[URGENT] I cannot move my forum to another server

[pokusek]

When I tried to move my vBulletin to another server, it showed me this page: -------

What should I do?
Thank you.

[your24hourstore]

well that's a link to here and this is not who would ban u , but perhaps a mod you have installed is banned. I don't know but im sure some one will maybe pm lynne with this

[Lynne]

No, don't PM me. I don't like getting PMs from people saying "please come answer my thread" and I don't help via PM.

*Exactly* what steps did you take to move your site from server 1 to server 2?

[pokusek]

1) I downloaded all data from my MySQL DB and FTP
2) because of bad encoding in my database (wrong collation) I replaced all incorrect diacritic characters to make sure that the data would show correctly on my forum
3) I changed MySQL settings in config.php
4) I imported the database to another MySQL server (I did the same with downloaded files from FTP)
5) I changed the IP address of my old web host to new IP address in my domain's DNS settings

When DNS of my domain has been updated, I visited my forum. There was shown this page.

6) I changed my DNS record back to the old value

[Lynne]

My guess would be a mistake somewhere in item 2. Did you take a look at the database tables afterwards and verify certain things were still the same - like look at your user table, your particular userid and make sure it was still exactly the same? And with the usergroup table also?

[pokusek]

Well, the sizes of both databases (old and new) are the same (about 100 MB). I just checked those tables and everything seem to be fine.

In fact, before I made the step #2, I uploaded the unmodified old database to the MySQL server. I was not able to access the forum on my main domain, so I used my web host's temporary URL (myaccount.mywebhost.com) to view the forum.

Surprise, surprise - I saw the same screen I posted in my first post. Only the diacritic characters (displayed in yellow notify bar; I removed it after so it is not in the picture) were messed up.

I thought that was caused because of vBulletin antipiracy policy, so I just deleted everything I uploaded and hoped that if the URL of my forum would be the same, this would not happen.

And then I made steps 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

[Lynne]

That page shows tons of missing phrases and such. Did you make sure to disable your plugins via the config.php file? And did you change the forum url? Did you follow the directions here - Moving Servers ?

[pokusek]

Originally Posted by Lynne

That page shows tons of missing phrases and such. Did you make sure to disable your plugins via the config.php file?

I did not. How can I do that?

Originally Posted by Lynne

And did you change the forum url?

Nope. When I tried to enter the admin control panel, it showed me this error.

Originally Posted by Lynne

Did you follow the directions here - Moving Servers ?

Almost. I used phpMyAdmin for exporting and importing the database.

[Lynne]

Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit includes/config.php and add this line right under <?php

PHP Code:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); 


[pokusek]

I added this into my config.php but it did not help.
---- ← temporary webhost URL address (please note that links are linking to domain ----, where is the working version of my forum)