The conversion required going from IPB > phpBB2 > phpBB3. We chose to go with a flat copy at first because our IPB was very heavily modified, with changes that easily could have caused issues with conversion. We didn’t really care about forum functionality, as we’d already migrated manually to a new phpBB 3 installation (in an emergency weekend after a PHP upgrade notice from our host - a good reason to upgrade things before a must-have emergency, kids!). The first thing we tried was getting a flat copy of the website. We didn’t want to continue running IPB on our server due to its age and insecurity. There are instructions as to how to make 1.3.1F compatible, but running an ancient and unsupported application isn’t ideal. 1.3.1F has ceased to function without updates to make it compatible with new versions of PHP: some functions used by 1.3.1F have been deprecated, unsurprisingly. More pressing, however - webhosts have been upgrading PHP lately. I had an old forum archive on IPB 1.3.1 Final forum software from Invision Power Board.ġ.3.1F is over 10 years old - it hasn’t been supported in a really, really long time, and its community of users is dwindling (or even nonexistent).
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