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thx will give it a try

all sorted

i had saved the first config file using wordpad, copied and pasted the text into notepad then resaved, some how the file size went down from 500ish bytes to 317 bytes,uploaded the file now it works

thx for your help

mmm can't find any server details :-s but here's the link -

https://216.75.30.69:8443/sitepreview/h … /index.php

at the moment it's only a test site, the server uses linux,punbb as set up the php tables but not sure which version of php, sorry i'm not that helpful

here's the config file, user and password blanked

<?php

$db_type = 'mysql';
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'cod2';
$db_username = '********';
$db_password = '********';
$db_prefix = '';
$p_connect = false;

$cookie_name = 'punbb_cookie';
$cookie_domain = '';
$cookie_path = '/';
$cookie_secure = 0;
$cookie_seed = '406f54b8';

define('PUN', 1);

in myphpadmin there are tables setup by punBB so at least it's found the database, thank you for your help