Help With Phpbb

[jhollin1138]

To make a long story short, a forum I was a member of has recently closed. The admin offered the forum back-ups to anyone that was willing to host it. Around the same time, he made this announcement I was looking for a new hoster for my company's website. I found TCH and was impressed with all I get for so little money that I switched my hosters to TCH. At the time I was setting up the website, I noticed that phpBB was included which was the same software that the old forum was running. I decided to finally register my domain name that I have been meaning to do for many years and host the forum.

 

Well, I am trying to restore the forum back up and have been running into problems. I have been following this procedure I have found on phpBB's website without luck. I keep getting the following error:

 

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/libraries/read_dump.lib.php on line 77

 

I must be doing something wrong? Do I need to setup my forum exactly like the original forum before attempting to restore it? Anything else I can try?

 

TIA!

[LisaJill]

If you have the .sql file (the database backup) and it's too large to import (very possible) then you should ftp the file up and submit a ticket to technical support, stating the name of the file, the name of the database, and where the file is located and ask them to import/restore it. They do it at machine level so timeouts won't be an issue. =)

[jhollin1138]

Lisa,

 

Thanks for the idea. All I have are "gzipped" versions, will that work?

[LisaJill]

Shouldn't be a problem. =) Make sure they know.

[jhollin1138]

Thanks Lisa again. BTW, nice website! Thumbs Up