Upgrading from 3.6.8

[MattGreer]

Thanks Mark for the reply. I'll upgrade to 3.8.1 and I sincerely hope that will resolve this issue that suddenly sprung up. What confuses me is that I haven't made any changes to the forum for years,...

[MattGreer]

I installed my vB a long time ago; it's complete overkill for the amount of users and posts but I like it. My site was disabled Saturday due to my website running "convert" on a regular basis...

[MattGreer]

Ahah! My BMW buddy back to the rescue!


Thanks to you both.

[MattGreer]

How do I prevent people from linking very large pictures to the forum? They're coming from an outside source; can vBulletin resize them?

[MattGreer]

Yeah, this is what I was afraid of. I'm on a shared server. I can't change the config. That's what I was referring to in my previous post. I'm just a regular 'ol guy buying web hosting services and...

[MattGreer]

Zach,

I realize this isn't your responsibility (or I assume it isn't), but can you tell me where this my.cnf file is, where it goes, and what's supposed to go in it?

If you...

[MattGreer]

I would like to link to the avatar I uploaded on my vB profile to another non-vB forum. Essentially, I am registered at this other forum, and they only allow links to avatars. I would like to link to...

[MattGreer]

Thanks Bimmerdude!

[MattGreer]

I.E. you can't log in as another person?

Oh well.

[MattGreer]

I want to verify permissions and I'd like to log in as someone else. Is that possible?

I tried to search for this on the forum, but "log" has only 3 letters.

[MattGreer]

Oooooo, so the folder names correspond to userids. Interesting!

So it sounds like then, after the import and such, I can go delete the files in the root of that folder and all will be well....

[MattGreer]

BTW, forgot to say "thanks" for the previous reply. Thanks Paul. (And now Steve.)


I'm afraid you're going to have to 'splain this step by step. During the import, vB...

[MattGreer]

So you're telling me that, despite the fact that I have all my attachments in one directory, vB makes a copy of all of them and puts them into nondescript subdirectories? Why are there 9 subdirectories...

[MattGreer]

I recently imported two boards with attachments into a stock install of vB forum. All the attachments were located in one directory outside the place where the html files are held. We'll call it /home/attachments....

[MattGreer]

Awesome. Worked like a champ. THANK YOU.

[MattGreer]

Is there a way to set all forums to "Show All Threads" at once? The only way I know how to do it is to go to each individual forum and set it. Setting the parent category doesn't seem to affect...

[MattGreer]

I hate asking this question but I didn't find anything in the manual that mentions how to join a private group. Does the admin have to go to each and every profile and click on the checkbox? Is there...

[MattGreer]

I had the same mess. I imported two forums into a clean vB installation. I have no issues (as of the past 24 hours since the install) without importing the private messages.

I think you'll...

[MattGreer]

You know what, after you mention that there's something I see. I'm using IE 7 and tabbed browsing. After I post, the webpage goes to what I described before. The tab has the text "200 OK"...

[MattGreer]

So do I just separate them by spaces, commas, or what? Or add the same smiliey twice using different codes?