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phpBB to SMF conversion: pathways not found??

Started by (un)cooldude, April 21, 2006, 09:38:08 AM

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(un)cooldude

Well, for some reason, the script isn't willing to accept my pathways to my phpBB install. :(

I know the pathways are correct. Is there something I'm missing?

Error Message: Unable to find the settings for phpBB2. Please double check the path and try again.

Pathways:

SMF: /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domainname.tld/subdomains/smf/httpdocs

phpBB2: /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domainname.tld/subdomains/phpbb/httpdocs

It just doesn't make any sense.

Edit: In case anyone mentions it, yes, the phpBB 'config.php' file is located in the httpdocs directory listed in the pathway above.
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(un)cooldude

Nobody has any ideas?? Hasn't anyone run into this problem?
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H

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=83031.0

There are many posts that ask the same question as yours. Search is your friend ;)

Make sure you provide the converter with the right path to the phpbb config and that is has the correct permissions to access it
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(un)cooldude

Quote from: huwnet on April 22, 2006, 08:03:58 AM
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=83031.0

There are many posts that ask the same question as yours. Search is your friend ;)

Make sure you provide the converter with the right path to the phpbb config and that is has the correct permissions to access it

Everytime I try the search, it's disabled due to load. I also found the post you linked to above, but it doesn't have any information pertaining to my situation. The pathways are correct, I've checked them a dozen times. I've also checked the permissions, and everything is readable. This is why I cannot understand why the script says it cannot find the file. Very frustrating.

I know it's looking for the 'extension.inc', and 'config.php' files...and the pathways I list are correct. But, for some reason, this script still cannot find them. I'm open to any other suggestions you have, but thus far, all logical avenues have been attempted. I have no issues with any other scripts, so why is this one being so difficult?
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-H
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(un)cooldude

Ok. I've actually gotten this problem solved, and I thought I would post what the problem was, just in case anyone else runs into this issue in the future.

The key tip here was the whole issue of 'permissions'. I guess the convert.php file needs FULL read access to whatever directory you have the script in, as as well as the directory that your phpBB install lives in. The problem with my install, is that because I was using subdomains, and a couple of directories in the root pathways to the subdomains were not all owned by my account user, it caused the script to fail when trying to read the phpBB config files.

So, the important thing to remember here is: directory permissions. If the permissions on ALL directories aren't 100% open for the script, it's going to fail.

I ended up moving both the phpBB install, and the SMF install to the same root directory that had the proper parent directory permissions. Once I did that, everything worked just great.

Thanks for your suggestions huwnet, as they may not have solved my problem, but they helped to get me thinking in other directions. This directory permission problem will be of particular interest to SMF users working on a webserver utilizing the Plesk hosting software. Food for thought.
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Amacythe

Thank you for posting the method you used to solve this issue.

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