Old Database / New Version of Vanilla

Adamator

I had a very bad experience upgrading to the new version of vanilla. I even asked a question on here about it, and it seemed like no one could help. So, I have decided to install a new version of vanilla and redirect it to my old database.

Could someone go through the steps on how to do this? I tried installing vanilla with a new database, then import my old .sql file into the new database through myPHPadmin (my hosting service is Bluehost.com) but I get the "Bonk" page when I try to look at the forum.

UnderDog

Is that this question you asked? http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/14519/categories-spam-and-advanced-no-longer-work-in-dashboard-with-version-2.0.17.3

Back to the problem. When you get a "bonk" message, you will want to know the information that's behind the message. Do the following:
Find this in conf/config.php:

$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'error.master.php';

and change it to:

$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php';

That will let us see what the real error is.