Subj : Re: Upgrading from 2.30 to 3.19b
To   : Riba
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jul 16 2022 13:20:42

  Re: Re: Upgrading from 2.30 to 3.19b
  By: Riba to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sat Jul 16 2022 11:44 am

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 >
 > On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 1:40:50 AM UTC+3, Digital Man wrote:
 > > > > I'd go through the various sbup*.zip files in
 > > > > http://synchro.net/files/Main/SBBS_ARC/ and
 > > > > http://synchro.net/files/Main/SBBS/(starting with sbup300c.zip)
 >
 > > > > And then finally (once you get to v3.19b), run 'jsexec update'.
 >
 > > > > Hopefully that works for you (make/keep backups) and if you run into
 > > > > any problems, let us know and we'll help you out.
 > So I did it. Found out that 3.10 installer will upgrade directly from 2.30,
 > and from then on it was incremental, mostly manual upgrades to 3.19b.
 > Up until 3.16 everything was good, after that I did not test every single
 > version as I moved up. Finally, when starting 3.19b it the console it was
 > complaining that it cannot open the configuration file from \sbbs\ctrl. I
 > fired up scfg and found out that in the node path field there was some
 > jibberish (random strings from who knows where).

Interesting. I guess I should that 2.30->3.19 upgrade path myself with stock configs and see what the issue might be from.

 > After cleaning these
 > manually  and saving from scfg the file was loaded fine. Telnet login works
 > fine and everything seems to be in place. Only thing that is not working is
 > HTTP access, I updated the web root to point to webv4, but when I try to
 > access HTTP:\\localhost I get a 404 page.

The log output of the web server should indicate what's the issue there.

 > And to confirm, it was enough to run 'jsexec update' only once, after the
 > 3.19b update or it should have been executed with every update?

Running 'jsexec update' once should be enough.
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