Reseting my phpBB forum

You guys seem to be on the ball php wise. I need some help. My webhosting overhauled thier systems yesterday. The result was my mysql databases were renamed.

In particular, my forum data base was changed from phpforum to b4_365586_2 . localhost was also changed from its default.

Its now.

MySQL User Name: b4_365586

MySQL Database Name: b4_365586_2

MySQL Password: password

MySQL Server: sql4.byethost4.com


I've been looking for a config file in phpBB2/admin, but I don't see anything. Everything is there, just named the wrong way for the moment. phpmyadmin from cpanel was just confusing, there were dozens of field names in there...

If I remember correctly, it is in the root directory and named config.php.

It's been a while since I did anything with PHPbb2.

Thanks Atomm, but that didn't seem to work. I tried changing all fields in various ways. Setting up cpanel told me that changing site password would change the database passwords too? I thought that was strange, or its been stripped down to make things easier for the enduser. No matter what I changed in this config file I still get phpBB : Critical Error Could not connect to the database errors.

// phpBB 2.x auto-generated config file
// Do not change anything in this file!

$dbms = 'mysql';

$dbhost = 'localhost' changed to: 'sql4.byethost4.com';
$dbname = 'phpforum' changed to: 'b4_365586_2';
$dbuser = 'phpforum' changed to: 'b4_365586_2';
$dbpasswd = 'oldpassword' changed to: 'newpassword';

$table_prefix = 'phpbb_';

define('PHPBB_INSTALLED', true);


I might have to ask them but sheesh, hundreds of sites converted overnite and they don't speak english 😮
I have phpmyadmin included with cpanel, but I have no idea how to use it.

If you want to PM me the account info, I can take a look at it. I can probably fix it faster than I can explain it.

Also, I'd be more than happy to set up a section for you to use here. Might be a good way to get some interaction going as well...

Atomm wrote:
If you want to PM me the account info, I can take a look at it. I can probably fix it faster than I can explain it.

Also, I'd be more than happy to set up a section for you to use here. Might be a good way to get some interaction going as well...

I can gather up the info and IM it later tonite. As far as another section goes, I've tried numerous times to get others to visit GRB, but they have alt message areas already. What I had started was a colalition of 3 groups, well 2 groups that posts 😉

Also as an aside, we merged once with an international clan [Ci] to do weaps/tranx/CTF matching. I think all of 3 people outta 16 even bothered to register there. I think they are just more confortable with themselfs for whatever reason.

Thanks for your kind offer tho.

Done....

Service with a smile... :-)

Atomm wrote:
Done....

Service with a smile... :-)

Thanks so much. I owe you one. I was really stuck on that.