Greetings,

For the last couple of hours I have been attempting to import my data from a phpbb3 forum, having converted Icy Phoenix back to phpbb2, then to phpbb3. Upon running the SP5-Importer plugin, having selected the phpbb importer, on submit to run the conversion, the process finished almost instantly and with no mention of any issues… I obviously suspected a problem as its a large database with thousands of posts… Checking the Forums and Users, nothing came across…

I tried an absolutely fresh install with no other plugins, but got the same results…

So, I went trolling through the code… What I found is the following:

In line 5 of ./plugins/sp-import/engine/spimport.php
require_once(“../../../../wp-config.php”);

I had moved wp-config.php up one directory as per a number of recommendations for security. However, having now read this: http://iandunn.name/dont-move-wp-config-php-outside-the-document-root/ I may move it back and block its access, selectively, in my nginx config…

So, I guess I would recommend either, or both, of two things.

1. Please add code that indicates that wp-config.php is not accessible, rather than the script failing silently.

and/or

2. add some manner of conditional to also select for:
require_once(“../../../../../wp-config.php”);

If I have a chance I will work on a patch and submit it (though my php chops are still abysmally deficient compared to my perl chops).

Thanks

–Azti