problems duplicating for upgade
 

hi all, ive recently looked into upgrade our board from 3.7.1 to 4.2.3 i duplicated it on the dev site and and duplicate database, all works ok until i get to a certain stage of the upgrade and then it throws up a error while upgrading referring to the original site, is this because thats the url where the licence points?

no one can access except me as ive .htaccess etc, even if i try and upgrade on my offline server i get another error much earlier

i only want to do this incase of problems and would rather not mess up our board as theres 377,000 posts lol

any help appreciated as always thanx

Could you give us the exact error that is being displayed? (Maybe check the error logs of your web-server/PHP as well.)

When creating a test site of your live forum you need to make sure that you change all the settings in config.php and in admincp that point explicitly to the live site.

yep did this pointed the attachments to the dev site and re configured config.php:)

--------------- Added [DATE]1452854604[/DATE] at [TIME]1452854604[/TIME] ---------------

ok ill try and find it dave, it only shows the error in ie and not chrome its stage 89 of 110 i think in 4.0 when it trys to move the pictures to the attachments from the database this is on the live dev server which i only have access to, very annoying as i say i dont want to bugger the live live site, also dave do you do skins? i need our current 3.7 skin replicated in 4.2.3 once running?

found log error

PHP Warning: chdir() [<a href='function.chdir'>function.chdir</a>]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/vhosts/.org/httpdocs/boards/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/dev.****org/:/tmp/) in /var/www/vhosts/dev.org/httpdocs/header.php on line 19, referer: http://dev.org/boards/

line 19 of header.php

chdir("/var/www/vhosts/dev.org/httpdocs/boards/");

Hmm that seems fine.

What if you run the upgrade in Chrome but you open up the "Developer Tools" in Chrome (F12) before you start. Then click on the network tab and keep it open, then run the upgrade. If there's an error again, you should notice one of the network requests timing-out or displaying an error. Click it and view the response so you can see the exact error that is being displayed.

Off-topic: yes, I do convert themes from vB3 to vB4.

cool may have sorted prob too

schoolboy error i have a dup of the dup and had not changed the attachment storage place to dev

doing now looks ok atm

can i pm u regarding custom work what are rates like? may have a few bits to sort

regards mick

Yes, you're more than welcome to PM me or email me at dave[at]technidev[dot]com.

awesome buddy thanx:up:

just noticed a problem no attachments are being displayed in the new 4.2.3 there pointing to the right place on the duplicate on the test site

the orig 3.7 is fine

anyone had this before

You probably encountered a bug in the vBulletin upgrade, it's not uncommon to happen.
Read all replies in the following thread, it will surely help you out: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2552602