unable to turn forum off and censorship no longer works
 

Hello

I am having some issues with my forum, upon moving my forum from a shared hosting server to a VPS as well as upgrading to 3.8.0 a month a go I have started noticing that censorship no longer works and then when going to turn my forum off this morning to try to upgrade I couldn't do that either!!!

I had 4 plugins installed, 3 (vbseo Sitemap generator, cron based email sending, You replacement) I have uninstalled. I also have a post thank you hack installed but when I try to uninstall that I get database errors and am unable to view posts.

I have tried upgrading my old test forum to the version I am running now with no plugins and these features work.

Could the post thank you hack be causing this after upgrading the forum to 3.8 or could something else be happening? I just don't understand why this thank you hack would cause censorship and turning my forum off to not work? I am a little worried that perhaps something else is going on?

I have also tried installing the post thank you hack on my test forum and these features still work.

Thanks

Try disabling your modifications/plugins and see if you still have this problem.
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

Don't forget that for vbseo, disabling the modification means to also get rid of anything extra you added to your htaccess file.

There is actually a setting within vbulletin where you can disable the plugin/hook system for troubleshooting which I tried but still had the same issues.

Have you looked in your error_logs to see if anything is turning up there?

Is your test forum also on the new server?

Yes same server didn't think to check any error logs.

Do you use a file based datastore?

I don't think so?

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Ok just had a looksie in the config.php and I am using filecache if that is what you meant?

Make sure that the directory used for the filecache was moved correctly and is world-writable, also ensure the files inside the directory are writable.

Hello Marco,

I found a directory titled datastore with the attributes 755 and in there a datastore.php file that has not been modified since I moved with the attributes 644. I compared it with the datastore on my test forum and both the directory and the datastore file have the same attributes but this datastore file has been modified last time I used it.

So there definitely seems to be something up in that it doesn't seem to be using the datastore since I moved, but the attributes seem the same?

The datastore directory should be 755, but the datastore_cache.php file should be 777.

From here - The vBulletin Datastore:

The attributes are incorrect.

644 & 755 are not "world writable" attributes.

7 - "rwx" (r)ead, (w)rite, e(x)ecute, for Owner/User,
5 - "r*x" for Group,
5 - "r*x" for world/Other <-- No "world" write permissions

6 - "rw*" (r)ead, (w)rite, e(x)ecute, for Owner/User,
4 - "r**" for Group,
4 - "r**" for world/Other <-- No "world" write permissions

Thanks :) will give it a try now. I wonder why the one on my test forum still works?

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I changed the attributes for the datastore file and rebuilt my post cache and all fixed, thank you very much :)