[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by Razasharp

Yes it could well be.

It sounds like your cookie settings - if they were set for your old forum directory they will now stop working.

Try this:

> ftp to your site

> rename the directory of the forum to what it was AT THE TIME the backup was taken

> go to your site

> in your vB Admin Control Panel (ACP)

vBulletin Options > Cookies and HTTP Header Options > Path to Save Cookies

Make a note of the existing setting (for example mine is set to: /myforums/ )

Then change the setting to:

/

> click on SAVE

> ftp back to your site and name the directory to what you want it to be - for example you said it was: forums

> go back to your site and in your vB Admin Control Panel (ACP)

vBulletin Options > Cookies and HTTP Header Options > Path to Save Cookies

Then change the setting to:

/forums/ (or replace 'forums' with new directory name it is in)

> click on SAVE


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if that doesnt work let me know.

After further investigation, I discovered that our directory name was "forum" before we were hacked and is "forum" now. As of this moment, I cannot login to the Administration Panel nor can I login as a User...I'm totally shut out. Whenever I attempt to login I receive an error message stating: "This user has not registered and therefore does not have a profile to view." Could this be associated with an improper vbulletin restore? This was my first time having to attempt to restore vBulletin, I assumed that simply putting all the tables back into the database would bring it back to normal...but it's been quite the opposite.