By StaticBelow on

I have just upgraded from 6.8 to 6.14. Everything appeared to be fine except that I get this message when I click on forum-

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/bootstrap.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php52/pear') in /home/user1/public_html/index.php on line 15

Also none of my pictures show up now.

I was searching the forum and someone said that they didn't have their settings.php file and after re-uploading it, everything worked. I do not have this file either, nor do I have a back up.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

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r0g commented

You should never upgrade without making a backup, these things go wrong all the time and sooner or later you will need to restore your database and/or your files.

However, seeing as you haven't got one...

Find the drupal folder you downloaded and look in the folder /site/default/

You will find a copy of a file called 'default.settings.php', this is a copy of the default 'settings.php'.

You will need to make a copy of it called 'settings.php', open it and find...

$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';

On this line replace username, password and databasename with the credentials required to access your database. Save it and then upload it to your server overwriting the current one (which you have, naturally, backed up before starting ;) and make sure it is set to read

Few sites require any other changes to settings.php so chances are if your problem was a messed up 'settings.php' that ought to fix it.

If that doesn't work the next step is to read the error message, check to see if the files it claims not to find are actually extant, and if so maybe examine their permissions.

Good luck,

Roger.