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[Paul M]

If you find it incredible then I'm afraid you have a lot to learn about the Internet....

[Paul M]

That is dated 2014, although I dont recall any hack at that time (then again, its a long time ago now).
It most likely it dates from when someone hacked into the IB network from a stage server,...

[Paul M]

I'm afraid its a server issue, there really isnt anything I can tell you.

Its saying it cannot find the file, or cannot open the file - did you actually re-upload it ? (even if if seems...

[Paul M]

Can you explain what you mean, your initial post isnt really very clear.

[Paul M]

Its unable to find init.php, make sure you uploaded all the files correctly.

[Paul M]

Pretty sure you can do it using Heidi (which is what I use for all my MySQL work).

[Paul M]

Its a two stage process.

1. Select the group at the top that you want to replicate USERGROUP permissions from - and press GO.
That loads the usergroup permissions onto the page....

[Paul M]

vB3 Blogs were basically discontinued after the updates for 3.8.10 (same with vB3 MAPI).

Its unlikely either will run with PHP 7 or 3.8.11....

[Paul M]

Thats a php error, you need to be running at least php 5.6.

Looks like when you use the cli (shell) you are running an older version

(php -v should tell you).

[Paul M]

There is nothing to future proof against, there are not going to be any more versions of vB3, or VB4.

There is no way to troubleshoot this remotely, it would need access to the server, database,...

[Paul M]

Then why do you care beyond this, if you have successfully upgraded ?...

[Paul M]

I'm sure this has been answered for you before.

vBForum_IPAddress is added by step 6, so something odd is going wrong here.

There isnt anything more you can be told simply from...

[Paul M]

It is a product (using plugins) and a whole bunch of files as well.

[Paul M]

Nope, there would be no point in doing that....

[Paul M]

Looking at the changes it seems like one of the cases where some code got half merged.

The effect is basically that it will never work - unfortunately, this is another case of something that...

[Paul M]

The truth isnt always rosy.

You did not "just" come asking for help.
You went on a rant about the cost of security updates (which are free) and upgrades.
Even the thread...

[Paul M]

Yes it did....

[Paul M]

Security updates are free, and always have been. Only one has ever been released for 3.8.6, that being PL 1.


It is your fault if you are running a version thats at least 7.5 years...

[Paul M]

Personally I would suggest for step 5 you just rename the vBulletin 3.X folder to something obscure for now, dont delete it until you are certain you dont need anything from it....

[Paul M]

Not exactly.

vB5 was initially based off vB 4.1.4.

The feature was only added to vB4 in the 4.2.x series, and was never added to vB5....