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#170177 - 2006-11-09 07:28 AM Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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As an FYI I will be upgrading the board to UBB Threads 7.01 probably within the coming week.

If the board is down for an extended period of time, please visit
the KiXforms Board where updated information regarding the upgrade will be posted if needed.
 
I want to do some testing first so I can't give an exact time for the upgrade yet.
 
I want to duplicate as best as possible on a test system how Korg is setup, then do the upgrade to see if we run into
any issues with the upgrade before I actually upgrade the real board.

Currently need to upgrade PHP and MySQL to the latest versions.
Don't expect any issues for MySQL but PHP might be a bit more trouble on
a Windows system with IIS.
 
 
Some discussions on the UBB site indicate that the import process could take
up to 8 hours or more (I hope that was due to debug code or something)
Korg runs on a pretty fast system so hopefully the import will run much faster
than those quoted times. Those were from people running the beta versions.
 
 
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#170178 - 2006-11-09 01:54 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Thanks Doc, your hard work is appreciated.
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#170179 - 2006-11-10 01:20 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Okay, finally got Korg running on my local box.

That was a bit of a task finding and setting up ancient software on Server 2003.

Also had to edit a bunch of .php, .asp, .html files to point locally instead of back out to the real Korg.
 
I'll work on trying to do the upgrade on my local box tomorrow and see how it goes.
 
Okay 04:35 Wife wants to know why I'm still up


Edited by NTDOC (2006-11-10 01:35 PM)
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#170180 - 2006-11-10 02:14 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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lol.
I've herd you working late but doing that late on charity basis...
thanks doc. hope you learn some new stuff too so you will get something in return other than good vibes.
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#170181 - 2006-11-11 05:46 AM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Learning some about the idiosyncrasies of PHP / MySQL / UBBT

Not completed with testing but it appears I need to do in this order.

MySQL changed how passwords are stored in 4.1 so you have to use a special
setting to tell MySQL to store the password in the old format for now.

1. Backup everything
2. Shut down MySQL
3. Manual install of MySQL 5.0.27
4. Set database password back to old method
5. Install UBBT 7.01 and configure
6. Run UBBT import scripts from 6.5x to 7.01
7. Verify new UBBT is working good
8. Back everything up again
9. Manually install PHP 5.20 and configure
10 Test New UBBT
11 Reset password to new format for MySQL
11 Re-open the board to the public.
 
Can't upgrade to PHP 5.20 till later after the install of 7.01 as 6.5x doesn't understand some of the major changes of PHP.

Might be some minor tweaks/changes along the way but overall the above should get us going.
 
Once I have it working on my local box I'll retore back to the original and try
the whole upgrade process again to make sure before proceeding forward on the live system.
 
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#170182 - 2006-11-11 09:28 AM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Well the actual importing process took about 45 minutes on a VMware workstation.

However I see that many people would not like the current "style" sheet of
the forum. I'll need to look at finding some other styles to import into
the board.

The new control panel actually performs a database backup when selected unlike
the current version.

Okay, I'll be out of town all day tomorrow though.

I'm going to the Auto Club of Southern California NHRA Finals in Pomona California.

http://www.nhra.com/

 
If I can find some more templates and modify the html of the new board and I have the time, I'll look at updating the board on Sunday.
 
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#170183 - 2006-11-11 10:21 AM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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I was just looking around on the UBBThreads Home page to get an idea of what the new software looked like. It seems like it adds quite a bit of clutter on the sides, but overall it does look better. One of the sample sites UBB was showing was this one: http://www.validusguild.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm. I really like the colors on this one. Very easy on the eyes. Not sure I understand the topics, but that's not important I guess.
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#170184 - 2006-11-11 12:20 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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well, the old board does manage that too just fine.
the thing is called template.

if you don't use special templates, I bet the new board version looks just like the current one.
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#170185 - 2006-11-11 01:18 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Allen, I like the look of that one.
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#170186 - 2006-11-11 01:41 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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I like the UUB classic skin.

Example: http://www.inkundla.net/ubbthreads7/ubbthreads.php/ubb/cfrm

BTW, thanks, Doc, for the upgrade. I appreciate everything you admins do around here.
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#170187 - 2006-11-12 03:36 AM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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No problem. Helps me to learn new stuff too.

Here is what the current style looks like. Tried to import the old ones and got a parse error so have to check on that.


 
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#170188 - 2006-11-12 03:52 AM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Nice!
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#170189 - 2006-11-12 08:30 AM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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now, add the google ad parts and the logo as required by the oldies and it's as dirty as current one.
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#170190 - 2006-11-13 12:10 AM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Well don't really have the time to do the upgrade today.
There are just too many changes to the html and stuff that I don't have time to look at right now.

Will probably leave that up to Jooel maybe and do the update later some time this coming week.

 
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#170191 - 2006-11-13 10:24 AM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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How about all the links to other threads and to UDF's in the posts on the current board?
Will they still work after the upgrade?
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#170192 - 2006-11-13 01:34 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Maybe, maybe not.
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#170193 - 2006-11-13 02:10 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Imho this is a thing to check on the test install.

If it is not working it might be worth the work to do some kind of script that checks and if needed changes the stuff in the DB. I guess the post numbers will stay the same and just an update of the stuff that is the same for each post in each section would be needed.

Anyway lets wait and see what happens after the update is complete on the test system.


Doc, Jooel,

Thanks for all the great work you guys did (are doing) on the board.
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#170194 - 2006-11-13 03:38 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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Quote:

If the board is down for an extended period of time, please visit
the KiXforms Board where updated information regarding the upgrade will be posted if needed.



Could you also update the front page http://www.kixtart.org/index.asp as irregular visitors will probably look here first for an update. By all means point them at the KiXforms board.
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#170195 - 2006-11-13 05:11 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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if/when the board goes down next time, the frontpage and or the ubbthreads index will have proper information about the downtime. most likely.
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#170196 - 2006-11-13 08:31 PM Re: Board Upgrade to 7.01 coming...
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So far in testing the links and post counts etc. are all fine. Tonight I will be testing posts over 3 years old on purpose to see if anything obviously is wrong.

PM appear to be intact as well. Not sure where the update process went wrong in the past but so far this one appears to have gone well so I would expect the same behavior on the live database when I update it.
 

 
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