Upgrade procedure for phpBB2

Submitted by Igor on November 1, 2007 – 11:09 am33 Comments

The following is an example procedure for upgrading phpBB2 bulletin board software running under Linux. This procedure allows to retain forum customization.

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Download “Changed files only” package from http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php
Tar cvf and gzip the entire phpBB2 installation directory on your server. This way you can alway undo any stupid mistakes you are about to fatfinger.
Disable the board: login as admin -> phpBB Administration Panel -> General Admin -> Configuration -> Disable Board: Yes -> Submit. In the Administration Panel click “Preview Forum” to make sure the forum is disabled.
In the Administration Panel -> General Admin -> Backup Database -> Full Backup: Gzip compress: yes. Append current timestamp to the backup file and save it in a secure location.
Gunzip the “changed files only” package and untar it into the main phpBB2 installation folder. At the bottom of the Administration Panel note the current version of your existing phpBB2 installation. Extract the corresponding *.tar file.
Delete all *.tar files. Chown -R wwwrun:www (or whatever userid your Apache runs under) everything in the phpBB2 folder.
In your browser open http://domain.com/phpBB2_root_folder/install/update_to_latest.php to upgrade the database. Follow the instructions on the upgrade page.
Delete “install” and “contrib” folders!
Log in to the Administration Panel and check version information. Your installation should be up to date.
Do another backup of your database (see step #4 above). Do NOT overwrite the backup file you created in step #3. Rename it instead.
Re-enable the board (reverse step #3 above) and post a test message.

Aerony

hallo,

ich hoffe hier im Forum kann mir jemand helfen!
Ich habe versehentlich mehrere JPGs von meinem MP3 Player gelöscht. Leider sind die Dateien nicht mehr im meinem Papierkorb.
Die Daten sind sehr wichtig für mich! Ich würde die gerne wiederherstellen.
Wer kennt ne Seite auf der ich Infos dazu finde, wie ich die Daten retten kann??

Vielen Dank schonmal für eure Antworten

danke
dubmecrazy3

I am looking for a cost-effective, PHP/MySQL or .NET solution that can be use for a 3-star hotel project I am about to commence.
I would like one with a very simple Administration Panel that can be managed by anyone with minimal training.
Recommendations are fine but something that has been tried an tested by a web designer/developer will be highly appreciated.

Thank you.
dealy

now that so many people are fitting Solar Panels to take advantage of the Feed in Tariff of 43.3p per Kw produced..how much of my Electricity Bill is going towards those people who have solar panels installed..some people ar making nearly £2000 per year now with a 3.8kw system..& the Energy companies HAVE to pay out for this..Ultimately we all are paying for this thru our energy bills..
MexicanDude

Since the Bush Administration the dollar is worth less than half of what the value was. This means if you are making 15 bucks an hour now… it’s worth only a few bucks an hour ten years ago.
evangldbrg

I want to add the volume control in the task bar, but the school computer won’t let me. There’s a way that I know of the get to the control panel to get volume back. The problem is that I don’t know where the icon for the control panel is. I looked when I pressed the start button, but it was no where to be found. Is there a button or two on the keyboard that can access the control panel? Tips?
whites are not the only racists

Energy firms?

Doesn’t the US taxpayer deserve to know what happened with the $535 million Obama gave away?
nyyankees1123

We are in charge of a few pages of our website and were given our own username and password. However, I don’t see the themes section on the administration panel. Is there a way to override the default theme (I’m assuming it’s editing the html code) for our few pages?
Melanie

I have to say that I’m not very in tune with politics so I really don’t know what’s going on (i’m 17).

I know that this is a pretty big debate going on but I really don’t understand what people don’t like?

What plans does Obama’s administration have for the heathcare plan and what is causing all this uproar?
MAK & CHEESE

I have a computer at home I know all the passwords to all the accounts. I’ve tried going to control panel and changing my account to administrator, but it doesn’t work is there any other way that I can change my account into administrator?
Marshal

Court: Obama appointments are unconstitutional

President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said that Obama did not have the power to make three recess appointments last year to the National Labor Relations Board.

