3.0.13 to 3.5.5

[pecheney]

I am a slightly odd situation.

I have 7 vBulletin sites on my own dedicated server. I have ONE site on a friend's server. They said my vBulletin version 3.0.13 has been attacked by spam and is using 2gb a day of bandwidth. he says I have to take my site off his server NOW. I am freaking out a little because I already tried to upgrade for maybe 15 hours and to no avail a month ago. I am a complete ssh idiot and tried off and on for years to learn PUTTY to no avail. VERY FRUSTRATING. Now I have no choice. I have to backup my db off his server and then move the site to my liquid web server. my dedicated server is running php 4.3.1 and not 4.3.3. So am I right assuming that I should upgrade to vBulletin 3.5.5 and NOT 3.6? Makes sense to me, but I am naive. Additionally, and very importantly can I make a backup using phpmyadmin and relax that i get everything? And very lastly, are there any weird issues upgrading from too old of a version? Is it safge for me to upgrade from 3.0.13 to 3.5.5 or wherever I should be upgrading? Is it hard to take a site off one server and then upgrade to another server? Or shoudl I reinstall 3.0.13 on the new server? and then upgrade?

Any help is GREATLY appreciated. I only have a coupel hours left!!

Should I just pay vBulletin 135 to help me? I am a bit broke but will do what I have to if necessary and this sounds too crazy.

[pecheney]

Is my question(s) too convoluted? I am flipping out a lil. My friend says I have to take my site off his server NOW and i have been trying to PuTTy all day long to no avail.

[Steve Machol]

Perhaps if you asked the questions individually rather than in convoluted forum it would be easier to understand what you are asking. :)

It should not be a problem upgrading form, 3.0.13 to 3.5.5. Just follow the upgrade instructions.

[pecheney]

OK. I am very frustrated and I THINK very close to getting this... I have learned a LOT lately and it feels like it will be very helpful upgrading my other 8 vBulletins!! :-)

OK. This where I am. I started over. I uploaded vBulletin v 3.0.13 to my new server. I then created a new, blank db using ManageMySQL with teh same name as the db in my config file. I then added the usr with same un/pw, too.

SO now I have the correct version vBulletin on my new server. I know need to transfer the db, right!?

I open up Putty. I type in my site, un/pw, and then I used these directions (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/moving_servers_transfer) from vBulletin. I typed in ftp "mysite"

I get in and get a FTP prompt.

Then I typed 'asc'

Now it is ASCII. Cool.

Now it asks me to cd to the new directory... I don;t know what that should be. Am i trying to point this ssh session to the new "forums" folder i set up via my ftp program? ANd then the directisn tell me to 'put' the SQL file into this using put /PATH/TO/DUMP.SQL .

So if you have followed, hopefully this shows what I have done, hoep it is correct, and now I really could use soem advice as to what my two paths should be? WHere do I want to cd to, and how do I find the path to "put" tyhe db off my local machine onto the server through ssh/putty?

i THINK i am on the right track. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. It's been a long week or so of mucking with this.

[Steve Machol]

That is not how to upgrade. Please view the upgrade documentation here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/upgrade/?manualversion=30500500

The second page of the instructions mentions config.php and has another link with more info:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/editconfig

And here are detailed instructions for upgrading from 3.0.x to 3.5.0:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156385

[pecheney]

Thanks, Steve, for your very quick repsonse. I will try t o be clear.

I am "TRANSFERRING" this site to a new server. And after I do that THEN I am going to upgrade. Origianlly I was trying to upgrade to combat spam that using my site to email folks. AFter I could not figure out how to upgrade, I got kicked off my server and I am now simply trying to transfer the site to my new server. Somebody told me that to move a siet, I needed to download the same versin vBulletin, reupload it, and then upload teh db via SSH, too.

Am I mistaken? Or just 100000000% naive here...

[Steve Machol]

You do not need to install vB on the new site. Backup and restore the database to the new site, upload the files for this version of the database, then edit config.php to point to the restored db.

Then make sure everything is working correctly before you do the upgrade.

[pecheney]

That makes perfect sense. Thanks, again, for yoru quick repsonse. I have uploaded vB 3.0.13 to my new server. Now I am backuping and restoring the db via SSH. It is asking for my path to change directories to and another for "PUTting" my backed up db (sitting on my machine here). I can;t find WHERE I am supposed to upload this db (path) and what my PATH is for putting the db from my hard drive to my new server. I tried stuff like this:

asc
cd /public_html/forums/
put /desktop/localhostdb.sql

And it says the db is not there, but that is where the db is... Additionally, I am not sure if I am supposed to be trying to upload the db to teh forums folder or where?

AM I clueless?



You do not need to install vB on the new site. Backup and restore the database to the new site, upload the files for this version of the database, then edit config.php to point to the restored db.

Then make sure everything is working correctly before you do the upgrade.

[Steve Machol]

It doesn't matter where you upload the backup file. Wherever you do, you need to restore it from that directory.

[pecheney]

Well that answers part of it and I appreciate the knowledge. What about teh PATH I am to enter. How do you find what your internal path is on yoru own local machine. All the manuals I read just assume you should know it. The db that I need to restore is on my desktop. It is called localhostdb.sql

I have tried to no avail ::

put /local/localhostdb.sql
put /local/localhostdb.sql/
put /local/desktop/localhostdb.sql

Is there a trick to finding out what your local path is? Sorry if you are frustrated with me.

It doesn't matter where you upload the backup file. Wherever you do, you need to restore it from that directory.

[Steve Machol]

I don't know what the path structure is on that server. Why don't you use FTP to upload the file?