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I have been a phpBB user and have grown frustrated at trying to upgrade from 3.0.14 to anything newer... it just wont work.  So, I thought I would see about switching to something that might!   But sadly, I am not having much better luck.

I've created a database on my server
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I've uploaded the "upload/" files.

I changed the name of config.default.php to config.php

I changed the name of htaccess.txt to .htaccess

I changed the file permissions of the required files

1. CHMOD the following files to 666 (ie, make sure that PHP can write to them).
   ./inc/settings.php
   ./inc/config.php (you must rename config.default.php to config.php first)
   
   
2. CHMOD the following folders to 777 (ie, make sure that PHP can write to and execute from them).
   ./cache/
   ./cache/themes/
   ./uploads/
   ./uploads/avatars/
   

When I visit http://mywebsite.com/install/, I can get started and everything checks out

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but I get stuck at the Database Configuration step.

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Your phpMyAdmin server connection via TCP/IP may indicate the database is not localhost.

Make sure MySQL can be accessed via localhost:3306 and the specified user has relevant privileges to use, manipulate and do other operations on that database.

Looking to your phpmyadmin screenshot, DB server seems to be custsql-nf10.eigbox.net rather than localhost

(2022-01-16, 12:48 PM)Crazycat Wrote: [ -> ]Looking to your phpmyadmin screenshot, DB server seems to be custsql-nf10.eigbox.net rather than localhost

That's why I attached the screenshots! Thanks all. changing the database server fixed the issue.

Noob problem!