The project to upgrade vBulletin to version 5 has started, and this thread is to track the upgrade from my test environment into production.
I built a local Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine, downloaded the DB backup, the forum files, and I have bought a new license for vBulletin 5. I got everything in place, but was not able to get the forum running due to PHP not working with the old code. I tried upgrading to MariaDB and PHP 8.1, but the latest PHP is not compatible with the forum code. However getting the most recent version of vBulletin is supported on the latest PHP. It was a fun Sunday evening toying with Ubuntu, I haven't used that OS in 10 years or longer. Ubuntu is the choice for the forum software due to having the latest supported versions of PHP which the forum software requires.
At the moment I'm running through the update, it has been over 10 minutes, but there are a lot of database schema updates happening. After the first upgrade I need to run through the upgrade again and update my build steps to make sure I have that tracked. I also need to get in touch with Multacom about how to upload an ISO to update the OS on the current server, or lease a new server to use and then keep the older server as a backup... Decisions :-)
I built a local Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine, downloaded the DB backup, the forum files, and I have bought a new license for vBulletin 5. I got everything in place, but was not able to get the forum running due to PHP not working with the old code. I tried upgrading to MariaDB and PHP 8.1, but the latest PHP is not compatible with the forum code. However getting the most recent version of vBulletin is supported on the latest PHP. It was a fun Sunday evening toying with Ubuntu, I haven't used that OS in 10 years or longer. Ubuntu is the choice for the forum software due to having the latest supported versions of PHP which the forum software requires.
At the moment I'm running through the update, it has been over 10 minutes, but there are a lot of database schema updates happening. After the first upgrade I need to run through the upgrade again and update my build steps to make sure I have that tracked. I also need to get in touch with Multacom about how to upload an ISO to update the OS on the current server, or lease a new server to use and then keep the older server as a backup... Decisions :-)
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