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Rebuilding a forum from backup (Can someone explain the process?) #5324

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Could be done if everything is present, however will take a lot of effort.
Suppose you are running windoos : it will not support every old local files you need, so best suited was a virtual environment.
If you up to it find a wamp or xamp server 32 bit version (wmap example 2.2) where php 5.4.3 is highest!!!.
unpack ALL files and as @Jimmi08 mentionded find the config file. it will give a glance how the website structure itself is presented (by folders).The rest of folders and 'single files' come in root of the site.
Now it is unclear if for phpbb a plugin is used or a single installment. (either a folder called phpbb or inside the plugins dir.
Now as mentioned config has the database fil…

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