DO NOT RECREATE FORUM OR MASTER ADMIN WHEN YOU UPGRADE YOU NEED ONLY SWAP THE OLD SCRIPT WITH THE NEW ONE I. To upgrade from V9 a) copy a new AnyBoardOne.pm to the $abmain::master_cfg_dir directory. b) login master admin panel, and click on the Upgrade AnyBoard link c) replace the old abicons/ folder under the web root with the one with the new verion II. To upgrade from version 8 and earlier 0. copy the AnyBoardOne.pm to the $abmain::master_cfg_dir 1. open the old anyboard.cgi script, write down the value for $master_cfg_dir, path to perl, $fix_top_dir, $fix_top_url, $fix_cgi_url, $no_pathinfo, $smtp_server and other variables that was set different from default. 2. edit the new anyboard.cgi script to set the variables to the values recorded in step 1 3. replace the old script with the new one 4. change the script permission and make sure it runs 5. replace the old abicons/ folder under the web root with the one with the new verion Make sure to have a copy of the ZIP file in case you need to reinstall the script later.