I think i got a breakthrough!
I was not able to go to the admin panel on the new server.
Anyway I finally succeded in upgrading to the latest XOOPS 2.0.18.1 version on the new server.

The admin panels works now on the new server! Some modules do have problems so, but that is a minor issue.

What is the best module for galleries? Xoopsgallery seems not to work anymore. i had a lot professional photos up on the website, for free of course, all done by myself with official permission. So what is the best gallery module for XOOPS 2.0.18.1 ?

An what is the best news module! I really need it as well. I had News 1.1 but the admin panel don't work for this module.

Is there a way to disable a module with myphpadmin? It would be great to know the database entry where to do it if it is possible.

thanks Stefan. that is a good idea for testing. I have 2.0.9 not 2.9.0.2 btw.

you posted the development path, but is this the upgrade path as well? Could I upgrade maybe from newbb 2.x to cbb2 or even cbb3 or is that totally different?

I transferred my old website to a new hosting provider. It contains a MySQL 3.32 database. The new server has something 5.x.
I cannont get to the admin panel now. Lots of the forums and stuff do work so.
It looks like I do not have any access to the admin panels anymore.


Is there a way to change with myphpadmin the database to enable access to the admin panel? Is it just a databse entry that needs to be changed?

When I upload a picture as attachment in the forums that is 272kB in size, it ends up n 124 kB. When PHP Debug is on it is 156kB. Does it makes sense that the Notice hints of PHP are added to the uploade or downloaded jpeg file?

Anyway, i am using XOOPS 2.0.9 and newBB 2.01. There is newBB2.02 out which i should try as this update seems to be easy.

I think I should update XOOPS maybe on the old server first and then do the transfer. I have read the readme files the full package of 2.0.18 but that is not clear to me.

Could anybody tell me the update steps from 2.0.9 or can it be done in one step without doing intermedite steps? Does this update change anything at the database?

I still think there is maybe something with the character set used (latin1/utf8 etc.). It is quite a bifg step from MySQL 3.x to 5.

thanks stefan88, but the ownership of files is not the problem. I even changed for testing the files to permission 777 (writable for everyone) and it does not work.

Thanks Peekay, but NetPBM and ImageMagick is installed on the server. If I only could go to the admin panel, there is a function to verify they exists.


Thanks stefan88, but deleting the caches I already tried. It seems a permission problem. I enabled PHP-Debug but there is no hint whats wrong.

Hello everybody, I'm new to this forums. After quite some searching here in the forums and not finding the right solution for me I'd like to ask you to help me.

I am running the website www.heathernova.net with a forums of 500 members and have urgently to move it to a new provider. I really need to ave this nice community.

I went for a Virtual Private Server at 1und1, a well know webhosting company.

Installed on the old server is:
Xoops 2.0.9, newBB 2.01, news 1.1, TinyD 2.02, xoopsgallery 1.33, Memberlist 1, Polls 1, Weblinks 1.1, piCal 0.62, chess 1.06, sitemap 0.5
with PHP 4.33 and MySQL 3.23

The new server with CentOS5 has:
PHP 5.1.6 and MySQL 5.0.22

I moved all files under "Document Root" from the old server (var/www/html) to "Document Root" on the new server (/var/www/vhosts/heathernova.net/httpdocs).
With Mysqldumper I made a backup of the database and restored it on the new server. Then I made the necessary changes to mainfile.php.
For testing I modified my local hosts file on the client to connect to the new server as the damain is not yet moved.

After opening some cache directories (777), which was not necessary on the old server, the website launched in the browser.

I am able to login, do postings in the forums but I have several problems now.

1. no access to the admin panels (blank page apears)
2. Attaching files in forums postings work but when downloading they differ, are not usable.
3. XOOPS Gallery is not working (mabe the PHP safe mode problem)
4. Memberlist starts, but search is not working
5. Popup windows with additional smilies is emty.

Any idea what causes these problems and how to solve them? Point 1 and two are most important to solve.

Have I done the right strategy considering the PHP and MySQL Version is quite a difference between the old and new server? Does XOOPS 2.09 works with this PHP and MySQL?

regards
gerd