PunBB 1.2 Installation

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• You can download the upgrade patches from https://punbb.informer.com/download/patch/ and apply them using the patch utility. If there is no patch for upgrading from 1.2.n to 1.2.m directly, you should upgrade forum step by step to version you needed. This is recommended for modded installations: the patch is able to resolve some conflicts automatically, otherwise it points out the lines it couldn't work out.
• You may download the changed files only from https://punbb.informer.com/download/. Recommended for updates from previous version of the forum and for non-modded forums. This is the easiest way to update the forum via FTP only. Update files version be version to upgrade from old versions. Old changed files archives are located at https://punbb.informer.com/download/museum/.
• You can always take a look at hdiff to see the human-headable HTML version of diff.

A forum is located in ~/public_html/punbb/. The forum URL is http://example.com/punbb/. The forum is using the MySQL database punbb_db with the user punbb_user and password punbb_pass. There are no mods or the modded files were not updated.

To upgrade the forum from 1.2.15 to 1.2.20 version:

1. Backup all your forum files and database:
   1. cd ~/public_html
   2. tar -czf ~/punbb.tgz punbb or download them all via FTP
   3. mysqldump -upunbb_user -ppunbb_pass punbb_db > ~/punbb_dump.sql or use other tool of your hosting provider
2. Download the patches and place them in the parent directory of your PunBB root directory:
   1. cd ~/public_html
   2. wget https://punbb.informer.com/download/patch/punbb-1.2.15_to_1.2.17.patch or upload it via FTP
   3. wget https://punbb.informer.com/download/patch/punbb-1.2.17_to_1.2.20.patch
3. Apply the patches:
   1. patch -ul -d punbb -p2 < punbb-1.2.15_to_1.2.17.patch
   2. patch -ul -d punbb -p2 < punbb-1.2.15_to_1.2.17.patch
      • You will maybe have to manually resolve some conflicts, if there still were some modifications in the files being patched.
4. Download and unpack the forum release archive, copy the file 12_to_1220_update.php from extras to the root of your forum and open 12_to_1220_update.php in your browser. Remove it when the database upgrade is finished:
   1. cd ~
   2. wget https://punbb.informer.com/download/punbb-1.2.20.tar.gz
   3. tar xzf punbb-1.2.20.tar.gz or do this locally on your computer
   4. cp extras/12_to_1220_update.php public_html/punbb/ or upload it via FTP
   5. Visit http://example.com/punbb/12_to_1220_update.php. Follow the instructions.
   6. rm public_html/punbb/12_to_1220_update.php

Done.