I don't know if I placed this or not and waited too long to edit my original post. I have tried the converter in chrome, firefox, and IE11 with same results. I KNOW the paths are correct for both the SMF insall (working and live forum) as well as the PHPBB 3.0.12 forum (also working and live)
I'm beginning to think I may be using the wrong converter. This is the error I get now:
Unable to find the settings for phpBB3. Please double check the path and try again.
Before that in Firefox I could actually get to the conversion process BUT it would just stay on that page for ever...
Which converter should I be using.. the one in the downloads section or one of the others that I keep seeing in threads where other people have had issues converting from this particular version of phpbb3.0.12 to SMF.
Any help is appreciated. I have restarted Apache, rebooted the server and no matter what I still am getting the path issue. I have searched this forum and other high and low and it seems the information for THIS particular error is almost non existent and always is answered with you must have the path wrong BUT its really not.
So if there is a sql file or converter file i should be using outside the norm, I would appreciate any assistance.
Thanks so much. I figured after 43 views on the original request someone other than myself would have ran into this very issue, knowing they did have their path information correct. I am thinking maybe I didn't explain the problem well enough.
I am a true computer technician wit ha brick and mortar business, and have hosted websites and NUMROUS forums (SMF PHPBB VB XenForo etc) and have had continuous dedicated servers since 1997. I am not new to this by any means BUT this conversion I was hoping would be rather simple as we only have around 3800 members, 150,000 or so posts all told and a not so large database (638MB total I believe)
Right now the error is just making no sense whatsoever as paths are /var/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs for both the PHPBB forum under one domain name and the NEW SMF forum under another domain name..same MySQL server etc localhost on 3306
Thanks again.. I need a guru or someone who has ran into this same issue before.
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