Problems encountered configuring vBulletin 5.0.2. Help required!

[awtvteam]

Dear vBulletin,

I had outsourced my website and recently after some growth and more coding myself I found out a part (the vBulletin) which is just a section of my site, was unlicensed (in other words nulled), I immediately took action and bought a license.

This is my first day that I use vBulletin 5 and I am trying to configure it to my wants or needs, however there seem to be so many restrictions or user-unfriendlinesses. I am not sure whether it has to do with my website/server or not, however I think it only concerns vBulletin.

My vBulletin is installed in a sub-directory: /forum/

- While trying to change the logo by [Edit Site] + [Edit Page], neither the upload or retrieve from external source work. Going to the templates and editing the link manually to the logo in the styles works. However, I am unable to edit the link the header sends to [the href].

- To the navigation bar I added several links to non-forum sections of my website, however the [Title] of the first [Navigation-Item] e.g. [BACK TO SITE] > [/index.php] automatically changes back it's [Title] to [Forums] even though the original [Forums] navigation-button is still there, only it's not in the first position. This is very annoying.

- I could yet not find the possibility in basic-configuration to set a max-width for the website or for it's dimensions [70/30], I am sure something like that wouldn't be left out, therefore please assist me find it.

- The vBulletin does no longer have a login.php [a form] somewhere, of which I could use the data so people could directly login from the main website to the vBulletin using a form on the website. It might be there, but I can not find it.

- For testing purposes I added a new Account, put it in the Administrator group then deleted the current Admin account. Result the entire forums are offline. There is a serious error and the page cannot be rendered. After going through all maintenance options, no result, in addition the 'Update Title and User Ranks' doesn't even function, because of: Updating user info... Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_infraction_groups() in /public_html/forum/core/admincp/misc.php on line 370.

- All the forums/categories dissappeared, even though they are still in the MySQL database.

The more I use vBulletin/continue configuring it using no mods, tools and not even editing the PHP files themselves, the buggier, glitchier the vBulletin appears to be.

In the meantime I have deleted all SQL tables/forum folder of the vBulletin and put back the original nulled-script that was first being used. Until the purchased version is not working like it should, I will continue using the nulled-script, otherwise I lose visitors.

Please help me.

Best Regards,
AWTVteam

[Lynne]

This site is mostly for help with making modifications to your site. Most of your questions are about the default software and thus could have just been asked over on vbulletin.com, the official site.

- In regards to the logo, there are size limitations when you use the Site Builder to upload the image. Also, the only way to change the URL it points to is to actually modify the template itself. I believe it is the header template.

- I don't understand this - so you end up with two Forums tabs? If you don't want one of the default tabs, don't just rename them - you need to actually delete them or they will do this funky revert at times.

- I don't understand what you are asking about here - what do you want to be 70/30? That is one of the options under the Site Builder > Edit Page > Change Layout area - is that what you are talking about?

- If you have registration on, then there should be a page with all that data when you click to register.

- There are several bugs regarding the General Update Tools, like for Update Title and User Ranks. You can do a search in Jira to find most of them.

- What did you do just before they all disappeared?