Forum Migration

[Daggerzz]

Ok so I have been trying to move my forum

But it isnt quite working correct

I have copied all of the software and the Data bases to the new server.


When i load my homepage www.mysite/forum

The vb software appears to work fine for the most part except Ii need to rename in the vbadmin settings the name of the new website url


when I enter the admincp area I can log in then

I get an internal server error and a blank page.

Does anybody have any ideas?

[Dismounted]

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

[Daggerzz]

Thanks for the reply

I am having problems establishing my path as well

on my server the root dir is htdocs and the forum is in forum

so what should the path be?

/home/htdocs/forum

/forum/=

/home/forum

Ive tried these and they do not seem to work

Thanks agiin

[Dismounted]

You can find the path by looking at your PHP info (Admin CP > Maintenance > View PHP Info).

[Daggerzz]

thats the problem I cant get into my admincp

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Where are you planning to enter that full path?

Did you follow the link Dismounted posted? Did you try the suggestions on that page?

[Daggerzz]

yes I followed the Link

i turned off hooks
and entered all the php lines suggested


I also created the.htaccess file as suggested but that created a new server error.


and somewhere I read that It may not be able to find the admincp directory and could add

this is the example line from the config.php file in the includes Dir
$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/home/users/public_html/forums';


So I tried $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/htdocs/forum';

and placed it directly beneath the other $config['Misc'] lines

which as best as I can tell is the correct path.



I know that the line on admincp -> vbsettings ->sitename/url settings is incorrect because it points to the domain name registered on the old server.

Is there a specific file or a place in the database where I could change this so at least my links on the new server will work correctly right now they link back to the old server.


Thanks

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I also uploaded a blank vbulletin board into another directory and everything works fine.


I am running vb advanced cmps on the one that I can not get to work.


If you need to know any of that info.

Thanks

[Dismounted]

PHP Code:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); 


If you have already put this line into your config.php and it still does not work, please open a support ticket at vBulletin.com.

[Daggerzz]

Thanks for the help all it seemed that the .htaccess file i had transfered from my old server didnt work I erased it and it works now.

Will erasing that file hurt anything.

[Dismounted]

If you have applications that depends on the .htaccess file, yes, it will adversely affect it. Could you post the contents of the file up?