I installed my original PHPNuke site many years ago, back in the year 2000 and went through a number of upgrades before stabilising and customising Nuke 5.5 with Tom's PHPbb port (think it was 2.04 or 2.05). And then I started focusing on site content, my day job, the two kids that came along and a hundred and one other things.
Well, the world kept turning on its axis, and I knew that I was running a risk that some script-kiddies would come along one day and have fun with my out-of-date site, but as I had removed "phpnuke" from the meta-tags, and credited francesco Burzi by including images rather than text-links, I managed to avoid detection from the hackers who use search engines to find nuke sites.. up until last week. It turns out that they "Turkish hackers" were rather harmless, and just contented themeselves with creating 2 admin logins, and defacing some messages on the site to credit themselves with their ingenuosity, but nonethless I knew the time had come to get (back) with the programme, and security harden the site by staying up to date with the latest releases.
Which brings me to my dilemma and question.
I diligently
1) backed up the site and MySQL database, and
2) applied all of the upgrades from 5.5 to 7.8, which was fairly effortless.
However, whilst most things worked, unsurprisingly, the forum was broken. The php generated cleanly integrated phpbb pages, but there were no forums. A quick inspection confirms that the tables Tom used have different names (and some fields) to the version of phpbb now integrated in 7.8.
I've scoured the net, and found that Tom no longer maintains the port, and his site refers people here, and to chatserv.
I did try the script which was on ruleit.co.uk once, but it didn't work - probably very out of date now. I also see that there are a number of upgrades to a bbtonuke script here, but I can't find an overall FAQ or HOWTO which tells me what this is doing or if it's relevant to what I'm trying to do.
I've now razed the site and db, and am prepared to install a clean 7.8 structure, restore the original site db and upgrade again but could really benefit from some wisdom from someone who really understands nuke and Tom's port.
I'm not sure what would have changed from Tom's port. Probably the database upgrades from 2.04 and onwards. There really hasn't been anything up until 2.0.15. And then more changes in 2.0.18 and 2.0.19.
Also the users table may be different due to phpNuke.
You'd have to start by comparing the table structure between your tables and clean phpNuke tables
I'm not sure what would have changed from Tom's port. Probably the database upgrades from 2.04 and onwards. There really hasn't been anything up until 2.0.15. And then more changes in 2.0.18 and 2.0.19.
Also the users table may be different due to phpNuke.
You'd have to start by comparing the table structure between your tables and clean phpNuke tables
Thanks Evaders99, I think I hear you saying that I'm on my own, although I doubt I'm the first person to fall into this particular trap.
Can you help me understand if the script on this forum manages a separate phpBB fork to the one now integrated in FB's PHPNuke?
If I reconcile my differences with Nuke, I guess I'm home dry in that all future nuke upgrades should be fairly effortless.
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