im not sure if this is of any help. but it is from when i did an update from 2.0.18.1 to 2.3final ( http://blog.bandit-x.net/2008/09/updated-site-to-xoops-230-final.html )

do I need to move the xoops_data and xoops_lib directories in the required Protector Trust directory? or just somewhere else?

It is more secure if you do. Any place outside the web root will do. If you had already the protector module installed, you can use this trustpath.

Ghia, I'am not understanding the trustpath concept. Could you show me what and where in the mainfile.php I should include the code?
Also, since going back to 2.0.18 I removed Protector all together... Do I have to worry about the trustpath issue?
I'm learning... the hardway but I'm learning thanks for putting up with me...

Ghia,

Ok re-ran the upgrade...

Same problem... Home page is blank...

I can access the site directly by going to http://www.eastcoastrcclub.com/xoops/modules/newbb

etc...
This is the checksum report...

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Please remove the file ./checksum.md5 and checksum.php as soon as possible.

That's not good.

Look at all those missing and corrupted files.

Either your ftp app isn't doing what it's supposed to or you have downloaded a corrupt archive.
Try a different mirror.

I thought the install folder was deleted anyway when doing an upgrade?

Uploaded the missing files that weren't used anyway...

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./class/mail/phpmailer/language/phpmailer.lang-fo.php content invalid
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./install/index.php missing !
./install/install_tpl.php missing !
./install/makedata.php missing !
./install/page_configsave.php missing !
./install/page_dbconnection.php missing !
./install/page_dbsettings.php missing !
./install/page_end.php missing !
./install/page_langselect.php missing !
./install/page_modcheck.php missing !
./install/page_pathsettings.php missing !
./install/page_siteinit.php missing !
./install/page_start.php missing !
./install/page_tablescreate.php missing !
./install/page_tablesfill.php missing !
./install/prototype.js missing !
./install/style.css missing !
./install/class/cachemanager.php missing !
./install/class/dbmanager.php missing !
./install/class/index.html missing !
./install/img/background.png missing !
./install/img/banner_bg.png missing !
./install/img/bg-globalnav.png missing !
./install/img/bullet-current.png missing !
./install/img/bullet-disabled.png missing !
./install/img/bullet.png missing !
./install/img/ffffff-25.png missing !
./install/img/ffffff-75.png missing !
./install/img/form-input.png missing !
./install/img/help.png missing !
./install/img/index.html missing !
./install/img/logo.png missing !
./install/img/no.png missing !
./install/img/no_big.png missing !
./install/img/shadow.png missing !
./install/img/table-caption-grey.png missing !
./install/img/title-bl.png missing !
./install/img/title-br.png missing !
./install/img/title-inner.png missing !
./install/img/title-tl.png missing !
./install/img/title-tr.png missing !
./install/img/warning.png missing !
./install/img/wizard_bg.png missing !
./install/img/yes.png missing !
./install/img/yes_big.png missing !
./install/language/index.html missing !
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There are 3285 files checked.

the install directory is not needed
the only two files that are questionable are the first two at the top... any ideas

I reverted the template.php to the VAR_Path as opposed to ROOT_Path
Now the only thing missing are the install files... normal the directory wasn't in there... the FO language file.. which doesn't matter, I am not using it...
and some uploads that were lost.

So why does the home page still show blank but the modules work??
One more thing... I left my old modules folder in there and added the new modules into it before running the upgrade... didn't want to re-install all my modules...

But here's what's strange... I use a redirect java script in my index.html file... that essentially sends http://www.eastcoastrcclub.com to http://www.eastcoastrcclub.com/xoops

Since my site's home page is down I thought I could still have users get on by redirecting them directly to the news module byt changing my redirect url to http://www.eastcoastrcclub.com/xoops/modules/news
So now instead of redirecting to /xoops/modules/news
it just displays a blank page but on http://www.eastcoastrcclub.com it seems that it never goes to the redirect....

Is this a Protector issues?

Can anyone help?

Did you set debug on?
Try also setting all your blocks to invisible for the front page.