Upgrade from 3.6 to 3.8 failing repeatedly

[Frogdice]

I am trying to upgrade from 3.6 to 3.8, but every time I do so it acts like it was successful but I am still on 3.6.8 patch level 2.

I downloaded:

vbulletin_3-8-1_Patch_Level_1_VBFA879495

I unzipped it and followed the instructions.

I ran the script, it went through 5 steps, none of them failed. It then dropped me into my admin control panel, but I was still on version 3.6.8.

I then tried to upgrade only to 3.7.0, but the exact same thing happened.

HELP PLEASE! Spam register bots are killing me, and I need 3.7 or higher to stop them.

[Lynne]

It should not just be going though five steps. You will go though many, many steps to upgrade up to 3.8 from 3.6

Did you make sure to upload ALL the files to your site replacing all the old ones? When you start the upgrade script, what does it say in the upper right corner (it should say a version that you are upgrading to)?

[Frogdice]

Thanks Lynne. The problem was two fold:

1) I had uploaded files to the wrong directory originally. (mydomain/forums/ instead of mydomain/primordiax/forums).

2) The install instructions make weird comments about what to do with the config.php file. As a result, I overwrote my existing config.php and that made it so the forum couldn't connect to the database.

This is the line from the upgrade instructions that is really confusing:

"In this you will find config.php.new. You should rename this to config.php and then open it in a text editor."