Upgrade to vBulletin 5 - Day 12

[skicdave]

Man oh man... what a horror trying to upgrade from 3.8.7 to 5.0.2.

Here I am 12 days in and its been a fight all the way and I am running out of time! After 40+ attempts resolving every issue in the book from config.php issues, directory issues, mysqli issues, conversion failures. Went through it all on 2 different servers as well. The list goes on and on and I lost track of all the things I had to do to keep vBulletin happy. Thankfully I was able to sift through hundreds of user posts where they had the same problems, to find solutions. It just is NOT an easy process even though I have over 20 years of unix/web experience, full root access to my server and up to date versions of Apache, mysql, php etc.

Ok thats its for my rant.

Anyways I finally managed to get the forum successfully converted to 5.0.2.

I am now battling through all the annoyances of basic customizing of the forum, and first up is the basic task of swapping out the site logo for my own. Of course I could easy hack files which would be easy, but I want make it easy for someone else down the road to make changes, so I'm doing it the correct way.

If I try using Quick Setup to change the logo neither selecting a logo from hard drive or use image URL work.

Trying to upload a logo image results in: Error uploading the logo. Please try again. I've tried various image types/sizes. Doesn't matter uploading will not work.

Using the image URL option, I get the message Error: Exceeds forum quota by %1$s. (upload_attachfull_total)

If I try to use Header to edit the header and change the logo, neither work as well (basically same errors)

The fact that the forum quota error includes a parameter code is suspect -> Error: Exceeds forum quota by %1$s. (upload_attachfull_total)

Just looking for an idea on where to start digging to try to fix this one.

Centos 7 / Apache 2.4.18 / php 5.6.19 / Mariadb 10.0.24 / mysqli / gd / imagemagick 3.4.1

Thanks

[skicdave]

So looks like vBulletin 5 has a problem because I am trying to use 1 byte of data for an upload! lol.

Only figured this one out since I was getting a bunch of admin emails such as...

admin has just tried to attach a file that would exceed the 1 byte quota you setup by $overage.

In order to allow users to continue attaching files, we recommend you delete some attachments. You can perform attachment management on the following pages:

http://X.X.X.X/forums/core/admincp/attachment.php?do=intro
http://X.X.X.X/forums/core/admincp/attachment.php?do=stats

To solve this problem I went Admin CP -> Settings -> Options -> Message Attachement Options, then changed it to a large value. (it was set to 1).

You would think the upgrade would check to make sure variables had reasonable values in them to prevent these bugs...

On to the next problem!

[Mark.B]

Do you actually mean 5.0.2, or 5.2.0?

You shouldn't be running 5.0.2 - it is several years old and contains multiple unpatched security issues and bugs.

5.2.0 is the version you should be using

[Wayne Luke]

Make sure the upload quota under Settings -> Options -> Message Attachment Options is set to zero. This is a global value and will affect every user.

Set the quotas under Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager so they are large enough. This is individual and will affect each user in the usergroup.

Individual files types have a maximum size under Attachments -> Attachment Options. Since you're upgrading from vBulletin 3, these are very low and not realistic in today's world. In a new vBulletin 5 install, the values for images are 1440 X 900 and 900,000 bytes. You can go up to a 12 Megapixel image and several megabytes if your server supports it.

[skicdave]

Yes Mark, sorry yes meant 5.2.0.

[skicdave]

Well after 2 weeks on this, I can finally relax a bit and say that all is fine in the world of vBulletin at my end again lol.

Despite the difficulties in converting over, I must say that vBulletin 5 is well worth the effort and its many features.

Went live this morning.

Great product, just wish it was a bit more robust at looking ahead for issues that will no doubt arise, especially for those moving to more up to date platforums/software.

Wish I had documented my path more through! lol

Cheers