Comments on: Always keep your software ‘kind of’ updated

By: sherone

sherone — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:52:22 +0000

I got the updated php backup script which works very well on my smaller phpbb installations.However I have a larger phpbb installation that the scripts fails on. Error is
“Download failed: 500 Server closed connection without sending any data back”
sure this is due to the larger size of this phpbb database. Is there some setting that could increase the capability of the script to download larger files?
Perhaps its a php.ini setting, perhaps its a Apache setting.

By: Biju

Biju — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:59:56 +0000

Cheers; this looks really good. I�ve got it up and running. I love that 3.0 uses CSS properly! It�s much easier to modify themes now and I don�t even have to edit any PHP.

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Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:09:12 +0000

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By: Mathew

Mathew — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:53:06 +0000

phpBB I do not think will ever make it up to snuff. With so many security woes you have to wonder who do they have programming it? Many people program with flexibility with out taking mind to security. The more flexibility added into an application creates more thought and processes to weedout security problems.

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:45:24 +0000

I am a web developer and I have got into trouble before, because of online systems which I did not patch up. If it is publicly accessible you have to install the security upgrades.

By: Martin Reed

Martin Reed — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:55:51 +0000

Hi Karebac – welcome to the blog and thank you for your comment. I am not sure how your Yahoo! Business Site will work, or what features it offers.

If you are able to access your site via FTP you should be able to keep phpBB manually updated – just go to the downloads section of phpBB and follow the instructions contained in the download.

I would say that with phpBB you should always upgrade to the latest release if it contains security fixes (which they often do).

By: Karebac

Karebac — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:51:29 +0000

I have a Yahoo Business site. I just used the Yahoo add-on utility to add a phpbb forum, which added version phpBB 2.0.18. Where can I find the STEP BY STEP instructions to update to phpBB 2.0.22? I did find some instructions in a google search, but it is not exactly clear to me into which folders I should place the files. Also, it is not clear to me that I SHOULD update to the latest version. Perhaps Yahoo Business has a good reason to remain with some more stable older version.

By: Smiley

Smiley — Sun, 20 May 2007 14:10:50 +0000

Thanks! Will take a ghanda at Big Dump. I use easyMOD to install hacks at the moment while I learn how to do it properly. Sometimes it goes wrong and I need to restore. Our boards are surprisingly popular for some reason, you know what my banter is like, the entire boards are just like that – so the database is well over 2mb now lol.

If I do ever upgrade to 3.0, I hope they’ve made the restore function easier !!

By: Martin Reed

Martin Reed — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:58:20 +0000

Hi Smiley - do you mean that you have problems in uploading the backup to a fresh install? Give Big Dump a go - it splits the upload into smaller chunks to prevent timeouts. For help in downloading a backup from phpmyadmin, try checking out the thread at the phpBB support forums.

By: Smiley

Smiley — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:18:41 +0000

I tell you what would be handy. phpBB restore function doesn’t work for databases above 2mb and it’s very annoying having to pay a coder everytime I need it restoring to do it for me.

Do you know of any sites or resources that can help you learn how to back up & restore the phpBB database yourself?