Lost the Search Box

[ctrl-alt-del]

I just upgraded to 3.6.1 from 3.6.0. I removed all my hacks and thought I revered all the templates, but I seem to have lost the search drop down box.

Could I have missed a template?

[Wayne Luke]

Does the Quick Links drop down work in your navigation bar or is it just the Search drop down that is causing the problem?

Could revert the navbar template if it is customized. If it isn't look at your browser's Javascript errors and see if there are any errors there. Also make sure the following code is in your footer template:


<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// Main vBulletin Javascript Initialization
vBulletin_init();
//-->
</script>


If you have included any custom javascript remove it and reload the page to see if that fixes the error.

[ctrl-alt-del]

Not sure what caused it but I solved it by basically performing the upgrade again this way:

Download vB 3.6.1
Copy upload files to a temp directory
Copy images/ and files/ directories from 3.6.0 folder
Then I ran upgrade.php

Is this the proper method of upgrading? Or should I just copy the /install folder to my 3.6.0 directory, then run upgrade.php?

[Wayne Luke]

You need to upload all the non-image files (*.php, *.js, *.css) to upgrade properly. All the upgrade.php scripts do is update the database as needed.

[ctrl-alt-del]

Hmm...sorry for completely changing the topic of this thread.

So, is it better to just create a new directory to house all the files within upload/ and then copy over the images/ and files/ directories?

As an example:
cp -r upload/* forum361
cp forum360/images/ forum361/
cp forum360/files/ forum361/

[Wayne Luke]

I would suggest overwriting the existing files when upgrading. It is simpler and doesn't affect in links to your site.