Shut Down Forums w/out Access to "vBulletin Options" (due to error)?

[BfB]

Hello,

My server is out of space on one of its partitions (please see my latest posts here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111532 ), so I need to temp. close down my forums until this is resolved. Unfortunately I can't access the area of the Control Panel that allows for closing them due to the database errors. Is there another way to close the forums down via FTP and modding a vB file?

Thanks so much in advance!

Kind Regards,

James

[Dennis Olson]

you can SSH over to the host and shut down your webserver (apache). Then you can increase your volume space, repair your tables, and restart the apache daemon.

[Steve Machol]

You can shut down your forums by running these queries:

UPDATE datastore SET data=REPLACE(data,'"bbactive";s:1:"1"','"bbactive";s:1:"0"') WHERE title='options';

UPDATE setting SET value=0 WHERE varname='bbactive':

[Floris]

You can shut down your forums by running these queries:

UPDATE datastore SET data=REPLACE(data,'"bbactive";s:1:"1"','"bbactive";s:1:"0"') WHERE title='options';

UPDATE setting SET value=0 WHERE varname='bbactive':

I've made a small file that takes table prefix into consideration and has option to turn it on/off.

just put in forum/ dir and run it through browser, and remove when done.

[BfB]

Thank you both greatly!

Regards,

James