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 a LTS edition. It will be supported in 9 months.Continue Reading
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, Firebug 1.12.0, Net Panel > All The waiting time 476msContinue Reading
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 are 4 steps to install it. Very easy. Step 1Continue Reading
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 5.2.17 on CentOS 5.8. To prevent the future problem IContinue Reading
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 improvements made on phpBB 3.0.11. And one new feature: [PHPBB3-10616]Continue Reading
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 phpBB etc. The procedures of upgrade from phpBB 2 toContinue Reading
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 think. I have to do something to improve the performanceContinue Reading
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 Advanced BBcode Box 3. You can find it and downloadContinue Reading
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: * Coding Guideline Modifications RFC Ticket * Autoloading & ClassContinue Reading
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 most important part is backup. 2.1. Database backup 2.1.1. phpBBContinue Reading