Last week one of my clients in California wanted to upgrade his phpBB3 BETA5 forum to the latest release, which is phpBB 3.0.1. It was a live board! I know. A live board should never use a beta release. What phpBB support team says is to ‘cut your loses, start a fresh.’ But it is not a possibility when you have thousands of users and posts in your forum. After a lot of research, I found a way to achieve this.

What is required is to first upgrade the phpBB3 BETA5 to phpBB3 RC1 and then to phpBB 3.0.1 Easy as it may sound, you have to be careful. So make sure to back up your database before [Read more...]

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