Path errors after install

[BulliM]

Because of some more errors, i do open my own support thread. I installed vBulletin 5 Connect (Beta 14 & fresh) on my Ubuntu 10.04 server and also on localhost. Everytime i get the same errors. The installation works fine, with no errors. But finally my server don't find some paths. For example to the Admin CP, the xml-sitemap.Iam sure, there will follow more problems later. So i please you, to fix the bug.

So here are my config files:

<?php
/*======================================================================*\
|| #################################################################### ||
|| # vBulletin 5 Presentation Configuration                           # ||
|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ||
|| # All PHP code in this file is ?2000-2012 vBulletin Solutions Inc. # ||
|| # This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. # ||
|| # ---------------- VBULLETIN IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE ---------------- # ||
|| # http://www.vbulletin.com | http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html # ||
|| #################################################################### ||
\*======================================================================*/

/*-------------------------------------------------------*\
| ****** NOTE REGARDING THE VARIABLES IN THIS FILE ****** |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| When making changes to the file, the edit should always |
| be to the right of the = sign between the single quotes |
| Default: $config['admincpdir'] = 'admincp';             |
| Example: $config['admincpdir'] = 'myadmin';  GOOD!      |
| Example: $config['myadmin'] = 'admincp'; BAD!           |
\*-------------------------------------------------------*/


    //    ****** Base URLs ******
    // The following settings all deal with the url of your forum.
    // If set incorrectly your site/software will not function correctly.
    // These urls should NOT include a trailing slash
    // This is the url and web path of your root vBulletin directory
$config['baseurl'] = 'http://********.net'; ***


// This will only be used if you wish to require https logins
// You will not need to change this setting most of the time.
$config['baseurl_login'] = $config['baseurl'];

    // If you do wish to use https for login, uncomment this line
    // Then fill in your https url.
//$config['baseurl_login'] = 'https://www.yourdomain.com/folder';


    //    ****** System Paths ******

    // This setting allows you to change the name of the admin folder
$config['admincpdir'] = 'admincp';

    //    ****** Cookie Settings ******
    // These are cookie related settings.
    // This Setting allows you to change the cookie prefix
$config['cookie_prefix'] = 'bb';


//    ****** Special Settings ******
// These settings are only used in some circumstances
// Please do not edit if you are not sure what they do.

// You can ignore this setting for right now.
$config['cookie_enabled'] = true;

$config['report_all_php_errors'] = false;
$config['no_template_notices'] = true;

// This setting enables debug mode, it should NEVER be used on a live site
$config['debug'] = false;

// Assumes default location of core. 
// These are the system paths and folders for your vBulletin files
// This setting is for where your vbulletin core folder is
$config['core_path'] = realpath(dirname(__FILE__)).'/core';

    // This is the url and web based path to your core directory
$config['baseurl_core'] = $config['baseurl'].'/core';


/*======================================================================*\
|| ####################################################################
|| # Downloaded: 
|| # CVS: $RCSfile$ - 
|| ####################################################################
\*======================================================================*/

<?php
/*======================================================================*\
|| #################################################################### ||
|| # vBulletin Core Configuration                                     # ||
|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ||
|| # All PHP code in this file is ©2000-2012 vBulletin Solutions Inc. # ||
|| # This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. # ||
|| # ---------------- VBULLETIN IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE ---------------- # ||
|| # http://www.vbulletin.com | http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html # ||
|| #################################################################### ||
\*======================================================================*/

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------*\
|        ****** NOTE REGARDING THE VARIABLES IN THIS FILE ******         |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| If you get any errors while attempting to connect to MySQL, you will   |
| need to email your webhost because we cannot tell you the correct      | 
| values for the variables in this file.                                 |                                 
|                                                                        |
| When making changes to the file, the edit should always be to the      |
| right of the = sign between the single quotes                          |
| Default: $config['admincpdir'] = 'admincp';                            |
| Example: $config['admincpdir'] = 'myadmin';  GOOD!                     |
| Example: $config['myadmin'] = 'admincp'; BAD!                          |
\*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/


