Update phpBB new version

[zemerdon]

download new FULL PACKAGE from https://www.phpbb.com/downloads/

upload and extract to webserver.

remove the following files/directories from the extracted archive.
The config.php file
The files/ directory
The images/ directory
The store/ directory

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cd phpBB3
rm config.php 
rm -rf images/ store/ files/

remove the following file/directories from the webserver root
/vendor
/cache

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cd /var/www/zemerdon.com/
rm -rf vendor/ cache/ install/

copy new files over

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cp -R /home/zemerdon/pgpbb/phpBB3/* /var/www/zemerdon.com/

change permissions

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chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/zemerdon.com/*

visit the following address to initiate the update...
http://yourwebsite.com/install/app.php