Manually Upgrading
If any sites are password protected/private
I think, based upon a couple of experience, that this may cause a problem. Edit your Apache config file to temporarily remove any password protection.
Invision Power Board
Unzip the new archive and overwrite the existing files with your new files. Simply copy and paste, or, use something like FTP (if the files are non-local) to overwrite the existing files. MariaDB will be updated to work with your new files. That’s it.
Then go to your site at http://www.netkwik.com/forum/admin/upgrade and login with your AdminCP credentials. The upgrade system will scan you install to confirm that all files are up to date before proceeding. If it reports any are wrong then be sure you uploaded all files properly.
NOTE: Bizarrely I copied over files and got a message, when I went to do the upgrade, that I did not need to update any files. Weird. In other words it appears that the version I was running on PHP 8.0 also works on PHP 8.1…..which seems impossible. Indeed I just checked and both of my installed versions are 4.7.10 – so apparently this version works on both different versions of PHP and MariahDB! Again, based upon my experience with software and servers this would seem to be impossible.
From the web – the latest version is 4.7.19.
Based on search results, Invision Community (formerly IP.Board) 4.7.10 was released on May 9, 2023. However, this is not the latest version available. As of late 2024, the stable release has progressed to version 4.7.19
Simple Machines Forum
Again, we just copy the file from the archive over any existing files. The visit: www.netkwik.com/forum/upgrade.php.
IMPORTANT: You’ll be asked for an administrative password and this sometimes does not work – your password will be flagged as incorrect. There are two ways to fix this based upon my experience:
- Using phpmyadmin change the administrative password (find the ‘users’ table) to your password in plain text. According to the documentation the password will be automatically hashed.
- You can also edit the upgrade.php file and turn off this security feature. Search for ‘disable_security’ and set to ‘1’
Xenforo
One more time: Simply copy new files over old files. Point your browser to http://www.netkwik.com/forum/install/upgrade.
MyBB
Here was go again: Just overwrite exisitng files and go to http://www.netkwik.com/forum/install/. That’s it.
Joomla
Interestingly – like IPB – this simply works with the existing files and .sql data from my PHP 8.0 installation.