If you do not find the answer to your question here, we recommend looking through the Support Section as well as using the Site Wide Search. In Categories: Miscellanea. User Guide. Report a bug in the User Guide. View Article Index Reading Article If you are using a Windows web server this method of setting file permissions does not apply to you.
On Windows servers file and folder permissions are usually automatically set for you based on the web hosts set-up, thus you should contact your web host regarding any permission issues you encounter on a Windows Server. These update methods will only update the standard styles, prosilver and subsilver2 , any other styles you have installed for your board will usually also need to be updated.
This paragraph explains the steps necessary to convert your existing phpBB2 installation to phpBB3. Before converting, we heavily recommend you do a full backup of your database and files! If you are unsure how to achieve this, please ask your hosting provider for advice. You basically need to follow the instructions given for New installations. Please do not overwrite any old files - install phpBB3 at a different location. Once you made a backup of everything and also have a brand new phpBB3 installation, you can now begin the conversion.
Now you will see a new tab Convert. Click this tab. As with install, the conversion is automated. Your previous 2. The conversion is actually only filling your phpBB3 database tables and copying additional data over to your phpBB3 installation.
This has the benefit that if something goes wrong, you are able to either re-run the conversion or continue a conversion, while your old board is still accessible. We really recommend that you disable your old installation while converting, else you may have inconsistent data after the conversion.
Please note that this conversion process may take quite some time and depending on your hosting provider this may result in it failing due to web server resource limits or other timeout issues.
If this is the case, you should ask your provider if they are willing to allow the convert script to temporarily exceed their limits be nice and they will probably be quite helpful. If your host is unwilling to increase the limits to run the convertor, please see this article for performing the conversion on your local machine: Knowledge Base - Offline Conversions.
Once completed, your board should be immediately available. If you encountered errors, you should report the problems to our bug tracker or seek help via our forums see README for details. After a successful conversion, there may be a few items you need to do - apart from checking if the installation is accessible and everything displayed correctly.
The first thing you may want to do is to go to the administration control panel and check every configuration item within the general tab. You also may want to access the other administrative sections, e. During the conversion, the search index is not created or transferred.
This means after conversion you are not able to find any matches if you want to search for something. After verifying the settings in the ACP, you can delete the install directory to enable the board. The board will stay disabled until you do so.
Once you are pleased with your new installation, you may want to give it the name of your old installation, changing the directory name.
With phpBB3 this is possible without any problems, but you may still want to check your cookie settings within the administration panel; in case your cookie path needs to be adjusted prior to renaming. Edit that file to match the database's encoding and re-start the conversion procedure. Restrictions imposed by some server hosting providers can cause problems. Limits on the allowed CPU time are also a frequent cause for such errors, as are limits on the number of database queries allowed.
If you cannot change such settings, then contact your hosting provider or run the conversion procedure on a different computer. The phpBB. Password conversion Due to the utf-8 based handling of passwords in phpBB3, it is not always possible to transfer all passwords. For passwords "lost in translation" the easiest workaround is to use the I forgot my password link on the login page. Path to your former board The convertor expects the relative path to your old board's files. Note that the webserver user must be able to access the source installation's files.
Missing images If your default board language's language pack does not include all images, then some images might be missing in your installation.
Always use a complete language pack as default language. Smilies During the conversion you might see warnings about image files where the copying failed. This can happen if the old board's smilies have the same file names as those on the new board. Copy those files manually after the conversion, if you want to continue using the old smilies.
Leaving the install directory in place is a very serious potential security issue which may lead to deletion or alteration of files, etc. Please note that until this directory is removed, phpBB will not operate and a warning message will be displayed.
With these directories deleted, you should proceed to the administration panel. Depending on how the installation completed, you may have been directed there automatically.
Ensure that details specified on the General tab are correct! Two of these options allow users to upload an avatar from their machine or a remote location via a URL. You must also ensure this directory can be written to by the webserver. Usually this means you have to alter its permissions to allow anyone to read and write to it. Exactly how you should do this depends on your FTP client or server operating system. This can be done from a command line on your server using chmod or via your FTP client using the Change Permissions, chmod or other Permissions dialog box, see your FTP client's documentation for help.
You need to tick all of these boxes to set correct permissions. On Windows systems, you need to ensure the directory is not write-protected and that it has global write permissions see your server's documentation or contact your hosting provider if you are unsure on how to achieve this. Please be aware that setting a directory's permissions to global write access is a potential security issue.
While it is unlikely that anything nasty will occur such as all the avatars being deleted there are always people out there to cause trouble. Therefore you should monitor this directory and if possible make regular backups. This is to prevent users from accessing sensitive files.
For Apache there are. Similarly, for Windows based servers using IIS there are web. For other webservers, you will have to adjust the configuration yourself.
Like any online site that allows user input, your board could be subject to unwanted posts; often referred to as forum spam. The vast majority of these attacks will be from automated computer programs known as spambots. The attacks, generally, are not personal as the spammers are just trying to find accessible targets. PhpBB has some SPAM mitigation techniques but none is more effective than using a social login where the social platform performs the vetting of users.
This tutorial includes details on installing a social plugin which can be configured to use one of many "social logins" including Facebook. MySQL "Safe Mode": If turned on, database connection functions that specify default values will use those values in place of any user-supplied arguments.
Final Stage: Login - You are launched into the admin panel to generate forums, postings, users and groups, There are many styles available to display the color themes and web presentations other than the stock out of the box look. The social media companies are getting better at determining if a user is real or fake, reducing your exposure to fake users who spam forums. The "OneAll" plugin gives you the option to use one or more social media single sign-on facilities.
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