V1 to V2.3.3 - forum link?

[NECPWAweb]

So have done a test upgrade on my site and some things don't appear to work e.g. the link to the 'upgraded' pre existing forums /e107_plugins/forum/forum.php shows a blank page. Anyone have any idea why?

Tried a different theme but that made no difference.

Checking the database: forum_t table looks full with the old posts as does forum table with the forum names but forum_post and forum_thread are empty?

[Jimmi08]

I skip all my complaints about not updating directly to 2.3,3 if you use the forum plugin. They say it is safe, but I don't think so.

So:

• check your error log
• set displayed PHP errors on
• set developer mode on
• use PHP 7 only

Reasons {I suppose you run forum update functionality successfully):

• not unique sef-url (2 of your forums/posts have the same title
• you are using an outdated plugin related to the forum (APOS, newsforum_menu, etc)
• LAN issue
• you are not using SEF-URLs for forum - your URL should be site/forum/ not legacy one.
  and other reasons.

The blank page is easy to debug. Just put echo "I am here"; die; in forum.php and you will how far you will get...

[Jimmi08]

forum/forum_shortcodes.php was a file in 1.0.4. If you forget it in the forum folder, it is loaded... clean cache, rescan plugins folder... (Tools/Database/Rescan plugins)
My advice, delete the forum folder and replace it with clean 2.3.3 forum plugin.
If you did it already, then... I don't know, I don't use forum anymore.

[NECPWAweb]

Yes I did a clean install of the plugin and have spent the past few hours deleting all the old v1 stuff and re running the forum upgrade process

I don't actually use it as a 'forum'. It's a 'notice board' for events and errors with the club magazine etc. with no user registration or posting. There are only 2 of us who can post on site.

Now I have just switched themes to 'Voux' and the forums will load so it looks like it's theme related after all. I will try Bootstrap 5 tomorrow, but have had enough today.

Thanks for the input.

[tgtje]

Just in case, but think you checked it in your theme anyway : no files or folder used for forum? eg used for override the core..
Not sure at what date it started appearing in themes..

[NECPWAweb]

Yes the theme did have a 'forum' folder in it to overide the core so that was probably the issue, the Theme is 11 years old!

Only real issue I have now is attaching images in forum posts but will leave that to another day :)

Test site is now running Bootstrap 5 @ https://necpwa.website/ that I'm slowly setting up as the custom page layouts all need revising along with the navigation.

[Jimmi08]

About attachments - there are some issues already (look for closed too).