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Moving - restoring [message #30798]

Tue, 14 March 2006 14:18

Marticus

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Hello. I read a few dated messages regarding the following error. What is the new work-around for this problem?

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Your WWW_ROOT does not correspond with the SERVER_ROOT path you have specified. (unable to retrive: http://games.idlenexus.net/forums/WWW_ROOT_CHECK, on disk as: D:/Websites/idlenexus.net/subdomains/games/www/forums/WWW_ROOT_CHECK, received data: w/error: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

I am attempting to move forums from one host to another. The underlying directory structure is very different on the new host. I am attempting to use the "forums dump/new install/forums import" method. I suppose I can do the manually copy using ftp and phpmyadmin; however, it seems to me that the hard coded path references in the database (for attachments and such) will get in the way. The GLOBALS.php I can modify, the database, I can not.

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Re: Moving - restoring [message #30801 is a reply to message #30798]

Tue, 14 March 2006 14:27

Ilia

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The forum does a validation check of the WWW_ROOT and its disk path by putting a file into the supposed install dir and trying to access it via the web. If it does not work, as it happens in your case it usually means incorrect values are supplied.

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Re: Moving - restoring [message #30802 is a reply to message #30801]

Tue, 14 March 2006 14:39

Marticus

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http://games.idlenexus.net/phpinfo.php

Anything I can do with this? What would the host need to do? I've had no experience running apache on windoze.

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Re: Moving - restoring [message #30803 is a reply to message #30802]

Tue, 14 March 2006 15:39

Marticus

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OMG, nevermind, it's IIS, I was under the impression it was apache. Will this work for IIS and if so, what kind of hacking can I do to get it to work?

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Re: Moving - restoring [message #30804 is a reply to message #30798]

Tue, 14 March 2006 15:53

Marticus

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I'll try this: http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=29743

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Re: Moving - restoring [message #30805 is a reply to message #30798]

Tue, 14 March 2006 16:17

Marticus

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I uncommented the place which sets allow_url_open to 0. It has no affect. I placed this line just before the above check and it echo's 1 when it should be 0.

echo fud_ini_get('allow_url_fopen');

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Re: Moving - restoring [message #30806 is a reply to message #30805]

Tue, 14 March 2006 16:21

Marticus

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And then I comment out the sections that appears to be affected by the above setting and I receive the following error:

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

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Re: Moving - restoring [message #30811 is a reply to message #30806]

Wed, 15 March 2006 14:49

Ilia

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I have installed FUDforum under IIS in the past, so it is definately possible to do and there is nothing in the forum to prevent that from happening.

The error you are seeing implies a PHP crash, what version of PHP are you using?

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