New Website is up and running.... looking good.

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For those interested the new IT.com PHPBB forum is up and running and is also "wrapped" by a Portal Mod known as IntegraMod.

http://www.phpbb.com
http://integramod.com

75% of the content is there and configured.
25% of the content is still to be developed and configured. But this should be sorted out before too long.

The major hurdle will be migrating the thousands of existing forum messages over to the new system. Since we're going from a CGI application which store messages in it's own file structure to a new PHP based forum with a MySQL backend this is going to be quite a challenge.

Searches have come up empty on how to migrate UBB Version 5.47d to any version of PHPBB. I may an updater from a later version of UBB but odds are it will not work. If anyone out there has any insight into this I'm all ears.

As a last resort I will try to create some method of allowing the existing forums to be viewed while new messages are entered into the newest forums.

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Webmaster - www.ImprovedTouring.com
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Could you post some more information (or e-mail it) regarding the cgi file structure? I might be able to dream something up (emphasis on might), but I need to know what I'm up against.

Thanks!

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Bill
Planet 6 Racing
bill (at) planet6racing (dot) com
 
Originally posted by Webmaster:
...As a last resort I will try to create some method of allowing the existing forums to be viewed while new messages are entered into the newest forums.
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While not ideal, I think this would be adequate for most users. It's not a problem reregistering either. Just keep the old (this) forum packed away somewhere as an archive.

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Update on things....

Well it's been a while so I thought I'd give an update. Things were put on hold for a bit with life taking priority and development of new race cars as well.

Planet 6 racing - Bill is helping us with some code to migrate over the old forums to the new. We want to make this as seemless as possible so we're taking our time to do it right the first time.

We hope to have the new site up with all content migrated over sometime in June.

Hold tight...it will be worth it.

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Webmaster - www.ImprovedTouring.com
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