Think I removed something important from the database

[Biirds]

Hi!

I was trying to remove some files from the database that belongs to a add-on, but I think I removed some things that belongs to Xenforo. For example, an unregistered user can no longer see the forum, it says that he has to be logged in to do that. The user still has the allowance in the permission options though. There are also some errors almost everywhere.

Not really sure what I could do.

 

[Dan]

Restore a backup? That maybe the only way

 

[Lost]

Restore the database from backup?

Edit: Ninja'd by goblues.

 

[Biirds]

Well... I was kind of stupid and did not took a database backup before everything went wrong.

I have done a file health check in the xenforo admin and this is the error I get:
library/XenForo/Model/Permission.php
File does not contain expected contents.
Could I restore that somehow?

 

[Dan]

You could indeed. Just redownload the xenforo package and replace that file only.

 

[Biirds]

Yes, I have tried to do that but same issue. I have the option to do a fresh install.. could I do that without everything other that I have in the database disappearing.. like members etc?

 

[borbole]

Yes, I have tried to do that but same issue. I have the option to do a fresh install.. could I do that without everything other that I have in the database disappearing.. like members etc?

It looks like you removed files from the forum folder and nothing from the database. They are 2 entirely different things.

Anyway, do not do a fresh install but simply download a copy of xenforo from your customer area and then overwrite your forum files with them. That would take care to replace whatever file/s that you have deleted.

 

[Biirds]

Hmm.. I have done exactly as you say but it still gives me that error message when I run "file health check". There are no errors in the "Server error log". I'm pretty sure removed something from my database, becasue I was removing some files from there, and then it stopped working.

 

[Brandon Sheley]

I'm not sure if it will work, but you might try to run the upgrade like you were upgrading your forum. This may repopulate your database.
I'd suggest backing up just to be sure.

 

[borbole]

Hmm.. I have done exactly as you say but it still gives me that error message when I run "file health check". There are no errors in the "Server error log". I'm pretty sure removed something from my database, becasue I was removing some files from there, and then it stopped working.

There are no files in the database. What exactly did you remove? You will have to be specific and not vague with I removed some files here and some there.

Anyway, if you removed something from the db most likely you would have had a db error message and not missing file ones.

P.s. A link to your forum would help too.

 

[Biirds]

Thanks for trying to help me. I will try to explain exactly what I've done.. sorry for my vague information.

I had a add-on called LNblog on my site that I wanted to remove, because I wanted to install another blog add-on. When I tried to remove the add-on I got a error message telling me that the files to be able to perform the uninstall wasn't there. When I finally was able to remove the add-on and was trying to install the other add-on it was something in the database that was conflicting with the new add-on. My old add-on had some information in the database that I had to remove in order to install my new add-on correctly.

I went into MySQL and did a search for "LNblog". I removed everything that had a reference to lnblog in the database and now I have the error that I got now. I'm sorry, but I can't remember which files in the database I was removing, but I think it was for instance something that had to do with permissions. :

What is wrong:
If I go to the site I am presented with this message: "You must be logged-in to do that". If I log in with my administrator account I'm able to go to the admin cp and reach everything else on the site. If I log in with another user I'm presented with the same message: "You must be logged in to do that".

Regards,
Martin

 

[XeStorm]

http://gyazo.com/26275d63386e3c164b9cabd12a1d3575

that is what it looks like when someone not logged in goes on the site, i just thought that might be a little help

 

[XeStorm]

when i tried to register it said

http://gyazo.com/4b772b716cc4ce91139854c1dce15538

 

[tenants]

What does the actual error say in your Admin control Panel
(ACP >> Tools > Server Error Log):
admin.php?logs/server-error (click on the error and paste the Error Info, Stack Trace and Request State here)

Also, can you try rebuilding your caches (all of them):
(ACP >> Tools > Rebuild Caches)
admin.php?tools/rebuild

And humor me... also try un-installing an un-related plugin and then reinstalling it

I have a suspicion you've deleted it from the xf_addon table

This addon should look roughly like this:
[addon_id, title, version_string, version_id, url, install_callback_class, install_callback_method uninstall_callback_class, uninstall_callback_method, active]
[LNBlog, LeafNet Blog, xxxx, 1.1, 4, http://xenforo.com/community/threads/ln-blog.12701/, LNBlog_Manufacture, build, LNBlog_Manufacture, destroy, 0]

 

[Biirds]

Hi all!

Thanks for everyones help. The host had a back-up of my database so we could resolve this issue =).