Test Forum Attempt

[58D]

Here is the situation. I had a clone test forum running for quite some time. It was going well but I decided to start fresh with a fresh copy of my live forum. So, I deleted the database, deleted the test forum files, created the new database, restored a copy of my live forum database into the test forum database. I then copied the files from my live forum into the the test forums directory. I overwrote the config file with the previous test forum config file. I went to the test forum and bingo, it worked...until I tried to log in. When I log in it says welcome but then reverts right back to being logged out.

I realize this must be a cookie problem but I can't log into the admincp to change the paths. What should I do or what should I have done to prevent this? Thanks in advance.

Jake
www.homebuiltairplanes.com

[Hell Bomb]

You will have to upload the "Tools.php" to your admincp folder. Then go to it via your browser. From there you can reset the cookies.

This file is located in the do_not_upload folder in the folder you downloaded from vBulletin.com. When you downloaded the folder with the files to upload to the server.

If you have custom set cookies there is no real way to prevent this but uploading the tools.php file makes it easy to reset it.

[58D]

Thanks for the reply Hellbomb. I did as you said and it's a blank white screen. No 404 or anything, just a blank white screen. Any ideas?

[Dismounted]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/blank_pages" target="_blank">Blank or 'White' Pages</a>

[58D]

Well, I re-coppied all of my forum files. I also made a copy of my live forum database again, but this time changed the cookie path to /testforums/ instead of /forums/. I checked and my testforums folder is chmod 755, just like my forums folder. The forums are woking great, you just may not log in. Tools.php is still blank and I can't log-in to change any settings. Any idea what's going on?

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Never mind, I got it. Thanks.

[ProFifaLeagues]

Feel free to let us know how you solved it as its something im looking into doing.
thanks

[Trasion]

Can you tell us how you solved it? Happens to me all of the time too..

[mikey1991]

make sure init.php exists in the install/ directory, and the admincp directory, as the tools.php calls these.

[Seven Skins]

In the config.php file edit these lines specially cookieprefix.

$config['Database']['dbname'] = '';
$config['MasterServer']['username'] = '';
$config['MasterServer']['password'] = '';
$config['Misc']['cookieprefix'] = '';

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