To make a long story short; our UBB was moved in its entirety to a new hard drive (cgi and ubb dirs tarred), unpacked, and that's when problems started. When I hit the CP I set up the new paths and everything ok, and everything seemed to be ok. Then I tested the boards, and oops, any link I hit it threw me back to ultimatebb.cgi. Not good.
Since I've just moved the board around like this in the past and didn't have any problems (though we had PHP accel. off before), I didn't think there was anything particular to watch for. Well, after learning otherwise, I went and read the move guide, and I saw that the cache folder and vars_config.cgi should not be transferred. Ooops. (I cleaned the cache after the board was closed on the old server, I figured this deletes it entirely, but didn't check. It doesn't apparently.)
Well, I tried just deleting the cache dir after the fact, but new files kept spawning in even though the board was closed (I just had admin preview on). Well, once I logged off, this seems to have stopped, and I could delete the cache dir. I got rid of vars_config.cgi after that too.
So, once again, I go to the CP, set all paths, and everything seems to be ok - sort of. I didn't realize that the cookie info was stored in vars_config, so now that a new one was made, everyone had to login on the boards again (question: could this be avoided somehow, or is it unavoidable when moving the board? I didn't dare set the same cookie value into the cgi manually.)
Now the boards started behaving normally, people could post, etc. However, in the process, vars_config.inc.php was deleted by UBB apparently, because it suddenly just wasn't there any more, and UBB didn't recreate it either. We use this file for our modified version of the news hack. Question here: why didn't UBB recreate that file? I made it myself from the information now in the vars_config.cgi, and after a metadata rebuild the news started to work again too, but the question why it wasn't recreated remains.
Well, I guess this wasn't a short story after all. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
So, Charles, can you please answer my two questions in the text above (plus any comments you can offer), and tell me if everything is ok now, or if there is anything else I should be looking at to make sure the board is all ok.
