Help with installing vBulletin

Irish Gunner

Hi

Have a site at www.irishgunners.com and we are currently using phpBB forums

Getting way to many spambots so paid for the vbulletin

Followed the instructions and uploaded the install.php and amended the login and password on this I got from our host, hosting Ireland

So this is were I uploaded the install.php

http://www.worldeasy.com/forum/upload/install/install.php

This is were I uploaded all the files necessary and I keep getting the below

Warning: main(/home/ /public_html/forum/upload/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ /public_html/forum/upload/install/init.php on line 41

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home//public_html/forum/upload/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home//public_html/forum/upload/install/init.php on line 41

I mailed customer support on vbulletin and they came back with the below

This means there is no init.php file here or the permission's are wrong:

/home//public_html/forum/upload/install/init.php

You have to upload all the vB files. And generally the directories should be chmod to 755 and the files to 644 for permission's.

I mail both vBulletin and hosting Ireland and nobody is given me a straight answer as to what's exactly wrong and how to fix it

I did upload the init.php file and have not got a clue how to chmod to 755 and the files to 644 for permission

Anyone any pointers or questions I should be asking both of their customer support as not sure if I am asking the right ones ?

Cheers

mneylon

It's probably a minor typo in a config or something that's causing this

VBulletin doesn't need any special permissions to install.

The main things you need to know are:

mysql db name
mysql user name
mysql hostname

And of course your vbulletin license information

Irish Gunner

blacknight wrote: »

It's probably a minor typo in a config or something that's causing this

VBulletin doesn't need any special permissions to install.

The main things you need to know are:

mysql db name
mysql user name
mysql hostname

And of course your vbulletin license information

Thanks

Would it be a typo in the install.php as this is the only file I amended did not go near the init.php just uploaded what we got from vBulletin

The user name and hostmane I put up were the logins I get to access our control panel and upload files is this the same thing as this is what I inserted on the install.php file

Ta

mneylon

You should be editing config.php - I think it ships as config.php.new, so you need to rename it

Irish Gunner

blacknight wrote: »

You should be editing config.php - I think it ships as config.php.new, so you need to rename it

Yeah did that also then amended & uploaded

Followed the instructions as per

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/

Changed the below to my mail address

// ****** TECHNICAL EMAIL ADDRESS ******
// If any database errors occur, they will be emailed to the address specified here.
// Leave this blank to not send any emails when there is a database error.
$config = 'dbmaster@example.com';

Do I need to change the below or can I leave it as forum ?

// ****** DATABASE NAME ******
// This is the name of the database where your vBulletin will be located.
// This must be created by your webhost.
$config = 'forum';

I changed the below to our login and password

// ****** MASTER DATABASE USERNAME & PASSWORD ******
// This is the username and password you use to access MySQL.
// These must be obtained through your webhost.
$config = 'root';
$config = '';

Still trying to work it out

mneylon

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Do I need to change the below or can I leave it as forum ?

// ****** DATABASE NAME ******
// This is the name of the database where your vBulletin will be located.
// This must be created by your webhost.
$config = 'forum';

You need to change it to whatever your database name is.

zAbbo

Have you correctly created a new database and user ?

Use those details in the config file.

Irish Gunner

zabbo wrote: »

Have you correctly created a new database and user ?

Use those details in the config file.

Thought I could do this but could not see it on control panel. Have asked host to see if they can do this

Want to export our phpbb messagesover but now this is down ???

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user '_phpbb1'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in /home//public_html/phBB/db/mysql4.php on line 48

Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home//public_html/phBB/db/mysql4.php on line 330

Warning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home//public_html/phBB/db/mysql4.php on line 331
phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database


Can they be run in unison until we get this sorted ?

mneylon

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Thought I could do this but could not see it on control panel. Have asked host to see if they can do this

Want to export our phpbb messagesover but now this is down ???

There's an importer script available to move all content from phpbb over to vbulletin. It's available to download from your vbulletin account

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Can they be run in unison until we get this sorted ?

