3.5.4 patch (updated) = Blank Index.

[Chris-777]

It seemed to kill vBACMPS on my testbed, but not sure if it's a config error on my side.

Anyone upgraded a live forum to 3.5.4 yet?

[Zachery]

Just upgrade :p. If there is a problem brian will get a fix out.

[Chris-777]

Hahahah, easy for you to say! :D

It's doing the blank page thing on my testbed's index, my config.php and index.php paths are fine. If I can get this sorted out I'm going to roll it out live, since everything else on my site looks peachy. :)

[Zachery]

Did you reinstall the templates ? ;)

[Chris-777]

Blah, blank page of doom on my live site. :(

Reinstalled the templates and phrases, no love. :(

[Chris-777]

I'm the guinea pig, lol.

Well I reinstalled completely, and now on 3.5.4 I have no modules at all displayed. The actual modules are there in the ACP and listed as active, but if you go to my site, you see the header, the footer, and nothing else.

Also, the vba_portal template is showing up as uncached.

[Eric HRF]

I'm building a new 3.5.4 board (just started), and v2.1.0 is having style issues. Here is the URL: www.alabama4x4.com

The only style I have installed is black and green, zand it's not very green :confused:

Eric

[Chris-777]

I just completely reinstalled, same issue - no modules show up at all.

I'm at a loss. I've replaced the index with a redirect for now, hopefully someone will figure out what's up.

Link to the temp page:

http://www.sevenstring.org/xindex.php

[Eric HRF]

I have modules, just wrong color...

[Chris-777]

Reinstalled again, deleted the old files, recreated everything from scratch and working now.

/me celebrates

[wildo69]

i am having similar issues...
upgraded to 3.5.4 and all my modules are gone...
main index page shows fine, but when i go into the forums or anything in there all of the modules/blocks are gone

[jklimczak]

SO do I I dont think Un installing is the answer help

[wildo69]

Reinstalled again, deleted the old files, recreated everything from scratch and working now.

/me celebrates

you deleted the old vBa files or the old vBulletin files?

[Brian]

Chris-777 - Were you running v2.0 of the CMPS? The problems you were describing sound like you were running that version and didn't apply the changes to your global.php file after you upgraded.

Eric HRF - That's vBportal you're running on your site, which is not one of our products.

[wildo69]

i am running vB 3.5.4 (now)
CMPS v2.1.0

i have confirmed that my global.php was update.

my site
http://www.talkingreef.com

[Chris-777]

I was running 2.0, aye. I RTFM religiously though, the changes were made. I'll chalk it up to possibly a corrupt file transfer, or most likely just some bad luck. It's all running great now. :)

you deleted the old vBa files or the old vBulletin files?

vBA.

[wildo69]

well i re-uploaded all of the 2.1.0 files...
and reinstalled the templates...

still not getting the blocks in the main forum pages

http://www.talkingreef.com

[Foxtroter]

i noticed that it works in mozilla and not in IE sometimes and sometimes it works in both fine... very weird but just me

[wildo69]

i have confirmed.. same results in Safari and Firefox

[Brian]

well i re-uploaded all of the 2.1.0 files...
and reinstalled the templates...

still not getting the blocks in the main forum pages

http://www.talkingreef.com
Do you mean that you integrated your forum with the CMPS before you upgraded? If so, you will need to re-apply the changes you made to those files since you've overwritten them with the new ones.

[wildo69]

yep.. did that too...

example...
added

define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'IncludeForum');

to files like
index.php
showthread.php
search.php
etc...

did all this to the files "before" i uploaded the vB 3.5.4 files.. so as far as i know thats not it (yes i have confirmed that the current "live" files have this in there)

[Badcat69]

Chris-777 - Were you running v2.0 of the CMPS? The problems you were describing sound like you were running that version and didn't apply the changes to your global.php file after you upgraded.


Can someone write what those changes are?

I went from 3.5.2 to 3.5.4, and follwed the upgrade instructions.

