Still doesn't look right, you have red X's instead of icons

Go into te Admin Center and choose Rebuild All Boards then Rebuild the Member List

OK, all fixed up, I had to install a 9.71b forum, convert and then upgrade to the latest.

Enjoy

Could someone try to write a cutecast 2 beta 2 converter to eblah? (Cutecast download)

It's a very old software and full of security holes. But in 2003 it was easier to install on linux than eblah (that's why I did it). It's my last non eblah forum and I'd really like to see a converter.

Many thanks.

Hi All,

   Just curious if anyone has a converter for teemz to E-Blah?

Hello,

I managed to convert a vB forum (over 200MB) to phpBB, but when I try to get it from phpBB to E-Blah I get the error 500 after 15 minutes, spat out in unprocessed HTLM in the web browser. Setting the TimeOut in httpd.conf to 2400 seconds (40 min) did not help. Apache's error log says it was an unspecific premature end of the Convert.pl script.

If I understood correctly there is some way to run the script directly from the command line, but perl Convert.pl just spits out HTML...

Could you help me with this issue, please?

The user title has to be "Administrator" for them to be added into the Administrator group during conversion.

This has a vB converter.  If it works, I have NO clue.  It worked on the small SQL you sent me, but not sure about a huge one.  Try it out and let me know.  Make sure you FIRST install a new, working, 10.2 forum.  Then run the Converter and you should be able to convert into 10.2.  Make sure it's working before running the converter, though.

If it works, let me know.  If not, let me know.  I'm not sure how PM's are converted.  They are converted, but not sure if they convert correctly.  Check those and see.  

It did indeed seem to work fine on the small version, but after a lot longer than 15 min it did again spit out the Error 500 message when I tried converting the big one. The URL read "step=2" at the end when the unprocessed HTML with the error code popped up.

The Apache error.log reads:
Premature end of script headers: Convert.pl, referer: http://localhost/cgi-bin/forum/Convert.pl?convert=vB

The script did manage to convert 177MB worth of posts, so clearly it did do something. However, those posts won't show up on the forum. PMs seem have converted. At least there are files for them, but I can't actually log in to check. E-Blah seems convinced I should be using the small database you used for testing and that I DID manage to convert, as I just dropped the big one right on top.

Maybe some sort of intermediate stage could be added into the process? Say convert a batch of 5000 posts at a time and interact with the browser after each batch? Would be a nice way of letting the user know what's going on, plus it might avoid this timeout problem. I've began learning to program Perl, but I'm afraid I am nowhere near the skill level needed to do it on my own just yet.


I can't actually log in to either incarnation of the forums even though it did import the password hashes intact. The settings you provided for me to add to Settings.pl do not seem to make a difference. It keeps telling me I have an invalid password though I'm sure it's correct.

I've replaced the admin user's password in vB with qwerty123, taken a backup and replaced the file in the URL I PMed you earlier. This should let you at least try to log in to my "Nosforit" account in the backup. The "Test dummy1" account has the password 123.

Ok, vB passwords are done differently.

http://mightyhitter.com/vbulletin-password-encryption.html

There's a slight error on that page, as the + should be a coma.  I've fixed the converter to add the salt to the member ID, but now you'll need to make a change to QuickCore.pl:

Find:

Code $crypted = md5_hex($_[0]);

Add this after:

Code if($memberid{$username}{'salt'}) { $crypted = md5_hex($crypted, $memberid{$username}{'salt'}); }

This will fix it to where you can login.

This hopefully will work.  It now uses AJAX, so it'll convert members, boards, messages, and then do a small clean up routine.  Don't stop the script until it says it's all done.    Hopefully this will fix it.  As you can see, when I made the converter I did not have any speed in mind.  Just a quick and dirty conversion.     This kind of fixes that though, and spreads the time requires over four steps.

The small forum worked just dandy, though the PMs didn't seem to show up. The big forum.... well, it's still running after two hours... Perl is using between 250 and 450 MB RAM, and has according to Sysinternals' Process Explorer made 700 million page faults. There is almost no disk activity, and the Convert.pl page is running on step three, the two previous successfully completed.

I'll post when I know more.

2h 30min into the process Perl begins writing to a file simply called .txt in Messages, and five minutes later I get the following error message from Convert.pl:

Fatal Error
Your forum cannot be converted at this time.

I don't think it ever got past the third stage.

The text file is 47MB large and seems to contain somewhat random information, though mostly posts.

Sorry about that, I messed up with the boards/posts thing.  It's now fixed.  Also PM's will now be done.  Since the others take so long, you can just do the following to try the boards/messages section:

Convert.pl?convert=vB,step=2,do=messages

Also, tell me how many rows are in your `post` database and how many rows are in the `thread` one.  The same number of rows as are in the `post` database should also be the same number of lines in that .txt file.  The reason it takes so long is because it puts it all into memory.  And actually, I just noticed a pretty large bug that would make it spend MUCH more time writing files than it should.  Now it should only write to files once, which speed things up a great bit.

Try this and see if it's faster and if it works.  It should.

Got the error again... This time the ".txt" file in Messages is 166MB big, and there are lots of 0kB files names like "Thread Closed by user* on 02-04-2005 at 12" and others where the reason someone has given for editing a message has ended up as the name of the file, containing the messages of what I assume is the original thread.

There are 207 018 entries in the "post" table in the database, and 197 136 lines in the 166 MB file. The "thread" table in the DB contains 14 780 entries.

The E-Blah Boards folder also contains some oddities. There are too many entries there which have file names with numbers far over what they should be...

I'll see if I can delete the most critical information from my big database and then upload it for you to test with. This will however have to be tomorrow's thing, since I'm now going to bed.

Thank you, by the way, for your effort so far. Hope you don't give up just yet though!

* Edited from original user name for sake of privacy

Ok, that would be great.  There two databases are obviously a little different.  

Have you had time to look at this yet?

I'm sorry, I've been sick with the flu and really lacking energy. I'll hopefully get well over the weekend and have time to work on this.