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In order to retain working relationships on forums like these, everyone needs to remember to be a little bit polite and diplomatic, I guess. That way everything just works better.

It's also worth remembering that in a forum environment, sometimes comments and posts can be misunderstood or appear to be more angry or hostile or arrogant than they actually were intended to be, or they would sound if they were spoken face-to-face.

Sometimes what may appear to be arrogance, for example,  may just be a misunderstanding, or a result of someone being very busy and not able to immediately give their full attention to an issue or a post.

I've often been accused of it myself when admining forums, because I sometimes give replies that are perceived as curt and dismissive to users, but I only do so not because I am a bitch but because I often have 1 million things to do and can't give the user more time. Etc. So be tolerant - everyone has flaws

Cool that you solved it.

I feel stupid for just remembering that there is also this info right here on this site:

from :
http://punbb.informer.com/docs/dev.html#integration

I think  you would start by doing something in your website.com/index.php along the lines of:

<?php

define('PUN_ROOT', 'forum/');
require PUN_ROOT.'include/common.php';

- then the normal PunBB code that says welcome guest cut from punbb/s index.php

etc

Then you could call and use all the PunBB functions etc.

I am pretty sure this is the right approach.

Yes, of course. But I thought I would see if someone already had done so, or done something close enough to serve as a starting point.

Yes I have. Am I missing something?

No. All you should really disallow is register.php.

The item appears there in the (old) PunBB 1.2.*.  If you had installed 1.2.20, it would be there

But it's not in the same place in the new PunBB v1.3.*

FWIW. You could try to mention to your host that if he wants to move away from Apache,  there are other web servers out there that can deliver a performance boost equal to or greater than nginx whilst making the transition away from Apache easier. One I've used is Litespeed Web Server - http://www.litespeedtech.com/solutions/webhosting/. I've used the free Standard version.

Litespeed goes neck and neck or exceeds nginx in performance benchmarks, whilst preserving Apache (and various control panel - eg cPanel) compatibility. Only problem is that the Enterprise version is not free. That may be an issue for your host, but the hassle of converting customers over from Apache can be avoided, which might count for something. It also has excellent responsive support direct from the developers, which both Apache and nginx certainly lack.

This extension requires your PHP to have the GD image manipulation library installed. Maybe that's missing with your installation of PHP. What does your PHPinfo say on this matter? (Under Administration > Environment > Show Info, usually).

Oh, and congratulations on getting 1.3 finished, of course!

Ouch. I just saw this notice when I went to the OP's forum page:

Looks like the load issue got his account suspended.

And BTW what is the SQL code in his last post trying to do?

It seems to be doing a lot of looping or something around SELECT u.email and also doing several very expensive wildcard SELECT u.* queries, which could be a problem on a board with several thousand members. What PunBB PHP would be generating that SQL?