Has my Restore from Backup failed

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Don't know what you want to do.  The 123-19 database is damaged, the TiffyBoy_ prefix is missing at least one table.  It works using smf_ prefix.  There are at least three forum installs (I added a fourth), and two databases, one of which has two sets of tables.

- Which is your original production database? 

- In which directory do you want the forum to end up? 

You were lucky to get in because I have had it disabled on and off over the past two/three days.

Luck has nothing to do with it.   I have access to your database, so I enabled immediate registration, registered, set it back to admin approval, and made myself admin.  I can fix the forum any way you like, just need to know how you want it.

[Frobisher]

Hi,

cust-mysql-123-19    S34Forum - New Forum (Damaged)
cust-mysql-123-20    TiffyBoy - Original Production Database

I would like TiffyBoy left as is. This is the one you did a clean install of 2.0.13.
I think it would be wise on my part abandon the New Forum.

I will delete all the files associated with the New Forum at the weekend.

Thanks for your time.

Norman

[Sir Osis of Liver]

The clean install I created at /forum is connected to the 123-20 database, and includes your attachments and custom agreement.txt.  Seems to be working fine.  If you want to move it to a different directory, that's easily done.

[Frobisher]

Sir Osis,

Was busy Friday and Saturday with non-related Forum problems but have spent some time on my Forum issue.

Using the Database that you updated (cust-mysql-123-20), I have managed to modify Settings.php to get
everything pointing to the correct place with what I was trying to achieve. So I now have root/tiffyforum/forum/
working as well as root/forum/ working.

I still have a problem will something else and that is htaccess but that is not an SMF problem.

May move my forum root/tiffyforum/forum to tiffy_34/forum and if that is successful then I will see if it has fix
the issue that I am having will htaccess. Although I have had some success in the past using htaccess it
appears to be a magic art

May ask for help if I screw-up the move that I am thinking of doing that is to tiffy_34/forum.

Many thanks, Norman

[Frobisher]

OK, having fixed my Forum only to have Google Chrome (aided by me) break it, I have fixed it again.

In a nutshell, all of the original Forum data is there and only one Website login (not the Forum login) is required.

I will remind viewers that when a user clicks on a link to get to my Website, it requires a Username / Password to be entered.
With my earlier incarnation of the Forum, when a user clicked on the Forum link they were required to enter the same Username / Password again to display the Forum Login Page. With my very latest (and repaired) version of the Forum a user logs into the Website by using their credentials. From the Website they can click on a Forum link and they will be transported to the Forum Login Page without the requirement to enter their credentials again. Tested in Firefox & Chrome Microsoft Edge & Internet Explorer 11

Will leave open for a day or so for people to comment if they wish.

Norman