I am trying to convert my Yabb forum to SMF. This version is cgi based, so I dont know if it will work or not. I have not been able to get the converter script to detect the yabb settings.
Can anyone help please??
Well, it should work fine with your version of YaBB. The CGI/Perl based one, indeed.
If you put the converter in the directory YaBB is in, it will detect the path for you automatically. However, because YaBB may be in cgi-bin, this may not work.
Do you have cPanel, or similar? Knowing what setup you have can help me help you guess the path.
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It is in the cgi-bin. The cgi-bin is outside of the www folder though, could that be the problem? I do have shell access to our server, if that helps.
The path SHOULD be: /cgi-bin/yabb but that isnt working. I have also tried ../cgi-bin/yabb
No cpanel.
I will try running the script from the yabb directory to see waht happens! I will keep you posted.
Hrm...I get an internal server error if I try to run the converter from the yabb directory.
Any ideas?
I would recommend against using a relative path. The default value in the box should be the path to where ever the file is. For example, if you have:
/www/smf
/cgi-bin/yabb
It's likely that the box will default to something like this:
/home/seraphina/www/smf
Or:
/home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/smf
In which case, the path would be:
/home/seraphina/cgi-bin/yabb
Or:
/home/virtual/site1/fst/var/cgi-bin/yabb
Different hosts set things up differently, so it's not always possible to tell.
Quote from: Seraphina on April 20, 2005, 01:22:26 PM
Hrm...I get an internal server error if I try to run the converter from the yabb directory.
Any ideas?
This is probably because it isn't a CGI script. You
could try adding the following to the top of the .php file:
#!/usr/bin/php
Which may or may not work.
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I figured it out..I feel dumb now ;)
I finally found the correct path.
It worked awesomely by the way!