Upgrading from 4.2.5 -> 5.5.5 PHP versions

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Found the solution to that here:

https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vb...does-not-exist

Should have...

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Thanks Mark,

Tried the upgrade this evening, and got the following error:

Any ideas on how to proceed?

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Just took advantage of the holiday sale to purchase version 5 today. My hosting company had to keep the PHP version at 7.0.33 to keep vb4.2.5 working.

It looks like v5 needs PHP 7.3 or above,...

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Thanks Wayne. It's already set to UTF-8 so that probably won't solve it. So it looks like upgrading to 5.5.X is the way to go then?

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Using quick reply, apostrophes are fine:

"testing quickreply apostrophe's. I'm We've They've"

But when posting a message using "Go Advanced", they get mangled:...

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I'm considering a upgrade to either Connect or the Cloud, but have a few concerns which I'll lay out here:

• I'd like to ensure that I can run a single blog (me, as the publisher, and only me. I would

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I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix this, but the notifications popup text isn't showing against the white background (ok on hover, but not when it first pops up) and I can't find the styler...

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We just migrated servers and our home directory changed names, and

includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php

keeps pulling in the old directory name and making images, etc break...

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Adsense doesn't work after upgrading to 4.2.2:

Your Google AdSense account is no longer associated with your vBulletin customer account. To redeploy Google AdSense, please associate a Google...

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Just upgraded to 4.2.2 and when trying to save marketplace links for Panjo, get the following message pointing at this file:

File: /home/public_html/forum/includes/adminfunctions.php Line:...

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Yes. I cleared the system cache and it seemed to resolved the problem. Thanks though. ;-)

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No ideas?

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I saved an article during composition on the CMS, so that I wouldn't lose my work. When I go back and edit the article and try to save additional text, the text that was added disappears.

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Incorrect key file for table './dbname/vb_threadviews.MYI'; try to repair it

How to fix this?

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Added some new categories, but they are not showing up in the categories widget on the main CMS page. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

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Hmmm...they...

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Thanks. The contenttypeid's 17-19 are already taken up by signature, usernote, and blog entry...does this need to change?

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Just upgraded from 3.8 into a new directory as suggested, but none of the images in the sample articles made it into the CMS. Is there an easy way to get the images into the articles after that fact?

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It just seems easier to move everything to the new one as no php files need to be moved....

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We performed a test install to a different directory than our live vb3 installation. All posts and images up to 2 weeks ago (when we did the install) were moved over, and now that were have completed...

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Whenever I edit a template, things are getting added to the very end such as:

href
divid
display
strong

Can't figure out why this is happening, but I am not...