Upgrade Problems

[BusaDave]

I have done the upgrade after installing into a clean directory. The upgrade seemed to go fine and I can see the site using the base URL. However if I click to try to login I see an error 404 in the dropdown instead of the login script. If I check the error_log it appears that I'm getting a failure because something thinks my base URL is in DocumentRoot/vb.

My DocumentRoot points to /local/web/html. However I have set up an Alias to place my VB5 installation at /local/web/vb5. I do see the home page if I go to the expected URL and have checked the base_url in config.php.

I also get a blank page if I try to access base_url/admincp.

If I try to click on one of the links (i.e. Blogs) I get an error 404 and error_log reports File does not exist /local/web/vb5/blogs

On a hunch I tried baseurl/core/admincp and was able to see a login screen but error_log is reporting File does not exist /local/web/html/vb referrer baseurl/core/admincp.

Prior to the upgrade my vbulletin 4 installation was working.

Any ideas?

[Hartmut]

Did you upload .htaccess (for apache2) or web.config (for IIS) as vbulletin 5 does not work without mod_rewrite?

[BusaDave]

Yes, assuming I got the correct .htaccess it is loaded.

Here's the contents:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(admincp/)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

[Wayne Luke]

Looks almost correct. mod_rewrite is enabled properly in Apache?

Use this .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]


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

[BusaDave]

Actually that is what my .htaccess looks like. I left off the last part.

I tested the redirect by adding the following after making sure the AllowOverride All was specified in my httpd.conf file, even though I think I should be able to do this in the conf.d/vbulletin.conf file:


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.inprose.com

I then saw a redirect to that site.

Here's something that may be adding to the confusion: My vb5 directory is not located in my DocumentRoot.

My Document root resides at /local/web/html and my VB5 installation resides at /local/web/vb5. I have the .htaccess located in /local/web/vb5 also. I'm thinking the redirect my be trying to resolve relative to DocumentRoot instead of my installation directory. Does this sound like the problem? If so, how should I reconstruct the .htaccess files to resolve correctly.

I'm going to experiment with this a bit, but at least I have confirmed that mod_rewrite is trying to do its job.



Note:
I added the following and now I think it's working:

RewriteBase /vb5/