Decommissioning a phpBB forum

[BillHicksRIP]

Hi. I've had a phpBB 3 forum running for a while that's running on a hosted service. I haven't been keeping the software updated and worried that it will become a security risk to the rest of the my sites so just want to shut it down and remove any access to the database. Does anyone have any pointers?

 

[mikeblas]

Just delete the database and the software.

 

[aL Mac]

You didn't really state what problem you were having getting rid of the forum.

 

[leezard]

just delete the database, if you may want to relaunch in the future make a backup of the dbse and download it to your computer

 

[Crax]

Just delete the database and the software.

+1. Make a local backup copy of your folder containing all your phpbb files /forum or whatever the folder where it is installed is. I'd leave the database myself, but you could get rid of that as well. Any of the security holes in phpbb are going to be with the files themselves, so if you get rid of all the files, there is nothing to exploit.