Forum How to get a site up and running off ftp files???
 

WARNING ROOKIE MESSING THINGS UP!!

Help needed. lol.

I have a vb forum that I upgraded to vb4 suite from a vb 3.8 forum.

The upgrade didn't go smoothly as several features no longer worked and others don't work like they were suppose to.

So it order to try to fix things I played by deleteing the database, loading a new copy of vb4 and then tried to reload the files from a copy of the files from the OLD site that I downloaded using FTP.

After awhile of playing around with uploading edited, reloading files. All I get now is database errors.

So my question is how can I reload the site to the server using the FTP files I have of the OLD site.

I tried uploading and running the install.php. That just gave me a brand new forum with none of our old posts/data.

So I tried running the upgrade.php.

I get the same results. Just takes me back to the new forum that was created.

All the old site files are on the server and I can read them but I can't access them from the site.

How do I fix this?? Even if I could get back to where I was BEFORE I tried to fix things would be better then where I am now.