My forum 2.2.5 reset to 2.2.1 by itself!!

[alexisbellido]

Hi, i purchased and installed vbulletin 2.2.5 like 2 weeks ago, i created my own style (i wanted my forum to be spanish language), i did it and everything worked ok.

Yesterday i went to my forum and noticed that the site was showing on english, checked everything an apparently was not using my spanish style.

But strangest thing happenend when i went to admin control panel, i get a link telling me that i have to upgrade to 2.2.5 and everything looks as i were using 2.2.1 !!.

I never downloaded or used 2.2.1, how did i get 2.2.1 installed and my style resetted?

I am the only one administering the forum, could i have been hacked?.

When i SSHed to my site using SecureCRT i got an error telling me that the host key has changed and problably my site had been hijacked but support at my hosting company told me "this is not a problem, that happens when the certificate changes", i don't know which certificate they are talking about.

Anyway, i am worried how my forums went from 2.2.5 and my style disappeared!.

Any help would be greatly aprecciated.

Regards!

[George L]

is your spanish style in there ?

do you have a recent backup of your database ?

[alexisbellido]

Yes

My spanish template is there, my database is ok, but is almost empty because i am just on testing stage.

One more thing, i have redownloaded and put the vbulletin 2.2.5 on my site but i keep getting 2.2.1 as the version on the footer and on admin control panel i keep getting the message "upgrade to 2.2.5", why is that?.

I will drop and recreate the database but i want to know why?!.

Thanks.

[George L]

Re: Yes

Originally posted by alexisbellido
My spanish template is there, my database is ok, but is almost empty because i am just on testing stage.

One more thing, i have redownloaded and put the vbulletin 2.2.5 on my site but i keep getting 2.2.1 as the version on the footer and on admin control panel i keep getting the message "upgrade to 2.2.5", why is that?.

I will drop and recreate the database but i want to know why?!.

Thanks.

did you upgrade from 2.2.1 or is 2.2.5 a fresh install ?

[alexisbellido]

Hi

it's a fresh install of 2.2.5.

Now i have dropped the database and now i don't see version 2.2.1 text anywhere but i got an email telling me:

"Database error in vBulletin :

Invalid SQL: SELECT template FROM template WHERE title='options' mysql error: Table 'hiprc_vbulletin.template' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146"

I have installed it many time with no problems, don't know why now it's giving troubles.

Thanks for your help.

[George L]

is there important data in the current database you need or are you happy reinstalling from scratch ?

what i'd do is

1. create new mysql database called i.e. newvbdatabase
2. create new directory on site called /forums2
3. upload all vB 2.2.5 php files into /forums2
4. run /forums2/admin/install.php making sure to click all the step 1... step 2 etc links at the very bottom of each page
5. setup your admin a/c
6. delete install.php and upgradeXX.php scripts from /forums2/admin
7. log into admin panel /forums/admin
8. setup bburl in options -> general settings to yourdomain.com/forums/

[alexisbellido]

I did that

I have done that, i will make some tests and let you know.

Thanks a lot!

[George L]

Re: I did that

Originally posted by alexisbellido
I have done that, i will make some tests and let you know.

Thanks a lot!

no probs

once it tests out okay all you need to do is rename the /forum2 to whatever forum name your want i.e. /forums

and then in vB admin panel change the forum bburl in options -> general settings in admin panel

[alexisbellido]

Solved

Hi, i made a complete fresh install and everything worked ok, later i put my spanish style and my customized images and ok.

Now i wonder: "what happened?".

Regards and thanks for your advices.

[George L]

Re: Solved

Originally posted by alexisbellido
Hi, i made a complete fresh install and everything worked ok, later i put my spanish style and my customized images and ok.

Now i wonder: "what happened?".

Regards and thanks for your advices.

glad to here it's working

[alexisbellido]

Thanks

but i still would like to know what could happened?.

I had my vbulletin down to 2.2.1 by itself?, has somebody had this problem before?, or i got hacked?.

Regards.

[Sn2]

you probably left your upgradexx.php scripts in the admin directory and someone ran the 2.2.1 upgrade script

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