Serious errors with forum, blog and groups.

My forums are getting this error:

"Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INCdb.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/ssdotcom/public_html/forum/integrations/base/config.php on line 21 

and blogs and groups are giving a 404 :/

You have not tried manually moving anything have you? Or creating folders you throught were missing?

The error indicated it's not loading the config file which contains the defines for things such as BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC

The path /home/ssdotcom/public_html/forum/integrations/base/config.php

Also does not look correct. To me it looks like things have been moved.

Yes, yesterday my site was hacked, everything was moved around and deleted :/ I also didn't find out until I wrote over my backup files :/ I've taken a reinstall of dolphin on another site of mine so I can see how the paths are supposed to go, and manually rearrange them into the proper order :(

Okay everything is cleaned up and is where it belongs, problem is, there is no BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC at all... and where is it supposed to be :/

Also, I managed to get Blogs working again just by fixing where everything goes, but I am still getting a 404 for Groups, it says The requested URL /m/groups/home/ was not found on this server. well, m is modules, but the only thing inside the modules directory is an index and error page and a boonex folder, everything else is inside the boonex folder so shouldnt this page be going to m/BOONEX/groups/home? Maybe I'm just an idiot though, but if it isnt that then what could it be? And would I be able to just do a fresh install and reinstall all the modules and my template without losing the forums, blogs ... or any of the content really, and if so can you link me to a walkthrough.

 the directory /m is a rewrite on the .htaccess

so /m/ads would look in the modules directory under the boonex directory according to the mod_rewrite in .htaccess

if you are having 404's on groups, check your .htaccess and make sure it got uploaded. 

everything is fixed now by reloading my .htaccess except the forums, im still having the same error, could I rewrite the path again or something, and if so what should it be?

This is the whole error:

Warning: require_once(BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INCdb.inc.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ssdotcom/public_html/forum/integrations/base/config.php on line 21

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INCdb.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/ssdotcom/public_html/forum/integrations/base/config.php on line 21

Do you have a folder in the root of your dolphin site named forum?

The correct answer should be no.

The path within that error still shows me the forums files are not where they should be.

Where should the forums be? Also can you tell me how to link forums to an rss feeder on the home, or link me to a page that explains this? I have forums working again, but I had to change the "require_once()" php path to achieve it :/

You did not answer my question.

They are suppose to be where all of the other default boonex provided dolphin modules are.

In modules/boonex and in there is the forum folder.

But the question i asked is do you have a forum folder in the root of your dolphin site?

Again, if the forums were in the proper place to begin with, the code should not have to be modified. It should be propery fixed or you will have SERIOUS issues on the next dolphin upgrade.

Yes, there is a forum folder in the root.

There shouldn't be which more than likley the reason things did not work properly.

Where did you edit the require_once?

In the Config file, it was looking for the file in /../../../../../inc/etc... and so i cut out /../ 3 times so that it was going to the public html file instead of beyond it.

 wow, you should dump everything and start over. you have way too much running south on this attempt. 

The config file in the forum folder you have in root(which as i said is not supposed to be there) or the forum folder in modules/boonex?

But i agree with DosDawg. You should start over. This installation is damaged.

hit me up on skype if you can, and i will install this for you, because just too much has went wack for you on this thing. if you were to proceed, i can only foresee another 50 or 60 inquiries here on the forum trying to fix what should never have been broken to start with.

It might be silly to even ask this.. but you did figure out how the hacker got in and fix that first before you started over? If not it's just going to happen again. Also Dosdawg is right, dump it all...there is no telling what they did while they had access.

Is there a way to dump it and reinstall without losing all the forums, blogs, etc?