Short answer - yes

Longer answer - that will depend on your setup

Irish Gunner

After talking to HostingIreland found out we cannot create another database thus the reason maybe ?

So this will cost us an extra tenner not so bad

So when I create the database and name it I change the below

// ****** DATABASE NAME ******
// This is the name of the database where your vBulletin will be located.
// This must be created by your webhost.
$config = 'NEW DATABASE NAME';


// ****** MASTER DATABASE USERNAME & PASSWORD ******
// This is the username and password you use to access MySQL.
// These must be obtained through your webhost.
$config = 'NEW USERNAME';
$config = 'NEW PASSWORD';

Would this solve my issue ?

mneylon

That should solve it

Irish Gunner

created a database and inserted did the below

// ****** DATABASE NAME ******
// This is the name of the database where your vBulletin will be located.
// This must be created by your webhost.
$config = 'vbulletin';

then amended

****** MASTER DATABASE USERNAME & PASSWORD ******
// This is the username and password you use to access MySQL.
// These must be obtained through your webhost.
$config = 'username;
$config = 'password';

However on our serverthe username is login_username and name of board is login_vbulletin

Same old same old when I go to the below

http://www.worldeasy.com/forum/upload/install/install.php

Warning: main(/home/w24945/public_html/forum/upload/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home//public_html/forum/upload/install/init.php on line 41

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/w24945/public_html/forum/upload/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home//public_html/forum/upload/install/init.php on line 41


I am at my wits end anyone

Thanks

zAbbo

How did you FTP Upload the files, did you ensure that the upload was set to BINARY mode

Irish Gunner

zabbo wrote: »

How did you FTP Upload the files, did you ensure that the upload was set to BINARY mode

ftp using dreamweaver mx built in ftp

Got the below message from vbulletin

I've checked everything I could. It looks like a problem with the include_path setting in php.ini:

include_path - .:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php

Please ask your host to check this and make sure php is installed in those directories

Willl check with hostingireland tomorrow and see if they can do this

zAbbo

Sounds a bit strange alright, let us know how you're getting on

Irish Gunner

finally got it whoop de do:D

located here

Have to now try to figure out how to try to export phpbb to vbulletin have to look at This anyone ever done this difficult for a noobie like me

Also were can I get templates looking for football ones

Thanks to everyone for their help

zAbbo

Don't want to dampen your spirits mate, but the folder 'upload' is more of an instruction that thats the folder you upload into your 'forum' directory e.g here - http://www.worldeasy.com/forum/

Irish Gunner

zabbo wrote: »

Don't want to dampen your spirits mate, but the folder 'upload' is more of an instruction that thats the folder you upload into your 'forum' directory e.g here - http://www.worldeasy.com/forum/

Not sure what you mean ? Do I need to move files into a different folder ?

zAbbo

yup, everything inside the upload folder should go into the root forum directory, in your case /forum/ , the way you have it is /forum/upload/

Irish Gunner

zabbo wrote: »

yup, everything inside the upload folder should go into the root forum directory, in your case /forum/ , the way you have it is /forum/upload/

Yep done that now and its now located at www.worldeasy.com/forum

Any ideas as to the best place for skins for vbulletin looking for a football themed one

Cheers

zAbbo

Free or paid for? vbstyles do nice stuff, I'd go for a nice easy to read theme and create a custom header/logo

Irish Gunner

zabbo wrote: »

Free or paid for? vbstyles do nice stuff, I'd go for a nice easy to read theme and create a custom header/logo

Prefably free ones

Is there anyway we can use the current skin we have on our phpbb forums ?

Looking for one for with a football theme. Are they easy to amend so we can add our own logo but neither of us who run the site are great logo creators

zAbbo

vbulletin.org is a good resource for that kind of thing, try a few of the free ones from there and perhaps get someone who can put together a simple logo/sitename.

Sully

How did you solve the original problem anyway?

Irish Gunner

Sully wrote: »

How did you solve the original problem anyway?

logged into vmembers webpage and gave our ftp login details and they logged in and fixed it up along with help from our host

Now trying to work out how to export the phpbb to this