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My update plan includes the following steps: take the old forum offline. Set up a "we're offline"-page (including some interactive goodies if you must). Shove a .htaccess in place which redirects everybody but myself (i.e. my IP) to the offline page. And then, the fun begins - backup, phpBB3 ...

one problem might be the permissions on your httpdocs directory itself.
you may want to try and run (as root) from the httpdocs
chmod a+r .
also, i would recommend to use your "root" user as little as possible :lol:


It was a permissions problem. I use the root user on the forum, as none of ...

Are both phpbb in the same database? If not then the forum migration will not work.


No, they were using seperate databases. I figured out the problem. It wasn't working because I un-packed the file directly on the foler, it set the owner and group to a random number. I just chownd the files ...

I seem to be having some problems testing the update script on the latest CVS....

phpBB3-CVS_2007-04-14.tar.gz

So, I've got the vanilla phpBB3 working fine, so when I try converting the old install, I keep getting the following error:

Could not find path to your former forum. Please check your ...

pentapenguin wrote: May I recommend Practical PHP Programming? It's an "open source" PHP online book and is a great place to get started.

WOW, thanks for that link, that will give me something to get going on during my 12 hour night shifts at work

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