Wrong forwarding after upgrade?

[Trixi]

Hi,

my old VB 4.2.2 forum was at www.pedicabforum.com/forums - then I decided to upgrade to 5.1.7 and installed a new folder at www.pedicabforum.com/forum (singular - with "S" at the end).

So far so good. Forum is up...but now I have twice "forum" in the Url and it does not find the postings...

http://www.pedicabforum.com/forum/forum/new-to-this-forum-start-here/introduce-yourself

Any idea what I should do?

When I start to open a thread I get the message in the attached image....

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I guess this is not a htaccess problem - when I rename the .htaccess to .htaccess1 for example I will still have the same error http://www.pedicabforum.com/forum/forum/new-to-this-forum-start-here/introduce-yourself

Any idea how to solve it?

Thank you

[Trixi]

Hi all,

is there any freelancer who could help? My forum is offline since a couple of days due the upgrade from 4.22 to 5....

www.pedicabforum.com/forum

Please open any thread / posting to see that it does not work...for any reason it comes out in the URL

http://www.pedicabforum.com/forum/forum/new-to-this-forum-start-here/introduce-yourself

and not http://www.pedicabforum.com//forum/new-to-this-forum-start-here/introduce-yourself

I do not have the skills to solve it alone - so any help woulb be welcome.

Thank you

[Trixi]

OK, with some help I finally got rid of the unnecessary double /forum out of the Url. But still a couple of issues:

When I click on the Logo or even if I type the clean domain y get Url with /forum?r= at the end. See here: http://www.pedicabforum.com/
Is there any way I can get rid of the somewhat strange looking "?r="?

A bigger problem though:
I can't open any single topic!!!!
I can navigate through all categories, subcategories and (sub)cChannels, but whenever I want to open a single Thread just nothing happens!!!

I've been playing around with the permissions but I'm not getting anywhere.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[Wayne Luke]

Don't see a ?r= on your URLs

What browser are you using? What if you disable all your browser extensions.

What is the error you receive when you try to create topics?

[Trixi]

Don't see a ?r= on your URLs

Just click on the logo...

What browser are you using? What if you disable all your browser extensions.

I tried on Firefox and Opera.
Just now also tried Chrome, there it doesn't happen

What is the error you receive when you try to create topics?

If I try to create a new Topic y get the following error message:
Somehow there is at least one invalid database record. You have a channel with no valid route. Please contact the site administrator with this message and tell them how you got it.

[Wayne Luke]

Please open a support ticket with access to your database.

[Trixi]

Ticket opened yesterday morning....
No reply yet

[Wayne Luke]

We'll get to it as soon as possible.

[Trixi]

Our forum www.pedicabforum.com is not usable....nobody can make any posting. It seems it was the biggest mistake to upgrade from 4.2.2. to 5 and a waste of money.

Nobody can even read a single posting.

Sorry Wayne, but I am really disappointed. It seems that VB is not what is was some years ago.

Is support a "One-Man-Show" and you are doing all this support for the Swiss-Cheese alone?

Questions:

1. Is there a way to downgrade?
2. Is there a money back warranty?

[Trixi]

1. Downgrade from 5 to 4.2.2 was successful. To everybody: ALWAYS MAKE BACKUPS of your database and files before running any update....
2. Is there any way to get my money, 199 USD, back from Vbulletin?