Site won't load after VB5 upgrade

[mlott132]

Upgraded my site from VB4 to 5.4 and am unable to access the site. When I type my site's url I get this instead of the home page.

Fatal error: Class 'vB5_Frontend_ApplicationLight' not found in /home/nwimac/public_html/index.php on line 37

If I manually enter /forum/home, I am able to see the home page. Forum files are in a forum directory under public_html.

[In Omnibus]

Did you replace and rename the .htaccess files? The one in vB5 is different from the one in vB4.

[mlott132]

Yes, deleted all vb4 files.

[Mark.B]

vB5 has a file in the root called htaccess.txt

. This must be renamed to .htaccess

[mlott132]

Yes, file is renamed to .htaccess. below are contents. Since my install in not in root public_html, but in public_html/forum is there anything I need to do special?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

# In some cases where you have other mod_rewrite rules, you may need to remove the
# comment on the following RewriteBase line and change it to match your folder name.
# This resets the other mod_rewrite rules for just this directory
# If your site was www.example.com/forum, the setting would be /forum/
#RewriteBase /

#To redirect users to the secure version of your site, uncomment the lines below
#RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
#RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

# Send css calls directly to the correct file VBV-7807
RewriteRule ^css.php$ core/css.php [NC,L]

# Redirect old install path to core.
RewriteRule ^install/ core/install/ [NC,L]

# Main Redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]

# Because admincp is an actual directory.
RewriteRule ^(admincp/)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \
text/javascript \
application/x-javascript \
application/javascript \
application/json \
application/rss+xml \
application/vnd.ms-fontobject \
application/x-font-ttf \
application/xhtml+xml \
application/xml \
font/opentype \
image/svg+xml \
image/x-icon \
text/css \
text/html \
text/plain \
text/x-component \
text/xml
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A1209600
ExpiresByType text/javascript A1209600
ExpiresByType application/javascript A1209600
ExpiresByType text/css A31536000
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
ExpiresByType image/icon A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-ico A2592000
ExpiresByType application/ico A2592000
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A1209600
ExpiresByType image/jpg A1209600
ExpiresByType image/png A1209600
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A1209600
ExpiresByType font/ttf A2592000
ExpiresByType font/otf A2592000
ExpiresByType font/x-woff A2592000
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml A2592000
ExpiresByType font/truetype A2592000
ExpiresByType font/opentype A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff A2592000
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject A2592000
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Connection keep-alive
<filesmatch "\.(ico|flv|gif|swf|eot|woff|otf|ttf|svg)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
</filesmatch>
<filesmatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1209600, public"
</filesmatch>
<filesmatch "\.(eot|woff|otf|ttf|svg)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
</filesmatch>
# css and js should use private for proxy caching https://developers.google.com/speed/...geProxyCaching
<filesmatch "\.(css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, private"
</filesmatch>
<filesmatch "\.(js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1209600, private"
</filesmatch>
</IfModule>

#don't allow some files that shouldn't really be present to be directly accessed.
#note that attachements should never be directly accessed by the webserver because
#we have permissions on the that are checked in the PHP code.
<FilesMatch "(^#.*#|\.(bak|config|dist|inc|ini|log|gz|tar|zip|sh|sql|sw[op])|~)$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>

[Mark.B]

Ok, so what it seems to be is that the site does load but your custom home page doesn't.

Your site is installed at /forum. vBulletin has no knowlwedge of anything going on in the level above, hence that won't load.

You will need to arrange a redirect of domain.com to domain.com/forum/home so that your site's root redirects to your forum installation's /home page. This is outside the scope of our support as it is dependent on server configuration. Your hosts should be able to assist here.

[mlott132]

So no way to do this in the index.php file?

[mlott132]

Host was able to help me setup a redirect. All good now.

Thanks for your help.