| Re: How Morons Can Install New Version of Fudforum to Their Host [message #162703 is a reply to message #162702] |
Mon, 05 July 2010 05:23   |
Ernesto
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A) Absolutely, the problem is though, when more "skills" are needed is when things go wrong, and things rarely go wrong, but when they do go wrong, it's no fun. - IE you can change a thousand tires and then one day you crank your bar too hard and you get a micro fracture in the rim and on the fourth lap the wheel goes BOOM and you no longer have a car but a tricycle. - This is when you need your rollbar, your "skills".
B) The boards messages are most likely stored in what is your forums DATA_ROOT. To see the path to your DATA_ROOT you go into your administration panel, click on File Manager on the left and then top center/right you will see 3 different ULRs, like this:
WWW_SERVER_ROOT: /home/wittrs/public_html/forums
DATA_ROOT: /home/wittrs/FUDforum
Currently Browsing: /home/wittrs/public_html/forums
The DATA_ROOT is where your forums core files are stored, when you build a theme or update a template, the forum will compile the code found in DATA_ROOT and put it in a neater form in the WWW_SERVER_ROOT and let the code be served to users and visitors. Separating the forums core and the publicly accesible areas, is a good security measure.
Your forums messages are (most likely) stored in DATA_ROOT/messages - In this example case, meaning /home/wittrs/FUDforum/messages - This folder might be a bit too big to click the "download" button in the manager, but you never know.
To make a complete backup of your forum, you can always go to your Administration Panel and then scroll down, furthest down on the left there should be something called Make forum datadump
C) You can have millions. It requires separate installations if you are "a blithering idiot", but that's sort of how things work.
D) I think we can assume that yes.
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