convert ancient IPB to phpBB?

[fredipb]

Thanks again. Yes, I should be able to regexp the html into bbcode.

Another thought occurs to me, though. This is meant to be a read-only archive board. Before running the reparser the old IPB html posts do seem to render correctly in phpbb 3.3.14. I guess I could simply set "Run periodic tasks from system cron" in the ACP to Yes, and not schedule my own cron tasks, to prevent the reparser from running.

But I haven't been able to find a list of tasks that are run automatically when the above setting is No. Does anyone know what they are? Are there any that I'd need to run periodically in a read-only board?

[thecoalman]

If you look in in <phpbb root>/phpbb/cron/task there is list of php files. If you were just going to make this archive the one task I know is going to give you issues is not pruning the sessions table.

You should be able to use server cron just to prune sessions table and other specific tasks but I don't know the formatting. You should also be able to stop the reparsing but I don't know how or if something else can re-trigger it.

If it's just for archive you can use HTTrack to create static files. I've used similar product in the past. Just go into the templates and remove unnecessary links and what not. Restrict it to index page, viewtopic, viewforum and attachments. Check the attachments as they may get screwed up since phpBB serves them with file.php, it's not going to have correct mimetype for images with static file if it's saved as file.php?id=123456. Might be option in HTTrack to use real filename.

Once that is straightened out you don't have to worry about security updates, minimal CPU etc. only real issue is more disk space. Converting to phpBB is not useless before doing this, minimally you'll have responsive design.