[fitkoh]

@Mashiro  I had an interesting experience tonight with the database of my phpBB Forum.  I've been trying to upgrade my previous installation 3.0 to 3.3, and everything went well except for upgrading the database.  So tonight I deleted everything and thought to start again.  One thing I did was to go to the original database before I edited it in NotePad ++.  I only deleted the error note about replacing pass with password.  I didn't do any of the replacements.  And woe behold.  That worked too.  No errors came up when I imported the database.

I'm still uploading all of the folders after I deleted the installation completely.  However, while I'm waiting I'm wondering whether the database issue could have something to do with my php version and the mysql driver indicated in my config.php file.  The version of my php is PHP 7.3.17RC1 (cli) (built: Mar 31 2020 15:20:37) ( NTS )

The version of my mysql is mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.62, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1

Here are the config file contents that are needed - the driver says mysql should it be mysqli?  I found the documentation below for phpBB drivers:

https://area51.phpbb.com/docs/code/3.2.x...river.html

If the  phpbb community is to be believed, you should be able to use mysqli. https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2403011

mysqli is also listed as a requirement for version 3.3 https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.3/ug/

The upgrade guide seems pretty involved for the 3.0 to 3.3 transition: there's several steps, which means it's easy to make mistakes. - it wouldn't hurt to take a glance at it while you're waiting for your uploads to finish if you haven't already.  https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3..../upgrade3/