settings.php after upgrade to 2.0.17 from 1.1.19

[Oldwood]

Recently upgraded and, within reason, everything working OK (more problems with the landing page than SMF).  Anyway, as part of my re-education for re-customizing the forum (not touched it for past 10 years) I had a gander at settings.php and this still shows the 1.1 version. My questions is: would it be OK to copy settings.php from the 2.0.17 install package and modify the variable values across ($db_name, $db_user) etc.  I note that there are variables in 2.0 (eg $ssi_db_user) that do not exist in the 1.1 version.  Any advice would be appreciated.   

[Kindred]

you can either edit in your settings for the 2.0 version -- or modify your 1.1 version to add in the 2.0 variables

[Oldwood]

Thanks Kindred.  I think I'll go with the 2.0 version - just looks a lot cleaner and easier to understand.  However I do have a question about a few variables which appear in the 1.1 version and not in the 2.0 version.  These are: $image_proxy_secret, $image_proxy_maxsize, $auth_secret and $image_proxy_enabled.  In the 1.1 version I had a bridge to Gallery2 but I assume these variables are nothing to do with the images stored in Gallery2.  Given that, I have no clue as to what purpose these variables serve or whether they need to be incorporated into the 2.0 varient of Settings.php.  Should I copy these across as well or just ignore them?  Thanks again for your help.       

[Kindred]

lol... I found the same variables in a site that I recently moved.

I'd say copy them over. I can't recall if SMF uses the proxy secret in 2.0.x proxy calls... but having them won't hurt.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Copy them over, they are the settings for the image proxy ( Admin -> Configuration -> Server Settings -> General -> Enable Image Proxy and the following settings after it. )

The last lines in my settings.php

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$image_proxy_secret = 'withdrawn';
$image_proxy_maxsize = 5190;
$image_proxy_enabled = 1;
$auth_secret = 'withdrawn';
$db_character_set = 'utf8';
?>


[shawnb61]

The 2.0  upgrader leaves comments alone....    Thus, a forum that started off at 1.1, even after a successful upgrade to 2.0, still has 1.1 comments in there.  (That's how mine looks...)

The proxy variables are 2.0 variables, added by the upgrader.  Sounds like you have proper 2.0 settings already.


I'd leave everything alone...

[shawnb61]

Note also that there were no settings removed from settings.php from 1.1 to 2.0.  Only adds.

If you are still going to move items over to the 2.0 template for readability, you should move all entries over.