[Forum] 3.7.3 to 4.0.7 Upgrade Problems

[unixd0od]

I've been trying all evening to upgrade my vbulletin forum to 4.0.7 but I'm having some major problems. I've tried following the tips/instructions in this thread but this is a sample of the result I keep getting:



Here's what I'm doing:

1. Restoring db/files to my desktop pc
2. Going into the admin console of 3.7.3, removing all existing styles, creating a new default style using [Add New Style] and setting it as the default
3. Disabling all product addons
4. Running the upgrade script

This is about my fourth or fifth try with variations on the above steps, having not realized I had to eliminate the incompatible styles before hand. Any idea's what could be wrong?

[Michael Biddle]

Do you have the correct BBURL defined in your AdminCP?

Also be sure you are not saving the style css to the file system.

[unixd0od]

Do you have the correct BBURL defined in your AdminCP?

I don't know. I'm restoring a copy of the site onto my workstation and accessing it via the "localhost" machine name, which is not the "normal" url of the site. Is this what you're referring to?

How do I make sure I'm not saving css styles to the file system? I don't recall ever doing that, but at this point I'm just copying my sites files as-is then extracting the new 4.0.7 files over top of the old ones.

[Michael Biddle]

For the first part, set it to http://localhost and that should fix it. If not let me know.

[unixd0od]

I just changed the site url and that made no difference, it's still broken.

****, sorry, I changed it on my live site by mistake (clicked the wrong url). Just changed it on the local install and that fixed it. Thanks!

[Michael Biddle]

Under the Style vboption group find where it asks to save the css to file system. set that to no. If it is already, set it to yes, then back to no.