The unanimous decision is an embarrassing setback for the president, who made the appointments after Senate Republicans spent months blocking his choices for an agency they contended was biased in favor of unions.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57565869/court-obama-appointments-are-unconstitutional/

But but but Obama is so intellectual and so highly educated that he taught Constitutional law, how in the world could he make this simpleton mistake?
davemc74656

The tax hike will be created by 5 new taxes added by the Obama administration coupled with the expiration of the “Bush” tax breaks.
So if you work for a small business, will you get to keep your job?
louisewoods1984

What if it was more out of negligence? What if he/she (professor) relied upon one of those plagiarism programs that are known to give false positives. What if the student’s argument could be concretely proven? What if the accusation was damaging to the student’s reputation among the other faculty/administration?
Xedo

i am fed up
its been two months and i have found no solution.
it has also disabled windows update and almost all the control panel things.
whenever i try to install a new antivirus it does not allow me to update it.
i cant even use data recovery softwares as i do not have administration rights.
please help.
it is not possible for me to redo the windows vista as their is very important data in my laptop almost 240 gb .
how can i get rid of it please help
Roflcopter

Help me!!!! I have problem with vista, i used 2 account, one is parent and another is administration, i want parent account as a administration without loosing and data from parent account.
RichT

I go on to safe mode then to administration account but can’t figure out how to add a new user or get rid of the password. I think it works but after I do whatever I thought you were suppose to do I restart the computer but it doesn’t work. I have a Window xp if that helps I don’t really know computers.
Kaden

Hi Everyone

Im looking for a good Multi Server Control & Administration Panel that i can use with Wamp

All the ones i find only work on linux servers not windows

Any help would be great

Thanks all
timq3dimensionscom

George Will on Sunday ABC panel.
Links very important to tell the story correctly.
addmeonxbox360myuserisfallior

It started in Reagan’s administration from the transferring the wealth into the hands of the Upper Class

and now we are slaves to the upper class

how have the Republicans been allowed to do this
Alex

Now what kind of complete BS is this. Any Senator Pub or Dem that votes
aganist the pending Debt Bill will be permanently barred from being on the
super majority panel. This left wing loaded piece of crap panel needs to
be abolished before it ever gets started.
Myles

Could it be that Obama is counting on the shift of health care costs to state Medicaid, Medicare and the Veterans Administration to send everyone running to the federal government to clamor for a public health option? Is that a good or bad thing? What’s happening with Euro care in this global financial crisis? What about Canada care?
Eric

I don’t even know how to get to the Administration panel! Please help!
slipknot0129

Hi everyone.
I hope someone can help me.
I am doing a site administrator for a client. I need, if is possible, post in the facebook profile all the news that my client post in his website using his site administration panel ( Word press in this case)

I was searching for something lika that but I dont find nothing.

Thank you!
x_blind_x_gamer_x

Sure, Jimmy Carter’s administration was a mess.

But solar energy was a legitimately good idea.

Why did Reagan remove the solar panels (at TAXPAYER EXPENSE, no less…) that Carter had previously installed on top of the White House?

What was the point?

What did Reagan actually do to decrease America’s dependency on Mideast oil – anythng?
dealy

First the Head Coach resigned due to differences with the administration body and now the entire Selection panel has been disbanded.
Scott W

Let’s try this again, it didn’t show up the first time…

Please only answer this if you agree that AGW is real, is likely to be harmful, and could be slowed or stopped by most of the following methods (or, at least, are willing to pretend that you do). This is for people looking for real solutions, not the “it’s all a hoax” crowd.

