Attachments from phpBB2 2.0.19

[owen1832]

I have gotten everything to import nicely from my old forum to the new one except the attachments on the old forum.. I dod some searching here and haven't found the right answer so I thought I would ask. The importer seems to see the files and lists the filenames...

Source file not found :: "filename"

It seesm to see the filenames but then fails on the import.

Any clues?

[Jerry]

Then the path you are entering to your phpBB2 attachments folder is incorrect. Double check the correct path.

[owen1832]

then where is it pulling the file names from?

I have done it two ways:

/public_html/phpBB2/files

and

/home/owen/public_html/phpBB2/files

When I switched from DB to file based saving on VB I had to use /home/owen/public_html/forums/files and it worked.

when I use the same convention in the importer I get:
Failed :: attachment not imported

[Jerry]

It gets the file names from the phpBB database, with your examples :

/home/owen/public_html/phpBB2/files

Looks the more complete, ImpEx queries vBulletin as to where to store the attachments so that isn't an issue, its getting the correct phpBB path.

[owen1832]

It gets the file names from the phpBB database, with your examples :

/home/owen/public_html/phpBB2/files

Looks the more complete, ImpEx queries vBulletin as to where to store the attachments so that isn't an issue, its getting the correct phpBB path.

Failed :: attachment not imported

I think I am going to start over again from scratch with the import and see if anything changes.

Any other ideas?

As a side note the attachments were done with an attachment mod this is not a standard feature in phpBB2 although it seems to be the gold standard for attachments. Would this have any effect on this?

[Jerry]

Yea, the mod is the standard that 99% of the boards use so that's the one I wrote the importer to deal with.

If you can ssh onto the server find the folder with the attachments and run the command pwd, assuming its a *nix box to get the path.

[exOptimum]

Yea, I have the exact same problem actually. I know I'm supplying the correct upload directory. I am running the same version of phpBB and same attachment mod as he is too...

[Jerry]

The attachments have to be on the same server, the path has to be absolute and PHP needs read access to the folder they are in.

[GasPipeJimmy]

Same Thing Here

I'm using the import attachment tool (ImpEx build version : 1.49
) too and every version of the path I put in causes it to report back as "Failed" after about 4 or 5 seconds.

I'm migrating from from PHPbb 2.0.20 with Acyd Burn's attachment mod version (Attachment Mod Version 2.4.0).

That is the only "Mod" to my old forum.
I have tried every version of the path there is and it always fails.

[exOptimum]

got mine fixed. turns out i was using the wrong path.

i was using /home/users/public_html/files/
but i fixed it using /home/MYACCOUNTUSERNAME/public_html/files/

[Jerry]

I'm using the import attachment tool (ImpEx build version : 1.49
) too and every version of the path I put in causes it to report back as "Failed" after about 4 or 5 seconds.

I'm migrating from from PHPbb 2.0.20 with Acyd Burn's attachment mod version (Attachment Mod Version 2.4.0).

That is the only "Mod" to my old forum.
I have tried every version of the path there is and it always fails.

Can you ssh onto the machine and run "pwd" to see the full path ?

[GasPipeJimmy]

Can you ssh onto the machine and run "pwd" to see the full path ?

I have never run an SSH client in my life.
I can FTP to my site and that is where I'm getting the path information from.

[Jerry]

Create a file called path.php open it and put this code in it :

<?php

echo getcwd();

?>

FTP that file to the dir that all the phpBB attachments are in and then browse to it via a browser and it should tell you the full path.

[GasPipeJimmy]

Create a file called path.php open it and put this code in it :

<?php
 
echo getcwd();
 
?>

FTP that file to the dir that all the phpBB attachments are in and then browse to it via a browser and it should tell you the full path.

Thanks Jerry!
That did the trick.

It was truncating some stuff off the front of the path.