Vbulletin help

[Pills1221]

im trying to install vbulletin on my website right now and im not sure what im supposed to put where... i have to edit this stff i guess:

    //    ****** DATABASE TYPE ******
    //    This is the type of the database server on which your vBulletin database will be located.
    //    Valid options are mysql and mysqli, for slave support add _slave.  Try to use mysqli if you are using PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1+
    // for slave options just append _slave to your preferred database type.
$config['Database']['dbtype'] = 'mysql';

    //    ****** DATABASE NAME ******
    //    This is the name of the database where your vBulletin will be located.
    //    This must be created by your webhost.
$config['Database']['dbname'] = 'forum';

    //    ****** TABLE PREFIX ******
    //    Prefix that your vBulletin tables have in the database.
$config['Database']['tableprefix'] = '';

    //    ****** TECHNICAL EMAIL ADDRESS ******
    //    If any database errors occur, they will be emailed to the address specified here.
    //    Leave this blank to not send any emails when there is a database error.
$config['Database']['technicalemail'] = 'dbmaster@example.com';

    //    ****** FORCE EMPTY SQL MODE ******
    // New versions of MySQL (4.1+) have introduced some behaviors that are
    // incompatible with vBulletin. Setting this value to "true" disables those
    // behaviors. You only need to modify this value if vBulletin recommends it.
$config['Database']['force_sql_mode'] = false;



    //    ****** MASTER DATABASE SERVER NAME AND PORT ******
    //    This is the hostname or IP address and port of the database server.
    //    If you are unsure of what to put here, leave the default values.
$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = 'localhost';
$config['MasterServer']['port'] = 3306;

    //    ****** MASTER DATABASE USERNAME & PASSWORD ******
    //    This is the username and password you use to access MySQL.
    //    These must be obtained through your webhost.
$config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'root';
$config['MasterServer']['password'] = '';

    //    ****** MASTER DATABASE PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS ******
    //    This option allows you to turn persistent connections to MySQL on or off.
    //    The difference in performance is negligible for all but the largest boards.
    //    If you are unsure what this should be, leave it off. (0 = off; 1 = on)
$config['MasterServer']['usepconnect'] = 0;



    //    ****** SLAVE DATABASE CONFIGURATION ******
    //    If you have multiple database backends, this is the information for your slave
    //    server. If you are not 100% sure you need to fill in this information,
    //    do not change any of the values here.
$config['SlaveServer']['servername'] = '';
$config['SlaveServer']['port'] = 3306;
$config['SlaveServer']['username'] = '';
$config['SlaveServer']['password'] = '';
$config['SlaveServer']['usepconnect'] = 0;



    //    ****** PATH TO ADMIN & MODERATOR CONTROL PANELS ******
    //    This setting allows you to change the name of the folders that the admin and
    //    moderator control panels reside in. You may wish to do this for security purposes.
    //    Please note that if you change the name of the directory here, you will still need
    //    to manually change the name of the directory on the server.
$config['Misc']['admincpdir'] = 'admincp';
$config['Misc']['modcpdir'] = 'modcp';

    //    Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have
    //    Keep this short and only use numbers and letters, i.e. 1-9 and a-Z
$config['Misc']['cookieprefix'] = 'bb';

    //    ******** FULL PATH TO FORUMS DIRECTORY ******
    //    On a few systems it may be necessary to input the full path to your forums directory
    //    for vBulletin to function normally. You can ignore this setting unless vBulletin
    //    tells you to fill this in. Do not include a trailing slash!
    //    Example Unix:
    //      $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/home/users/public_html/forums';
    //    Example Win32:
    //      $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = 'c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\vb3';
$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '';



    //    ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG VIEWING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to view the admin log in the control panel.
    //    Users must be specified by *ID number* here. To obtain a user's ID number,
    //    view their profile via the control panel. If this is a new installation, leave
    //    the first user created will have a user ID of 1. Seperate each userid with a comma.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canviewadminlog'] = '1';

    //    ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG PRUNING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to remove ("prune") entries from the admin
    //    log. See the above entry for more information on the format.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canpruneadminlog'] = '1';

    //    ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel.
    //    See the above entries for more information on the format.
    //    Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish
    //    to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = '';

    //    ****** UNDELETABLE / UNALTERABLE USERS ******
    //    The users specified here will not be deletable or alterable from the control panel by any users.
    //    To specify more than one user, separate userids with commas.
$config['SpecialUsers']['undeletableusers'] = '';

    //    ****** SUPER ADMINISTRATORS ******
    //    The users specified below will have permission to access the administrator permissions
    //    page, which controls the permissions of other administrators
$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1';

    // ****** DATASTORE CACHE CONFIGURATION *****
    // Here you can configure different methods for caching datastore items.
    // vB_Datastore_Filecache  - to use includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php
    // vB_Datastore_APC - to use APC
    // vB_Datastore_XCache - to use XCache
    // vB_Datastore_Memcached - to use a Memcache server, more configuration below
// $config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';

