Hey guys,

Today, I've tried to change servers coz my webhost offered everyone a deal to change webhost and get double webspace and bandwidth. Now I want to change server and this is what I did:

1. I installed VBulletin on the my new server.

2. Imported the backup made on the old server at the new server using BigDump

Now I wanted to check the forum but got an error message that some tables couldn't be found. I made the missing tables and now when I visit my forum I see a blank page, no error at all. When I visit my admin panel I get the error message:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /includes/functions.php(1058) : eval()'d code on line 9


When I open functions.php and check line 9 it says:

|| # http://www.vbulletin.com | http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html # ||


Could anyone assist me with this problem? Maybe there's a better way to change servers?

Thanks in advance,

Bozza

you need to backup your database from your old forum and then restore on the new host/webspace, otherwise any hacks you have installed that have created SQL tables wont have the tables created unless you reinstall the hack.

Restoring the database means you wont need to reinstall the hacks all over.

Backup your database/styles/plugins from your old site, and then restore them on the new site and it should work fine....
im betting if you restore your database this error will go away

also the error is on line 1058 not line 9

What do you mean exactly with this? The backup that I made was in VBulletin admin panel @ Maintenance -> Backup. Do I need to backup anything else?

first, gotta correct myself, the error is on line 9....

secondly, if you did that to backup the database, then you need to restore that database for your new board to work.

Im honestly not sure about the style and plugin backups, but i make them regularly just in case.

so restore that database you have backed up and your forum SHOULD start working again.

if you went into cpanel -> Backups -> Download Home Backup and Download SQL DB. Then you can just upload the contents of public_html out of the zip file into public_html and upload the database and then it will work.

I made a sql backup in the admin panel of vbulletin on the old server. Installed VBulletin on the new server and uploaded the database. First I got some errors that I missed some files so I transfered everything from the old server to the new server.

After that I got an error that I missed a table of the shoutbox hack. I added the table to the database and after that I got a blank page.


I also did the thing you said rogersnm. Uploaded the backup on the new server and transferred all the files to the new server but that also didn't work.

Can anyone help me with this? My url is www.fmformation.net by the way, maybe it helps when you see it.

Cheers.

I'm gonna try something else so clicking on the url isn't really usefull at the moment.

Well, I've done something and it worked a bit more then the other tries. I installed VBulletin, added all the products and plugins I used to have on the old forum and after that I added the backup to the new server. The forum is back now and it seems everything worked again. But when I clicked on a section it didn't show any threads while on the forumhome it showed that there are threads inside the section.

Anyway knowns this problem and how I can solve it?

New update --> The forum is working again, I hope everything works fine now but it looks that way. Only the thing that isn't working is the admin panel of vbulletin. For example, I wanted to change something of a user, went to Search for users, entered his name but when I pressed search I get an error page saying:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /includes/functions.php(1058) : eval()'d code on line 9

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/fmform/domains/fmformation.net/public_html/includes/class_core.php:2957) in /includes/functions.php on line 2348


Anyone knows how to fix this?