Talk:PhpBB upgrade instructions

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I would not recommend following the procedure described currently (5/10/2007). Today I attempted to upgrade my v2.10 board to v22 using this method and it didn't work. I got a bunch of MySQL errors relating to the user table (some columns have been renamed). I was actually able to fix it by manually adding the columns needed, but I didn't feel comfortable with that solution.

Finally, I looked at other documentation which suggested that rather than blowing out the entire directory and dropping in the current version, you should apply the specific patch for the revision you're updating. Download the current "files" package from the phpbb page on sourceforge (currently phpBB-2.0.22-files.tar.gz). Inside this distro, there are specific update packages for patching every previous revision to the current. In my case, I unpacked the specific tarball called 2.0.10_to_2.0.22.tar into my application root.

I then ran the ./install/update_to_latest.php script, deleted the install directory and I was good to go. Marc 19:47, 10 May 2007 (PDT)