Upgrade studk on 3.8.9 Beta 5

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Anyone? What are my options from here? Over the years, my vbulletin folder does have other files in it, does it matter?

I even created a NEW folder with just the 3.8.9 files, still same ...

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hi,

I am trying to upgrade one of the forums from 3.8.7 to 3.8.9 and it gives me this error during the upgrade:
Your vBulletin (3.8.9 Beta 5) does not appear to be running the version...

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They may have created plugins, etc. delete those and also edited existing plugins. So you have to do some digging... and revert your templates. FORUMHOME and FORUMDISPLAY, etc.

I know how...

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...and don't forget to delete the admin usernames that the bastards create.

PoS coding!

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DELETE the /install/ directory.

PoS coding... WHO does this? I've had one forum hacked number of times before I discovered this fix... there is no email, no security alert and only notice...

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Can someone from the management AT LEAST reply, is this is not possible or something?

I need to use these in the sidebar:

1. php includes, like I could in 3.8 version... don't...

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Anybody? I am sure, I wasn't the only one including php files in 3.8 version... BTW, I have the php include working on NON sidebar pages.

Can the sidebar take conditionals?

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Hi,

I recently upgraded ONE of our forums from 3.8 to 4.1 and now dealing with the aftermath.

I use to be able to include php files on forum with

ob_start();...

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I guess, I was too late in the May thread.

Site Name: DefenceTalk

URL: http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/

Description: Defence and Military News, Pictures,...

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Site Name: DefenceTalk

URL: http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/

Description: Defence and Military News, Pictures, forums and Weapons Portal

Stats: Threads: 7,500,...

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In addition to the above, Market Talk is now online:

http://www.markettalk.com/forums/

Enjoy!...

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CENTOS Enterprise 5 i686

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Good luck and don't give up.

Pay attention to what the users want, ask for and take time to reply to their emails (as much as you can, very hard when it gets busy )....

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Since oldest is since march 2003 and newest about month old... I am not sure about the average.

Thanks...

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Fixed.

DNS issue

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Got a few

1. http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/ - Global Defence & Military Forum
2. http://www.autotalk.com/forums/ - you guessed it, automotive forums
3. http://www.worldaffairstalk.

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Site name: AutoTalk Automotive & Car Forums

URL: http://www.autotalk.com/forums/

Description: Global discussions on automotive industry, cars and motorbikes.

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Hey,

I've always been able to use plugin to have php includes working... in fact, got it working on few of the websites that run vbulletin.

hook location: global_start
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Thanks, that fixed the issue.

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Hi,

Just started getting this error on one of the forums:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.1:

Invalid SQL:

                SELECT tagsearch.tagid, tag.tagtext,

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