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Thank-you

Good point. I've still got my original forum that I can access.

Thanks, I'll try that process. Some of the old mods/exts are causing issues.

I'm currently struggling with trying to find a version of php that both v2 and v3 will work with.

Cool.

I'm not going to 3.2 straight away because at least one of the extensions we need doesn't work yet.

Oh, that's interesting. Thank-you. I won't get to play with this for a couple of days now so will update once i've made progress or not.

I thought 5.1 might work, based on a forum thread i saw about phpbb2 not working after php updated to 5.3.

Good point. :D It looks like i can get php 5.1 for mamp v4 so might not need to install different versions (fingers crossed). Should I be able to just copy my live files into the folder structure and populate the db tables and expect everything to work? I have various MODS in my ver2 forum that I do...

Ok, thanks.

There are older versions of mamp available so i'll just download the oldest version and see if it works.

Thank-you. What version of MAMP might i need? Or at least what specs should I be looking for?

Thanks, that's where I started, but it isn't working

I've been trying to upgrade my forum software from phpBB2 to something newer but am struggling. I have to say outright I am a phpBB admin newb, having taken ownership from someone else in the organisation so please forgive any stoopid questions. I started by installing phpBB3 and db on my website, a...