Hi DCZ, This is just a short summary of what I did and learnt (with your help) to fix forum. 1. Realise that uploading a large phpbb forum data base (40 Meg) using the Administration / Restore DB feature at forum is not recommended, as it can incompletely upload and it does not tell you of any error...

You are a genius - it all works perfectly now.

I owe you so many thanks.

Am just heading out - but wanted to quickly thank you for such prompt and helpful replies (you have kept me and Google happy!).

Will write more tomorrow - so it can help others.

Sincerely,
Geoff

Hi dcz, I think I have forum working now with your latest advanced mods. You were right - it was a database error. You are great! One thing that is odd though, and not good. If I search my site in Google, it shows pages with correct titles injected in url, but then each url has a 'vt' followed by a ...

Hello again, I stayed up to see if it works. I get the following error from bigdump about one third the way through restoring db from dump file (database backup) that I uploaded to server (using file manager in cpanel). --------------------------- BigDump: Staggered MySQL Dump Importer v0.27b Proces...

Hi dcz, Just a short note to thank you for your time and help. It is late here - I am just uploading by ftp my sql database to server and them will use bigdump to restore it (has taken me half a day just to get this far! - but I am learning). You seem to be right - phpbb (or servers?) do not handle ...

Hi dcz, Thanks for replying so promptly. I have spent all today working on forum and still cannot get it right. I have had it recognize the database (for a while I had it show correct forum sections and number of posts) but links to pages showed as errors). Basically I have the complete backup on my...

Hello, I have forum that did have able2know mods and then your advanced mods. It was working OK till yesterday, then it stopped re-directing number urls to title urls. Anyway, I thought I would upgrade to latest version of phpBB 2.0.22 and then add your advanced mod rewrite and no dupe mods (and ses...

Hello dcz, Thank you very much for your detailed reply and further help. I will summarise what I have done, as it may be useful to others, and will hopefully confirm that I have done everything correctly. 1. I started with phpBB with able2know mods. 2. Removed Able2Know.com phpBB static URLs mod 1.0...

Hello dcz, I have read a great number of your posts in the past 24 hours and I worked till 2am last night finishing converting our forum from Able2Know Mods to your nice version. It seems to work fine - which is amazing since i am very ignorant of php coding. But your discussions with others and you...