UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Upgrading to 6.5b1 question

I moved the 3 files to the includes folder and I got the uploads.php file.

all I get is
[] Please make sure you have moved main.inc.php, config.inc.php and theme.inc.php into your includes directory as one or more of the mentioned files are missing. [/]

Check permissions on the includes directory and on the files. If the permissions are not wide enough, PHP will report the files to be missing.

just so I know im not going crazy

where do I put the update.php file? In the includes dir or in the install dir?

update.php does not get moved - leave it in the install directory. You're only moving the config files (config.inc.php, main.inc.php and theme.inc.php)

ok, call me the village idiot!

I didnt see the install dir so I was tring to do /.../upgrade.php.

DOH!

stuck again?

I started over to make sure I was doing everything correct.
I uploaded all the files and moved the 3 files to the correct dir. now when I go to site/forums/install it bring me to the correct page asking the 2 questions. new install or upgrading. I choose "If you are upgrading UBB.threads™ from a previous version, Go here" and it brings up a white, blank page. the permissions on the file is set to 777 just to make sure I can access it.

It tries to open up ungrade.php and thats the white page thats blank...

If I choose the other it show me that all the files are writable and wants to do a new install.

Did you move your actual config.inc.php, main.inc.php and theme.inc.php into the includes directory, meaning the ones that are all filled in with the paths and variables or did you move the empty ones that come with the installation? Make sure you have moved the ones that were in place for 6.4.2.

ya. I made sure to move the original ones into there.

just checked it again.

Ok, maybe we need to debug a little. Edit your install/upgrade.php file. Line 25 looks like this:

$check = @include ("../includes/main.inc.php");

Change that, to this:

$check = include ("../includes/main.inc.php");

Try going into the upgrade area again and see what, if any, errors are displayed.

That happened to me, but I had change permissions on the includes directory and make sure I moved my original files there, overwriting the ones included with the package.

Now it works past there.

What version are you upgrading from. I had this problem but hadn't yet run the update (UPGRADING.html) to get myself to the latest 6.4.1 database structure.

im upgradeing from 6.4.2

When I do what scream said I get this...

[]Warning: main(/home/site/public_html/config.inc.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/site/public_html/ubbt.inc.php on line 43 [/]

thats only when I click on upgrade. If I click on new install it works perfectly.

weaird error I had I had to trick the upgrader.. it kept looking for the cp image files which of course are there in the images/cp directory so I moved em into the images directory then back into the images/cp directory...otherwise its fine.

Chaos. What do you have for your $configdir and $thispath variables in your main.inc.php file? It seems to be looking for your config.inc.php file in a different directory other than the includes directory. It sounds as if the variables in the main.inc.php file were setup for a custom directory for the config.inc.php file. You might want to check that your $configdir is the same as $thispath.

Yes, there is an issue with the images that are in the cp directory. Thought I had it fixed before b1 was released but unfortunately it slipped by.

thats okay i cheated and its all good now and am modding away atm...

I checked the main.inc.php and the dir is set correctly. "/home/halo/public_html";

I made sure they are both set to be the same. One had a trailing slash. when I removed it I get this error now when I click on upgrade...

[] We cannot proceed.

Script: /home/halo/public_html/ubbt.inc.php
Line#: 1563
SQL Error: No Database Selected
SQL Error #: 1046
Query: SELECT U_Username,U_Password,U_SessionId, U_StyleSheet, U_Status, U_Privates, U_FrontPage, U_Number, U_Banned,U_LastOn FROM w3t_Users WHERE U_Number = '43'

Please use your back button to return to the previous page.

[/]

Did you upload all the new php files in the ubbthreads directory? I sometimes upload all the subdirectories but forget to upload all the files that are in /ubbthreads

ya. I checked the upload logs and verified each file was uploaded.

this is the contents of my main.inc.php file.

[]<?

