Legacy problem: phorum5.1.25 on Debian 12
Posted by orinoco
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Legacy problem: phorum5.1.25 on Debian 12 July 15, 2024 06:16AM |
Registered: 20 years ago Posts: 19 |
Disclaimer: yes, I know that 5.1.25 is outdated and depreciated, but I'm stuck with it as I will explain.
yes, I know that I am an irresponsible server admin to others, but between upgrade hell, data loss abyss and potential legacy security issues I'm on the legacy side. If you want to help me despite all this, read on.
After many years I couldn't ignore the upgrade problem of my Debian server anymore and I will switch from Debian 9 to Debian 12 and I try to move my legacy phorum forums to it. With 5.2.x forums this worked almost flawlessly. Another phorum 5.1.25 (low traffic) I could upgrade to 5.2.23. But one 5.1.25 is causing problems. As I realized that 5.1.25 does not work (just blank install page after configuring config.php) on Debian 12 LAMP, even with php5.6-fpm, I also tried to upgrade to 5.2.23 but failed the step after
Now my questions:
Is there a way to find out what breaks the upgrade?
Is there a way to run phorum5.1.25 on Debian 12?
I guess it's a database problem. mariadb 10.1.48-0+deb9u2 on Debian 9 works. mariadb 10.11.6-0+deb12u1 on Debian 12 doesn't. Which version still works with 5.1.25?
I will continue testing, but if someone knows a quick solution it would save much time and nerves. Thanks.
P.S. I brutally skipped mysql-patch 2007100802.php. It just renews the thread info. Does not seem to be necessary. At least I got all my phorum-forums databases in ver5.2.23, "just" loosing templates and modules ... well maybe I can save a bit of them. Is probably the better solution as this works with current mariadb version of Debian 12 and at least php7.4 (php8.2 seem to work to but the default template is broken; maybe not much needed to fix this)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/15/2024 10:25AM by orinoco.
yes, I know that I am an irresponsible server admin to others, but between upgrade hell, data loss abyss and potential legacy security issues I'm on the legacy side. If you want to help me despite all this, read on.
After many years I couldn't ignore the upgrade problem of my Debian server anymore and I will switch from Debian 9 to Debian 12 and I try to move my legacy phorum forums to it. With 5.2.x forums this worked almost flawlessly. Another phorum 5.1.25 (low traffic) I could upgrade to 5.2.23. But one 5.1.25 is causing problems. As I realized that 5.1.25 does not work (just blank install page after configuring config.php) on Debian 12 LAMP, even with php5.6-fpm, I also tried to upgrade to 5.2.23 but failed the step after
I only get the header of the admin.php upgrade page, it breaks in the second HTML-table.Quote
Upgrading from patch level 2007100800 to 2007100801
Now my questions:
Is there a way to find out what breaks the upgrade?
Is there a way to run phorum5.1.25 on Debian 12?
I guess it's a database problem. mariadb 10.1.48-0+deb9u2 on Debian 9 works. mariadb 10.11.6-0+deb12u1 on Debian 12 doesn't. Which version still works with 5.1.25?
I will continue testing, but if someone knows a quick solution it would save much time and nerves. Thanks.
P.S. I brutally skipped mysql-patch 2007100802.php. It just renews the thread info. Does not seem to be necessary. At least I got all my phorum-forums databases in ver5.2.23, "just" loosing templates and modules ... well maybe I can save a bit of them. Is probably the better solution as this works with current mariadb version of Debian 12 and at least php7.4 (php8.2 seem to work to but the default template is broken; maybe not much needed to fix this)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/15/2024 10:25AM by orinoco.
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