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Installation, Update & Configuration / Re: change url and/or server; Move 4images to new server

« on: March 12, 2005, 02:35:39 AM »

Boy, it means a lot coming from you.

Anyway, I am working on my new server now, I just set up phpmyadmin, *new version seems sweet, and right now will export the whole db out of my old server.

*edited and moved above.

Good Luck

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Chit Chat / Re: Do you like the forum design?

« on: March 11, 2005, 09:44:18 PM »

while I must agree that the templates, especially the default, is not too easy on the eyes, it is better than nothing, and lookin at empty screen.

The theme and templates are very easy to change anytime, so they can run a few tests to see which one works better, and we all can vote for 1 default.

The more people using different templates, more problems there will be.
So there should be just 1 default, and 1 optional.

Good luck guys

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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: New forum software

« on: March 11, 2005, 09:40:24 PM »

sorry to hear about what happened..
recently my 4images index was defaced due to an exploit in phpbb's old version. I can't believe people can do such damage in purpose. Especially to such a site. From what I hear it is a simple script that searched web for a certain versioned phpbb sites, and automatically run the script and damaged the sites. Thank god mine was only defaced.

I have never seen or heard this forum s/w before, I hope it works well and normally these types of forums are not always the target. If you were going to use paid svc vBB would have been a great choice, but good luck with this, and I surely hope in no time we can restore everything back to the way it was.

I am so mad that some of the great topics were lost.

Quick suggestion, the themes need to be worked on, the default is not so great to the eyes, and not too easy to read some times, the second one seems a little better with blue, but I suggest try to get one with smaller fonts and more organized view.

Good luck to everyone and let's get to work now.

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Installation, Update & Configuration / Re: change url and/or server; Move 4images to new server

« on: March 11, 2005, 09:31:47 PM »

Requirements:

phpMyAdmin on both servers (unless you know what you mean with servers)
very good FTP cleint  (I suggest Flash FXP)
very good text editor (I suggest UltraEdit-32)
patience
a little bit of knowledge of how 4images works

Can we sum the steps as:

1) Back Up the database as .sql or .zip [Old Server] *.sql recommended
2) Back Up the /4images directory entirely [Old Server]
3) Restore the database [New Server] ¹ *see below
4) Note down the database information (domain, user, database, etc.) [New Server]
5) Restore /4images directory [New Server]
6) Edit config.php and other .phps under /4images to match the new domain, user, database, etc [New Server] ² *see below

If you are making a dummy duplicate of 4images, above should work, because all the prefix and subfolders & data should match each other.

Only problem could be if there is a mod which needs to link to db and you forgot to rename/modify & give it the new db specs.

¹) While restoring database, you may runinto problems during importing or while restoring the db.sql into your new db. This can cause time out and 50x errors with your server. To avoid this try restoring 4images_ tables one at a time. Try exporting 1 table, and importing 1 table, and so on.. such as start with  4images_categories and export it, later  4images_comments.. and so on. You may run into problem with tables that are over 750kb, depending on your connection and the speed of your server. What to do? Then as v@no suggested try opening the .sql file and use SQL to run SQL query/queries on database.  4images_wordmatch can cause a problem, because on mine it was 1.7MB, which consists of simple commands like

Code: [Select]

INSERT INTO 4images_wordmatch VALUES (1, 41, 0, 0, 1);
INSERT INTO 4images_wordmatch VALUES (1, 40, 0, 0, 1);
INSERT INTO 4images_wordmatch VALUES (1, 39, 0, 0, 1);
INSERT INTO 4images_wordmatch VALUES (1, 38, 0, 0, 1);
INSERT INTO 4images_wordmatch VALUES (1, 37, 0, 0, 1);
INSERT INTO 4images_wordmatch VALUES (1, 36, 0, 1, 0);
INSERT INTO 4images_wordmatch VALUES (1, 35, 0, 1, 0);
so it is pretty easy to input line by line, try doing 750 lines at a time.

²) There are only 3-5 files which needs to link to db, if you think you might have more, you will use your favorite search tool to search for file "Containing Text = xxxxx (your db or your db password)" and the result files needs to be modified to your new db information. The best text editor I found is UltraEdit-32 which can find and replace any given words in all open files at once.

Keep reading for other updates and details.

Good Luck.

 

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Installation, Update & Configuration / Re: change in directory name for security

« on: March 11, 2005, 08:59:21 PM »

Hi V@no,

sorry about the site.

this topic should be included in FAQ if it hasn't been or should be stickied.

take care