PHP Forum Software GOing Haywire?

[Steve Cross]

Recently while performing a basic forum software upgrade through PHPbb3 on my website hosted through Sonic.net I encountered a problem. Not sure exactly what the problem is, and I am unsure how to address it.
Here is the link to what would normally be the forum index page:
http://sonomacountyairsoft.com/forum/phpBB3/

"SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

Access denied for user 'carwedla_sca-all'@'c.custweb.sonic.net' (using password: YES) [1045]

An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.
"

Can anyone give me some guidance as to how I can address this problem and get my forum back up and running as it was before?

[kgc]

Just a guess that the software now requires mysql5? If that is the case, it's relatively easy to fix. Use the membertools to create a new mysql5 database and then dump and restore from the old database to it and update the forum's configuration.

It is probably easiest to do this from a shell:

$ mysqldump -h old.server -u old.admin-user -p old.db > backup.sql
$ mysql -h new.server -u new.admin-user -p new.db < backup.sql

Once you are finished and back up and running then use the membertools to drop the old database.