To find support for extensions downloaded elsewhere, you should seek support from the author or forum where it was downloaded. I hope you find it useful if you ever find yourself needing to archive a phpBB forum.Įxtensions downloaded from the Customisation Database have their own support forums.

This has been a longer and fairly complicated post, but there are very few tutorials for this around, so I thought it was worth writing one. From your board's root, execute the following command: php bin/phpbbcli.php -safe-mode db:migrate.

If you have shell access to your server, you may wish to update via the command line interface. They should not be a cause for concern unless you see an actual ERROR, in which case the script will stop (in this case you should seek help via our forums or bug tracker). You may receive FAILURES during this procedure. Depending on your previous version this will make a number of database changes. Beneath that warning you will see a radio button Update database only, just click Submit. You should now got to /install/app.php/update which will display a warning: No valid update directory was found, please make sure you uploaded the relevant files. You can download further languages from and add them before installing or later. In a vanilla phpBB installation, we only include British English. You can also set the default language of your forum on this page. This user will have full administration access and he/she will be the first user on your forum. Now you have to create your administration user. Phpbb Forum Tutorial Download ((EXCLUSIVE))

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