Errors on importing users

[monet_06]

We got hit with this today. It was the Buddhist message, but instead of einstein, it was a Jeanette.

The worst part is that two of our members reported as spam the email alerting them...

[monet_06]

Check your Promotion Strategy field. It looks like you might have an OR in there that's only requiring that they meet your 7 day minimum. ...

[monet_06]

Yup. It's what brought me here, today. I'm even getting weird stuff coming in through the contact us form. ...

[monet_06]

I decided to try the impex import of users anyway, just to see if it would work in spite of that error, and it did fine. The only odd thing left is that none of their birthdays imported, and 217...

[monet_06]

A public thank you for your excellent help in bypassing the time-out issue last night, Kerry-Anne.

[monet_06]

Hello.

I'm in my second attempt to do a phpbb-Nuke -> phpbb -> vBulletin import, using the method posted here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6740...

[monet_06]

Well, I tried bypassing it by using the url to go to step 8. Everything proceeded smoothly, until I logged in; I got a blank page. Not unexpected.

I checked the xml files in the install...

[monet_06]

I've installed and upgraded vB many times on this host's server with no problems. This one also went smooth as silk, until I got to step 7:

vBulletin 3.6.5 Install Script
(Please be patient

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[monet_06]

I've been dealing with the same thing. I require email verification and screening of all registrants, so none of them have managed to post, thank goodness. Still, it's annoying.

For those...

[monet_06]

Same set-up and same quandary/fears here. Add a bunch of access masks, which are even worse, I think. It's so easy to forget to go back and re-lock each of all those doors every time you add someone/some...

[monet_06]

Solved, sort of. Gave up and zero'd the cache altogether.

[monet_06]

Whew - finally, something.. I was just asked this by one of the host:



So, can I rebuild the post cache via command line? What about the search index?...

[monet_06]

vB 3.54 - clean, new install - no mods
Apache 1.3.33 on Linux, kernel 2.4.31
php module 4.3.10 32 mb ram
mysql 4.0.27

175k posts imported, but I need to rebuild post cache...