Installation problem vb 4.2.3

[Lloyd32552]

I'm moving to a new website hosted at Hostgator. I'm doing a fresh installation of vb4.2.3. I'm pretty sure I've got config.php correct as I've been doing this for many years. When I run the installer, it immediately fails with the following messages:

Warning: require_once(./upgrade.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home3/lloyd32552/public_html/forum/install/install.php on line 25

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required './upgrade.php' (include_path='.:/opt/php54/lib/php') in /home3/lloyd32552/public_html/forum/install/install.php on line 25

Your help in trouble shooting this is greatly appreciated.

Lloyd

[Dave]

The file upgrade.php is missing in the install folder. Make sure that you uploaded all the required files correctly.

[Lloyd32552]

Dave,

That was the first thing I thought of, too. Upgrade.php is in the installs folder. I simply unzipped the archive and uploaded everything.

A couple more things I've tried -
I deleted the entire system and uploaded 4.2.2 and then ran install and got the exact same message.
I then deleted that entire system and downloaded a fresh archive of 4.2.3 and uploaded it. I was surprised to see that the install folder did not contain a copy of install.php, though. On a lark, I uploaded install.php from 4.2.2 and got the same messages as before.

A couple things - the server is running php 5.4.

Any ideas? Is there an installation log that will tell me more than the message I've seen?
Lloyd

[squidsk]

If you uploaded everything that's your problem, you should only have uploaded the content of the upload folder, nothing else.

[Lloyd32552]

I only uploaded everything in the Upload folder. I'm just guessing here, but I believe that's why they call it an Upload folder. :->

As I said in an earlier post, I've been doing this for years. I've just got a message I've never seen before and am wondering if anyone else has seen it and knows what is wrong.

This is a virgin install with the latest 4.2.3 installation files at the #1 linux hosting company and there's no reason it shouldn't work just as it has done the other 20 times I've done it.

[Dave]

Hmm so the file upgrade.php is present at /home3/lloyd32552/public_html/forum/install/upgrade.php?
Seems really weird that it's still throwing the error, the only other thing I can think of is a file permission problem, but it should generate a different error in that case.

What if you open up the install.php file and add

PHP Code:

chdir('/home3/lloyd32552/public_html/forum/install'); 


right before

PHP Code:

require_once('./upgrade.php'); 


[Lloyd32552]

Dave,
That certainly got things started, but I pretty quickly got another error:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>: Call to a member function shutdown() on a non-object in <b>/home3/lloyd32552/public_html/forum/includes/class_xml.php</b> on line <b>929</b><br />

I suspect that since the installation files don't include an install.php file, the one I'm using from 4.2.2 might not have some customizations. My only experience with 4.2.3 was upgrading 4.2.2.

I will private message you.
Thanks for your help.
Lloyd

[Dave]

Yea there's definitely something going wrong, bit hard to figure out for us.

[RichieBoy67]

You are using an install.php file from 4.2.2 for a 4.2.3 install?

Go and redownload your files from Vbulletin.com and start over. Reupload, etc.

[Dragonsys]

What version of PHP is installed?