1). Upload all of the new CMPS files in this package over your existing ones.
2). Go to the install file in your browser by going to http://yoursite.com/forum/admincp/vbacmps_install.php. Once there, select the option to upgrade.
3). Look in your vbulletin global.php file for the following lines and remove them. These lines should have been added during your installation of a previous version of the CMPS, and are no longer necessary.

However, it says to remove the files from global.php because they were already installed? That doest make sense, as you upgrade from 3.5.2 to 3.5.4, there's a NEW global.php file that is integrated.

So, I'm assuming from reading this thread, that I have to re-write in the original code to the global.php file, but this isnt listed anywhere. Can someone say what this code is, and where in the global.php file to write it in? Thanks.


I'm sitting on the same problem. Header/footer, no modules.
www.jake25.com

[wildo69]

wow... your right....
the modifications to the global.php are defined in the the 2.0.0 readme, but they are NOT in the 2.1.0 readme...

are these mods still required? i have them in my global.php running CMPS 2.1.0...
should i remove them?

[wildo69]

well thats not the issue...
i tried it will the global.php mods in place, and without them...
same issue either way

[Badcat69]

Alright wildo, I figured mine out. Here's what I did.

1.I upgraded to 3.5.4.

2. I re-upped cmps 2.1 and overwrote all files.

3. I ran the http://yoursite.com/forum/admincp/vbacmps_install.php. Once there, select the option to upgrade. I did that. Uprgraded.

4. After doing this, I was able to see my header/footer, but no modules, and with what was written above, I knew since I overwrote my global.php file with the new VB 3.5.4 upgrade, that something needed to be added. In the upgrade, it says to remove the top/bottom vb portals (re-read the read me file in 2.1 if you dont know what I'm talking about). However, there was a piece missing. So, I re-downloaded 2.0, and looked at the changes to the global.php file. There it was, 3 changes. the header, the footer (which DONT need to be there now) and another which I/you DO need.


In your /forum/global.php file

find
define('VB_AREA', 'Forum');

below that add
if (defined('VBA_PORTAL'))
{
require_once('./includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php');
}


That did the trick. Give it a shot, should fix problem.

[ashokforums]

Edit:- Worked for me.. Thanks badcat

[MotoUp]

I am running 2.1.0 also, and I thought the new version didn't require any file edits, but once I did the global.php edits, everything was back up and running.

[wildo69]

i have added the

if (defined('VBA_PORTAL'))
{
require_once('./includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php');
}

to my global.php and no change.

when i tried to run the "upgrade" as recommended it says i am already running th recent version, and does not continue

[stuarttunstall]

I have just upgraded from vB 3.5.3 to vB 3.5.4, and have no problems with anything.

What I am confused about, is, I upgraded to v2.1.0 when I upgraded to v 3.5.3, reapplied all the files upgraded etc..all OK

Having now upgraded to v 3.5.4 I have done nothing but upgrade vBullettin, I have done nothing to the vBadvance files. and all works OK

Stuart

[wildo69]

I have just upgraded from vB 3.5.3 to vB 3.5.4, and have no problems with anything.

What I am confused about, is, I upgraded to v2.1.0 when I upgraded to v 3.5.3, reapplied all the files upgraded etc..all OK

Having now upgraded to v 3.5.4 I have done nothing but upgrade vBullettin, I have done nothing to the vBadvance files. and all works OK

Stuart
and i DID update all the vB files and none of my stuff shows up except the main CMPS index page...

this one is interesting...

[wildo69]

anyone have any other ideas???
i still have no modules....

[Drache]

Did you try to reinstall VBA?

[wildo69]

not from scratch, as in i did not perform a uninstall then a re-install.
i didn't do that because it doesn't seem to be totally broke.. (i did re-upload all the vBa files)

for example, if you look at my main index http://www.talkingreef.com
you see all the CMPS stuff exactly as it should be, which means all my page and module settings are working

the problem is that none of the forum pages (le index.php, search.php, displaythread.php, forumdisplay.php) show the modules..
example http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/index.php

i added

define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'IncludeForum');

to all these files, but it just doesn't display the modules per that page (IncludeForum)

based on the recommendation on the global.php
i took the original global.php from the 3.5.4 install and re uploaded that, and added

if (defined('VBA_PORTAL'))
{
require_once('./includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php');
}

[wildo69]

does anyone else have any ideas?

