New Team Redline Forum

[Dom]

Well, its been a tough time, we had to move hosting company as the previous one was awful!

Anyway we will get the website up and running shortly, in the meantime, please signup to this forum. Unfortunately, user accounts from our previous forum and messages could not be saved...anyway this software is more robust hopefully and will last us !

thanks all for your patience!

Dom

[Crusse]

http://teamredline.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2&stc=1&d=1187125293

[zoic]

Great you got a new host. Hopefully this one will work better. http://koti.mbnet.fi/zoic/icon_chimp.gif


And by the way your smilies collection needs to be upgraded! http://koti.mbnet.fi/zoic/monkey.gif http://koti.mbnet.fi/zoic/static.gif

http://koti.mbnet.fi/zoic/icon_makepeace.gif

[Dom]

where did you get all our old ones from!!!

[zoic]

I had some of them uploaded to my own webspace for usage on other forums :D

[frostystclair]

Oh cool a forum. Great idea. There are these things called websites that are catching on too. You should look into that :P

[Dom]

thanks zo:P

ohhh frosty:D put it back in your pants surely!

[Richard.Towler]

dom, did you do this?

[Dom]

dont sound so surpised! greger helped alot tho:)

[EZeemering]

Oh cool a forum. Great idea. There are these things called websites that are catching on too. You should look into that :P

Where do we have to look for a thing called website?

[BradM]

Where do we have to look for a thing called website?


look here --> http://www.internet.com


:D

[TheFlyingFinn]

What's this 'Team Redline' anyway? Anything to do with this, the greatest movie of all time? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780595/
:p

[Spadge]

Back when I used to admin a vBulletin forum, I used to do remote/off-site db backups using phpmyadmin (mysql backend, see) - until php crapped out on us somehow.

So I hope you have more luck with yours ;)

And btw, welcome back to the lol internets.

[Dom]

What's this 'Team Redline' anyway? Anything to do with this, the greatest movie of all time? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780595/
:p

firstly i didnt see this lol ... silly silly simpanssi lol

secondly spadge, pls dont confuse us with things called backups, but thanks for doing it for us:D

[Spadge]

secondly spadge, pls dont confuse us with things called backups, but thanks for doing it for us:D

If you have phpMyAdmin installed on the server, and if you're not sure how to use it (sorry, I have no idea who knows what about anything round these parts, so forgive me if I am doing the grandmother-eggs thing here), I'm more than happy to give directions. :)

[Dom]

non eof us know anything!

were trying to install the old database for our joomla site, but its complex, apparently becuase we need to have INSERT instead of CREATE in the database dump header...tooo complex!

[Spadge]

Got unix? A simple 'cat | sed' cmd will change every CREATE into an INSERT. Anything more complicated would prossibly require an actual script.

What is the site hosted on?

I'm not really an %SQL expert, but if you want a hand looking at it, I should have spare time this weekend.

I could even set up vBulletin here as a test environment.

[Dom]

ahh spadge:P

thanks man, well its actually for joomla not vb...we had a joomla site previously and have moved hosting...now we have moved we can upload joomla etc but cant import the db

this is the explantion from our hosts but i dont quite understand it

> The phpmyadmin on ukhost4u as been set-up so that you cannot create
> databases with it, cannot change user permissions and the root user has
> also been disabled. All this is for additional security.
>
> Instead you need to create the database and user using the 'MySQL
> Databases' tool in the cpanel. First create the database with the same
> name as the one you're trying to import, then create a user. You then need
> to 'add user to database', giving them all the permissions they require.
>
> Once you've done that, however, I've got a feeling that when you try to
> import your database again, you will get an error saying that the database
> already exists. If this happens, I think you are going to have to edit the
> headers at the top of your database dump, so that it doesn't try to
> actually create the database, but instead just inserts the tables into the
> database you already created.


any ideaS?

[Spadge]

I like the idea of inserting the old into the new. Rather than over-writing what you have here already. Although it could get interesting with the users db. But that said, that would be assuming the old forum tables and the new were compatible.

Joomla CMS ... what forum did it run? Is there some native Joomla forum, or does it use someone elses? If it was a native Joomla board, vBulletin ImpEx modules are added by demand ... so I'd get demanding if I were you.

:)

If the two forums are identical in table sctructure etc, then I'd do what the man said. Create the sql user, give it the required perms, rewrite the dump headers and have at it. :D

Thinking about it, you'd probably do better to hose the new forum and restore the old one. You probably have a lot more history than you have recent activity that you want to keep, and it would eliminate the risk of damaging the old user db.

If you want to test it before doing it, I can set up a vBulletin install and get you sorted with a phpMyAdmin login here on my FreeBSD server, tomorrow afternoon. Then you can try out the data import and not run the risk of breaking anything on your live site.

[Spadge]

Look here ... http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=240197

[Dom]

sorry spadge ive explained myself really badly lol...

were trying to import the db for our site not the forum:P the old forum was phpbb and is now kaput imo...tho i do have the db also:P

[Spadge]

Converting phpBB to vBulletin is just about the most common conversion from anything to vBulletin ever. You should be able to do it with a minimum of fuss.

So if you want to restore the old forum, it's probably entirely possible. It should be very well supported on the vBulletin forums I linked to in my last post.

As for the site ... Yeah, I can see how that's tricky ... but again, it should be doable.

:)

[EZeemering]

We have some progress now. DB is on the new server. Still some small problems to tackle.

[GrimDad]

If you're still using joomla for your website I can highly recommend this componant eXtplorer (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2630/Itemid,35/) it has helped us no end with chmod.....

[GrimDad]

Nice to see the site back up guys....no link to the forum though or is that for registered members only?

[EZeemering]

Its under the community section of the site. I thought sim-racers are smart guys but they proofed otherwise. It will be fixed in some future far far away.

[Dom]

lol, we are smart:D but i do think we should have a forum button on the main page!

[GrimDad]

Its under the community section of the site. I thought sim-racers are smart guys but they proofed otherwise. It will be fixed in some future far far away.


Thanks for clearing that up!

I always thought civility costs nothing...

[EZeemering]

Ure not the first Grim, in fact even our own members couldn't find it. But I wont call any names Brad, don't worry,...


:P