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fd New Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2024 Gender: Zodiac sign:	help needed with server migration Jan 22^nd, 2024 at 8:27am	Mark & Quote Quote
	Hi, I am switching from hostgator to namecheap and they are having trouble getting the yabb forum up and running. They got the wikis and the php forum running no problem. The forum is at: ozpolitic - com/forum/YaBB.pl. I am running yabb 2.5.2. The new server is at 162.0.230.155. They initially had some problems, which they resolved by moving the Paths.pl file into the Modules folder (see quote below). The forum home page now loads OK, so long as you are not logged in. If you are logged in (the login must have transitioned from the old server) you get a partially loaded page with this message: "Unable to open ./Members/*.vars : Permission denied" where * is the user name. If you are not logged in, you can navigate to a board, but if you click on a thread you get another error message: "Unable to open ./Messages/1705792099.ctb Verbose: Permission denied." Namecheap fixed that one by changing the file permission to 777, but I suspect it is a bad idea to go changing all the file permissions. Any idea what is going on? I checked the file and folder permissions from the installation instructions and they all seem correct, except that a lot of pl files have 755 instead of 644. Quote: We have checked Apache error logs and located the following: Can't locate Paths.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 ./Modules) at /home/ozpolit/public_html/forum/YaBB.pl line 42. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ozpolit/public_html/forum/YaBB.pl line 56. We have copied Paths.pl from /home/ozpolit/public_html/forum to /home/ozpolit/public_html/forum/Modules and the site became active.


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Dandello Forum Administrator YaBB Modder Offline I love YaBB 2.7! Posts: 2235 Location: The Land of YaBB Joined: Feb 12^th, 2014 Gender: Mood: Annoyed Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #1 - Jan 22^nd, 2024 at 2:32pm	Mark & Quote Quote
	Quote: /home/ozpolit/public_html/forum/YaBB.pl line 42. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ozpolit/public_html/forum/YaBB.pl line 56. I don't have a copy of YaBB 2.5 on my current machine. Could you post lines 41 to 57 of your YaBB.pl? (or just zip up a copy of your YaBB.pl and attach it here?)

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fd New Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2024 Gender: Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #2 - Jan 22^nd, 2024 at 8:04pm	Mark & Quote Quote
	Thanks for taking a look Dandello. I have attached a bunch of the pl files.

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fd New Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2024 Gender: Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #3 - Jan 23^rd, 2024 at 10:57pm	Mark & Quote Quote
	That's odd. Yesterday I was able to view a thread where the ctb file permission had been changed to 777. Now when I try to load the same thread, I get this error: Quote: Untrapped Error : Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^NoPost{ <-- HERE (\d+)}$/ at ./Sources/ExtendedProfiles.pl line 294. Compilation failed in require at ./Sources/Display.pl line 606.


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Dandello Forum Administrator YaBB Modder Offline I love YaBB 2.7! Posts: 2235 Location: The Land of YaBB Joined: Feb 12^th, 2014 Gender: Mood: Annoyed Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #4 - Jan 23^rd, 2024 at 11:17pm	Mark & Quote Quote
	This is due to Perl deprecating some iffy code structures. in ExtendedProfiles.pl find: Code (Perl) elsif ( $group =~ m/^NoPost\{(\d+)}$/sm ) { and make it Code (Perl) elsif ( $group =~ m/^NoPost\[{](\d+)}$/sm ) { As I recall this issue comes up in a number of places in old versions of Yabb. If you see the 'Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex;' you need to find the line, then find the '{' and change it to '[{]'

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fd New Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2024 Gender: Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #5 - Jan 23^rd, 2024 at 11:21pm	Mark & Quote Quote
	Thanks Dandello. What am I getting myself into here? Would I be better asking for an older version of perl?


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Dandello Forum Administrator YaBB Modder Offline I love YaBB 2.7! Posts: 2235 Location: The Land of YaBB Joined: Feb 12^th, 2014 Gender: Mood: Annoyed Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #6 - Jan 23^rd, 2024 at 11:33pm	Mark & Quote Quote
	For the alleged Paths issue try: in Yabb.pl find Code (Perl) push(@INC, "./Modules"); just before it add Code (Perl) use lib '.'; The use of the '.' to designate the current working directory is no longer automatically added to the @INC list and has to be added in by hard code.

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fd New Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2024 Gender: Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #7 - Jan 24^th, 2024 at 12:10am	Mark & Quote Quote
	I have fixed a few lines in Extended profiles, so I can view the posts again now, after I change permission. But I am still getting permission denied errors. Is it dangerous to change all permissions to 777? I think I would have to do it to all the files in boards, members, messages and variables. Also, this allows me to reply to existing threads, but not start new ones, so it is probably not a workable solution.


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fd New Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2024 Gender: Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #8 - Jan 24^th, 2024 at 12:15am	Mark & Quote Quote
	Dandello wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2024 at 11:33pm: For the alleged Paths issue try: in Yabb.pl find Code (Perl) push(@INC, "./Modules"); just before it add Code (Perl) use lib '.'; The use of the '.' to designate the current working directory is no longer automatically added to the @INC list and has to be added in by hard code. Thanks. This one fixed the issue with finding paths.pl. It's just the permission denied errors now. I suspect this must be some kind of setting on the server that affects perl accessing files.


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fd New Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2024 Gender: Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #9 - Jan 24^th, 2024 at 2:02am	Mark & Quote Quote
	Namecheap have resolved the permission error by doing this: Quote: We have installed mod_suexec for Apache to resolve the issue with the permissions since the processes are now running under cPanel user (not a 'nobody' user as previously). Looks like I am up and running now.


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fd New Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2024 Gender: Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #10 - Jan 24^th, 2024 at 2:32am	Mark & Quote Quote
	Thanks for your assistance Dandello. I hope you get a chance to resurrect this software one day.


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fd New Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2024 Gender: Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #11 - Jan 24^th, 2024 at 10:12am	Mark & Quote Quote
	Dandello wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2024 at 11:33pm: For the alleged Paths issue try: in Yabb.pl find Code (Perl) push(@INC, "./Modules"); just before it add Code (Perl) use lib '.'; The use of the '.' to designate the current working directory is no longer automatically added to the @INC list and has to be added in by hard code. FYI, I had to do this in AdminIndex.pl also.


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Dandello Forum Administrator YaBB Modder Offline I love YaBB 2.7! Posts: 2235 Location: The Land of YaBB Joined: Feb 12^th, 2014 Gender: Mood: Annoyed Zodiac sign:	Re: help needed with server migration Reply #12 - Jan 24^th, 2024 at 1:48pm	Mark & Quote Quote
	At least you're now up and running. and a thumbs up.

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