Discussions disappeared after upgrading to 2.1.5

minishowcase

Hi,

I just upgraded Vanilla Forums form 2.0.18 to 2.1.5, following these instructions: http://vanillaforums.org/docs/installation-upgrade

After upgrading, the forum showed me a blank screen. I checked these forums and followed instructions including adding debugging flags to config, but nothing worked and I kept seeing the white screen even after more than 20 reloads.

I then backed up my database and tried a clean install. After successfully installing vanilla 2.1.5 from scratch, I then imported my old database.

Now it all seems to work, but all the discussions are gone.

I know it was a very unorthodox approach, and I'm sure many things might need a cleanup or an update, but it was the only way I found to get it upgraded.

Anyone have an idea on what I can do?

Here's my community site: http://minishowcase.net/community/index.php?p=/discussions

peregrine

• Clear *.ini files from the cache folder.

• run /utility/structure

• http://yourforumnamehere/dba/counts

• use phpmyadmin and see if your discussion table has any entries.

• report back if you do see discussions in the discussion table

• and categories in the category table

• check your permissions for each role.

minishowcase

<D'oh moment>

Thanks @peregrine for the quick reply, and for pointing me back to the phpmyadmin. Seems I had imported a bogus export with most of my discussions gone, so importing a good backup and going through your steps solved it.

I'm so glad I'm back to vanilla from bbpress, this community is great and vanilla surely rocks.

peregrine

glad it was easy to solve. thanks for the quick followup and solution.