Front end messed and Cant Access Admin after Upgrade to VB5.0.4

[raunekk]

I updated from VB 4.2 to VB 5.0.4

Everything went smooth.

But when I am trying to access the mysite.com/forum/admincp , I am getting "server error" problem. The exact error is below:

The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.mysite.com/forum/login.php?do=login. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Reload this webpage.
Press the reload button to resubmit the data needed to load the page.

Error code: 500


Also my front end at mysite.com/forum is all messed up. Nothing is visible

Can anyone please help

Thanks in advance

Raunek

[Mark.B]

We need to find out what the actual server error is.

Check your server error logs (or ask your host if unsure).

[raunekk]

This is what I am getting:
[COLOR=#FFFFFF !important]marinei.wsynth.net apache2: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method vB_Template_Runtime::includeJs() in /var/www/marineinsight.com/forum/includes/class_core.php(4633) : eval()'d code on line 1
...

Kindly help

Raunek k[/COLOR]

[raunekk]

Kindly ignore the "[COLOR=#FFFFFF !important] [/COLOR] part..

[raunekk]

This is how the front end looks : http://www.marineinsight.com/forum/

[scamtacular]

Did you overwrite all the vBulletin 4 files with the vBulletin 5 ones?

[raunekk]

I did "overwrite" the files...as per the manual..all...!!!

[raunekk]

Anyone?

[scamtacular]

And you made sure the new config.php files were set properly (the ones at / and /core/includes/)?

[raunekk]

Yes..!! I think so !! That's cause without it I wouldnt have been able to continue with the upgrade!! Right?

[scamtacular]

Well those are the common causes of that error. As you upgraded to 5.0.4 the /config.php file doesn't need editing but the /core/includes/config.php might be at fault?

[BirdOPrey5]

You need to remove the VB4 files, not overwrite them. Usually if you have vb4 installed in a directory called /forums/ you rename /forums/ to /forms_old/ and create a new, fresh /forums/ folder, upload the vb5 files to it.

Copy over any important data folders from forum_old, like avatars, attachments, or images if needed.

This way VB5 starts with fresh files. Old VB4 files still in the /forum/ directory will cause problems.

[scamtacular]

"If you are upgrading from vBulletin 3.x or 4.x, it is recommended to delete all previous vBulletin files from the server before uploading the vBulletin 5 Connect files. Special care should be used to maintain the directories with user uploaded content like avatars and attachments. The directory structure and file layout in vBulletin 5 has changed dramatically and this will make sure there are no conflicts between files."

[raunekk]

Thanks a lot guys...I did as Joe Said and was able to install VB sucessfully.

Thanks you all. !!