Re: Re: Upgrading from 2.30 to 3.19b
By: Riba to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sat Jul 16 2022 11:44 am
> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
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> On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 1:40:50 AM UTC+3, Digital Man wrote:
> > > > I'd go through the various sbup*.zip files in
> > > > http://synchro.net/files/Main/SBBS_ARC/ and
> > > > http://synchro.net/files/Main/SBBS/(starting with sbup300c.zip)
>
> > > > And then finally (once you get to v3.19b), run 'jsexec update'.
>
> > > > Hopefully that works for you (make/keep backups) and if you run into
> > > > any problems, let us know and we'll help you out.
> So I did it. Found out that 3.10 installer will upgrade directly from 2.30,
> and from then on it was incremental, mostly manual upgrades to 3.19b.
> Up until 3.16 everything was good, after that I did not test every single
> version as I moved up. Finally, when starting 3.19b it the console it was
> complaining that it cannot open the configuration file from \sbbs\ctrl. I
> fired up scfg and found out that in the node path field there was some
> jibberish (random strings from who knows where).
Interesting. I guess I should that 2.30->3.19 upgrade path myself with stock con
figs and see what the issue might be from.
> After cleaning these
> manually and saving from scfg the file was loaded fine. Telnet login works
> fine and everything seems to be in place. Only thing that is not working is
> HTTP access, I updated the web root to point to webv4, but when I try to
> access HTTP:\\localhost I get a 404 page.
The log output of the web server should indicate what's the issue there.
> And to confirm, it was enough to run 'jsexec update' only once, after the
> 3.19b update or it should have been executed with every update?
Running 'jsexec update' once should be enough.
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