    //    ****** DATABASE TYPE ******
    //    This is the type of the database server on which your vBulletin database
    //    will be located. Valid options are mysql and mysqli, for slave support add
    //     _slave to the end of the database class.  
    //    Try to use mysqli if you are using PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1+
$config['Database']['dbtype'] = 'mysql'; ***

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

    //    ****** TABLE PREFIX ******
    //    Prefix that your vBulletin tables have in the database.
$config['Database']['tableprefix'] = '';

    //    ****** 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['Database']['technicalemail'] = '_email_@********.net'; ***


    //    ****** MASTER DATABASE SERVER NAME AND PORT ******
    //    This is the hostname or IP address and port of the database server.
    //    If you are unsure of what to put here, leave the default values.
    //
    //    Note: If you are using IIS 7+ and MySQL is on the same machine, you
    //    need to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost
$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = 'localhost';
$config['MasterServer']['port'] = 3306;

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

    //    ****** MASTER DATABASE PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS ******
    //    This option allows you to turn persistent connections to MySQL on or off.
    //    The difference in performance is negligible for all but the largest boards.
    //    If you are unsure what this should be, leave it off. (0 = off; 1 = on)
$config['MasterServer']['usepconnect'] = 0;



    //    ****** SLAVE DATABASE CONFIGURATION ******
    //    If you have multiple database backends, this is the information for your slave
    //    server. If you are not 100% sure you need to fill in this information,
    //    do not change any of the values here.
$config['SlaveServer']['servername'] = '';
$config['SlaveServer']['port'] = 3306;
$config['SlaveServer']['username'] = '';
$config['SlaveServer']['password'] = '';
$config['SlaveServer']['usepconnect'] = 0;



    //    ****** PATH TO ADMIN & MODERATOR CONTROL PANELS ******
    //    This setting allows you to change the name of the folders that the admin and
    //    moderator control panels reside in. You may wish to do this for security purposes.
    //    Please note that if you change the name of the directory here, you will still need
    //    to manually change the name of the directory on the server.
$config['Misc']['admincpdir'] = 'admincp';
$config['Misc']['modcpdir'] = 'modcp';

    //    Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have
    //    Keep this short and only use numbers and letters, i.e. 1-9 and a-Z
$config['Misc']['cookieprefix'] = 'bb';

    //    ******** FULL PATH TO FORUMS DIRECTORY ******
    //    On a few systems it may be necessary to input the full path to your forums directory
    //    for vBulletin to function normally. You can ignore this setting unless vBulletin
    //    tells you to fill this in. Do not include a trailing slash!
    //    Example Unix:
    //      $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/home/users/public_html/forums';
    //    Example Win32:
    //      $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = 'c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\vb3';
$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/var/www/vhosts/********.net/httpdocs'; ***

    //    ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG VIEWING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to view the admin log in the control panel.
    //    Users must be specified by *ID number* here. To obtain a user's ID number,
    //    view their profile via the control panel. If this is a new installation, leave
    //    the first user created will have a user ID of 1. Seperate each userid with a comma.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canviewadminlog'] = '1';

    //    ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG PRUNING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to remove ("prune") entries from the admin
    //    log. See the above entry for more information on the format.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canpruneadminlog'] = '1';

    //    ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel.
    //    See the above entries for more information on the format.
    //    Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish
    //    to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = '';

    //    ****** UNDELETABLE / UNALTERABLE USERS ******
    //    The users specified here will not be deletable or alterable from the control panel by any users.
    //    To specify more than one user, separate userids with commas.
$config['SpecialUsers']['undeletableusers'] = '';

    //    ****** SUPER ADMINISTRATORS ******
    //    The users specified below will have permission to access the administrator permissions
    //    page, which controls the permissions of other administrators
$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1';

    // ****** CACHE CONFIGURATION *****
    // Here you can configure different methods for caching items.
    // The following are the cacheing classes that can be used.
    // vB_Cache_Db - This setting stores the data in the database
    // vB_Cache_Memcached - This stores the data in memcache
    // vB_Cache_Memory - This setting uses php's memory while a page is being generated.
    // Each cache area can use its own cache type.
$config['Cache']['class'][0] = 'vB_Cache_Db'; //regular cache
$config['Cache']['class'][1] = 'vB_Cache_Memory'; //fastest cache
$config['Cache']['class'][2] = 'vB_Cache_Db'; //largest cache and longest life.

