leading to the next problem - not sure:

2. When I try to import threads (and we have a lot of threads and posts) the following happens - someting about Safe Mode:


Moving onto forum 1 Locating forum_1.threads file ....
Warning: opendir(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10001 is not allowed to access /home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin owned by uid 0 in /impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 158

Warning: opendir(/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin//Forum1): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 158

Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 160

Warning: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 167
not found. No threads to import.

there is no threads file pathforum_1.threads missing moving on
Fatal error: Cannot break/continue 1 level in /home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/Lounge/impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 229

[Steve Machol]

1. What are the the full paths to your UBB CGI-BIN and vBulletin folderfs.

2. This may be related to #1, or it may be a file permission or ownership problem. Make sure the files are owned by your web user account and are world-readable.

[Bulgogs]

Here are the paths:

/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/Lounge/ (this is the vBulletin folder)

/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin/
/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin/variables/
/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin/ig00_Members/
/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/noncgi/graemlins/
/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/noncgi/Polls/

I have no idea what hte correct "relative" path of UBB to vBulletin (e.g. Lounge) is...

how do i change the ownership of that file or folder? CHMOD?

[Steve Machol]

The relative paths should be:

../ubb/cgi-bin/
../ubb/cgi-bin/variables/
../ubb/cgi-bin/ig00_Members/
../ubb/noncgi/graemlins/
../ubb/noncgi/Polls/

[Bulgogs]

I'll try that out and see what works. How is SD 2.0 coming along?

[Steve Machol]

SD 2.0? :confused:

[Jerry]

Here are the paths:

/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/Lounge/ (this is the vBulletin folder)

/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin/
/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin/variables/
/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin/ig00_Members/
/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/noncgi/graemlins/
/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/noncgi/Polls/

I have no idea what hte correct "relative" path of UBB to vBulletin (e.g. Lounge) is...

how do i change the ownership of that file or folder? CHMOD?

The only relative path is the final one, which is the folder diffrent from vBulletin to ubb so :

/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/
/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/forum/

is ../ubb

[Bulgogs]

thanks for the information re: folder paths. now i'm still facing the errors I listed above - can anyone tell me what i need to do to clear this error? Something about SAFE MODE? HELP!!:(

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Moving onto forum 1 Locating forum_1.threads file ....
Warning: opendir(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10001 is not allowed to access /home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin owned by uid 0 in /impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 158

Warning: opendir(/home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/ubb/cgi-bin//Forum1): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 158

Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 160

Warning: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 167
not found. No threads to import.

there is no threads file pathforum_1.threads missing moving on
Fatal error: Cannot break/continue 1 level in /home/httpd/vhosts/igoo.com/httpdocs/Lounge/impex/systems/ubb_classic/006.php on line 229

[Jerry]

This is a server config issue not impex, you will have to allow PHP to read from the dirs that the ubb source data is in.

[Bulgogs]

and how do you do that?

[Steve Machol]

Jerry, I'm working on his support ticket and there was one file with faulty permissions. Everything else was fine. However he had the same problem after|I fixed that file.

I'm hoping the issue is related to open_basedir restrictions on his server. I've set up vB to use safe mode and a safe mode tmp directory that is chmod'd to 777.

[Bulgogs]

Hi Steve,

I think i found the solution provided by my ISP, but it requires SSH access. If you can perform this fix via SSH, then I believe SAFE MODE will be turned off and all the problems solved (and this could be a resolved solution for your archives). You have my IP add and SSH info right?

To take PHP out of safemode, you need to remote connect to your dvirtual dedicated server and modify the php.ini file on your server.

To Turn Off PHP Safemode in Linux

1. Using SSH, log in as root.
2. Open /etc/php.ini in your text editor.
3. Change the line \"safe_mode = on\" to \"safe_mode = off\"
4. Save and close php.ini.

Once you have edited the file in Linux or Windows, you need to restart your Web server. You can restart your Web server using Plesk by selecting stop/start under the Server, Service Management section.

[Steve Machol]

Safe mode was already turned off. It was open_basedir restirctions that were turned on.

Is this a dedicated server and do you have root access to it? I don't recall your ticket and whether or not you provide root access to the server.

[Jerry]

I've checked this now too, none of the Forum folders have any data in them either, so even if safe mode was ok, there is nothing to import.

[Bulgogs]

I think Jerry was able to turn off Safe Mode and get things in motion. We got all available content imported successfully! We are uploading the missing Forum data and plan to import that soon. Only weird thing is we can't yet see the content in the vB3 - but, one problem at a time. haha

[Jerry]

I think Jerry was able to turn off Safe Mode and get things in motion. We got all available content imported successfully! We are uploading the missing Forum data and plan to import that soon. Only weird thing is we can't yet see the content in the vB3 - but, one problem at a time. haha

It wasn't the safe mode issue it was the fact there wasn't any source data in the relevant ubb forum folders.

[Bulgogs]

really? well thanks jerry and Steve for all your help - you guys are the best!!

I will definitely recommend vBulletin to everyone!