Conversion from phpbb2 to RC5 stalls

[someone124]

Hey everyone,

So I've successfully installed RC5, but when I try to convert, the conversion process keeps stalling (at step 16 of 27). It says "Conversion in Progress" and then times out.

I don't get an error, FF (and IE) just say the connection has timed out.

Please note that this conversion process may take quite some time and depending on your hosting provider this may result in it failing (due to web server or other timeout issues). If this is the case you should ask your provider if they are willing to allow the convert script to temporarily exceed their limits (be nice and they will probably be quite helpful).

I know it says this on the conversion FAQ, and my server is run from my house, so how can I get it to not time out?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[SpongeWeb]

Join the club..........I would love an answer too,

my 3rd thread on this is still unanswered.

[someone124]

I've been searching the internet for a long time now, and can find no way to increase the apache time out.

[someone124]

I increased the timeout, but it still times out.

Am I the ONLY one with this problem? My forum isn't even that large? How are other people getting theirs to convert?

[sassycat80]

I have a small forum too and I've been having problems with it timing out I guess since after about 40 seconds I get a blank white page. But I did some searching here on the forum and found a couple of things that have helped and my forum is currently converting smoothly.

I found some posts that suggested to edit the install_convert.php file and these are the two things that I did:

Open up install.php and find:

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<?php
/** 
*
* @package install
* @version $Id: install_convert.php,v 1.50 2007/07/16 01:06:34 davidmj Exp $
* @copyright (c) 2006 phpBB Group 
* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License 
*
*/

/**
*/

After add:

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set_time_limit(40);

Then find:

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	var $batch_size = 2000;

Change the 2000 to 6000

Save and upload the file and try converting again and see if it goes through.

[SpongeWeb]

Nice! but mine still times out, thanks anyway

[DPK]

n/m, finally got the thing to convert. Was driving me bat-$h1t insane all night though. I had to mess around with how the server was handling the load. Also I had php operating in safe-mode. I flipped that off and for some reason everything worked. I'm not even going to try to understand at this point, I'm tired.

One other tip I have; try running the convertor during non-peak hours. I know it helped me with less people bombarding our server when I was doing this overnight.

[wiccaan]

Sorry for bumping an older topic >.> just wanted to say I ran into this issue myself, but fixed it by doing the following:

Open phpbb3/install/install_convert.php

Find:

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<?php
/** 
*
* @package install
* @version $Id: install_convert.php,v 1.50 2007/07/16 01:06:34 davidmj Exp $
* @copyright (c) 2006 phpBB Group 
* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License 
*
*/

/**
*/

After add:

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@set_time_limit(0);
@ini_set('memory_limit', '256M');
@ini_set('upload_max_filesize', '128M');
@ini_set('post_max_size', '256M');
@ini_set('max_input_time', '-1');
@ini_set('max_execution_time', '-1');
@ini_set('expect.timeout', '-1');
@ini_set('default_socket_timeout', '-1');

(Adjust timeouts and size as needed.)

Next find:

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var $batch_size = 4000;

Change to:

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var $batch_size = 6000;

Hope that helps (Worked for me >.>)

Edit:: Also, during the install, if you timeout during the SQL things, you can simply hit enter in your address bar which should continue the conversion where it last left off.

[SpongeWeb]

This did the trick after 2 months of failure!

I kept refreshing after the 404 error, and sure enough it finally got passsed the stalling first time!

excellent tip my friend, thanks,

[somedevilguy]

none of this works for me.
any other suggestions?

[Footballer]

Doing what wiccaan said a few posts above. Worked great for me converting from phpBB 2.0.22 to phpBB 3.0 Gold. Thanks for posting that wiccaan!

[scottishgold]

I'm having a nightmare of a time trying to convert my small board. I've tried all these suggested settings and still it won't convert.

Can I just say chaps; if there is a known issue on conversion, why not look into it for the non boffins? I'm so frustrated with the conversion, I want to defect to VB.

I'm no boffin, but even some sort of error log for the conversion that if the conversion fails at the last hurdle, at least you can see roughly what the problem is? At first, all I got was error 500! Not much use to me. Give us a clue?

I would have thought clicking on the tab 'Convert' would do just that. Can I just say, apart from this conversion problem, my main board has been without a glitch for 2 years, superb!

I'm away to grease the knot!

[G5Club.net]

I can confirm I was having that error 500... But using this fix fixed it... No need for that local machine stuff... THANKS GUYS!!!

[gardensgrey]

I was having this problem and this worked for me on one of my boards, but my last board (the biggest) still gets the error, but not until Step 4 of the final step. (It was previously getting the error right away)

Is there anything else I can change in the install_convert.php file?

[Lordstimpy]

This worked!!!

Thanks