//Cache options are
//vB_Cache_Memory -     fastest but doesn't survive a page load.
//vB_Cache_Db-             significant speed improvement and available to everyone.
//vB_Cache_Filesystem    good performance, reduces traffic and load on db server. Not available to everyone- your web server must be able to write to the database.
//vB_Cache_Memcached    excellent performance but usually only available to dedicated or virtual hosted sites.


//    ******** FILESYSTEM CACHE CONFIGURATION ******
//If you use filesystem cache you MUST uncomment the line below.
//set the path to somewher writeable by the web server process. This location must already exist. Please put
// this somewhere outside the document root. Otherwise you have just created a serious security issue.
//Don't include the final '/'

//$config['Cache']['fileCachePath'] = '/valid/writeable/for/my/webserver';


    // ****** DATASTORE CACHE CONFIGURATION *****
    // Here you can configure different methods for caching datastore items.
    // vB_Datastore_Filecache  - to use includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php
    // vB_Datastore_APC - to use APC
    // vB_Datastore_XCache - to use XCache
    // vB_Datastore_Memcached - to use a Memcache server, more configuration below
// $config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';

    // ******** DATASTORE PREFIX ******
    // If you are using a PHP Caching system (APC, XCache, eAccelerator) with more
    // than one set of forums installed on your host, you *may* need to use a prefix
    // so that they do not try to use the same variable within the cache.
    // This works in a similar manner to the database table prefix.
// $config['Datastore']['prefix'] = '';

    // It is also necessary to specify the hostname or IP address and the port the server is listening on
/*
$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Memcached';
$i = 0;
// First Server
$i++;
$config['Misc']['memcacheserver'][$i]        = '127.0.0.1';
$config['Misc']['memcacheport'][$i]            = 11211;
$config['Misc']['memcachepersistent'][$i]    = true;
$config['Misc']['memcacheweight'][$i]        = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcachetimeout'][$i]        = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcacheretry_interval'][$i] = 15;
*/

// ****** The following options are only needed in special cases ******

    //    ****** MySQLI OPTIONS *****
    // When using MySQL 4.1+, MySQLi should be used to connect to the database.
    // If you need to set the default connection charset because your database
    // is using a charset other than latin1, you can set the charset here.
    // If you don't set the charset to be the same as your database, you
    // may receive collation errors.  Ignore this setting unless you
    // are sure you need to use it.
// $config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'utf8';

    //    Optionally, PHP can be instructed to set connection parameters by 
    //  reading from the file named in 'ini_file'. Please use a full path to 
    //    the file.
    //    Example:
    //    $config['Mysqli']['ini_file'] = 'c:\program files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\my.ini';
$config['Mysqli']['ini_file'] = '';

    // ******** IMAGE PROCESSING OPTIONS ********
    // Images that exceed either dimension below will not be resized by vBulletin. 
    // If you need to resize larger images, alter these settings.
$config['Misc']['maxwidth'] = 2592;
$config['Misc']['maxheight'] = 1944;

    //  ******** SPECIAL SETTINGS ********
    //    The following are settings/permissions that are not normally used but 
    //    are here for reference. Please be careful using them. Do not enable or 
    //    uncomment without understanding what they do first. 

    //    This allows you to disable modifications and extensions to the software. 
    //    If your site is not functioning well after installing or using a third 
    //    party modification, please enable this.
// define("DISABLE_HOOKS", true);

    //    This allows you to shut down all mail that is being sent by vBulletin. 
    //    This is useful for test environments
// define("DISABLE_MAIL", true);

    //  This allows you to enter debug mode, which is for support or development
    //    to help understand how pages are built. This should NEVER be enabled in
    //    a live environment.
// $config['Misc']['debug'] = true;

        //    This enables debug logging.  The debuglogger is controlled from the 
        //  file core/includes/xml/logger.xml.  This is safe to run on a live 
        //  environment, assuming the log location is secure, however it may
        //  impact peformance to have the logging on.
// $config['Misc']['debuglogging'] = true;

 
/*======================================================================*\
|| ####################################################################
|| # Downloaded: 00:00, Thur Oct 15th 2015
|| # CVS: $RCSfile$ - $Revision: 66830 $
|| ####################################################################
\*======================================================================*/

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I do upload the .htaccess file. All needed modules (mod_rewrite) (xml, JSON, cURL) are running. I try to change the url to www.********.net. I try it with empty $config['Misc']['forumpath'] (works also). I try to install in a folder (http://********.net/forum). I try to install vBulletin 4.2 (no errors!). I do not try to ask my mother.

