[fixed] EMERGENCY: Forums completely screwed after upgrade

[Aunt Jemima]

After upgrading to RC-3 from RC-2 and doing everything necessary and documented in the Install script and John's msg, none of us can post or reply.

We can view the forums and threads, and make a reply or a post, but once you submit it, instead of a confirmation screen 'Thank you for posting', etc., all you get is a white page.

This has happened before with the avatars and some other features, but now this has completely crippled my board and I am VERY mad. :mad:

If John or any of the developers can take a look at this problem personally, I'll submit Admin info.



@unt

[rylin]

I'm guessing you created backups of your db before upgrading.. like you're told to, in case of screwups ;)

[Aunt Jemima]

Originally posted by okidoki
I'm guessing you created backups of your db before upgrading.. like you're told to, in case of screwups ;)

No i didnt...

[thewitt]

Not to play on your misery @unt, but I see this all the time.

Backups are the most important thing you need to do when modifying any portion of your system - be it HTML, PHP, mySQL, config files - anything. In the 20 years I've been in IT, I've never stopped being amazed at the things people leave to chance, when a simple backup would make the whole thing a non-issue.

How many of you have current backups of your hard drives on your PC? Laptop? Server? I do. Every night incrementals, every week fulls. This stuff is important to me.

Now @unt, I'm no expert in vB, but can you verify in your web server error log that there are no errors, and view the html source of the "white" page that you get - posting that source here. Anything in the way of information should help someone understand your problem more.

-t

[Aunt Jemima]

Witt, I am also well aware of the importance of backups. However, I am very negligent when it comes to those.
Luckily I have a backup this time (forgot I did) from yesterday.

I reset the database/forums and did a clean install of RC-3, and still have the same problem, so it lies within the VBulletin Master code.

The code of the Whitepage is nothing but a HTML Header.

:confused:

[tubedogg]

Not that this helps, but I did a clean install this morning also and it worked flawlessly. What's your PHP, MySQL and server version numbers? (You're on IIS, right?)

[Aunt Jemima]

MySQL 3.23.32
PHP 4.0.4pl1
Apache 1.3.14 (UNIX/Red Hat Linux)

This is a hosted server (I do not control it)

[Mike Sullivan]

Judging by your PHP version, you should have track_vars on which is now required (several other programs require it too actually).

Send me login info and I can try to help (FTP would be very helpful too!)

[Aunt Jemima]

Ed, I sent you an email with the info.

[Freddie Bingham]

Aunt don't be worried too much, we do know what we changed that is causing the problem and Ed will tell you what you need to do to get it rectified. This change was necessary to deal with the security issue that was alluded to in the announcement.

[Aunt Jemima]

It's kinda hard to rest easy considering I lost most of what we had :(

(Do have a backup :D)

[Mike Sullivan]

Fixed. There was a bug in there which I think is caused by RH7.

global.php, above:
// ###################### Start init #######################

add:
$HTTP_POST_VARS['action'] = trim($HTTP_POST_VARS['action']);

You'll want to do something similar in the other global.php's (admin/ and mod/), member.php and member2.php.