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On Friday, July 15, 2022 at 10:20:23 PM UTC+3, Digital Man wrote:

You're right: it's not quite that simple. :-)

An install would overwrite your .cnf (configuratino) files in your ctrl and you probably don't want to do that. Custom text/menu files would be overwritten too.

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.

Fantastic, thanks!
I considered moving the subs, user db and custom menus/screens from old SBBS to fresh 3.19 install, but wasn't sure there haven't been any changes in the format of these files. The route you proposed sounds much more sensible, I'll try it out and report back how it went.
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Re: Re: Upgrading from 2.30 to 3.19b
By: Riba to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sun Jul 17 2022 04:01 am

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On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 3:47:58 AM UTC+3, Digital Man wrote:

If you mean the one in \sbbs\logs\ (http*.*), that one just contains the access timestamps, but I suspect there might be a more detailed log somewhere?

Yes. If you're running the Synchronet Control Panel for Windows, then the web server log out goes to the "Web Server" tab (not a file).

Haven't had time today to do much, but here is the Web server log after trying to open a page:

7/17 01:57:32p Synchronet Web Server Version 3.19b
7/17 01:57:32p Compiled master/a2a9dc027 Jan 2 2022 16:02:20 with MSC 1928
7/17 01:57:32p WinSock 2.0 Running
7/17 01:57:32p Initializing on Sun Jul 17 13:57:32 2022 with options: 840
7/17 01:57:32p Loading configuration files from c:\sbbs\ctrl\
7/17 01:57:32p Temporary file directory: c:\sbbs\temp\
7/17 01:57:32p Root directory: c:\sbbs\webv4\root
7/17 01:57:32p Error directory: c:\sbbs\webv4\root\error\
7/17 01:57:32p CGI directory: c:\sbbs\webv4\root\cgi-bin\
7/17 01:57:32p Read 79 MIME types from root section of c:\sbbs\ctrl\mime_types.ini
7/17 01:57:32p Read 1 CGI content handlers from CGI section of c:\sbbs\ctrl\web_handler.ini
7/17 01:57:32p Read 1 JavaScript content handlers from JavaScript section of c:\sbbs\ctrl\web_handler.ini
7/17 01:57:32p Web Server socket set created
7/17 01:57:32p Web Server listening on socket 0.0.0.0 port 80
7/17 01:57:32p HTTP logging thread started
7/17 01:57:32p Web Server thread started
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 HTTP connection accepted from: 127.0.0.1 port 49228
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 Session thread started
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 Autotuning outbuf highwater mark to 1460 based on MSS
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 Request: GET / HTTP/1.1
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 HTTP Logon (user #0)
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 !ERROR: 404 Not Found (line 3721)
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 Request resolved to: c:\sbbs\webv4\root\error\404.html
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 Result: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

What is the [web] IndexFilesNames value in your ctrl/sbbs.ini file? It should include "index.xjs" and the webv4/root directory has an index.xjs file in it, yes?
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Re: Re: Upgrading from 2.30 to 3.19b
By: Riba to alt.bbs.synchronet on Mon Jul 18 2022 11:20 am

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On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 8:19:53 AM UTC+3, Digital Man wrote:

7/17 01:57:42p 0908 !ERROR: 404 Not Found (line 3721)
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 Request resolved to: c:\sbbs\webv4\root\error\404.html
7/17 01:57:42p 0908 Result: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

What is the [web] IndexFilesNames value in your ctrl/sbbs.ini file? It should include "index.xjs" and the webv4/root directory has an index.xjs file in it, yes?

Read you post again and found out that IndexFileName was pointing to index.html. I changed it to index.xjs and web root is set to ../webv4/root. File is there but I still get 404 error...hmmm...

The default IndexFileNames values is index.html,index.ssjs,index.xjs

See https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/blob/master/ctrl/sbbs.ini for reference. Perhaps you need 2 or more of those values for ecWeb to work.
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Re: Re: Upgrading from 2.30 to 3.19b
By: Riba to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Jul 19 2022 07:52 am

I see garbled strings in each node path field. If I clean it up manually the service will start, but I'm wondering if something else could be messed up in cfg file (?) If you need any info that may help let me know, but it seems it is reproducible.
Screenshot here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wZufzgzdNbBRVms37
Thanks!

holy shit that's not good.

how about do it this way.

put up a whole new stock bbs, make a backup and do some transplantation.
copy over and re-setup yourdoorgames
copy over and set up your old command shell in sfg
re-setup your msg and file areas.

how customized was your bbs and what are you okay with redoing?
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Re: Re: Upgrading from 2.30 to 3.19b
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed Jul 20 2022 07:47 pm

Removing that module would have no effect on the guest account.
I thought there was a toggle somewhere to disable the guest
account, but now I don't know for sure how to disable it.

I think it would be done with the ';UEDIT' command (as Sysop from the main menu), should be User #2, and then use the 'D' command.

Makes sense that just deleting the guest account should work.

Nightfox

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