phpbb installation troubles?

[JimM68]

I'm trying to install thin on my phpbb 3.07pl1 forum.
Mannually, as I use a non standard style and have many mods.

Directions state to copy the uploads folder to my forum root.
Did that.
Directions state to use my ftp client to move each folder out of uploads into the forum root, That gace errors, so I copied each fole and folder into the correct location from my local computer.
Worked fine.

Directions state to "run" install.php from within my administator control panel.

I am not aware of a command in the phpbb acp that will do this. Please direct me to the correct screen and command in the acp?

I tried to execute install.php from my browser, but got an error stating I must be an administrator...

I am not aware of a command in the phpbb acp that will do this. Please direct me to the correct screen and command in the acp?

[kragothius]

I am not aware of a command in the phpbb acp that will do this. Please direct me to the correct screen and command in the acp?


There is no command screen in the acp to execute the install.php
You only need to logged in to the acp


I tried to execute install.php from my browser, but got an error stating I must be an administrator...

Getting this Message might be a sign that you were not logged in as administrator.

Try this:

Log into acp as Administrator and let this tab in you browser stay open.
Open another Tab in your browser.
Open an url like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/forumrunner/install.php

Hope i could help....but remeber..i´m not part of the Forumrunner Developer Team :)

[JimM68]

Thanks for trying to help. I had tried that, but it didn't work.

What I ended up doing was editing the install file, and removing the lines that checked my user status, along with the lines that posted the error I was getting. Pretty easy, they were right near the top.

The new file, without those lines, gave me "congratulations, your forumrunner installation has been upgraded to the latest verion... "

Now to proceed with the file edits.

I sure hope this works. I'm no programmer by any means. :)

[JimM68]

This is typical for me...

The new forumrunner tab is not showing in the acp.

If I go into module management it is there.

So I screwed up in the template, right?
I do that a lot.

And all this stuff is custom. Style is custom (modified subsilver2, not by me), and there are other mods in overallheader.html all ready.

All the "finds - add new line" seemed to go just fine, including in overall header.

Which edit is responsible for adding the new tab in the acp?

I refreshed my template, but that didn't help.
I have subsilver2 installed, and added your code to that also, but it doesn't work either. note I am unable to refresh subsilver2, get an error.

Where should I look to find that missing tab?
I'd really like to get this going...

[jansuhr]

Hey Jim, keep the faith.

I did an installation on my dev-site I am working on at the moment. It also uses Blogomunitys p8pBB bridge between Joomla and phpbb3. One thing with p8pbb is that it has some rewrite rules in the .htaccess file.

Typically it changes the URL to the forum to mysite/forum but for the installation of Forumrunner you have to enter the URL mysite/phpbb3/forumrunner/install.php. I did that from a blank browser tab in Firefox after I had logged in to the ACP. It worked like a charm.

Then in the ACP you have to enable the Forumrunner settings in System>Module Management>Administration control panel. Then the tab will show up. Nothing much to change there, in mine I changed the color to harmonize with the sites theme.

Jan

[JimM68]

Got it! Works great. Thanks

[Macweather]

The PhBB install instructions leave a lot to be desired as far as I am concerned! Very vague and so far for us, none of it works! (AutoMOD)

The Auto-Mod download gets uncompressed on download, leaving us with a folder full of sub folders and files that have no mention in the install instructions. Rezipping the original folder fails when attempting to upload using AutoMOD.

Like I said, as an admin of a tech support forum we are trying to get added here, your install instructions for at least PhBB are terrible!

[tdperry]

The PhBB install instructions leave a lot to be desired as far as I am concerned! Very vague and so far for us, none of it works! (AutoMOD)

The Auto-Mod download gets uncompressed on download, leaving us with a folder full of sub folders and files that have no mention in the install instructions. Rezipping the original folder fails when attempting to upload using AutoMOD.

Like I said, as an admin of a tech support forum we are trying to get added here, your install instructions for at least PhBB are terrible!

Instead of letting it be unzipped by your browser, have you downloads it via a browser that does not do that foolishness? What browser are you using that auto-extracts an archive? Try another browser and download the physical file in it's native format. Not a support person for Forum Runner, I'm just a user.

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[ClemsonJeeper]

The PhBB install instructions leave a lot to be desired as far as I am concerned! Very vague and so far for us, none of it works! (AutoMOD)

The Auto-Mod download gets uncompressed on download, leaving us with a folder full of sub folders and files that have no mention in the install instructions. Rezipping the original folder fails when attempting to upload using AutoMOD.

Like I said, as an admin of a tech support forum we are trying to get added here, your install instructions for at least PhBB are terrible!

The .zip file that is downloaded from the forum manager is not meant to be unzipped by the end-user. That is why there are no instructions inside of it. It is meant to be directly downloaded, saved, then uploaded directly to your forum through AutoMOD.

If your browser does not decompress the file, it should work fine. Make sure you "Save As" rather than let your browser decompress the file.