• Registered: 2019-12-06
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Topic: Possible to export / migrate / archive from 1.4?

Hi folks. I am desperately trying to save a 15-year-old forum that's of great importance to many of its members. We were recently notified that the board's host is upgrading to a newer version of PHP that will not be compatible with PunBB moving forward.

The board admin has said that an archive is not likely to be possible. I am just trying to determine if there is any way at all to make this happen.

Any guidance at all would be sincerely appreciated. Thank you!

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Re: Possible to export / migrate / archive from 1.4?

Your current version of PunBB?

I fixed the latest version of PunBB 1.4.4 to support the latest php http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/158390/#p158390
Problems can only be with extensions.

P.S. Before any modification of your forum, first make a backup of the database and forum directory.

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  • Registered: 2019-12-06
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Re: Possible to export / migrate / archive from 1.4?

Visman wrote:

Your current version of PunBB?

I fixed the latest version of PunBB 1.4.4 to support the latest php http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/158390/#p158390
Problems can only be with extensions.

P.S. Before any modification of your forum, first make a backup of the database and forum directory.

Interesting. We're on 1.4.4 -- I'll pass this on to the board admin in hopes that they'll keep it alive.

I was able to figure out how to save an archive of what we have, so I feel good about that. But would feel better to keep it going.