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Installation

Requirements

  • A webserver (preferably Apache).
  • PHP 4.3.0 or later (PHP 5 included).
  • A database where forum data is to be stored: MySQL 4.1.2 or later, PostgreSQL 7.0 or later or SQLite 2 (SQLite 3 is not supported).

Steps to install PunBB 1.3

  1. Download the latest revision of PunBB 1.3.
  2. Copy/upload all contents of the archive into the directory served by your web server (e.g. /home/user/example.com/punbb/).
  3. Open forum index (e.g. http://example.com/forum/index.php in your browser) and follow the instructions.

See also: Steps to getting PunBB 1.3 to work on SourceForge.net.

Extension installation

  1. Download an extension archive from the PunBB extensions repository or other place. Extract it into your forum’s extensions directory. E.g. your forum root is /home/user/example.com/punbb/ and you download pun_bbcode extension. To install the extension the file /home/user/example.com/punbb/extensions/pun_bbcode/manifest.xml should exist.
  2. Log into the forum and go to Administration ⇒ Extensions (http://example.com/punbb/admin/extensions.php?section=install). The downloaded extension should be listed there.
  3. Click the Install extension and follow instructions.
NOTE: You may use the pun_repository extension to download and install extension with one click.

Migration from PunBB 1.2

Follow these instructions to migrate from your current PunBB 1.2.* installation to 1.3.

NOTE: Make a backup of your current forum directory before proceeding. Also, don't forget to make a backup of your forum database. Use the tool mysqldump for MySQL and pg_dump if you are using PostgreSQL. If you're using SQLite, just make a backup copy of the SQLite database file. You can also make database backups via most administration tools such as MySQL Administrator, phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin. It's strongly recommended to make a database backup if your forum is not 100% in English. You can experience data loss in the convertion to UTF-8 if you specify wrong encoding of data stored in the database.
  1. Download PunBB 1.3 and extract the archive on your hard disk.
  2. Replace your old 1.2 directory with the contents of the 1.3 archive. Keep old config.php and img/avatars dir. E.g. if you have 1.2 installed into www/punbb/ and forum URL is http://example.com/punbb/. You may use the next steps:
    1. Rename old www/punbb/ to www/punbb_old/
    2. Create new directory www/punbb/ and put PunBB 1.3 there.
    3. Copy /www/punbb_old/config.php to new www/punbb/ and /www/punbb_old/img/avatars to /www/punbb/img/avatars.
  3. Open forum index and follow instructions.

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