kono

I need to upgrade to a dedicated server in the very near future (this week). I have a few questions about the process. Are there any differences in the server environments that I need to account for? (cPanel, PHP settings, etc...) How long does the migration take? I assume there will be a delay for DNS propagation, correct? Will email sent to addresses on my domain in the meantime be lost? Thanks, kono hodstock.com

Update: It now appears both my site and the test script above are failing to send mail to any domain, not just the big 4 I mentioned. I don't know how long that has been the case. kono

The thing is, this all used to work. I hadn't changed something to make it stop working. The problems on Server 24 happened right before these errors were reported. I read that the server had its kernel updated, so I'm wondering if something in the environment changed. Perhaps some php constant was altered? Just for yuks, I tried the snippet you posted. However, I replaced the last line with: >$result = mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers); if ($result) echo "mail sent to $contactemail"; else echo "mail NOT sent to $contactemail"; I set $contactemail to a hotmail account I created, and $myemail (and $myreplyemail) to a working account on my domain. I get the error condition, and no mail arrives in my hotmail inbox. kono

Hello, Since the difficulties on Server 24 earlier this week, people have encountered a pesky problem when posting to my site's phpBB board. I've finally pinned down the source of the problem, and it is this: Whenever someone posted a reply to a thread, and as a result, someone would receive a reply notification email, if that email would go to certain domains, php's mail() call would fail. The domains I've had problems with are hotmail.com, yahoo.com, msn.com, and aol.com. As you can imagine, that's a lot of my userbase. After some digging around, I noticed my phpNuke site has a backlog of new user registrations pending activation. Not surprisingly, each of those pending users had an email address from one of the four domains I've mentioned. In the past 24 hours, I've got 10 people who have signed up, but can't get the email which activates their accounts. I have had users successfully register, but their email domains were not one of the big four. I realize I can't ask for help debugging 3rd-party scripts, but I don't think that is where the problem lies. Have any changes been made recently which would prevent my domain from using php's mail() function to email certain domains? kono

Success! Everything seems to be back in working order, and just in time for my domain nameserver propogation. kono

I may have answered my own question. I had not noticed that phpMyAdmin does allow you to upload sql scripts. Now I just need to divide the 5MB file into manageable chunks, as it seems I'm timing out if I try to do it all at once. I'll reply again with my results. kono

I would, but phpBB's restore feature requires you to select a file from your local machine to upload. I would have to rewrite that code to look for a file on the server, but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. Well, the .sql file looks like this: >DROP TABLE IF EXISTS phpbb_auth_access; CREATE TABLE phpbb_auth_access( group_id mediumint(8) NOT NULL, ... more fields ... auth_mod tinyint(1) NOT NULL, KEY group_id (group_id), KEY forum_id (forum_id) ); INSERT INTO phpbb_auth_access (group_id, ... more fields ... , auth_mod) VALUES('3', ... more values ... , '0'); ... more insert statements ... This is repeated for each of the 25-30 tables, and most of them have hundreds of insert statements. As you can see, the script doesn't need to know the database name or user or password (because it assumes that phpBB has already made the connection). Is there a way for me to run a script like this outside of phpBB, say, through phpMyAdmin, or some other tool? kono

I should add that I've tried the most obvious path, which is using cPanel's script to install a fresh phpBB, and then attempting to Restore Database from that instance's Administration Panel. It thinks about it for a while, and comes up with "No file was uploaded." I don't know if the transfer just keeps failing (it's a 5MB file) or if the restoration process is what's failing. Any ideas? Is there a way to use this phpbb_db_backup.sql script file more directly, perhaps through phpMyAdmin? kono

Hello, I'm a FeaturePrice refugee who just moved to TCH. I run a phpBB forum which I need to migrate to TCH. Starting from scratch and losing all of my registered users is not an option. I have a phpdb-generated backup of my forum database (in the form of a phpbb_db_backup.sql) and backups of all of my modified .php and .tpl files. I am wondering what steps to take to ensure this restoration goes as smoothly as possible. My old host used mySQL version 3.x, and so my site was configured for that version. TCH uses 4.0.12. Might this be a problem? Will I be able to do this before my domain nameserver propogation is complete? Thanks in advance, kono