1) "BTP will go down sometime coz I have to do some stuff'
2) "I did the stuff and it seemed to work"
Sorted.
Statistics: Posted by tetsuo — Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:01 pm
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I'm wondering if you really just like speeching geek when describing what you did or trying to make it sound more technical than what it was. I can summarize the procedure in one line "I did some stuff, but now its up and running and better than before."
Statistics: Posted by briachek — Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:58 pm
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I created a mirror of the database and the forum itself at a different URL then hit a problem running the PHP patches through. I think the patch command on this Linux system was incompatible with the diff output generated by the phpBB folks, or the files had MSDOS linebreaks in them and that confoozed it. In any event the issue was solved when I used a Windoze version of 'patch' and did the work on my machine, resolved all the rejected hunks by hand, made the schema changes, uploaded the patched files, tested the major functionality and then swapped the live site for the upgraded mirror.
It'll be faster next time, promise
It was the patch failures that had me scratching my head, and I *really* didn't want to do a clean install of phpBB and re-apply all my mods and little bits of restyling. THAT would have been horrific.Statistics: Posted by tetsuo — Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:34 pm
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I managed to upgrade by patch (after a multitude of unsuccessful attempts followed by the usual workarounds) to the latest version, and the database table modifications seem to have worked just fine.
We are now running the latest version of the software which is 2.0.17, a whole 7 versions higher than what we were. The upgraded software stops us (and whoever hosts us) from being hacked.
If you see any odd behaviour as a result of this upgrade, please report it to me via PM or email or in this topic (it seems likely that *something* will be a bit fishy).
However, it is likely that users who had previously selected 'remember me' for login will have to re-authenticate and select that option again, as I also corrected our previously garbled cookie name.
Statistics: Posted by tetsuo — Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:52 am
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