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the bottom line.... what can be saved if i need to make a fresh installation?
assuming a highly corrupted issue within Vanilla's core (or whatever), can i start from scratch but retain discussions, membership details etc.
what's the bottom line?
what's the bottom line?
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Just overwrite them from a fresh download of vanilla.
Otherwise, I'd say, you just need your database and the conf/config.php file.
I had an interesting night. I decided to scrap the whole installation and make a second Mysql database. I uploaded a fresh copy, from scratch, and installed it. It went through ok though seemed haunted by some of the mistakes the previous version had suffered. Also, although it should have been a completely empty forum, with new everything except the name and the url path, it still contained the details of the members. Ghosts in the machine or a browser cache?
They were gone this morning.
So.
2 thoughts if you have the time - and thanks to all you folk who care enough to throw us a line from time to time -
Once I get the new forum respectable and working, will I be able to swop databases - um - without it getting scary again?
and - i'll try to look elsewhere for a solution to this one - why can I still not sign out? guess what?
page not found ;-/
for details of this bizarre story it links with http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/138408#Comment_138408
the point really I guess is that a healthy Vanilla is inseparable from the techno IQ of it's members. not all of us have it or can quite see how this beast works or how fragile it is ....
Can anyone help rid me of this ghost? Is it possible for example that it's the structure of my website itself that may be causing a conflict?
;-))
No. I deleted everything, the entire folder from the server using WinSCP. The only part of the original that I have kept is the Mysql database (still hoping to rescue the membership details and their posts). But surely there's no mechanism for leakage between databases on the server?
As things stand, for a reason which seems related to a 'creeping' error in attempting to remove the 'house' banner in VanillaPress 2010, I have a bug which, ironically, might best be solved by not attempting to use Vanilla (see above).
Could you circulate this problem to anyone with the necessary expertise who might be able to clarify it?
Is it possible that structuring the site this way:
www.xxxxxxxx.com/vanillaforum/
and the remainder of the site at www.xxxxxxxx.com/yyyyyyyyyyy/frontpage.html
could create this conflict?
I did check around the docs and these pages when I first started but couldn't find anything ....
just a thought
@luc, @Lincoln - Many thankx for the assistance.
Incidentally, I am glad to be verbose, and to tell this story at length. The problem with Vanila (as is) is that there is a huge gap between the expert level and the entry level experience. The posts are not being clearly edited for relevance (versions, inappropriate use of plug-ins etc), for technospeak, or even for 'truth'. And, looking around carefully, a lot of the coding just seems iffy (whether it is or not).
I know that Vanila claims to be run by volunteers but the overall business plan is undoubtedly commercial, as it has to be.
I'd have thought that a healthy 'free-to-use' foundation of supporters would have been a major first step, a huge asset.
Vanilla isn't really making use, in my opinion, of the value it's own core expertise.
It's a forum but doesn't always provide the goods - the information - in a particularly intelligent way. Surely it would pay the commercial side in the long run to invest in an editor to sort out this forum and find more imaginative (and sometimes less imaginative
hint: tags-'version 1.x.x' : 'experimental' : 'this doesn't work' : 'don't panic, everyone gets this' etc.
? Does anyone know how I can rescue my old data, we were all doing so well :-/
they'll be back