Extreme Posted January 10, 2008 Posted January 10, 2008 (edited) Ok im not sure what to do now unfortunately. So feel free to move this cause i dont know where to look for what i need. this is here cause i am looking for something, like a tutorial, but dont know where to look. this is what i am looking for...... i created the new database, but dont know how to put up the stuff needed to create the second forums. I looked thru the tutorials and had no luck. Now there is a current link on the main wesite that says "forums", and i want to use this with the new one when complete. I am upgrading from phpBB 2.0.22 to 3.0. So i have to set everything up on a new set of forums and then convert the database later. Well i want to use the same link on the website for i will only have one set of forums, but now that i have the database set up...do i just create a new folder in the cPanel and upload it? Edited January 10, 2008 by Extreme Quote
TCH-Andy Posted January 10, 2008 Posted January 10, 2008 There are a number of different ways to do it. Personally I would 1. Take a backup of the existing files and database 2. Install a clean copy of the v3 in a new folder 3. Import the database and test it in the new directory. 4. When I'm happy that everything is OK, rename the old forum folder to 'oldforum' or similar, and rename the new one from the temporary folder to the old forum name. 5. Test everything is working fine, then delete the 'oldforum'. Quote
Extreme Posted January 10, 2008 Author Posted January 10, 2008 well after a whle i think i relized my question.in my cPanel there is a file named forums. as the website has a white page (yes its still white) with a link to the forums. I searched everywhere to see how to put that link there and didnt find it in cPanel. All i did was create the database, so far. I thought i could just add the files to the cpanel in a new (created) folder and then just use the name that i named that folder in the url to do stuff. But i am not sure if that would actualy work or not. Last time i tied this i crashed my board so i thought i wouldwwait to ask Quote
Extreme Posted January 10, 2008 Author Posted January 10, 2008 There are a number of different ways to do it. Personally I would 1. Take a backup of the existing files and database 2. Install a clean copy of the v3 in a new folder 3. Import the database and test it in the new directory. 4. When I'm happy that everything is OK, rename the old forum folder to 'oldforum' or similar, and rename the new one from the temporary folder to the old forum name. 5. Test everything is working fine, then delete the 'oldforum'. Is there a tutorial somewhere to do this. I can up load an individual file in the file manager but i want to upload the entire root(folder). But when i try it just has me going into the folder and not able to upload the whole root Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted January 10, 2008 Posted January 10, 2008 You have lost me but I have gone to your site and you have an index page with one link to your existing forum in a folder called "forum". 1. As Andy said, make a backup of your current forum just in case. 2. Create a new folder "forum2" in your public_html folder or any other name you choose. 3. Install the latest version of the forum software into this new folder you create. 4. Import you existing database backup into the new forum software. 5. Tweak your forum until you get it where you want it. 6. When you are satisfied, rename the "forum" folder "forum-old", rename the folder you created in step 2 to "forum" Now your link will be accessing the new version of the forum. Or, you can just upgrade your current installation. I'm sure phpBB has instuctions for doing it. Quote
Extreme Posted January 10, 2008 Author Posted January 10, 2008 yeah i dont think im explaining very well. i need to upload all the files to make the phpbb3 work. I was told the best way to put these files up there is to do it thru cPanel and not just thru ftp. So i go to file mangager and i go to upload the files. but i have not found a way to upload an entire folder and i can unfortunately only see to find how to upload to the public_html one file at a time. other thatn that i understand how to do things(i thinkk) i just have to get the files in the public_html before i can take the next step and dont want to spend the whole day doing it one file at a time. And i have not found a tutorial to help me upload a folder...only a file Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted January 10, 2008 Posted January 10, 2008 Since you are putting the new version in another folder I would use an FTP client to upload it. You cannot upload a folder of files in cPanel unless you zip them up first and upload the zip file and then extract it on the server. Quote
Extreme Posted January 10, 2008 Author Posted January 10, 2008 ftp it is then...thx i will let you know if i crash my site As i will then run to input a ticket...aka Quote
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