Broken News Icon Image

[Bill Thebert]

I've been looking for the solution to this for about a week, but still no luck. It feels so trivial that I've been reluctant to post. But I'm at the end of my rope here.

I am running vBulletin 3.0.7 and vBA_CMPS 1.0.1

I've installed the "Mark As News" hack, so that front page news items can come from any forum, rather than just one.

I initially installed this in a subdirectory of a test server.
VBA was in /document_root/vba_subdirectory
vBulletin was in /document_root/vba_subdirectory/forums

I then MOVED the database to a new server, where everything lives ONE DIRECTORY UP from where it was before.

VBA now lives in /document_root
vBulletin now lives in /document_root/forums

The News Icon appears as a broken link. The URL of news.gif is shown as:

http://somedomain.com/old_vba_subdirectory/forums/images/icons/news.gif

I've run the installation program for VBA in order to re-set the image paths. All are correct (i.e., WITHOUT the "old_vba_subdirectory" portion).

I've searched the database tables manually (with phpmyadmin) for some other reference to this old directory, but I've not yet found it.

Can anyone suggest where this remnant of my old installation might be lingering?

Everything else in vBulletin (including other post icons) is working normally. Just this one tiny (but annoying) thing.

[Brian]

Have you tried manually editing the URL to that icon? That's about the only thing I can think of...

[Bill Thebert]

Have you tried manually editing the URL to that icon? That's about the only thing I can think of...

Not sure if this is what you mean, but . . .

When I open the ICONS table in phpmyadmin & select "Browse", I see a list of icons.

The last one is:

iconid = 15
title = News
iconpath =/forum/images/icons/news.gif (same path as all others)
imagecategoryid = 4 (all others = 2)
displayorder = 1

DESPITE this, the URL of the broken image on my VBA home page is:

http://www.mydomain.com/thebert/forum/images/icons/news.gif

("thebert" being the name of the old subdirectory in which the vBulletin database was previously installed)

Like I said, I'm stumped. That old path is lingering SOMEWHERE. I just can't find it.

[zenithrs@bigpon]

Long shot, but try ctrl-shift-F5 to force your proxy to refresh.

[Brian]

I'm not completely sure why the URL would be incorrect then. If you'd like to submit a support ticket though I'll be glad to take a look.