So, when I click the upload folder, it takes me to 3 different folders to chose from, originally, I dragged the entire upload folder to the public_html folder, and I got this error, what should I do? Drag each one of those 3 individual folders to public_html? Or what?

Yes, as is says in the instructions

alright, and how can I fix the error? Just install it correctly?

Installing it properly will result in no errors

Put includes in your forum/includes folder, images in your forum/images folder and admincp in forum/admincp or whatever your admin folder is called.

Sorry, I know you already answered his question but the answer was a bit confusing to me so I thought I would just explain it from a different angle.

Okay, I did what you said to do,

Now, I deleted the file when I originally attempted and resulted in a registration error. I did everything correctly, putting the files in the correct place, such as, Public_html > Includes Then I drag the folder to it.

And I still get the error. What could be the problem?


"Warning: require_once(includes/functions_vbsfs.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/register.php(385) : eval()'d code on line 76

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions_vbsfs.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/realshi1/public_html/register.php(385) : eval()'d code on line 76"

I still get the same error I did when registering a regular account, and I deleted the file that I messed up on, and I did what you said.

I clicked on public_html, then I dragged the includes folder to the includes. And same for all. And I deleted the one folder I messed up on.

Why is this still happening? What am I doing wrong?

I did a dry run of installing VBStopforumspam on a test install of vbulletin v 3.8.4. The test install worked fine, no problems.

Then I followed the same steps on the live system. A database error was reported by vb.
Specifically
Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:

REPLACE INTO datastore
(title, data, unserialize)
VALUES
('options',

This was followed by all the replace values.

Now when I go into vb options and try to shut down the forum.. I get the same db error. I then uninstalled the VBStopForumSpam mod . The system threw another db error (same as above) however looking at the installed products list, the mod is not listed any more. So part of the uninstall worked.

The log files were never listed on the production server. They were listed on the test server after the install.

It looks like the original install only partially completed.

At the bottom of the log entry it reads:

MySQL Error : Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes
Error Number : 1153
Request Date : Sunday, November 1st 2009 @ 10:24:32 PM
Error Date : Sunday, November 1st 2009 @ 10:24:34 PM
Script : http://myforum.com/eZ563/plugin.php?do=productimport
Referrer : http://myforum.com/eZ563/plugin.php?do=productadd


Any suggestions how might back out of this gracefully? Also, any idea as to why this may have happened?

Thank you
CM

Try removing it with your FTP software. I run it on my 3.8.4 and it works like a champ. No problems and HIGHLY recommended. Make sure that you have done everything step by step (easy). PM pedigree too. Really GREAT at communicating and helping you out.

REPLACE INTO datastore
(title, data, unserialize)
VALUES
('options',

This isnt SQL that my Mod uses.

MySQL Error : Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

This is a mySQL database error. mysql is given more data that it can handle. Try installing/uninstalling it. The mod doesnt really make that much in the way of database changes.

This is the database uninstall

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS`".TABLE_PREFIX."vbstopforumspam`
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS`".TABLE_PREFIX."vbstopforumspam_log`
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS`".TABLE_PREFIX."vbstopforumspam_remotecache `
ALTER TABLE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "usergroup DROP vbstopforumspamviewpermissions
ALTER TABLE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "usergroup DROP vbstopforumspamsubmitpermissions

And delete the vbstopforumspam hooks for register_addmember_process and register_addmember_complete

And why it happened, no idea im afraid. There looks like there is underlying mysql database issues on your server. If you really really need, and you have phpymadmin, PM me and Ill see if I can uninstall it for you, althought Im not convinced my mod killed your forum. It looks like vbulletin has stopped with an error of its own, when trying to uninstall something

in vb_databstore, there are two rows that my mod appears in. This IS a vbulletin table, not one of mine -products & plugins. I would reinstall/unnistalling/reinstalling/uninstalling as vbulletin has choked here.