Hello. I need your help please!

I lost my config.php file for vBulletin 2.2.4. Please, send it at webmaster@adnddownloads.com I need it right now! Please!

Thanks a lot in advance!

You can download 2.2.6 from vB members area, and use the config.php.new from there.. nothing changes in the config.php..


I'd suggest upgrading to 2.2.6 also...

How do you lose your config.php file?

It's ok guys. I found another I had on my old site's server. Thanks anyway.

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
How do you lose your config.php file?

Really strange, huh?

Thank God, I was going to send mine, with the MySQL password in it. :rolleyes:

Something screams vBulletin Pirate to me, anyone else?

It would be illegal for anyone to send him any file from vbulletin anyways (even if it's just one file).

I don't think so. I was looking for some software that I owned, but the cd was broken... People told me I was a pirate, and I thought it was pretty crude. I had to buy the software again... :(

Originally posted by fusioncities
I don't think so. I was looking for some software that I owned, but the cd was broken... People told me I was a pirate, and I thought it was pretty crude. I had to buy the software again... :(

That what happens when you opt to pay for software as opposed to open source. Than you have things like WPA to deal with as well.

Originally posted by ViperHost
Something screams vBulletin Pirate to me, anyone else?


hey , notthing wrong with that ?:cartman:

Originally posted by Acronym BOY


That what happens when you opt to pay for software as opposed to open source. Than you have things like WPA to deal with as well.

No, most places will have a place for members to download the latest version...

Or get your cc info to verify that you bought the software, and resend it..


Being open source has nothing todo with it....

Originally posted by The Prohacker
No, most places will have a place for members to download the latest version...

Or get your cc info to verify that you bought the software, and resend it..


Being open source has nothing todo with it....

Open source has a lot to do with asking people to send you files. You cant do that with vBull, but you can with open source.

It doesn't have anything to do with it, because VBulletin is Open Source yet you can't do it.

contact VB to get config.php

Originally posted by Mark-TFL
It doesn't have anything to do with it, because VBulletin is Open Source yet you can't do it.

This must be a misunderstanding. I pay 85$ per year for vBulletin. Besides, he wouldn't be called a pirate if he asked for Open Source software.

Originally posted by Mark-TFL
It doesn't have anything to do with it, because VBulletin is Open Source yet you can't do it.

You do know what open source is, right?

The Open Source Definition
Introduction
Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:


1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

2. Source Code
The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code
The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.

5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

7. Distribution of License
The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.

8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original software distribution.

9. The License Must Not Restrict Other Software
The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.

vBull is not open source at all.

You can find the definiton here:

http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.php

as well as a more detail definiton.

Originally posted by Acronym BOY
vBull is not open source at all.




Yes and no...


Open source doesn't always mean free, with vBulletin, you can freely look at the source code and modify it, if you have a license, it is distrubuted under a commercial license...

Close sourced would be something like windows, where they do not distrubute the source code along with the package....


Not everyone uses the 'free' definition :D