Unfortunately, this isn't just a vanilla transfer for a couple of reasons.
The owner of the forum died late last year (we're an airplane club) and had always kept his info close to his chest. Now we're working with his (very out-of-the-loop) daughter to get everything over to the committee. The PBB3 forum is the last item to be accomplished.
The forum was on the same cPanel account as our website was (https://www.bellance-championclub.com is the website). I guess the way it was set up, it used the same IP address/nameservers, and, when we launched the new site (hosted elsewhere, the forum fell over. The cPanel account is still active, so we have access to the DB and file tree however.
So, we need to figure out how to get it over to it's new home on the new server. We zipped and downloaded the directory tree. We also did an export of the SQL DB, and now have 2 files, but we are kind of stuck now about what to do with them. I tried and upload/extract of the files, and an import of the SQL file, but nothing worked, I guess because the DB is looking for very different directories and DB name thna it had before.
A final spanner in the works is we do not have the admin UN and PW so need to reset those in the DB. I looked at the imported DB in PHPMyAdmin and the phpbb_acl_users table (which I'm guessing holds that data) does not have edit buttons, but just an warning message "Current selection does not contain a unique column. Grid edit, checkbox, Edit, Copy and Delete features are not available."
Can I get some guidance on how to accomplish this process please?
The owner of the forum died late last year (we're an airplane club) and had always kept his info close to his chest. Now we're working with his (very out-of-the-loop) daughter to get everything over to the committee. The PBB3 forum is the last item to be accomplished.
The forum was on the same cPanel account as our website was (https://www.bellance-championclub.com is the website). I guess the way it was set up, it used the same IP address/nameservers, and, when we launched the new site (hosted elsewhere, the forum fell over. The cPanel account is still active, so we have access to the DB and file tree however.
So, we need to figure out how to get it over to it's new home on the new server. We zipped and downloaded the directory tree. We also did an export of the SQL DB, and now have 2 files, but we are kind of stuck now about what to do with them. I tried and upload/extract of the files, and an import of the SQL file, but nothing worked, I guess because the DB is looking for very different directories and DB name thna it had before.
A final spanner in the works is we do not have the admin UN and PW so need to reset those in the DB. I looked at the imported DB in PHPMyAdmin and the phpbb_acl_users table (which I'm guessing holds that data) does not have edit buttons, but just an warning message "Current selection does not contain a unique column. Grid edit, checkbox, Edit, Copy and Delete features are not available."
Can I get some guidance on how to accomplish this process please?
Statistics: Posted by trogladyte — Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:32 am