Happy New Year 2025! Forum Upgrades & Changes

[Devilfish]

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year! I hope 2025 will be great for you all.

It's started off on the down side for me. The SSL certificate for the server expired and it can't be renewed because the server software is end of life and can't be updated. So I need to move to a new server. The trouble is, the new server won't have the versions of PHP that our version of vbulletin wants. Soooo.....I need to update the forum software to the latest version.

Many of the addons that we have here are not standard and will not migrate across to the latest software version. I'm not sure what features the new software has, it might have incorporated some of the addons that we use. But it will definitely not look the same and I'll most likely need to get a new skin/theme/style.

I knew the day would come when this would be necessary and today is the day.

I'm trying to gather as much info as possible to enable a smooth transition.


So, yeah! Happy Days

Glen

EDIT: SSL cert hs been resolved but I will still need to change to a new server soon. Thanks for the replies below.

[crouchinggerbil]

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year! I hope 2025 will be great for you all.

It's started off on the down side for me. The SSL certificate for the server expired and it can't be renewed because the server software is end of life and can't be updated. So I need to move to a new server. The trouble is, the new server won't have the versions of PHP that our version of vbulletin wants. Soooo.....I need to update the forum software to the latest version.

Many of the addons that we have here are not standard and will not migrate across to the latest software version. I'm not sure what features the new software has, it might have incorporated some of the addons that we use. But it will definitely not look the same and I'll most likely need to get a new skin/theme/style.

I knew the day would come when this would be necessary and today is the day.

I'm trying to gather as much info as possible to enable a smooth transition.


So, yeah! Happy Days

Glen

Can you modify the addons to work with the new version? I had to do this with mybb forum software

[shooting]

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year! I hope 2025 will be great for you all.

It's started off on the down side for me. The SSL certificate for the server expired and it can't be renewed because the server software is end of life and can't be updated. So I need to move to a new server. The trouble is, the new server won't have the versions of PHP that our version of vbulletin wants. Soooo.....I need to update the forum software to the latest version.

Many of the addons that we have here are not standard and will not migrate across to the latest software version. I'm not sure what features the new software has, it might have incorporated some of the addons that we use. But it will definitely not look the same and I'll most likely need to get a new skin/theme/style.

I knew the day would come when this would be necessary and today is the day.

I'm trying to gather as much info as possible to enable a smooth transition.


So, yeah! Happy Days

Glen

Glen mate, you should be able to issue a temporary certificate like we do on our forums,
it's relatively easy on MyBB/Abyss servers so I image it would be the same on vbulletin,
If you get stuck give me a shout....



Regards

[crouchinggerbil]

Maybe you can renew ssl certificate manually if you terminal into the server?

For Apache server config enter these commands

sudo certbot --apache -d www.digital-kaos.co.uk -d digital-kaos.co.uk

sudo crontab -e

ADD THIS LINE TO THE FILE AND SAVE (This will auto renew ssl certificates when needed)

0 0 * * * certbot renew --quiet



For nginx server config enter these commands

sudo certbot --nginx -d www.digital-kaos.co.uk -d digital-kaos.co.uk

sudo crontab -e

ADD THIS LINE TO THE FILE AND SAVE (This will auto renew ssl certificates when needed)

0 0 * * * certbot renew --quiet

[Devilfish]

Thanks for the replies folks. I've resolved the SSL cart issue. I'll still need to migrate to a new server and upgrade the vbulletin software because its well overdue. Just not today.

[crouchinggerbil]

Thanks for the replies folks. I've resolved the SSL cart issue. I'll still need to migrate to a new server and upgrade the vbulletin software because its well overdue. Just not today.

I dont know what updating vbulletin is like but for mybb when the php version changes some of the addons need to be modified to suit and it could be as simple as changing a value from "NULL" to "0" in the addon then reapply the addon.

I imagine the theme would also be alright with upgrade to vbulletin. Any core file modifications you should note what you changed then you can reapply them after updating.

[gmb45]

make sure we got a chatbox mate

[Meat-Head]

If you need any money, just ask, I’ve got bank full of the stuff. Might not have as much if loose Asbo appeal.

send email well in advance as inbox on here full.

need more than 50 or whatever it is messages

thanks

MH

[shooting]

Thanks for the replies folks. I've resolved the SSL cart issue. I'll still need to migrate to a new server and upgrade the vbulletin software because its well overdue. Just not today.

Glen mate, just out of interest, what space do you need?
One of my servers has got PHP:5.3.8 and PhpMyAdmin database with 1/2 TB free space if you need to experiment transferring.
I host several forums but they're MyBB with Abyss X2, but I'm sure we can add or upgrade some s/w to suit.

You can always message me if it's needed...


Cheers

[crouchinggerbil]

Glen mate, just out of interest, what space do you need?
One of my servers has got PHP:5.3.8 and PhpMyAdmin database with 1/2 TB free space if you need to experiment transferring.
I host several forums but they're MyBB with Abyss X2, but I'm sure we can add or upgrade some s/w to suit.

You can always message me if it's needed...


Cheers

As good as that sounds it could be a waste of time. Its not guaranteed to work the same if he decides to use a different host. Same as using wamp for testing offline from your pc, the configuration you use may not be replicated by the online host. Good in theory but doesn't always work out.

[Meat-Head]

As good as that sounds it could be a waste of time. It’s hatevernot guaranteed to work the same if he decides to use a different host. Same as using wamp for testing offline from your pc, the configuration you use may not be replicated by the online host. Good in theory but doesn't always work out.

whatever, if devilfish needs money, just ask. Worlds best website is DK

[shooting]

As good as that sounds it could be a waste of time. Its not guaranteed to work the same if he decides to use a different host. Same as using wamp for testing offline from your pc, the configuration you use may not be replicated by the online host. Good in theory but doesn't always work out.

That's why I asked what is needed, this server is already hosting many forums with all sorts of setups,
it's not too difficult to add a few things to match what is needed, then he has a better idea of what's needed.
I've done this before for many forums and they were grateful to try a few things out...

but that is for Glen to decide if he needs help or not...

[shooting]

Glen,
I knocked this up to show what DK would look like on the newer MyBB platform...
your messages are full now so can't send you the login details.

Address: http://<span style="color:#00ff00">d...net/dk/</span>



Regards

[Devilfish]

Thanks everyone for the replies.

It's not the space that's the issue. Its due to the version of vbulletin and the deprecating versions of server software. Our vBulletin needs PHP 5.6.x to run and this is end of life. New servers are now on PHP 8.

I've already bought the latest vBulletin software so that's not an issue. Just need to plan in a migration.