I'm running MyBB 1.8.6 (and too scared to upgrade for fear of wrecking everything on the forum)
In a forum I use when you click "Reply" to a specific message a new window pops up that's blank.
Here's a hypothetical forum-
https://SimpleWebsite.com/Forum/
Thus, you can't Reply to a post.
Any idea how to fix this?
Thank you
Hi, you have 84 members registered in your forum.
However,
Go in your admin panel - Tools & Maintenance - Backups - create new backup.
The backup file will help you to be secure that whatever you are doing in your forum and whatever changes you are doing, even if something goes wrong, you can use the backup file and everything will be fine.
After you create your backup file..., for sure you should upgrade to the new mybb version, you have to upgrade at some point because your forum will face future errors and many problems if you keep avoiding it.
Your backup file will be available on your pc after you created it, so be brave.
To update the mybb:
Login in your filezilla (or whatever filemanager program you using)
Visit that link and click download
https://mybb.com/download/
After you download it, open it and click the ''Upload'' folder, select everything inside and move it to the same place where you have installed mybb , after you did that you will see probably text ''Overwrite that element'' or something like that, click YES and mark ''don't ask again'' (if you don't mark it ,you have to click YES thousand times)
Open your forum’s home page in your web browser and add /install/ to the URL.
https://thenauticalalmanac.com/Forum/install/ or
https://thenauticalalmanac.com/install/
and proceed.
read more:
https://docs.mybb.com/1.8/install/upgrade/
If you have problems, create topic in the mybb community for help and you will get explanations for help.
Good luck
Before making an effort to destroy my forum here's another question.
Can I create a separate forum called, let's say,
https://SimpleWebsite.com/EXPERIMENT
...and get that one upgraded and running with the same contents of the original forum?
That is- 2 forums; 1 being the original and the 2nd which is the one that'll be migrated to once the "bugs" get out of it.
Does that sound correct.