Hey there,
I have tried to accomplish an update using the installation directory
taken from the 3.0.4 tarball at phpbb.com.
A tough job !
Here's what I did:
aptitude install phpbb3
- apache2
- dbconfig: no
Add the patches from
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437836 to enable
multi-board support that I use (be careful: the patches do not all work,
see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437836#92)
I use auto_prepend_file for my PHP CGIs:
<?php
// phpbb2
if (strstr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"], "/usr/share/phpbb2/")) {
$dbms = 'mysql';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$table_prefix = 'phpbb_';
$dbname = 'web15_db1';
$dbuser = 'web15_u1';
$dbpasswd = 'pass';
define('PHPBB_INSTALLED', true);
}
// phpbb3
if (strstr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"], "/usr/share/phpbb3/")) {
$dbms = 'mysql';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$table_prefix = 'phpbb_';
$dbname = 'web15db2';
$dbuser = 'web15u2';
$dbpasswd = 'pass';
//phpbb3
$acm_type = 'file'; // reqd at least in update script
$url_forum = 'xxx.com'; // phpbb3 debian
define('PHPBB_INSTALLED', true);
}
Note that $acm_type and $url_forum need to be added for the new version,
wherever you define them.
Note that you can use another $table_prefix with the SAME database (I
only did it differently because for testing it was more convenient).
Now I populate the db:
mysql -u web15u2 -p web15db2 <
/usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/phpbb3/install/mysql
If you use another $table_prefix you would have to change that file
first! (find/replace)
Now get the install folder from the official tarball and put it into
/usr/share/phpbb3/www/install/
Patch the installer using the attached patch (==> installer.patch), as
the original one does not work. I wonder how anyone was ever able to
successfully use that. Maybe with register_globals=on ?
Before running the updater/installer I change permissions of several
folders.
I would suggest treating these like a temp directory, just letting
www-data inside is out since the days where we started using php as
fastcgi and such.
- chmod 1753 /var/cache/phpbb3/cache/ /var/lib/phpbb3/avatars/
/var/lib/phpbb3/avatars/gallery/ /var/lib/phpbb3/avatars/upload/
/usr/share/phpbb3/www/images/ranks/
/usr/share/phpbb3/www/images/smilies/ (owner can stay root)
(Note to maintainer: we should discuss all of this -- maybe also create
further symlinks from /usr/share/phpbb3/www/images/{ranks,smilies}
somewhere into /var/lib/phpbb3/ ??)
When using open_basedir it obviously needs to allow access to all those
directories of both the old and new installations:
[php.ini] open_basedir =
${open_basedir}:/usr/share/phpbb2/:/var/lib/phpbb2/:/var/cache/phpbb3/:/var/lib/phpbb3/
Run the updater (goto your.site/install/), follow the instructions (give
it the data to your OLD install and use Board path: ../../phpbb2/site/)
There may be some
functions_convert.php [ 2294 ]:
Could not copy file ./../../../phpbb2/site/images/smiles/icon_arrow.gif
to ./../images/smilies/icon_arrow.gif
Please check that the target directory exists and is writable by the
webserver.
in one of the steps. I wouldn't know why. I ignored it as I am now tired.
Goto the forum, login as one of the previous administrative users,
create a search index as directed and remove the install folder. The
install will then be available.
Cheers!
JM
diff -ru phpBB3/install/install_convert.php install.phpbb3/install_convert.php
--- phpBB3/install/install_convert.php 2008-12-12 16:20:38.000000000 +0100
+++ install.phpbb3/install_convert.php 2010-02-14 20:07:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
{
global $lang, $template, $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx, $cache,
$config, $language, $table_prefix;
global $convert;
+ global $dbms, $dbname, $dbuser, $dbpasswd,
$dbhost, $table_prefix;
$this->tpl_name = 'install_convert';
$this->mode = $mode;
@@ -337,6 +338,7 @@
function get_convert_settings($sub)
{
global $lang, $language, $template, $db, $phpbb_root_path,
$phpEx, $config, $cache;
+ global $dbms, $dbname, $dbuser, $dbpasswd,
$dbhost, $table_prefix;
require($phpbb_root_path . 'config.' . $phpEx);
require($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/constants.' . $phpEx);
@@ -586,6 +588,7 @@
{
global $template, $user, $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx, $db, $lang,
$config, $cache;
global $convert, $convert_row, $message_parser, $skip_rows,
$language;
+ global $dbms, $dbname, $dbuser, $dbpasswd,
$dbhost, $table_prefix;
require($phpbb_root_path . 'config.' . $phpEx);
require($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/constants.' . $phpEx);
@@ -635,7 +638,7 @@
if (empty($convert->options) || empty($convert->options['tag'])
||
!isset($convert->options['dbms']) ||
!isset($convert->options['dbhost']) ||
- !isset($convert->options['dbport']) ||
+ // !isset($convert->options['dbport']) ||
!isset($convert->options['dbuser']) ||
!isset($convert->options['dbpasswd']) ||
!isset($convert->options['dbname']) ||
