Note The basic knowledge of FTP and executing SQL statements is necessary for this section. Fireboard 1.0.1, by mistake, was packaged as version 1.0.0 in the XML file and seen in Joomla! Administration. You should check the version from your installation zip file or check if you have (jos)_fb_groups table. If you have that table, it means you have the 1.0.1 version.

Upgrades from 1.0.3 and higher will no longer require the manual execution of a database upgrade script. Starting with 1.0.4 the necessary database upgrades are handled by the core application and no longer require external upgrade scripts. While 1.0.4 has a rather minimalist upgrade built in, future releases will include a more elaborate upgrade architecture to perform even complex upgrade tasks.

Follow the upgrade section below that corresponds to your upgrade path.

There is multiple ways to perform backups:

• Manually through phpAdmin and ftp
• Through tools like JoomlaPack

However you perform your backups, make sure you have a valid copy of your installation before beginning the upgrade.

1. First, unpack the archive on your local computer. First, unpack the archive on your local computer.
2. Go to your Joomla! Administration  Installer  Componenets
3. Select the “component_Fireboard_Forum_1.0.4.zip” package and click on “Install”.
4. After a successful installation, go to Components  Fireboard Forum
5. Once you enter the control panel, at top of the page you will notice a dialogue is asking you weather you want to upgrade from “Joomlaboard” or a “Clean Install”. Click on “Import from Joomlaboard” and Fireboard will automatically import your database and file structure.

If you have any further questions or problems, please visit the BestofJoomla.com forums.

Note Fireboard does not modify your Joomlaboard installation and database. Feel free to try Fireboard while your Joomlaboard is still running on your website.

 Backup your MySql tables and file structure as described above.

1. Download the 1.0.4 Patch files zip file.
2. Extract the “FireBoard_1.0.4_Stable_PatchFiles.zip” files on your local system. You will notice that it has the same structure as the files on your server
3. Connect to your website via FTP and overwrite all the local files over the remote files. This way your server will have latest files of the stable version
4. Fireboard 1.0.2+ stores the common files, such as uploaded files, avatars, uploaded images,… under “Joomla_Root/images/” directory. Please make sure that your “Joomla_Root/images/” is writable.
5. Copy “components/com_fireboard/_fbfiles/” directory in the extracted package to “Joomla_Root/images/” directory and rename it to “fbfiles/” and ensure that it is writable (and also all its subdirectories). At the end you will have such a path: “Joomla_Root/images/fbfiles”. You can do this in Linux by applying the following command: chmod –R 777 images/fbfiles/
6. Move (old) directories and all contents of “components/com_fireboard/avatars”, “components/com_fireboard/category_images”, “components/com_fireboard/uploaded/files”, “components/com_fireboard/uploaded/images” to the new “Joomla_Root/images/fbfiles”. The final structure should look like this:
7. Open “Upgrades/Fireboard_100_to_1.0.3.Stable.sql” file. You can download it here: Fireboard_100_to_1.0.3.Stable.sql
8. If necessary, rename all the “jos_” occurrences to your own database prefix. Hence, if your db prefix it “boj_” then you should rename all “jos_” to “boj_”.
9. Execute the queries on your remote host; either inside phpmyadmin or your favorite database manager. If you don’t know how to do this, please read: http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=4720 If you get any error during the execution, e.g. you had done some modifications to the database before, then you should execute the rest of the queries and not all of them. The queries are executed in the order as they are listed in the upgrade. First at the top and last at bottom.
10. Now, head on to Fireboard Configuration and check if you have the latest version, by looking at the bottom of the page.
11. Enter Fireboard configuration section and modify the settings to your need.
12. Enter the control panel, and click on “Recount Categories Stats”. This will recount all the posts and update your frontend statistics. You should apply this action from time to time to ensure consistency in your forum statistics.

If you have any further questions or problems, please visit the BestofJoomla.com forums.

 Backup your MySql tables and file structure as described above.

