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<removed bad advice> // Connorhd

it is there and spelled correctly, deleting the install file had no effect either, now when i get the error message and click the install link it simply tells me that file no longer exists...

If the message says the file is corrupt maybe it is. Have you tried recreating config.php and uploading it again.

How does your config.php look? You should of course replace your real DB hostname, username and password if you post it here

Below is what the config looks like after the script was copied over

Still not having any luck here

<?php
/***********************************************************************

  Copyright (C) 2002-2005  Rickard Andersson (rickard@punbb.org)

  This file is part of PunBB.

  PunBB is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
  by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
  or (at your option) any later version.

  PunBB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
  MA  02111-1307  USA

************************************************************************/

// Tell header.php to use the admin template
define('PUN_ADMIN_CONSOLE', 1);

define('PUN_ROOT', './');
require PUN_ROOT.'include/common.php';
require PUN_ROOT.'include/common_admin.php';

<?php

$db_type = 'mysql';
$db_host = 'myhost.com';
$db_name = 'db_name';
$db_username = 'username';
$db_password = 'pass';
$db_prefix = '';
$p_connect = false;

$cookie_name = 'punbb_cookie';
$cookie_domain = '';
$cookie_path = '/';
$cookie_secure = 0;

define('PUN', 1);

?>
{
    confirm_referrer('admin_bans.php');

    $ban_user = trim($_POST['ban_user']);
    $ban_ip = trim($_POST['ban_ip']);
    $ban_email = strtolower(trim($_POST['ban_email']));
    $ban_message = trim($_POST['ban_message']);
    $ban_expire = trim($_POST['ban_expire']);

    if ($ban_user == '' && $ban_ip == '' && $ban_email == '')
        message('You must enter either a username, an IP address or an e-mail address (at least).');

    // Validate IP/IP range (it's overkill, I know)
    if ($ban_ip != '')
    {
        $ban_ip = preg_replace('/[\s]{2,}/', ' ', $ban_ip);
        $addresses = explode(' ', $ban_ip);
        $addresses = array_map('trim', $addresses);

        for ($i = 0; $i < count($addresses); ++$i)
        {
            $octets = explode('.', $addresses[$i]);

            for ($c = 0; $c < count($octets); ++$c)
            {
                $octets[$c] = (strlen($octets[$c]) > 1) ? ltrim($octets[$c], "0") : $octets[$c];

                if ($c > 3 || preg_match('/[^0-9]/', $octets[$c]) || intval($octets[$c]) > 255)
                    message('You entered an invalid IP/IP-range.');
            }

            $cur_address = implode('.', $octets);
            $addresses[$i] = $cur_address;
        }

        $ban_ip = implode(' ', $addresses);
    }

    require PUN_ROOT.'include/email.php';
    if ($ban_email != '' && !is_valid_email($ban_email))
    {
        if (!preg_match('/^[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$/', $ban_email))
            message('The e-mail address (e.g. user@domain.com) or partial e-mail address domain (e.g. domain.com) you entered is invalid.');
    }

    if ($ban_expire != '' && $ban_expire != 'Never')
    {
        $ban_expire = strtotime($ban_expire);

        if ($ban_expire == -1 || $ban_expire <= time())
            message('You entered an invalid expire date. The format should be YYYY-MM-DD and the date must be at least one day in the future.');
    }
    else
        $ban_expire = 'NULL';

    $ban_user = ($ban_user != '') ? '\''.$db->escape($ban_user).'\'' : 'NULL';
    $ban_ip = ($ban_ip != '') ? '\''.$db->escape($ban_ip).'\'' : 'NULL';
    $ban_email = ($ban_email != '') ? '\''.$db->escape($ban_email).'\'' : 'NULL';
    $ban_message = ($ban_message != '') ? '\''.$db->escape($ban_message).'\'' : 'NULL';

    if ($_POST['mode'] == 'add')
        $db->query('INSERT INTO '.$db->prefix.'bans (username, ip, email, message, expire) VALUES('.$ban_user.', '.$ban_ip.', '.$ban_email.', '.$ban_message.', '.$ban_expire.')') or error('Unable to add ban', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
    else
        $db->query('UPDATE '.$db->prefix.'bans SET username='.$ban_user.', ip='.$ban_ip.', email='.$ban_email.', message='.$ban_message.', expire='.$ban_expire.' WHERE id='.$_POST['ban_id']) or error('Unable to update ban', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

    // Regenerate the bans cache
    require_once PUN_ROOT.'include/cache.php';
    generate_bans_cache();

    redirect('admin_bans.php', 'Ban '.(($_POST['mode'] == 'edit') ? 'edited' : 'added').'. Redirecting …');
}

// Remove a ban
<?php

$db_type = 'mysql';
$db_host = 'myhost.com';
$db_name = 'db_name';
$db_username = 'username';
$db_password = 'pass';
$db_prefix = 'x';
$p_connect = false;

$cookie_name = 'punbb_cookie';
$cookie_domain = '';
$cookie_path = '/';
$cookie_secure = 0;
$cookie_seed = 'd5fad767';

define('PUN', 1);

?>

Yeah, I do only have the coded part in my case as instructed. Here's mine.

removed, takes space for nothing :)

What's that cookie seed? A timeout? Anyways..

Don't worry don't have notepad, and I can see all the file extensions and permissions directly from here.
Speaking of which... the files around carry -rw-r--r--, but config.php carries only -rw------... that may be the problem. I'll change this a bit and edit.

//Edit: *proud* heheh, that was it. The config file did not have read permissions for everyone. Maybe that should be added to an FAQ, may happen again sometime... ^^ So basically that means chmodding, for those who use FTP, the config.php file to 744 (I think.. I never understood the logic in chmod numbers)