Plugin Error

[Hendy]

I reactivated the vBDonate paid version plugin, now the forum has got a HTTP ERROR 500.

Obviously I now want to totally remove this plugin, I can get to the admin login screen admincp/index.php and can put username and password but then I get get the 500 error, is the any other way to remove this plugin and get the forum live again?

Thank you in advance.

[Paul M]

Turn the plugin system off using the config file setting, then login, remove or disable vbdonate, then turn it on again.

[Hendy]

Thank You Paul, what would I need to add or remove in the config file?

[Mark.B]

Edit includes/config.php and add the following code:
Just below

<?php

enter

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

[Paul M]

Just above the database settings add a 'disable_hooks' setting as below ;

// Disable Hooks
define('DISABLE_HOOKS',true);

// ****** DATABASE TYPE ******
// This is the type of the database server on which your vBulletin database will be located.
// Valid options are mysql and mysqli, for slave support add _slave. Try to use mysqli if you are using PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1+
// for slave options just append _slave to your preferred database type.
$config['Database']['dbtype'] = 'mysqli'; 

Edit: Ah, didnt see Marks post, but yeah, its generally not important where in the file it goes, as long as its there.

[Mark.B]

Yep we tend to say up at the top so people can find it easily afterwards, but for anyone wondering, it can go anywhere in the file between the opening and closing php statements, as long as its positioning is syntactically correct (eg you don't shove it in the middle of another statement or in a comment line or something).