These paths don't work:

http://********.net/admincp/
http://********.net/modcp/
http://********.net/core/
http://********.net/core/xmlsitemap.php

I am sure, there are some more. So what can i do? Did I make a mistake?

[Lynne]

The only time you should have /core in the browser URL is when going to /core/install/upgrade.php (or install.php). Other than that, it should never bee in the URL. Your forum should be at http://politikboard.net/ However, I can't view it since it is .htaccess protected.

[BulliM]

The only time you should have /core in the browser URL is when going to /core/install/upgrade.php (or install.php). Other than that, it should never bee in the URL. Your forum should be at http://********.net/ However, I can't view it since it is .htaccess protected.

I just opened it. Please have a look! My config-files are not wrong? If you need access to anywhere, contact me by pm.

[Lynne]

You have your Forum URL incorrect. When you install the forum, it asks for the Forum URL. It gives you a default that ends in /core. It seems you changed that and removed the /core? If so, you need to login to your admincp (the one that works - http://politikboard.net/core/admincp/) and change it to include /core at the end.

[BulliM]

You have your Forum URL incorrect. When you install the forum, it asks for the Forum URL. It gives you a default that ends in /core. It seems you changed that and removed the /core? If so, you need to login to your admincp (the one that works - http://********.net/core/admincp/) and change it to include /core at the end.

I am sure, i did not. Where in the database is the entry?

INSERT INTO `setting` (`varname`, `grouptitle`, `value`, `defaultvalue`, `optioncode`, `displayorder`, `advanced`, `volatile`, `datatype`, `product`, `validationcode`, `blacklist`, `ispublic`) VALUES
('bburl', 'address', 'http://********.net/core', 'http://www.example.com/forums', '', 20, 0, 1, 'free', 'vbulletin', 'return ($data AND preg_match(''#^https?://.+[^/]$#i'', $data));', 0, 1);

I knew, that http://********.net/core/admincp/ works.

And the URL includes /core.

[Yves R.]

Modifying directly in the 'setting' table will not fix it, datastore needs to be rebuilt too. Save the form without any change to do this.

[Lynne]

Your admincp should be at http://politikboard.net/admincp/, not http://politikboard.net/core/admincp/

What version of PHP and MySQL are you running?

[BulliM]

Your admincp should be at http://********.net/admincp/, not http://********.net/core/admincp/

What version of PHP and MySQL are you running?

mysql	5.1.63-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
php	5.3.2-1ubuntu4.18

[Wayne Luke]

Currently your forums are off. Can you turn them on?

[BulliM]

Sure. Is opened.

[Wayne Luke]

Thanks. The front-end paths seem to be working. What do the contents of your .htaccess file look like? The default?

[BulliM]

I use the default one and just extend it with some auth code. I first try the default only. But it's the same.

[BulliM]

To be absolutly sure, that i do nothing's wrong, i've installed again with an other browser yet. I have the same problems. I think, it is a cookie problem. My installation works fine. Only the paths/links to/from Admin CP are affected. I made some screenshots. You can see, how i've configured the installation. Between: After install, i get no message about not removing the install.php. I removed it anyway.

Cookie1 is the first cookie i get, when i open the site (********.net). Cookie2 i get after login. Cookie3 is from after login into Admin CP.

Maybe you can't reproduce the error, because your browser hold cookies? My cookies all deleted, when i close the browser.

[Wayne Luke]

I don't see anything wrong in your screenshots that would indicate a cookie issue. I don't think this is something that we can solve without direct and full access to your server. You'll need to open a support ticket and reference this thread.

[BulliM]

I don't see anything wrong in your screenshots that would indicate a cookie issue. I don't think this is something that we can solve without direct and full access to your server. You'll need to open a support ticket and reference this thread.

Ok. Thank you anyway