[KW802]

Wildo69,

I haven't upgraded to 3.5.4 yet; since it sounds like you've tried all of the usual stuff I'll have to let Brian tackle this one.

[wildo69]

thanks...
hopefulyl Brian pops in soon to add his two cents.. :)

[smackLAN]

I upgraded to 3.5.4 and got this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: print_portal_output() in /home/vbskinwo/public_html/forum/cmps_index.php on line 35

Uninstall and reinstall didn't help.

[KW802]

Out of curiousity, did you make sure that after the upgrade your plugins weren't turned off?

[wildo69]

i did not...
so i just checked...
i looked in teh plugin manager, and confirmed that ALL plugins are (and were) active. this includes many of the CMPS plugins.

if there are other places i shoudl check, let me know and i will look there also...

i am a relative newb to vB and vBa, so im open to all suggestions

[wildo69]

found it.. :D
was misssing

if (defined('VBA_PORTAL') AND !defined('SKIP_OUTPUT') AND !defined('VBA_SCRIPT') AND !defined('NOPMPOPUP'))
{
define('SKIP_OUTPUT', true);
global $home;
print_portal_output($home, $vartext);
}

from the includes/function.php

[Boosted MR-S]

Same issue here :(

[Boosted MR-S]

I got it to work, but installing the older templates. One issue though, now my right column won't come back :\

[Red Blaze]

Alright wildo, I figured mine out. Here's what I did.

1.I upgraded to 3.5.4.

2. I re-upped cmps 2.1 and overwrote all files.

3. I ran the http://yoursite.com/forum/admincp/vbacmps_install.php. Once there, select the option to upgrade. I did that. Uprgraded.

4. After doing this, I was able to see my header/footer, but no modules, and with what was written above, I knew since I overwrote my global.php file with the new VB 3.5.4 upgrade, that something needed to be added. In the upgrade, it says to remove the top/bottom vb portals (re-read the read me file in 2.1 if you dont know what I'm talking about). However, there was a piece missing. So, I re-downloaded 2.0, and looked at the changes to the global.php file. There it was, 3 changes. the header, the footer (which DONT need to be there now) and another which I/you DO need.


In your /forum/global.php file

find
define('VB_AREA', 'Forum');

below that add
if (defined('VBA_PORTAL'))
{
require_once('./includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php');
}


That did the trick. Give it a shot, should fix problem.

I found this problem after I upgraded to 3.5.4.
I followed Badcat69's instructions, works just fine now. I didn't do step 2, though, I only uploaded the install file and ran upgrade. That fixed mine.

[Boosted MR-S]

Can someone tell me why my right column won't show up on my forum/index.php now? I have it all setup like before and its showing a blank screen :(

[clothahump]

Same problem here but mine is now working.
As far as I can remember I did this.
Upgraded to 2.1 which left me with header and footer on index page, uploaded cmps_index.php to replace index.php

Please bear in mind I am not 100% sure if this is all I did as it has been giving me trouble for a couple of hours, anybody got a test bed they can try it on???

[clothahump]

Seems to be working OK on all pages but I have now lost the left hand column in the Forum, tried editing page but to no avail.
Help Please.:D

UPDATE:
Working fine now, if you have the same problem just follow the original instructions http://www.vbadvanced.com/membersarea.php?do=viewusermanual&productid=4&pageid=6

[dc1pop]

Problems on my upgrade. Works but now none of the module headers show the image....

Look at the main page: http://footballtalk.org/

Then the headers of the forums. They used to be the same now they are different. Ideas?


Skin change also dosent work on the site on the vBadvance homepage.

[clothahump]

Look exactly the same to me, have you cleared your cache?

[dc1pop]

Yes and ive tried it in both FF and IE both with the same result.

No changes to what the template was before in my 3.5.3 version so im not sure whats wrong. Looks awful as it is though.

[dc1pop]

Page styles also not working correctly (using quick style change in footer).

Also when i set a page to use a different template in the pages section where you add a page using option:

"Custom Style" it doesnt go to this style and displays the main one.