
- #PHPBB3 INSTALL#
- #PHPBB3 CODE#
- #PHPBB3 PLUS#
#PHPBB3 CODE#
A common code base will be shared by all instances by sym-linking the individual instance hierarchies to a common directory set. Therefore all routine system administration functions will be scripted by means of automated (usually crontab based) scripts. We want to move to as "Zero Admin" an approach as possible. Each NL Forum will contain an administration sub-forum, access to which will be limited to trusted moderators and administrators. The lead NL Administrator will also decide the default Language for the forum. This will normally be UK English and the local languages. However it is up to the lead NL Administrators to decided which languages are enabled for their forum. All Supported Languages will be available to all NL Forums. “Supported Languages” at cut-over to the new hardware will be English (UK and US dialects), French, Spanish (Spain, Argentina, Catalan, Valencia dialects), Hungarian, Mandarin (Traditional and Simplified Scripts), Japanese, Dutch and Vietnamese. All NL Forums will adopt the phpBB Prosilver template with minor tweaks to implement OOo branding.
The target configuration of the Community Forums will be a largely “out of the box” configuration of phpBB version 3.0.4 designed to facilitate the easy addition of extra language instances.
Each NL Forum will have a designated alternate NL Administrator who can act as a deputy to the lead. nl: TBF but henke54 is currently acting in this role. Each NL Forum will have a designated lead “NL Administrator” who is responsible for final acceptance and configuration of the forum as follows:. At cut-over to the new hardware, these will comprise the following NL Forums: English ( en), Spanish ( es), French ( fr), Hungarian ( hu), Japanese ( ja), Dutch ( nl), Vietnamese ( vi) and Chinese ( zh). Each instance of the Community Forums implements a language-specific forum (an “NL Forum”). All instances will use the 32bit CSK packaged MySQL 5.0. #PHPBB3 PLUS#
A new hardware platform will be running Solaris 10, plus Coolstack 1.3.1 including the optional CSKPython package.
All such content will be preserved on migration.
The content of the Community Forums is largely maintained in the central database, though attachment and image data are maintained in the file separate file hierarchies.
The Community Forums are running on a number of separate phpBB instances all at version phpBB 3.0.1 (but with disjoint code hierarchies) over a common PostgreSQL 8.2 database on a Solaris/Coolstack platform. This wiki page describes the process and approach for migration the OOo forums from their current platform to the new installation. #PHPBB3 INSTALL#
Given the proliferation of forums, the general growth in transactional volumes and the fact that phpBB is now at version 3.0.4, we have decided to upgrade the H/W infrastructure and install a clean re-baseline for all forums. We are now in the process of adding the Vietnamese and Chinese forums. We subsequently upgraded to phpBB 3.0.1 and PostgreSQL 8.2 and then added the Hungarian, French, Spanish and Japanese forums. The current (“OOo”) forums (“Community Forums”) started with the creation of the English forum in Nov 2007 running on phpBB 3.0.0 over a Sun Coolstack platform and PostgreSQL 8.1 on Solaris x86 infrastructure in the Sun Munich Facility. 1 OOo Community Forums Migration Strategy.