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The .htaccess file in forum root was not packaged in versions 3.0.6 and 3.0.5 at least, and is packaged in 3.0.7. It so happens that some hosts apparently prohibit Order/Allow/Deny in .htaccess, and therefore uploading the stock .htaccess makes all pages generate 500 internal ...

Just throwing this out there because it sounds worthy of a fix.

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User downloaded 3.0.7 to 3.0.7-pl1 update package and ran it on 3.0.6 board. The update process then executed "successfully" without making, supposedly, any of the 3.0.6 to 3.0.7 changes. The user then restored ...

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Enable the DEBUG constant(s) in config.php. It will then ignore that install is present.

This is quite handy, and I had no idea. I wish this was documented somewhere.

A forum with install directory is unusable by normal users, thus one can't have the install directory present in their local forum. Yet it is part of the source tree. How do you deal with this situation?

I'm working on making phpbb cron facilities invokable by the system cron daemon, because having users request 'cron.php' on a dedicated server is just silly. That's not actually straightforward because phpbb cron code is tightly coupled to the idea that it's invoked by users like normal pages. I ...