Forum Migration

[Daggerzz]

Ok so I have been trying to move my forum

But it isnt quite working correct

I have copied all of the software and the Data bases to the new server.


When i load my homepage www.mysite/forum

The vb software appears to work fine for the most part except Ii need to rename in the vbadmin settings the name of the new website url


when I enter the admincp area I can log in then

I get an internal server error and a blank page.

Does anybody have any ideas?

[Dismounted]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/blank_pages" target="_blank">Blank or 'White' Pages</a>

[Daggerzz]

Thanks for the reply

I am having problems establishing my path as well

on my server the root dir is htdocs and the forum is in forum

so what should the path be?

/home/htdocs/forum

/forum/=

/home/forum

Ive tried these and they do not seem to work

Thanks agiin

[Dismounted]

You can find the path by looking at your PHP info (Admin CP > Maintenance > View PHP Info).

[Daggerzz]

thats the problem I cant get into my admincp

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Where are you planning to enter that full path?

Did you follow the link Dismounted posted? Did you try the suggestions on that page?

[Daggerzz]

yes I followed the Link

i turned off hooks
and entered all the php lines suggested


I also created the.htaccess file as suggested but that created a new server error.


and somewhere I read that It may not be able to find the admincp directory and could add

this is the example line from the config.php file in the includes Dir
$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/home/users/public_html/forums';


So I tried $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/htdocs/forum';

and placed it directly beneath the other $config['Misc'] lines

which as best as I can tell is the correct path.



I know that the line on admincp -> vbsettings ->sitename/url settings is incorrect because it points to the domain name registered on the old server.

Is there a specific file or a place in the database where I could change this so at least my links on the new server will work correctly right now they link back to the old server.


Thanks

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I also uploaded a blank vbulletin board into another directory and everything works fine.


I am running vb advanced cmps on the one that I can not get to work.


If you need to know any of that info.

Thanks

[Dismounted]

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);
If you have already put this line into your config.php and it still does not work, please open a support ticket at vBulletin.com.

[Daggerzz]

Thanks for the help all it seemed that the .htaccess file i had transfered from my old server didnt work I erased it and it works now.

Will erasing that file hurt anything.

[Dismounted]

If you have applications that depends on the .htaccess file, yes, it will adversely affect it. Could you post the contents of the file up?

[Daggerzz]

# Use PHP5CGI as default
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
<Files "config.php">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>

<Files "common.php">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 218.175.55.182
deny from 220.246.220.101
deny from 218.102.223.88
deny from 119.123.149.219
deny from 203.198.106.219
deny from 118.101.48.25
deny from 121.13.100.28
deny from 123.203.221.107
deny from 219.79.59.96
deny from 121.202.253.103
deny from 60.208.234.24
deny from 218.14.180.16
deny from 202.82.148.161
deny from 59.149.128.169



This is it Thanks again for the help.

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I think all it does is ban some Ip adddresses

[Dismounted]

These are the lines should be causing your problems:
# Use PHP5CGI as default
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
Once you remove those two lines, you can most likely be able to use the .htaccess file on the new server.

[Daggerzz]

Thank You.