Cannot access admin.php

Regular Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 53

I just upgraded from 7.6 to raven 7.6 and I can't access my admin.php

The page comes up completely blank. I think it may have something to do with Sentinel, but I am not sure. This is bad because I disabled my site via Sentinel when I started to do the upgrade!

EDIT

Also if I try to access forum admin directly, I get this error.

Code:

Warning: main(config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/***/public_html/includes/sentinel.php on line 46





Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/***/public_html/includes/sentinel.php on line 46

Edit 2

To add to my problems, when I check the error log in cpanel, I see this error:

Code:

Error parsing /home/***/public_html/php.ini on line 3

Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

Did you uploaded all files overwriting it all?
If so the included lines in your files are gone so you have to put it back...

and the php.ini file...you touched that?
(edit:..you can enable your site again with phpmyadmin...,look for table sentinel config and set site_switch to 0)

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:01 pm

Which files do I need to restore?

I did not touch php.ini

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:04 pm

It looks to me like you just uploaded the RavenNuke 7.6 files on top of existing files.
Looking at your error message, it would seem the file config.php is calling for the file includes/sentinel.php
There should not be a call to that in the config.php file and in any event the file includes/sentinel.php does not exist within the package.
The correct file to be included is includes/nukesentinel.php
Check your mainfile.php around line 149 to make sure you have

Code:

if (!defined('ADMIN_FILE') && !file_exists('includes/nukesentinel.php')) {

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:23 am

That line does exist in my mainfile.php

I don't see "includes/sentinel.php" in config.php either. In fact, I see nothing about sentinel.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:06 am

Well there isnt any sentinel related line in config....so thats ok...
Maybe you can give an url we can look at..

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:48 am

amdusers.com

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:50 am

well we cant see much if its closed..

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:54 am

There ya go.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:39 pm

well this way its hard to help cause its blank..
if this is an upgrade its likely you forgot something...
otherwise it shouldnt turn blank....

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

You did not install this correctly. Remove this line from mainfile.php include includes/sentinel.php - it no longer exists.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:29 pm

Ok, now I get the error message "You can't access this file directly..."

When I get into admin.php there is no security number graphic either. The image does not load.

Should I just upload my backup?

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:39 pm

Make sure that you have removed
admin/modules/sentinel.php
admin/links/links.sentinel.php
admin/case/case.sentinel.php

and that you are using the admin.php file supplied by me and that your config.php file contains
$admin_file='admin';
$gfx_chk = 7;

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:00 pm

OK, I still get the error for my index page. The security code does not come up in admin.php and I get this error message in my forum admin

Quote:

Your installation does not seem to be up to date. Updates are available for your version of phpBB, please visit [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] to obtain the latest version.
The latest available version is phpBB 2.0.18. You are running phpBB 2.0.16.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:30 pm

You have not upgraded your installation correctly and this is going to be like peeling an onion. That forum message is not an error just a notification. I would suggest that you start with aclean install of RavenNuke76 and upgrade from there as has been explained elsewhere in the forums.