Dearie me! What a time I've had of it.
In all the time the Forum has been around I pretty much left it to work. Certainly I never tinkered with MySQL or the phpBB code. This was wise: The following wasn't:
- First I made a full [?fool] backup.
- I started to footer in an ill-informed, near random, fashion trying to tweak the appearance of the various styles.
- I broke all but the board default styles.
- As a result I could only visit as a Guest and certainly couldn't do any administration.
- In foolish desperation I tried a phpBB re-installation.
- This went well until I found out that my 20MB fool back-up was 4 times over the 5MB max back-up size. Arse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Forunately, acute severe paranoia having set in, I had manually, slowly & tediously, renamed the 31 tables in the MySQL database that otherwise had to be over-written in the course of the phpBB reinstallation.
- I rerenamed them, manually with all the slow tedium that entails, back to what they had been originally.
- This got me back to stage 4.
- Rather late in the day I did what I should have done at stage 4, scouring the interweb until I found the files for the broken styles.
- Some downloading & ftping later the forum seemed to be whole and complete aside from everyone losing their avatars.
Truly a learning opportunity!
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