In broad outline, I only see a few basic ways to deal with AGW:

1. Carbon taxes. Apply a tax and/or tariff on fossil carbon, and/or anything made using fossil carbon.

2. Cap-and-trade, or something similar. Restrictions on CO2 emissions from fossil sources (and other greenhouse gas emissions), preferably with some provisions to let low-producing companies sell or trade their excess allotment to high-producing companies to reduce overall economic damage, but without requiring any specific pattern or type of CO2 reductions (eg banning a particular fuel)

3. Direct behavioral regulation. As people are unlikely to voluntarily make major lifestyle changes in large enough quantity without something directly pushing them, this would be either a. incentives for desired behaviors (for example, tax cuts for installing solar panels), or b. laws restricting specific undesirable behaviors (for example, limiting the sale of cars). It could also involve either i. end consumers (for example, regulating miles driven by individual citizens), or ii. businesses (for example, requiring power companies to phase out coal power plants).

4. Geoengineering. Targeted, man-made efforts to capture excess atmospheric CO2, and/or reduce global warming in other ways (for example, by increasing albedo)

5. Adaptation. Rather than slowing or stopping AGW, adjust our lifestyles, city locations, agriculture, transit, et cetera to tolerate new conditions. This would likely involve massive migrations away from new deserts, flooded coasts, and the like, and might also involve draconian population control measures to limit humanity to the Earth’s new carrying capacity.

What do you think are the potential merits or flaws of any or all of the various approaches? Which approach or approaches do you favor? Did I miss any?
Matt

After having got millions of chances, Jadeja at last delivered in this series and we all know this is just temporary. I still don’t consider him to be fit to play international matches. He is a good fielder and that’s just it. He will be a big flop outside the subcontinent. He is just good if others fail.
Then, there’s this Maggie boy No-hit Sharma. What the hell has he done to get into the squad against England? Why’s this guy getting chances after chances while talents like Rahane and Tiwary are just being bench warmers?
We all know Dhoni has a special kind of bond with these two guys but is the BCCI ( I am deliberately writing BCCI here because the selection panel’s job is just to release the squad in front of the media while the players are chosen by the top bosses like Srinivasan) so WEAK as to bow in front of the captain?

BQ) Shouldn’t the top bosses in the BCCI be the former players and businessmen like Srinivasan and others just the financial and business advisers?
@Bill, Jadeja wasn’t that bad in the second match too. In a low scoring match, economy rate is what counts and he definitely stopped the runs. Besides, he made valuable runs at the lower order. Having said that, I am still not in favor of Jadeja.
sean

I heard that several death panels have already been deployed to Haiti and that the Obama administration views this earthquake relief effort as an opportunity to put these death panels through a trial run before they begin operating in the United States. Does anyone have any additional information on this?
x_blind_x_gamer_x

LIBERALS

Was that question just as Fair as: Bush went into Iraq to Steal the oil so him and Dick Cheney could make Billions!!

Of course my Favorite: 911 was a Set-up by the Bush administration.

I would like one single Democrat say all of this is nothing but Political BS that both sides fling around.

Is there one that has the political guts to say that?
Anny

I want to know how to make a password for my administration accout because you know how peopel just put the or type adminstrator and leave the password thing blank i want ot know how to put a password on that i have a Sony vaio VGN-NR110E (Windows Vista Home Premium) 2Gb ram 120Gb HD
PLEZZZZ HELP
John

If you don’t like his administration, isn’t a better explanation that they are misguided but genuinely believe they are doing the right thing?
Kobe

I have a virtual Ubuntu desktop running with Innotek Virtualbox. My resolution will not go any higher than 1024×768. I changed my monitor to LCD panel 1400×1050 sinc my laptop monitor can go to this. When i change to this gigher resolution my screen looks all scrambled. Any ideas?
everythingisgonnabefine

I made a forum on my website. phpBB. I go to “Forum” in administration panel and create a forum. But why will it not show up on the index/homepage of mysite.com/forum?
homerliveshere

Does any body know how to set a image or symbol in my computer properties panel. If so please send me, expect good rating for your answer