For the news posts to show regardless of permissions see this post

For the latest threads find:

And remove it.

[high]THIS WILL SHOW ALL POSTS REGARDLESS OF PERMISSIONS/LIMITED FORUMIDS TO EVERYONE[/high]

Alternativly, the following should work and would be better find:

Add before:

Find:

Add after:

This will use normal permissions for users logged in and will ignore permissions for those users who are logged out. With this method you can enter the forums you want to hide in the vBindex Options and they will be excluded from everyone.

Are there any issues with the new-posts count being incorrect?

They will be incorrect iff the user logged in doesn't have access to the forum where the new post is. Excluding all the private forums would probably put too much load on the server however its something I'll be looking into for a new version.

thats the error message i get when i install at step 3

tried to delete the vbindex tables and reinstall but no help

any ideas?

i tried to drop the vbindex_shoutbox table again and reinstalled and now i get this error

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO datastore (title, data) VALUES ('vbindex_setting', 222)
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'vbindex_setting' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

heres the MySQL version 3.23.58

heres the PHP Version 4.2.2

You CANNOT re-run the installer untill you have finished installing, it won't work, run this query:

[sql]INSERT INTO datastore (title) VALUES ('vbindex_version')[/sql]

and then move onto vbiupgrade2.php?step=4

thnx trying now

As a note, if running that query fails, just ignore it and move onto step 4.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO datastore (title) VALUES ('vbi_eventcache')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'vbi_eventcache' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

on step 6 after i ran the query

should i run the query again and move to step 7?