[Forum] Upgrade from 3.7.4 ... no css styling at all

[cbiweb]

The upgrade script ran with no problems. When I viewed the forum, there was no css styling, period. It's like looking at a text based browser. Everything reads well, it is linear and makes sense. But there are no graphics, no color, no layout, no anything. Anyone else ever run into this?

[Trevor Hannant]

Delete all old styles and see if this helps.

[cbiweb]

Nope, no change. I've been having issues all along with this particular site and upgrade on a vbtest board (the host truly sucks, lol). I think my best bet is to develop on my local machine and upload the changes to the live site once it's done.

[Trevor Hannant]

The other common reason we see for this is an incorrect URL in AdminCP > Settings > Options > Site Name / URL / Contact Details

Make sure this is correct also

[cbiweb]

heh... can't even get into the AdminCP now.... in fact, it all came crashing down little by little with each click of the mouse as I tried getting around. Currently I have this little gem:

Database error in vBulletin :

Invalid SQL:
SELECT version() AS version;

MySQL Error   : User 'cbiweb' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 75000)
Error Number  : 1226
Request Date  : Monday, January 4th 2010 @ 09:42:43 PM
Error Date    : Monday, January 4th 2010 @ 09:42:43 PM
Script        : http://[sitename].com/vbtest/install/install.php?step=3&emptydb=true
Referrer      : http://[sitename].com/vbtest/install/install.php?step=2
IP Address    : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Username      : 
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

At this point, if I'm not getting that error, a click of the mouse takes me to the install script. Very strange!

Plugins has been disabled, etc., before I started. For some reason it's hosed.

[cbiweb]

Alright, got it working. I re-uploaded the files, ran finalupgrade.php, and changed the URL in AdminCP as suggested in post #4 above. All is good at this point. The saga continues in the morning.......................

Thanks, Trev, for pointing me in the right direction.

[Trevor Hannant]

The max_questions error is from MySQL I believe.

[VreVo]

I have got very similar problem. However, I couldn't solve following recommendation in the thread.
I have got my vBulletin forum upgraded from 3.8.4 to 4.0.1 using recommended approach from one of the thread
(1. delete all programs/plugins. 2. delete all files from directory "forum" 3. copy new files for 4.0.1 4. Run upgrade script)
However I have only one CSS on the main page of the forum and the second CSS file is not loaded
This CSS is loaded well

http://il2.pokemons.ru/forum/css.php?styleid=9&langid=1&d=1263835441&td=ltr&sheet=forumbits.css,forumhome.css,tagcloud.css

and this one is missing

http://il2.pokemons.ru/forum/css.php?styleid=9&langid=1&d=1263835441&td=ltr&sheet=additional.css

This is a link to the forum - http://il2.pokemons.ru/forum
The other problem - I can only load this forum using Opera. No Firefox or IE6.

[Andrew Elkins]

VreVo your forum looks ok to me. Are you still seeing style issues?

[VreVo]

Yes, it still has serious issues. However, some people could see the forum. I noticed that my opera shows some pages ok and some are broken. All pages have utf-16 encoding so maybe this one causes such issues.
I have changed settings for CSS via Admin panel (now it is placed in separate file) and reinstall language (using now standard vbulletin-language.xml which supplied with the forum) but it didn't give me any improvement so far. I am trying to find how to get rid of utf-16 encoding but I didn't succeed so far.

[rshah]

Hi
Thanks for your help, i follow above instruction and i successfully restore my 4.0.1 default theme.

[Gabrielt]

Same problem here, upgrading from 3.8.4 PL2: forums.hardwaresecrets.com

[Gabrielt]

Fixed here. The problem was one product/plugin that I kept active (Zoints SEO). Disabling it solved the problem.