Backing up Board

[metalguy639]

Originally Posted by SweetAngel

Sure. I went exactly by the video. I had to download a FTP program. I actually downloaded three LOL One I couldn't get working. The second one kept on freezing on me. Then I downloaded SmartFTP and that seemed to work, I think. I have never used one of these programs before. I did a back up, which was easy enough done. I deleted two files as per the video. I can't remember which ones but it was the two that were in the video. I also added something to the top of the config file as per the video. I turned off my board and then transfered all the files over via the FTP program. Once that was done. I went to the install/upgrade page and went through all those steps. I think there were 6 in total. Then I went back to my board and everything worked fine. At the bottom of the board it still said that I had version 4.0.5. When I went to the admin panel at the top it still said I had 4.0.5. It looked like nothing had changed.

Ohh and I don't have any mods attached to the board, so there was nothing to turn off there.

I hope all that makes sense?

I have not seen the video for the upgrade, but upgrading is rather easy to do. You need to follow these steps:

1. Download the latest version of vbulletin from your members area.
2. Unzip it to your hard drive (desktop most likely is easiest)
3. Look in the includes/ directory and find the config.php.new file.
4. Change the name to config.php.
5. Double click on the config file to open it (you'll need a html editor like dreaweaver, frontpage, or there are some frees ones or you can use windows built in notepad or a text editor.
6. In the file you will need to change the following items to match your info:

First find:

$config['Database']['dbname'] = 'forum';

Change it to your database name you can find this info on your old config file. Just download it from your includes directory on your site.

Then find:

$config['Database']['tableprefix'] = '';

Make sure its the same as your config file from your 4.0.5 version.

Then find:

$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = 'localhost';

Again make sure it matches your old config file.

Then find:

$config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'root';
$config['MasterServer']['password'] = '';

Change the top one to your username for the database and the bottom to the password for the database.

Now save the file. Make sure that you ALWAYS edit between the ' and '. So if the code is

$config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'root';

Your would edit it to be:

$config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'your_username';

Always keeping the little quotes in place.

7. Now you need to delete the install.php file from your includes directory in the new files you are about to upload.

8. Turn your board off.

9. Upload all the files keeping the directory structure and order together. Make sure that you "OVERWRITE" all your old files. If you have a custom skin then do not upload the images directory.

10. After all the files are uploaded and overwritten open your browser to:

http://www.yoursite.com/forums/install/upgrade.php

Change yoursite.com to your domain and if your forum is not in a forums directory then drop the forums part from the link like so

http://www.yoursite.com/install/upgrade.php

11. Now you should see a screen asking you for your customer number. Copy and paste it in the box and click the button to start.

12. From here you just wait and let it do its thing. When its done it will tell you. Then you should be all ready to go.

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Originally Posted by SweetAngel

I just opened up my download that I did before trying to upgrade and it has nothing like that. The last thing it has is this

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `visitormessage_hash` (
`postuserid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`userid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`dupehash` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
`dateline` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
KEY `postuserid` (`postuserid`,`dupehash`),
KEY `dateline` (`dateline`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Does that mean I have not backed up my board right?

Yeah actually that is very possible because you usually have to have a dump command at the end of the file. Try backing it up using the Cpanel tutorial I put a link to earlier if you have CPanel. http://www.skinsnstyles.com/xenforo/...via-cpanel.26/ If you do not have CPanel let me know and I can help you a different way to back it up.