My PHPBB2 database has about 24,000 users. When running the 1.5 version of phpBB2Drupal, I get the error in Firefox "File not found" or in IE "Page not found" after the script runs for about 3 minutes. I increased my PHP max-memory from 128M to 256M and then it ran about 5 minutes. Seems like this error is occurring because PHP is running out of memory when running this script. It's not a browser-specific timeout before both IE and Firefox time out at roughly the same position. I only ended up with about 9,000 users in my Drupal database.

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to deal with this timeout, or how to modify this script to continue where it left off? My PHPBB2 database doesn't seem to be *that* large compared to what others are talking about here, so I'm surprised I'd be the only one having this problem.

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mpotter’s picture

mpotter commented

Well, I did learn that even though I got an error message in the browser, the script was still running in the background somehow. I was monitoring my SQL database and saw that the number of records in the users table kept increasing. If I just waited about 15 minutes, then it was done.

kdotcom’s picture

kdotcom commented

Did you leave the window open? Did it matter?

How long did it take for all your posts to go through?

Did you ever find a way to do this manually?

Thanks,
Kdc

mpotter’s picture

mpotter commented

I haven't converted my posts yet. I have a *lot* of posts in my PHPBB forum (going back about 8 years) and given the trouble with converting users I'm a bit nervous about trying it. I really need to find a time in the middle of the night to do it so I can turn off the PHPBB forum without causing downtime for users.

Btw, does the post conversion step allow you to select which forum to convert posts for? If so I could test it on one of my smaller private forums first.

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kdotcom commented

"Btw, does the post conversion step allow you to select which forum to convert posts for? If so I could test it on one of my smaller private forums first."
>> It does not. I hesitate as well. I almost wish it accepted the phpBB backup file instead of pulling from a (test) DB.

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naheemsays commented

It should pull the posts into a corresponding forum - before importing the posts it imports the forum data and stores the mapping in a table. That data can be manually manipulated at your own risk in order to point the post import during next step of converstion into a different forum area.

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JeremyFrench commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Mass close of D6 issues for this module as won't fix. Please see #1854186: Support for the 6.x branch.