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socalguy
Wed 23rd Nov '05, 2:12pm
We purchased vbulletin (owned license) some months ago. Started having problems with our webhost and have switched to yahoo hosting (don't ask why, not smart). We've contacted support and seems they'll be able to do a pro-install assuming we pay again (no complaints on that). However, I have tried to run the script to see if vbulletin will work on our server and I"m not sure what it's telling me. How do i know if it passes or not?
For what it's worth, we need to create a database file on yahoo's server I guess so I'm not sure if that is part of the problem running the script.
Thanks.
Mike
Steve Machol
Wed 23rd Nov '05, 2:40pm
What were the results of the test script?
socalguy
Wed 23rd Nov '05, 4:20pm
What were the results of the test script?

Okay, brain fade for a bit. It failed miserably. Most failures gave this reason:

"vBulletin requires that the mysql username has create, select, update, insert, delete, alter and drop privledges, contact your host and ask them to adjust these privledges"
Steve Machol
Wed 23rd Nov '05, 4:33pm
Your db user will need to have full permissions to the database.
socalguy
Wed 23rd Nov '05, 5:19pm
Your db user will need to have full permissions to the database.

well, considering i'm the sole employee...i kinda thought *I* was the db user?
:o
Steve Machol
Wed 23rd Nov '05, 7:33pm
Your employee status has nothing to do with this. You need to setup a database on thes server and a user that has full access to this db.
socalguy
Thu 24th Nov '05, 12:41am
Your employee status has nothing to do with this. You need to setup a database on thes server and a user that has full access to this db.
what i meant was that i *did* set up a database on their server.
Steve Machol
Thu 24th Nov '05, 1:57am
Okay. However the error you got shows that the db user you specified did not have full permissions to that database which is what I've been trying to tell you.
RattleSnake
Thu 24th Nov '05, 10:13am
Create a new database, and user. Make sure all permissions are ticked. Redo the config file. Thats all. Pretty much what steve has been trying to say.
feldon23
Thu 24th Nov '05, 6:25pm
Quite simply, vBulletin is not compatible with Yahoo Hosting.
BlueFlame
Thu 24th Nov '05, 7:11pm
What makes you say it is not?
feldon23
Thu 24th Nov '05, 7:18pm
Proprietary control panel/backend. Questionable MySQL/PHP support. Various permissions issues that are not 'normal' for web hosting. And I believe they run with safe mode on.