How do I change domains, while not losing links to old forum stuff?

[randychase]

I ran into the same problem. Just switched to paypal and that worked

[randychase]

yourdomain.com/showthread.php?p=1000006 ???

We just had this happen on one of my forums and I decided it was easier to "celebrate" the millionth post based on what the forum said,...

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Note that the spammers are not attacking the main site listed in my sig, but are attacking other sites of mine that are not listed.

And FYI... I changed the Q&A to something that did...

[randychase]

I use the Q&A system also. The bots must be using the question to derive the answer?

I am going to try a new question that does not give the answer as easily.

[randychase]

I have had two forums being hit by these (and last week was "Jessie" with the spam PMs).

One forum has had around 12 new sign ups in 12 hours, all from China. All DOB as Jan 1,...

[randychase]

Thanks C.Birch. Your solution worked perfectly for me. I also appreciate the procedure from Boogie Box. It made it very simple.

[randychase]

To add to this in case anyone else is looking for this information.

I simply downloaded the forum files including the portal and gallery files (not the actual database, attachments, gallery...

[randychase]

+1

Type in the name of the domain/favivon.ico to see the actual image and hit refresh....

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A little more searching and I found this from Floris-...

[randychase]

Here is my situation. Largish forum, nearing 1million posts. I am going to change domain names. Yeah, crazy. Oh well.

And note, this is not a question about licensing. If I need two licenses...

[randychase]

Thanks! That worked perfectly.

[randychase]

A somewhat related question.

Can I omit entire subforums from being displayed when the user clicks on NEW POSTS?

Thanks!

[randychase]

Kim? Dude, my 2 cents, but I would not want to get him pissed at you. He has the tech, the money, the people, and the time. Pick your battles and your methods of protection. I would not want to motivate...

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I can't get these to stop either, even after putting .biz and .ru in the banned email. It just means they can't post, but they don't seem to want to. I want to stop them from registering in the first...

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I have been running into this same problem. We upped the php.ini setting to 32megs and that helped for a while. What I found was I had to reboot the server every 30 days or I would start getting that...

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Thanks Steve, we (as in I brought in a server guy..aka "someone who knows what he is doing compared to me"...well, that is a large group).

He was able to restore the databases....

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The user is:

forum

I sure hope I did not do something really bad if I did use upgrade20 first and not upgrade19. Noty sure anymore what I did last night. ...

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Strangely, hitting refresh does not change this, that I have two windows open to the same url with different results.

[randychase]

I have two browser windows open

One gives me a page not found message. The other gives me a database error message, that DOES NOT reflect what the CONFIG.PHP file contains.

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I tried to upgrade the forum at: (removed)

from 2.2.5 to 2.2.9, mainly to prepare for the upcoming version 3.

I ran into a problem where it gave me a "page not found"...