1. Download the 1.0.4 Patch files zip file.
2. Extract the “FireBoard_1.0.4_Stable_PatchFiles.zip” files on your local system. You will notice that it has the same structure as the files on your server
3. Connect to your website via FTP and overwrite all the local files over the remote files. This way your server will have latest files of the stable version
4. Fireboard 1.0.2+ stores the common files, such as uploaded files, avatars, uploaded images,… under “Joomla_Root/images/” directory. Please make sure that your “Joomla_Root/images/” is writable.
5. Copy “components/com_fireboard/_fbfiles/” directory in the extracted package to “Joomla_Root/images/” directory and rename it to “fbfiles/” and ensure that it is writable (and also all its subdirectories). At the end you will have such a path: “Joomla_Root/images/fbfiles”. You can do this in Linux by applying the following command: Command: chmod –R 777 images/fbfiles/
6. Move (old) directories and all contents of “components/com_fireboard/avatars”, “components/com_fireboard/category_images”, “components/com_fireboard/uploaded/files”, “components/com_fireboard/uploaded/images” to the new “Joomla_Root/images/fbfiles”. The final structure should look like this:
7. Open “Upgrades/Fireboard_101_to_1.0.3.Stable.sql” file. You can download it here: Fireboard_101_to_1.0.3.Stable.sql
8. If necessary, rename all the “jos_” occurrences to your own database prefix. Hence, if your db prefix it “boj_” then you should rename all “jos_” to “boj_”.
9. Execute the queries on your remote host; either inside phpmyadmin or your favourite database manager. If you don’t know how to do this, please read: http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=4720 If you get any error during the execution, e.g. you had done some modifications to the database before, then you should execute the rest of the queries and not all of them. The queries are executed in the order as they are listed in the upgrade. First at the top and last at bottom.
10. Now, head on to Fireboard Configuration and check if you have the latest version, by looking at the bottom of the page.
11. Enter Fireboard configuration section and modify the settings to your need.
12. Enter the control panel, and click on “Recount Categories Stats”. This will recount all the posts and update your frontend statistics. You should apply this action from time to time to ensure consistency in your forum statistics.

If you have any further questions or problems, please visit the BestofJoomla.com forums.

 Backup your MySql tables and file structure as described above.

1. Download the 1.0.4 Patch files zip file.
2. Extract the “FireBoard_1.0.4_Stable_PatchFiles.zip” files on your local system. You will notice that it has the same structure as the files on your server
3. Connect to your website via FTP and overwrite all the local files over the remote files. This way your server will have latest files of the stable version
4. Fireboard 1.0.2+ stores the common files, such as uploaded files, avatars, uploaded images,… under “Joomla_Root/images/” directory. Please make sure that your “Joomla_Root/images/” is writable. The final structure should look like this:
5. Open “Upgrades/Fireboard_102_to_1.0.3.Stable.sql” file. You can download it from here: Fireboard_102_to_1.0.3.Stable.sql
6. If necessary, rename all the “jos_” occurrences to your own database prefix. Hence, if your db prefix it “boj_” then you should rename all “jos_” to “boj_”.
7. Execute the queries on your remote host; either inside phpmyadmin or your favourite database manager. If you don’t know how to do this, please read: http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=4720 If you get any error during the execution, e.g. you had done some modifications to the database before, then you should execute the rest of the queries and not all of them. The queries are executed in the order as they are listed in the upgrade. First at the top and last at bottom.
8. Now, head on to Fireboard Configuration and check if you have the latest version, by looking at the bottom of the page.
9. Enter Fireboard configuration section and modify the settings to your need.
10. Enter the control panel, and click on “Recount Categories Stats”. This will recount all the posts and update your frontend statistics. You should apply this action from time to time to ensure consistency in your forum statistics.

If you have any further questions or problems, please visit the BestofJoomla.com forums.

 Backup your MySql tables and file structure as described above.

1. Download the 1.0.4 Patch files zip file.
2. Extract the “FireBoard_1.0.4_Stable_PatchFiles.zip” files on your local system. You will notice that it has the same structure as the files on your server
3. Connect to your website via FTP and overwrite all the local files over the remote files. This way your server will have latest files of the stable version
4. Fireboard 1.0.2+ stores the common files, such as uploaded files, avatars, uploaded images,… under “Joomla_Root/images/” directory. Please make sure that your “Joomla_Root/images/” is writable.
5. Do to the embedded nature of the database schema upgrade no manual steps are required if you upgrade from 1.0.3+
6. Now, head on to Fireboard Configuration and check if you have the latest version, by looking at the bottom of the page.
7. Enter Fireboard configuration section and modify the settings to your need.
8. Enter the control panel, and click on “Recount Categories Stats”. This will recount all the posts and update your frontend statistics. You should apply this action from time to time to ensure consistency in your forum statistics.

If you have any further questions or problems, please visit the BestofJoomla.com forums.