Will new PHP and MySQL break vBulletin 2.3.4?

[ericguttormson]

I want to upgrade my server to the minimum requirements for the new vBulletin....

System Requirements
Minimum
PHP 4.3.3
MySQL 4.0.16

Yet on my server I also run an old vBulletin 2.3.4 which I will NOT be upgrading to the new vBulletin.

My current PHP is already... (PHP 4.3.8) so I should be OK there, but my current version of MySQL is.... 3.23.58

Will upgrading my MySQL to 4.0.16 break my old vBulletin?

[ericguttormson]

Actually my hosting company would like to perform the following upgrade....

PHP can be upgraded to 4.3.11 and MySQL to 4.1.21

Will that upgrade break my old vBulletin 2.3.4?

[Zachery]

I would suggest upgrading to php 4.4.4, I'm not sure if vBulletin 2.3.4 will run with MySQL 4.1.21. I'm fairly sure it will but I'm not 100%, off the top of my head i cannot think of anything in MySQL 4.1 that would break vB 2.

[LaPiba]

Hi,

I am running vBulletin 2.3.x with Apache/1.3.34, PHP 4.4.2 and MySQL 4.1.21-standard, and it is working fine.

My question is: will MySQL 5.x and/or PHP 5.x break vbulletin 2.3.11?

Thank you in advance.

[Colin F]

Yes, I'm pretty sure it vBulletin 2.x won't work with such new versions of MySQL / PHP.

[dg0896]

Why don't you run dual PHP/Mysql? It's hard, but I have done this before.

[MRGTB]

Hi,

I am running vBulletin 2.3.x with Apache/1.3.34, PHP 4.4.2 and MySQL 4.1.21-standard, and it is working fine.

My question is: will MySQL 5.x and/or PHP 5.x break vbulletin 2.3.11?

Thank you in advance.

Most likely

[Psionic Vision]

I am running vBulletin 2.3.3 on PHP v5.2.6/MySQL v4.1.22, and so far there are no problems.

[Steve Machol]

Frankly I'm surprised because you will definitely have problems with vB 3.0. Maybe vB2 is not sophisticated enough for newer versions of PHP and MySQL to break it.