Question Upgrading form FB 1.0,3!!

try if default_ex template works well or not

No that didnt work! I wonder if it's the template I am using not working with it?

I have tried every setting I think LOL!

Members are yelling at me WTf are wrong with the forums lol!!

I would downgrade the forum back to FB 1.0.5 and install Kunena either to it's own test site or together with FireBoard (just don't use any Kunena/FireBoard compatible components!)

I'd like to see your theme/site, after we have 1.0.8 out.

Do I have to do anything special when I uninstall Kunena and install FB 1.05rc. Like convert the forums back or anything or will all the data be there?

Nothing, all data will be there

fxstein wrote:

jbh142 wrote:

Is there away I can upgrade without losing all my forum post to the new Kunena?

Forum posts of Fireboard will always get automatically upgraded. The only thing you can do in addition for versions older than FB 1.0.5 is to run the fbconverter utility found here:

joomlacode.org/gf/project/fireboard/frs/

Simply install it and uninstall it. Nothing else needed. It will convert the file based settings into a database table as well, so the settings of FB survive the upgrade.

As for the upgrade of the forum: It is pretty straight forward (more will come in the release notes). Make a backup - simply uninstall FB (don't worry all messages, posts, categories and such will all stay inside the db) - now install Kunena. It will apply all necessary upgrades to the underlying data structures.

Same thing going forward. Once you are on Kunena and upgrade is as simple as this: backup - uninstall - install new version. All from within the Joomla backend, no need to run manual scripts or untar or copy stuff.

Since Kunena is growing with new images and future additions, please make sure your PHP timeout is set to 60-120s or the install might timeout with a bank screen.

Also make sure your system requirements match: PHP >= 4.3 mySQL >=5.0

Hope this helps!

fxstein

Hate to seem ignorant but I have Fireboard 1.5rc2...

"As for the upgrade of the forum: It is pretty straight forward (more will come in the release notes). Make a backup - simply uninstall FB (don't worry all messages, posts, categories and such will all stay inside the db) - now install Kunena. It will apply all necessary upgrades to the underlying data structures."

How does this happen? I get a nightly backup of my database so that should work for the backup part.. I just simply uninstall Fireboard, install Kunena and that's it? All should be ok?

TIA!!