    // It is also necessary to specify the hostname or IP address and the port the server is listening on
/*
$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Memcached';
$i = 0;
// First Server
$i++;
$config['Misc']['memcacheserver'][$i]        = '127.0.0.1';
$config['Misc']['memcacheport'][$i]            = 11211;
$config['Misc']['memcachepersistent'][$i]    = true;
$config['Misc']['memcacheweight'][$i]        = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcachetimeout'][$i]        = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcacheretry_interval'][$i] = 15;
*/
// ****** The following options are only needed in special cases ******

    //    ****** MySQLI OPTIONS *****
    // When using MySQL 4.1+, MySQLi should be used to connect to the database.
    // If you need to set the default connection charset because your database
    // is using a charset other than latin1, you can set the charset here.
    // If you don't set the charset to be the same as your database, you
    // may receive collation errors.  Ignore this setting unless you
    // are sure you need to use it.
// $config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'utf8';

    //    Optionally, PHP can be instructed to set connection parameters by reading from the
    //    file named in 'ini_file'. Please use a full path to the file.
    //    Example:
    //    $config['Mysqli']['ini_file'] = 'c:\program files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\my.ini';
$config['Mysqli']['ini_file'] = '';

// Image Processing Options
    // Images that exceed either dimension below will not be resized by vBulletin. If you need to resize larger images, alter these settings.
$config['Misc']['maxwidth'] = 2592;
$config['Misc']['maxheight'] = 1944;

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|| # Downloaded: DGT-DATE
|| # CVS: $RCSfile$ - $Revision: 25157 $
|| ####################################################################
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what im not sure of is what our database is... im sorry im really a noob when it comes to this stuff :(

[VPmase]

Isn't there an "install.php" page the vBulletin runs on its first visit?

[Pills1221]

what do you mean by the first visit? i havent uploaded it yet. it says on the online manual that i need to edit the config.php so that it points to my database or something =/

[LHVWB]

what do you mean by the first visit? i havent uploaded it yet. it says on the online manual that i need to edit the config.php so that it points to my database or something =/

Are you having any difficulties editing that code? It looks fairly straightforward with lots of instructions. Don't forget to link your user and your database!

Use cpanel -> MySQL Databases, to set up your database and user, then you just need to enter that information into the file.

Have a look at the vb help area for more information.
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/install

[Pills1221]

ok i think i understand now..... and for the username, if i make the name of the user pills, it comes up as username pills_pills... is this normal and is that what i put into the code?
Edit:
ok i think i got it. now i jsut need to upload the folder upload onto my directory. but it wont let me transfer folders in the file transfer thing =/
Edit:
ok well i tried to do it exactly how they have it on the online manual in the vbulletion online manual. i downlaoded smart ftp client and i ran it. i have it running. the only probelm is that whenever i try to connect, it says failed. i put in the same information that i put in the code above (pills_pills for username and my password.) it says connecting and then it says exchanging encryption keys. then right after that it says

SSL/TLS client handshake failed (Error = 0x8009030

[kkenny]

Isn't there an "install.php" page the vBulletin runs on its first visit?

on vBulletin, you have to edit the includes/config.php file first before running the install....

The config is pretty straight forward, what parts do you need help on?

[LHVWB]

ok i think i understand now..... and for the username, if i make the name of the user pills, it comes up as username pills_pills... is this normal and is that what i put into the code?
Edit:
ok i think i got it. now i jsut need to upload the folder upload onto my directory. but it wont let me transfer folders in the file transfer thing =/
Edit:
ok well i tried to do it exactly how they have it on the online manual in the vbulletion online manual. i downlaoded smart ftp client and i ran it. i have it running. the only probelm is that whenever i try to connect, it says failed. i put in the same information that i put in the code above (pills_pills for username and my password.) it says connecting and then it says exchanging encryption keys. then right after that it says

SSL/TLS client handshake failed (Error = 0x8009030

Okay, first of all the MySQL username should be pills_pills, this is because cpanel automatically forces you to have your cpanelname at the beggining and yes, that is the uername you put into the settings file.

The ftp account information is different to the MySQL uer information.

For the ftp client, you have to use a ftp account, you can set one up in Cpanel -> Ftp accounts, or you can use the default ftp account which has the same username and password as your cpanel account. Please note that you have to upload the files into the 'public_html' folder and that your ftp host will be ftp.pillsgaming.exofire.net.

[CommonCents]

Hi, nice thread. I have some questions

I've been having issues since I migrated from Godaddy to Hostmonster. I was able to get my database uploaded but now i'm having issues loading my forum

I got my forum path(usingn the forumpath.php) but i'm getting the "invalid path" error when i try to go to my homepage.

Also, when i try to go to my "/forum" part of my site i'm getting:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home1/ncaaunli/public_html/forum/includes/config.php on line 35

Line 35 is $config['Database']['tableprefix'] = '';

Can someone help me out? Thanks in advance

[kkenny]

you need it to be

$config['Database']['tableprefix'] = "vb_";

it doesn't have to be "vb_"
but you should choose any simple two or three letter combination followed by an underscore. that's the prefix for all the mysql tables for the software, so i hope you didn't install yet.

[CommonCents]

It's already been installed. I've been trying to switch host(from Godaddy and Hostmonster). This is getting frustrating. Is it possible to just reinstall the forum software without losing any info(posts, threads etc) that i may already have on there? Would that even fix the issue?

I'm still getting a invalid path error

also instead of getting that syntax error i'm just getting the "database error page.