need help re-installing vbulletin
 

i ditched my crappy host (rackshack.net) and moved my site to phpwebhosting.com. i had a vbulletin running on my old site...but i paid a friend of mine to install it for me. now that im on the new host, i need some help with re-installing it and putting the old database in so i dont lose all my posts/members.

would anyone be interested in helping me?

Thanks!
-Wes
wwalz2000@yahoo.com

Hi,

I can give you a hand if you like, I recently moved my vB to a new host fine without any probs at all. Let me know if you want me to help ;)

hit me up on email or AIM
email - wwalz2000@yahoo.com
AIM - slacker739

thanks!!!

Its relatively easy to do, if you have shell which is a good thing just dump the database and tar the folder.

Then on the other server you can use wget to make the other server download the files, untar thim and then load the database back to mysql.

I moved servers and it took me about 10mins so its relatively easy. I'll help as well if you need it.

scott.macvicar@vbulletin.org

Re-installing a vBulletin is very easy...

For help contact :

Yahoo - chief_cheatingdome
MSN - ghetto_lord69@hotmail.com
Email - thephora@hotmail.com

Satan

re-installing vbulletin takes only 3 or more steps..

1. Install PHPMyAdmin on both old and new hosts (if they don't support shell)
2. Go to your old host and connect to your PHPMyAdmin and save all table and strings (once again, if they don't support shell)
3. Upload it in the new host vis PHPMyAdmin (once again, if they don't support shell)

that's it

What if the guy has a new database name,,?? what program does he use to unzip and edit it.

FWIW, "reinstalling" a PHP script is absolutely nothing like reinstalling a program on Windows. There's no junk it leaves that could be breaking something but the script or database itself. My advice is to simply always use the absolute latest (except possibly for RC and vB3) version of vBulletin, hack only when absolutely necessary, and be careful. :)

move files. transplant sql. and change the link in adminCP (most important step)

A little off topic: You left rackshack which you thought was crappy, to phpwebhosting? I'm sure that 98% of people at WHT would disagree with that completely...i'm quite surprised you found RS crappy and then moved to PHPWebHosting...