I set up a clean new directory and unzipped all the 6.5.1 files into it. I cloned my database so I could do a trial run on the upgrade without losing data. I took care to place all the *.inc.php files in /includes. All directories and paths are correct, all permissions are correct... I made certain.

I go to UPGRADING.html and get a login screen: To upgrade this board, please authenticate first.

I enter my valid user name and password, and get the same authentication message, again and again.

Yes I have cookies enabled. Yes I can log into my live board with my username and password.

Please, help me upgrade? Thanks.

live board: http://foolmoon.com

upgrade that won't upgrade: http://foolmoon.com/threads6.5.1/install/upgrade.php

Helice

pm me a valid user name and I'll look at it if you like

Okay, this is odd...

Given Allen's kind offer of help, I created a new user name for him to use, and found that I was able to use *that* name to proceed with the upgrade.php. Bizarre.

Thank you for that Allen, at least I got farther in the upgrade process.

New oddness:

This is a clean install, directly unzipped from the download in the member section. Upgrade.php now reports:

[] The following files do not exist in your install
(Make sure these are uploaded)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All files uploaded.

The following files are reporting a wrong version #
(Make sure you updated these files)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
addpost.php
admin/importdata.php
admin/importlive.php
admin/selectprunethreads.php
admin/showuser.php
categories.php
modifypost.php
previewsig.php
sendmessage.php
showflat.php
index.php
index.php


The following files need to be removed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All files tagged for removal have been removed.

[/]

I was taken aback, and just to make sure I re-copied all those clean new files to the directory, but continue to get the error quoted above. The headers inside the files all seem to say version 6.5.1.

Any clues as to what I can do next to proceed with this upgrade? It's very frustrating, especially when you try to start with a clean install.


--Helice

I think best thing you can do is open a support ticket with Infopop.

I have this same problem today. I don't think opening a support ticket is the answer... or rather should be the answer. I think the answer should be that something is wrong with the software. This doesn't appear to be a new issue... as it existed in the 6.5 version as well..

Looks like the upgrade script needs to be updated, it's looking for older files or something...

Wasn't it just updated 5 days ago with the new release of 6.5.1?

BTW... I was able to get passed that problem with this advice from Josh. And I ran into a few other snags that I was able to work through. But now I'm stuck with just a blank white page... as described here. I reloaded all of the files. Reset all permissions... check them several times. Still a blank page

One thing that strikes me as odd... and I'll admit that perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about... but... there are three specific files that when I open them in Notepad, they appear to be corrupt... as if they had been downloaded in binary. However when opened with Noted, they are fine. The three files are the admin/importdata, importfiles, importlive.php files. Oddly enough... all the files that are essential for the finalization of the upgrade. These files came to me in this form from the UBBCentral member area where I downloaded them from. All other files (the ones I've checked) seem to be fine. But not those three. If they are corrupt, they came to me that way and I have no idea how to fix them (if they are "broken") or where to get non-corrupt files (if they are indeed corrupt).

Any ideas?

They are not corrupt, they only contain the new line tags linux style.

Download this file editor to see them "normal".

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scintilla/Sc1.exe

Anno... thank you...

Now can you help me with my white page?

Is this the "white" page?
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php

The include files should be in the folder /includes

And you must specify the correct path in the file main.inc.php

Actually no, that is not the blank page I was referring to... This is.

What "include" files are you talking about? And I did specify the correct path in the main.inc.php ... "/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/candlepowerforums.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads/includes" ... is that not correct?

> And I did specify the correct path in the main.inc.php

path in main.inc.php should be

/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/candlepowerforums.com/httpdocs/ubbthreads


and the data for the database access don't seem to be right.

Anno... agreed. There are actually three paths in the main.inc.php file. I gave you the one for the includes folder... I thought that is what you were referring to in your previous post. Here are all of the paths in my main.inc.php file:



So what do I have incorrect and what "include" files were you talking about when you said they need to be in the includes folder?

Looks like you figured it out.

>So what do I have incorrect
It looked like the path was incorrect, but it seems that it ws right afterall.

>and what "include" files were you talking about when you said they need to be in
>the includes folder?

config.php.inc, main.inc.php and theme.inc.php

[]Anno said:
Looks like you figured it out. [/]

No... I reinstalled my backup files and I'm giving up on this for tonight at least. My board has been down all day and my natives are getting restless. And as it seems that no one has any answers for this problem, I'll just wait until they do. Or until I fell like spending an entire day banging my head against a wall again... well... at least until the hematoma goes down...

Sasha - can you confirm if those path are actually correct - reason I ask is that those paths would have been valid for older copies of Plesk - but the more recent versions would be

/home/httpd/vhosts/candlepowerforums.com/httpdocs/

Might be worth checking - although if those paths work under 6.4.1 they should work now - also might be worth you checking as to what version of the various apps like php and mysql you are using - if the version of Plesk is old, then so may be the other applications - set up a php.info file to verify - create a file called info.php with



in it.