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Install the phpBB SEO premod on phpBB

In many cases you could want to install the phpBB SEO premod on a pre-existing phpBB install (eg keep the db, user, posts et all). This is always doable, but there are many cases.
Let's start with the the simplest case :

1. phpBB vanilla (no modification what so ever) to phpBB SEO premod same version
   Here we'll assume that we are talking about the latest version (for both phpBB and the premod) since there would be no point to do it on an outdated version (we'll talk about updating phpBB and ...

Hello everyone, I am the founder of the website Portal XL Italia, I have just completed the translation of the MOD SEO Premod V 3.0.7 PL1 in Italian, this is the link to download the translation.

After some recent posts and a discussion it was decided that we recommend using a test server way too much to not have a how-to or walk through for setting one up.

So, here it is...

• Download and install XAMPP.
  You can install it pretty much where you want, since it's a portable application. It is usually handier not to install it in the wondows system hard drive / partition to be able to keep it upon windows re-install.
  
  
  NOTE :
  • Inside the folder you installed XAMPP to (default is 'c:\xampp\') there is a folder called 'htdocs'. This ...

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phpBB3 has a (very) powerful debugging system that can display the eventual errors in php script sharing its code and to control the performance of the SQl queries they could make.
There are two levels of debugging, both being activated in config.php.
Your config.php file should be similar to this :
<?php
// phpBB 3.0.x auto-generated configuration file
// Do not change anything in this file!
$dbms = 'db_type';
$dbhost = 'domain_or_socket_used_to_connect_to_the_db';
$dbport = 'db_connection_port';
$dbname = 'db_name';
$dbuser = 'db_user';
$dbpasswd = 'db_password';
$table_prefix = 'phpbb_table_prefix';
...

Custom replacement for title injection
The phpbb_seo class handles de-accentuation for most of the occidental characters, but you could need to handle more cases for your project.
Starting from v0.6.0, we introduced a simple way to set up custom replacements.
This is useful for special characters not properly handled by default, such as Russian ones (Г => G), or to implement custom replacements such as $ => dollar.
It works with any string, but you MUST perform the edits with an UTF-8 (without BOM) capable text editor.
This is still done in phpbb_seo/includes/setup_phpbb_seo.php, and still before :

// Let's ...