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Ubuntu is always a good desktop Linux distributation in the world. In the past years. more and more are installed as servers. Now I have four VPS are running under ubuntu, from 12.04 to 14.04. Ubuntu 14.10 server is not...
It is a test on a virtual box Centos 6.4 installation. One forum, powered by phpBB 3.0.11. I would like to know the time to generate the page. The time I got is through Firebug on Firefox. On Firefox 23.0.1,...
It is based on phpBB 3.0.11. I checked the Google Analytics report. There are about 20% users using cellphone or iPad. To accommodate these users, I installed a mobile style on it and added the Mobile device detection facilitate. There...
I have a forum running by phpBB 3. After upgrading to phpBB 3.0.10, the board notice said, from phpBB 3.1, the next version, it will not support php5.2. phpBB 3.1 “Ascraeus” to require PHP 5.3.2 My server is running php...
It is time to upgrade the forum powered by phpBB. New maintenance version 3.0.11 released. I have a small forum just upgraded from 3.0.10 to 3.0.11. It is easy to use Automatic Update Package. There are tons of bugs and...
In the end of last year, I helped a charity society upgrade their forum from phpBB2 to phpBB 3. They host their web site and phpBB forum on 1and1 Business hosting plan. I did have much experience on upgrading, updating...
I moved one phpBB forum to a VPS. All fresh. I have Apache installed and MySQL. phpBB 3 relay on them. Because of the size of forum, about 500K posts, 1000 users, the forum is not as fast as I...
I have a forum powered by phpBB3.0.7 PL1. It works great. Even I added so many mods and some my customized changes on it, it still has room to improve. Last week, it took me about two hours to add...
Right now, latest version of phpBB is 3.0.7 PL1. The features of the next version 3.1 freeze on July 20, 2010. So what is the exact date to release it. The following are features or changes on phpBB 3.1 Merged:...
To upgrade phpBB properly without problem, I make a detailed upgrading plan. I would like to share it with you. 1. Disable forum board. It is important to make the board clean. And keep resource usage low. 2. Backup The...
I have a typo when I posted about phpBB 3 new release.
First of all, I need Memcache to be installed in the server. I don’t want say too much about installation of Memcache. The topic is MAKE MEMCACHE WORK ON PHPBB3. First get acm_memcache.php from code center of phpbb. Put this...
phpBB released its new version. 3.0.5. This release fixes numerous bugs since the 3.0.4 release, corrects style issues, fixing one very minor security bug as well as increasing performance and scalability again. They also added a few new minor features....
I just installed a mailing list software on one of my forum. Because mass email function of phpBB 3 does not work, I have to pick phplist, one of best free mail list software. I introduced this software before. Now...
How to change logo in phpBB 3 style? This example shows you how to do it for subSilver 2, but it can also be applied to almost any other style, including prosilver. 1. Upload Logo file First you should create...