3.7.3 => 3.8.x

[ANGLICO]

My ISP is Acenet. Their recent php upgrade caused my vB 3.7.3 site to go down. I had not changed because everything worked perfectly, there was nothing to fix. But then disaster struck. Acenet implemented a "temporary" fix, and I am limping along, but I can no longer access the Admin area.

The first thing I believe that I need to do is upgrade to 3.8.x. Is there a link to a tutorial for doing this available, given that I can not access my Admin area?

I don't think I can even disable the website while working on it, without accessing the Admin area. Hopefully I can use cPanel to delete the last backup file so that I can back up.

Thanks

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Also, ACENET's servers are now using PHP version 5.3.x

I am hoping that vB 3.8.x is compatible with this PHP version.

[Lynne]

Upgrade instructions for 3.8.7 are in the manual - http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/upgrade?manualversion=30807603

3.8.7 will work with PHP5.3.x

To turn off the board via the database, login to phpMyAdmin and run these queries (you must replace <PREFIX> with whatever table prefix you have set in your includes/config.php file:

UPDATE <PREFIX>datastore SET data=REPLACE(data,'s:8:"bbactive";i:1;','s:8:"bbactive";i:0;') WHERE title='options';
UPDATE <PREFIX>setting SET value=0 WHERE varname='bbactive';

[ANGLICO]

Thank you Lynne!

I have my work cut out over the holidays. I will do this ASAP.

Regards

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How do I close my board via cPanel? Or is that a question for ACENET? My backup just finished downloading to my computer.

[Lynne]

In cPanel, you need to go to phpMyAdmin and then click into your forum database and then run the queries I listed in post #2.