1 Topic by colak (edited by colak 2008-11-11 07:11)

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Topic: problem with updating from 1.2.* to 1.3

I followed the steps in the wiki.

I then typed in the forum home page in the browser, clicked the db_update.php link  which only partially loads.
The source code of the resulting page:

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>PunBB Database Update</title>

The db does not seem to have been updated and the forum is now not accessible.

Any ideas on how I could resolve this?

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Re: problem with updating from 1.2.* to 1.3

colak wrote:

I followed the steps in the wiki.

Updated this section of wiki page.
Though you must be trying to go the right way.

colak wrote:

I then typed in the forum home page in the browser, clicked the db_update.php link  which only partially loads.

Any ideas on how I could resolve this?

Looks like you've missed something while replacing old files with new ones.
Try again. E.g.:
1. You have PunBB 1.2 in /www/forum and your forum URL is http://example.com/forum.
2. Rename /www/forum to /www/forum_old.
3. Created /www/forum again and put PunBB 1.3 there.
4. Copy /www/forum_old/config.php to new /www/forum. (You may also need to copy /www/forum_old/img/avatars to /www/forum/img/avatars.)
5. Open http://example.com/forum in the browser.

NB: Do not forget to create a database backup before update!

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3 Reply by kozoxy (edited by kozoxy 2008-11-11 08:09)

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Re: problem with updating from 1.2.* to 1.3

There is one problem with banned users. The list of banned users is not displayed at Administration / Users / Bans. How can one to unban a user? I've transfered the forum from version 1.2.20 to 1.3. neutral

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Re: problem with updating from 1.2.* to 1.3

(we had a discussion via PM)

kozoxy wrote:

There is one problem with banned users. The list of banned users is not displayed at Administration / Users / Bans. How can one to unban a user? I've transfered the forum from version 1.2.20 to 1.3. neutral

Waiting for the dump from you to test it.

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Re: problem with updating from 1.2.* to 1.3

Hi Anatoly,

many thanks, your proposed update method worked like a dream. All I need to do now is install the anti-spam plugins and open the forum again.

Many thanks for your hard work.

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