// THIS NEEDS TO BE SET, OTHERWISE ADMIN SCRIPTS WILL NOT WORK
// THIS IS THE ACTUAL PATH TO YOUR PHP INSTALLATION
$thispath = "/home/halo/public_html";

// PATH TO YOUR config.inc.php file. BY DEFAULT THIS IS THE
// SAME AS $thispath, BUT IF YOU MOVE config.inc.php TO ANY
// OTHER LOCATION YOU MUST SPECIFY IT HERE.
$configdir = "/home/halo/public_html";

// DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE!
include("$thispath/ubbt.inc.php");

// Page load times
$timea = getmicrotime();

?> [/]

IN reference to this error:
[]We cannot proceed.

Script: /home/halo/public_html/ubbt.inc.php
Line#: 1563
SQL Error: No Database Selected
SQL Error #: 1046
Query: SELECT U_Username,U_Password,U_SessionId, U_StyleSheet, U_Status, U_Privates, U_FrontPage, U_Number, U_Banned,U_LastOn FROM w3t_Users WHERE U_Number = '43'

Please use your back button to return to the previous page.
[/]

this is line 1563
[] $sth = $dbh -> do_query($query,__LINE__,__FILE__); [/]

what version you upgrading from?

6.4.2

No database selected. You might want to look at your config.inc.php file and make sure that it has your database info in it.

[]DrChaos said:
ya. I checked the upload logs and verified each file was uploaded.

this is the contents of my main.inc.php file.

[]<?

// THIS NEEDS TO BE SET, OTHERWISE ADMIN SCRIPTS WILL NOT WORK
// THIS IS THE ACTUAL PATH TO YOUR PHP INSTALLATION
$thispath = "/home/halo/public_html";

// PATH TO YOUR config.inc.php file. BY DEFAULT THIS IS THE
// SAME AS $thispath, BUT IF YOU MOVE config.inc.php TO ANY
// OTHER LOCATION YOU MUST SPECIFY IT HERE.
$configdir = "/home/halo/public_html";

// DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE!
include("$thispath/ubbt.inc.php");

// Page load times
$timea = getmicrotime();

?> [/]
[/]
Should be $configdir = "/home/halo/public_html/includes"
Since the config.inc.php is now in an includes directory.

Actually, the paths are ok. The ubbt.inc.php adds the /includes when it executes. We didn't want everyone to have to edit their main.inc.php because most people never touch it, so it handles that part

bah, I thought that was it.

Im still looking. I want to get it to work on the test forums before i try to install it on the public one.

can you smell a disaster.....

This might be way off base, but what about using 755 instead of 777? Some servers run suexec and 777 is not permitted?

You've definitely got something odd going on there. That error is coming from the authenticate() function. That function should never get executed when doing an upgrade. All user authentication for upgrading is done by scripts in the install directory since we can never rely on the authenticate() function working on a new version before the altertables have been run.

So, first I'd double check your config.inc.php file. Make sure that all database info has been filled out. If everything looks good there then perhaps later this afternoon I can take a look if you can give me your server info via PM or email so I can get in and do some debugging.

What do we need to change in IIP to work with 6.5, I forgot what we did in prior updates

I think I found it. When I edited the config to show the path. I added a space. might just get it working

how did you get it to show the images in the cp?
Im errored at that point. I removed tham and then loaded them again. Even gave them a 777???

Actually I'm not sure about getting it to work with IIP, but I know that's been discussed in another forum here.

Basically, you need to copy the images from the images/cp directory into the images directory as well so they exist in both directories. That was a mixup on my part that I didn't get fixed for b1.

done thanks.
that was the easy part.

I just might have it
(im such a nu-b)

Use the 6.5 version of IIP. It has a moved thread marker in modifications, and it is at the top of the Forum Design Integration forum.

[]gblue said:
What do we need to change in IIP to work with 6.5, I forgot what we did in prior updates [/]

You need to upgrade to the version of IIP which is designed to work with 6.5.

[]Scream said:
Actually I'm not sure about getting it to work with IIP, but I know that's been discussed in another forum here. [/]

Installed the latest version of IIP and it worked like a charm. Great job!