PunBB 1.2 Installation

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• You can download the upgrade patches from http://punbb.informer.com/download/patch/.

If there is no the patch for upgrading from 1.2.n to 1.2.m directly, you should upgrade forum step by step to version you needed.

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

To upgrade 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 http://punbb.informer.com/download/patch/punbb-1.2.15_to_1.2.17.patch or upload it via FTP
   3. wget http://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
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 http://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.