okay, thanks, works. but this line was not there.

our $scripturl = "$boardurl/Dobackup.$yyext"; 

old version ?

After the server change. YaBB 2.6.12. Could also be at 2.7. Pop up. Is not tested yet.

Quote:

My goof. 
Before the 'require Paths' it should be:

 our $script_root = $ENV{'SCRIPT_FILENAME'};
 if ( !$script_root ) {
     $script_root = $ENV{'PATH_TRANSLATED'};
 }
 $script_root =~ s/\/BackupFix[.](pl|cgi)//igxsm;
 push @INC, $script_root; 

Find :

require Paths; 

add before:

 $script_root =~ s/\/BackupFix[.](pl|cgi)//igxsm;
 push @INC, $script_root; 

Oddly enough, this one didn't throw errors in 2.7 on your server.

I will probably have the changes in the SVN sometime this evening (my time).

I still think there was a folder ownership misconfiguration with the Plesk server set up.

Executables in the cgi-bin should run as 'nobody' (which is basically the same as 'everybody') and should 'own' all the files and folders it can find - which is why Perl scripts have the potential of so extremely dangerous in the hands of malicious people or people who don't know what they're doiing. (And why we have to be so careful to not allow bad code to get in from the outside.)

But if YaBB's script was trying to create a file or write to a file in a folder that was 'owned' by someone other than 'nobody' then it couldn't write or create the file.

Please PM me the FTP to where your 2.7 install is and I'll check it later today or tomorrow. It may be something simple that went wrong - or not.

I doubt the current build of 2.7 will work on your new server as the Perl installed on it doesn't like getting the required path using Cwd

Got in and got it.

Apparently the Perl on your new server didn't like using the $cwd variable even though that bit of code is what's recommended by other perl Mongers dealing with '.' being disabled.

Deriving the proper path from $ENV{'SCRIPT_FILENAME'} worked. This is the fix that will be going into 2.6.12 on the SVN.

In YaBB.pl changing this:

     # Make sure the module path is present
     require Paths;
     push @INC, "$boarddir/Modules";

     if ( $ENV{'SERVER_SOFTWARE'} =~ /IIS/sm ) {
         $yyIIS = 1;
         if ( $PROGRAM_NAME =~ m{(.*)(\\|/)}xsm ) {
             $yypath = $1;
         }
         $yypath =~ s/\\/\//gxsm;
         chdir $yypath;
         push @INC, $yypath;
     }

     $yyexec      = 'YaBB';
     $script_root = $ENV{'SCRIPT_FILENAME'};
     if ( !$script_root ) {
         $script_root = $ENV{'PATH_TRANSLATED'};
     }
     $script_root =~ s/\/$yyexec\.(pl|cgi)//igxsm; 

to this:

    $script_root = $ENV{'SCRIPT_FILENAME'};
     if ( !$script_root ) {
         $script_root = $ENV{'PATH_TRANSLATED'};
     }
     $yyexec      = 'YaBB';
     $script_root =~ s/\/$yyexec\.(pl|cgi)//igxsm;
     push @INC, $script_root;

     # Make sure the module path is present
     require Paths;
     push @INC, "$boarddir/Modules";

     if ( $ENV{'SERVER_SOFTWARE'} =~ /IIS/sm ) {
         $yyIIS = 1;
         if ( $PROGRAM_NAME =~ m{(.*)(\\|/)}xsm ) {
             $yypath = $1;
         }
         $yypath =~ s/\\/\//gxsm;
         chdir $yypath;
         push @INC, $yypath;
     } 

I made related changes to AdminIndex.pl and managed to get a backup.