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Support => cpg1.4.x Support => Older/other versions => cpg1.4 bridging => Topic started by: RonS on March 02, 2010, 11:05:08 am

Title: Converting a bridged phpbb2 cpg13.x to phpbb3 and 14.x
Post by: RonS on March 02, 2010, 11:05:08 am
Hi,

I seem to be in over my head.  I had a bridged phpbb2 -> 1.3.x installation.
The phpbb2 installation is at http://forum.domain.com/ and the CPG 1.3 is at http://photos.domain.com/
I know that I have read this is a troublesome combination, but I guess back a few years ago I was "an expert" an was able to get the two integrated.
The gallery is tracking a little more than 35,000 original files.  There are about 4,000 phpBB users and about 1,000 of them have uploaded files.

I have upgraded to phpbb3 successfully and I am now attempting to upgrade CPG and bridge the two.

After dumping my DB, and copying all new CPG files including the proper phpbb3 bridge from http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,53678.0.html
I run update.php and all seems fine, either done before or OK. 

I get redirected from http://photos.domain.com/ to http://www.domain.com/photos.  I have no idea how this is happening, as nowhere ever have I entered such a URL.
I can then log into the photo gallery and get to the admin tools.

When I try to run the bridging manager, I get "There was an error while processing a database query" and I get logged out.
I can not login again, I just keep getting returned to the home page.

I've tried a bunch of things, including enabling the forum to be seen from http://www.domain.com/forum and the photo gallery similarly.
I have reloaded the old DB and rerun update.php several times.
I have droppped all cookies from my domain, and restarted firefox, and I have truncated the sessions table.  This does allow me to log in, but after trying the bridging manager again I am hosed.  I had noticed multiple sessions for my user_id. 

I have rolled back all of the changes to software and DB after working overnight on this, and cpg and and the old version of phpBB2 are still integrated, and users with a cookie are still able to login to CPG for some reason, so some things are working, just barely, for the time being.

So here's the issue and my request, and I realize I'm not posting the required info, and I apologize up front for doing this in public, but there's no PM system working.

Given the situation, I don't really want to publicly identify my domain here.  I'd be willing to compensate one of the devs to help get me up and running -- integrated with phpbb3 and seen by photos.domain.com and forum.domain.com, as long as the amount is within reason.  Please drop me an email so we may discuss?
Thanks.
Title: Re: Converting a bridged phpbb2 cpg13.x to phpbb3 and 14.x
Post by: Joachim Müller on March 02, 2010, 03:24:22 pm
Read the sticky on this very sub-board (the one that is misleadingly named "When requesting bridge support - mandatory!" for no apparent reason ::)) and do exactly as suggested there. The word "exactly" is meant as bold and important as it possibly could be.
Title: Re: Converting a bridged phpbb2 cpg13.x to phpbb3 and 14.x
Post by: RonS on March 02, 2010, 09:39:17 pm
Yes, I clearly stated
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I realize I'm not posting the required info, and I apologize up front for doing this
The installation is rolled back; the information you require is impossible for me to leave.

So unless I am  A) willing to identify my site in public, B) Leave it in a completely unfunctional state for an inderterminate amount of time none of the devs are willing to be paid to help?

Very cool.
Title: Re: Converting a bridged phpbb2 cpg13.x to phpbb3 and 14.x
Post by: phill104 on March 02, 2010, 10:05:54 pm
Shall I move this to the freelancers section of the board?

We are willing to help for free in this section but we need to be able to see what is going on.
Title: Re: Converting a bridged phpbb2 cpg13.x to phpbb3 and 14.x
Post by: Joachim Müller on March 03, 2010, 07:09:18 am
So you want generic advice? OK: