Release of upgrade for phpbb2.0.20

[Master Dwarf]

I am now fully upgraded and had no problems. Sometimes, I think, its good to wait.

DaveSmooth-my forums had no additional mods either and all went well. What updates does your site have implemented? Are you all the way to 2.0.19?

[DaveSmooth]

Yes Dwarf, my site is currently at 2.0.19 and security 1.0.2

[Master Dwarf]

There is a security update from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3. Did you implement that? Not sure if that has to be done before hand. I went the following:

2.0.17-2.0.19
1.0.2-1.0.3
2.0.19-2.0.20

I renamed my original files, uploaded the premodded files to each directory, and then ran the /install/update_to_latest.php if needed.

I then deleted all my cookies to my site and brought it up. All should be good and if not you can ftp and use your original files.

[DaveSmooth]

No...haven't done the security update yet, which I'm pretty sure has to be done first. At this point I'm scared to do the security update...LOL.

[Master Dwarf]

Yeah, I was timid too.

Just make sure you back up your dbase and forums, you should have enough to get back up in case anything happens. There is a great tutorial on backing up if your host has CPanel.

There is enough support here and people are really nice. Hell, HelterSkelter was bound and determined to find out why my pips wouldn't change colors for my different themes that he looked into everything. And that was just for pips! <img>

[DaveSmooth]

Yea...Helter has already been very helpful on a couple of other things.

[Master Dwarf]

I might have missed something earlier in this thread. My quote tags work ok. My apostrophe (') displays ok in a post. So do my double quotes ("). However, I have a user that has a signature. It is similar to the following:

It's like I don't want to forget what it's all about.

So every time there is an apostrophe the forums somehow change them into quotes (") so it ends up looking like:

It"s like I don"t want to forget what it"s all about.

Any ideas? Link to a post addressing this? <img>

I have recently implemented three updates and I am current with nothing installed other than the straight IMv1.40

edit above: it's not changing them to double quotes, its actually adding another apostrophe.

Edit again: now it's putting in . So it looks something like this-
I don't think you're happy enough!

[Eon]

Not seen that one yet. Sorry..

[Kat]

I assume when modding your own files that when you get to:

Files To Edit:
## db/mssql.php

I don't have that, and it isn't listed to edit, so I assume I don't do anything with it, correct?

[Mighty07]

After all the updates and fixes, i only got 2 things missing.
One is that thing about the "View posts since last visit" and the other is the daily backups.
The most important for me is the daily backups. Does anyone found a fix for this?

Yes i've did. It started working after i put security update 1.0.3. And stopped right after i upgraded the core to 2.0.20.
All i got now is empty backup file, and an alert in the email.

I would double check your files...I have this working fine on my live site...

This issue continues. I've double check all the 1.0.3 security changes and re-uploaded the files too. And the backups don't work.
Also i've notice that in the ACP inside the "security-special" it doesn't assume the first 3 options. Regarding the admin/mods max number and the enable. All other options on that page it saves and stores them. Has the last one is the auto backup time, and i've been working on that. But those three don't.

[Mighty07]

Oh!

Some part i figured it out.
Those return ''; in includes/phpbb_security.php were not correct.
Question now his, if i put them to the correct values i'm immediatly blocked!
How can i go around this?

[Eon]

How was it incorrect? If it worked after you installed the security update. Are you sure everything is at the right permissions settings?

Did you update the phpbb file with what you typed in? You may want to check your database to make sure they are set to the right values, and if all else fails you can set the # of mods and admins there.

[Kat]

on profile.php:

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#-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------# Line 58     $chars = array( 'a', 'A', 'b', 'B', 'c', 'C', 'd', 'D', 'e', 'E', 'f', 'F', 'g', 'G', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'I', 'j', 'J',  'k', 'K', 'l', 'L', 'm', 'M', 'n', 'N', 'o', 'O', 'p', 'P', 'q', 'Q', 'r', 'R', 's', 'S', 't', 'T',  'u', 'U', 'v', 'V', 'w', 'W', 'x', 'X', 'y', 'Y', 'z', 'Z', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0');         $max_chars = count($chars) - 1;     srand( (double) microtime()*1000000);         $rand_str = '';     for($i = 0; $i < 8; $i++)     {         $rand_str = ( $i == 0 ) ? $chars[rand(0, $max_chars)] ];     }       return ( $hash ) ? md5($rand_str) : $rand_str;  ##-----[ REPLACE WITH ]---------------------------------------------#     $rand_str = dss_rand();       return ( $hash ) ? md5($rand_str) : substr($rand_str, 8);

This is not in my file. What should I do?

[Threat009]

on profile.php:

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#-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------# Line 58     $chars = array( 'a', 'A', 'b', 'B', 'c', 'C', 'd', 'D', 'e', 'E', 'f', 'F', 'g', 'G', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'I', 'j', 'J',  'k', 'K', 'l', 'L', 'm', 'M', 'n', 'N', 'o', 'O', 'p', 'P', 'q', 'Q', 'r', 'R', 's', 'S', 't', 'T',  'u', 'U', 'v', 'V', 'w', 'W', 'x', 'X', 'y', 'Y', 'z', 'Z', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0');         $max_chars = count($chars) - 1;     srand( (double) microtime()*1000000);         $rand_str = '';     for($i = 0; $i < 8; $i++)     {         $rand_str = ( $i == 0 ) ? $chars[rand(0, $max_chars)] ];     }       return ( $hash ) ? md5($rand_str) : $rand_str;  ##-----[ REPLACE WITH ]---------------------------------------------#     $rand_str = dss_rand();       return ( $hash ) ? md5($rand_str) : substr($rand_str, 8);

This is not in my file. What should I do?

That was one of the problems I had. I overwrote the file w/the pre-mod. Actually, I had a back-up folder of all mods I installed on my site. So I used my computer to search that folder to find out if any of the 2.0.20 files were in the folder. I lucked out, so all I had to do was overwrite everything w/the premods, since my mods had nothing to do w/them. imo, the pre-mods are faster and safer, if you can get away w/using them.....

[Kat]

on profile.php:

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#-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------# Line 58     $chars = array( 'a', 'A', 'b', 'B', 'c', 'C', 'd', 'D', 'e', 'E', 'f', 'F', 'g', 'G', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'I', 'j', 'J',  'k', 'K', 'l', 'L', 'm', 'M', 'n', 'N', 'o', 'O', 'p', 'P', 'q', 'Q', 'r', 'R', 's', 'S', 't', 'T',  'u', 'U', 'v', 'V', 'w', 'W', 'x', 'X', 'y', 'Y', 'z', 'Z', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0');         $max_chars = count($chars) - 1;     srand( (double) microtime()*1000000);         $rand_str = '';     for($i = 0; $i < 8; $i++)     {         $rand_str = ( $i == 0 ) ? $chars[rand(0, $max_chars)] ];     }       return ( $hash ) ? md5($rand_str) : $rand_str;  ##-----[ REPLACE WITH ]---------------------------------------------#     $rand_str = dss_rand();       return ( $hash ) ? md5($rand_str) : substr($rand_str, 8);

This is not in my file. What should I do?

That was one of the problems I had. I overwrote the file w/the pre-mod. Actually, I had a back-up folder of all mods I installed on my site. So I used my computer to search that folder to find out if any of the 2.0.20 files were in the folder. I lucked out, so all I had to do was overwrite everything w/the premods, since my mods had nothing to do w/them. imo, the pre-mods are faster and safer, if you can get away w/using them.....

I wish I could. Honestly I don't have any extra mods on my forum but I changed the layout and whenever I have used the premodded files it always messes up the layout and I have to try to recall how I changed everything and change it back