• Registered: 2006-05-23
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Topic: Base Url Changing itself to something else

Hey, I origionally started work on a forum using some webspace a friend lent me.

I downloaded everything, even exported the db, and uploaded it to the new site: www.nexusradio.co.uk - but the database wouldn't upload to the new one so i dont know what I am supposed to do about that.

I figured, screw it, I'll just reinstall it, so i deleted the config, installed it properly using the right base url: http://www.nexusradio.co.uk/fourm but when i go into admin options it has changed to http://www.pixelpopulace.com/nexus/forum, when i try to change it back i get a badrefferer and told its probably because the base url is wrong.. well it is wrong, i dont know why it keeps changing to that one every time i install it.

Any ideas?

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Re: Base Url Changing itself to something else

Sounds like a cache issue

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Re: Base Url Changing itself to something else

Did you delete cache_config.php from the cache directory before you reinstalled it.

4 Reply by quaker (edited by quaker 2006-05-31 01:42)

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Re: Base Url Changing itself to something else

did the db user name change?
test1_punbb to test2_punbb
if so..
u need to go to old site go in mysql admin export db
go to new site create a user and pass
then go in mysqladmin and import the sql file.
modify the config.php to reflect the new db name!



I just got thru moving 35 website from one hosinig company to another
and half of them had punbb...
evil giggles.

Q

p.s.
please put the copy right back....

My stuff or my style might sux, but atleast I'm willing to help when I can.
Don't be stupid and help ! We are the stupid one's !!!

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  • Registered: 2006-05-23
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Re: Base Url Changing itself to something else

The copywrite is there, just not on the news page, as the news page is not technically part of the forum.

At the bottom of the forum its all there, but the news page i want to be just the news, i dont even want the bars at the top and the bottom but i cant remove them without getting errors so i just got rid of the forum title and the shit at the bottom. Check the forum tho, u can see the copywrite is there.



Yeah the db username changed kinda. My new server puts sleeve_ in front of the usernames annoyingly. But i cant even upload it to the new server. So i am just gonna have to do everything all over again.. pisses me off cos I did it on free space so i wouldn't have to waste time when i bought the actual server and now its all screwed up.

cache_config.php.. no i didn't delete it.. I shall delete it and reinstall now and tell ya if that sorted it. TY.

  • Registered: 2006-05-23
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Re: Base Url Changing itself to something else

Right well the forum isn't linking back to the otherone anymore which is good. I still cant get my db uploaded so I am going to try and get the support team at host gator to upload my old one, which should restore everything else...

but.. i am sure u can see a big difference between: www.pixelpopulace.com/nexus and www.nexusradio.co.uk

for one there are errors on the nexus radio one for no reason. I wanted a news page that had nothing but the news displayed on the frontpage so i edited it the best i could, and voila.. the pixel p one works (the copywrite and all that jazz is still on the actual forum, just the news page is supposed to be just news) but there its saying i cannot modify the headers on the new forum for some reason.


All I want is the news entries from the forum displayed on the frontpage so that its the first thing people will see before browsing round anything else. It saves me having to write both a news html page and a news post in the forum. I dont want top n bottom bars, i dont want anything other than the news post, with avatar date and time.

the news page is exactly the same as the old one.. i dunno whats gone wrong. any ideas?

  • Registered: 2006-05-23
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Re: Base Url Changing itself to something else

ooh.. i just deleted some more stuff from the header and i am now not getting probs.. well not to my knowledge... would be cool not to have the bars and indent there tho.