Running forum on new server

[Wise Owl]

Hello guys. There is a forum owner of this forum: https://eutm.com/forum/
It is currently set on read-only mode by the owner because she has some private business to do and dealing with forum comes very hard for her. I offered her to help her out in terms of boosting productivity and stuff like that but she told me:

If you want to try to get the forum running on the new server, I’ll keep it going for a while longer. The way things are in the U.S. now, I’m almost afraid to operate a witchcraft site in my name. And I assume the government can easily get past the domain privacy services. I suppose they have bigger fish to fry at the moment, what with destroying the government and kicking all the brown folk out of the country, but I’m sure they’d love to fry the witches too, when they get around to it. I don’t feel so strongly about witchcraft that I’m willing to go to prison or be killed over it. I stopped practicing years ago.

Anyway, The issue with forum installation is that my database is apparently massive, which is ridiculous because it’s only 70 MB or something like that. But it apparently requires special skills and software to restore it. Although sometimes it’s possible to restore it without special skills. I guess it depends on how the server is feeling at the moment. The database is already uploaded to MySQL. I’ve just not been successful with attaching it back to the forum, which has been updated to the latest version, which could be causing problems, even though the versions are not that far apart. I managed to get it working on my PC, but then the software that was enabling it to run stopped working. So I attempted to reinstall it to my new host. I have at least three different installations and all of them have failed to connect to the database

I am unsure what she means by this and how can I set it to new server because I have never done this part this before. But I do want to colab with her. She also added:

I could also ask my host to get it up and running. They seem to be pretty helpful with things like that and I don’t think they even charge for it because they’re so glad to have Go Daddy‘s customers.

 

[Cedric]

You can easily move the website by compressing it to a zip file or something similar. Download the zip file, extract it on the new server. As for the database, first of all, 70MB seems a bit low for that amount of posts. I'm guessing it's more 70GB, depending on the attachments. But if you use cPanel, you can easily download the database and import it on the new server. Then you point the domain to the new server/nameservers and wait for DNS to change over. That's it.

It's peanuts really, I've done it countless times. So if you need help, feel free to ask.

 

[CTS]

It's peanuts really, I've done it countless times.

Yes it is, but that first time is a nail-biter.

 

[Wise Owl]

I will see if she is ok to go on the current server. If not, I assume she has to pay for a new one, yes?

 

[Cedric]

I will see if she is ok to go on the current server. If not, I assume she has to pay for a new one, yes?

I think she means that you can continue on a different server, under your name and funds.

 

[Wise Owl]

I think she means that you can continue on a different server, under your name and funds.

She mentioned :

The website has already been moved to the new host. GoDaddy had become overpriced.

I don't think she assumes I will pay because she wants the forum running but due to little activity and very little time to handle it, she kind a quit. But I suggested to her not to do so because there are means to advertise it, ask on different forums for packages, daily post exchanges etc. Boost some activity.

 

[Cedric]

So the problem is that the forum is broken. But broken how? What needs to be done to restore it?

 

[Wise Owl]

So the problem is that the forum is broken. But broken how? What needs to be done to restore it?

That's the part I am unsure about. Some of the pages, once clicked, redirect to base HTML page because page is "not found". Example: https://eutm.com/forum/viewtopic0864.html?t=39711

The topic is there for a fact, I can see it on the forum.

 

[Cedric]

Seems that there might be some broken topics yeah. Did the database ever get corrupted ?

 

[Wise Owl]

Seems that there might be some broken topics yeah. Did the database ever get corrupted ?

Once more, I am unsure. I just started message exchange today with her. I still need to discuss this extra.