[Forum] After upgrade, half my site works, half does not

[RestlessCA]

I'm starting a new thread as my 500 error thread is getting cluttered and the title is not really accurate any longer.

My site used to be 3.7, I recently upgraded it to the latest version. The upgrade was a little troublesome as it stumbled on the Attachment conversion so I had to move my attachments to the file system. Once that was done the upgrade ran clean.

What I found when I was done was that the site was not working quite properly. I could
- Browse to the main page
- Click on a forum and see a list of posts
- BUT, if I clicked on a post I got (after enabling PHP to throw errors to the browser and disabling friendly errors in my browser -- before that all I got was a 500 error)

[B]Warning[/B]: require_once(/vb.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [B][path]\includes\class_bootstrap_framework.php[/B] on line [B]100[/B]
 
[B]Fatal error[/B]: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/vb.php' (include_path='.;c:\php\includes') in [B]C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\nclb3abd93\includes\class_bootstrap_framework.php[/B] on line [B]100[/B]

I am also able to perform some Admin functions, but not all.

I worked and worked on this issue rechecking all my settings, as you can see in my other thread. I even hard coded the path to the vb.php file so that it could be found which did get me past the error but then I got

[B]Fatal error[/B]: Class 'vB_Phrase' not found in [B]C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\nclb3abd93\vb\vb.php[/B] on line [B]120[/B]

It seems odd to me that some of my site works just fine, and some does not. I'm wondering what makes the code base for the working pieces different than the code base for the broken ones? Are the broken ones using different configs? Class files? Functions? Not being anywhere near an expert on vB I have no idea.

All I know is I have over 40 hours into an upgrade I expected to take an hour and I'm no closer to a solution now than I was days ago. I desperately need some help on this.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks

[Lynne]

You are missing the file /vb/vb.php according to both of your errors. So, upload that file and see if that fixes your issue.

[RestlessCA]

I am not missing vb.php. The second error says it can't find vb_Phrase in vb.php and I only get the second error after I fix the path to vb.php in the first chunk of code.

There is something just not quite right with my install and I can't track it down. I have recopied the files from the install package numerous times though, I'm quite certain I have all the files and they are correct.

This really seems like a path issue but I can't seem to determine what path is wrong or missing.

[RestlessCA]

Just to show the difference, when I remove the vb.php file the error I get is slightly different

[B]Warning[/B]: require_once(C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/nclb3abd93/vb/vb.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [B][path]\includes\class_bootstrap_framework.php[/B] on line [B]100[/B]
 
[B]Fatal error[/B]: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/nclb3abd93/vb/vb.php' (include_path='.;c:\php\includes') in [B]C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\nclb3abd93\includes\class_bootstrap_framework.php[/B] on line [B]100[/B]

It does seem the things that worked before continue to work after removing vb.php so it seems they don't depend on it which makes sense.

I honestly think there's an issue with how paths are found on my system but I really don't know enough about how vB using file paths or where it gets them from to find the answer.

[RestlessCA]

In looking at the code more I'm wondering, is PHP smart enough to turn forward slashes into back slashes?

define('VB_PATH', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../vb') . '/');

[Steve Machol]

Not sure how much more we can help with having access to the server and vB. Please fill out a support ticket at:

http://members.vbulletin.com/members...ontactform.php

Please include a complete description of the problem and be sure to include the login info to your Admin CP, phpMyAdmin and FTP in the 'Sensitive Data' field.

[RestlessCA]

Well, I just added this to a file to see if realpath is working and it's not

echo realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../vb') . '/';

It returns / only. What would cause this to happen?

[RestlessCA]

So I'm tinkering with code to try and track down what's going on so I did the following:

echo dirname(__FILE__);
realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../vb') . '/';

The first line returns the current path of the script being executed.

The second line returns nothing.

Does this tell us anything?

PS. I would open a ticket but I can't wait as long as that process will take. I really need to get this working.

[RestlessCA]

Well, I'm conceeding defeat. I have restored the old version and database. It works perfectly fine. Only a developer of vB would be able to tell me why that is I suspect.

[Trevor Hannant]

Have you raised a ticket as per Steve's post above?

[rickvr]

So I'm tinkering with code to try and track down what's going on so I did the following:

echo dirname(__FILE__);
realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../vb') . '/';

The first line returns the current path of the script being executed.

The second line returns nothing.

Does this tell us anything?

PS. I would open a ticket but I can't wait as long as that process will take. I really need to get this working.

vBulletin version 3 did not use the realpath php function. IIS version 7 has a major problem running php5 realpath function. Please read this: http://forums.iis.net/t/1153823.aspx