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The issue, as rnorth patiently helped me figure out, was that I had upgraded my PHP to 8.0 as required by the Invision upgrade script, but that seemed to break the forum when I tried to proceed with the script. I'll now download and manually install the new version and proceed from there. Thanks all for your help!

There is, and it's tiny. Here's the complete contents of that file (in the /html/forum directory): <?php /** * @brief Public bootstrap * @author <a href='https://www.invisioncommunity.com'>Invision Power Services, Inc.</a> * @copyright (c) Invision Power Services, Inc. * @license https://www.invisioncommunity.com/legal/standards/ * @package Invision Community * @since 18 Feb 2013 */ \define('REPORT_EXCEPTIONS', TRUE); $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = __FILE__; require_once 'init.php'; \IPS\Dispatcher\Front::i()->run();

Aha. When a browser tab is trying to connect to my forum I get a steady stream of these two messages (and it stops when I close the tab, and restarts when I try again in a new tab): [Thu Dec 28 16:58:21 2023] [authz_core:error] [pid 69145:tid 140002461718272] [client 10.30.9.122:57346] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/httpd/noindex [Thu Dec 28 16:58:21 2023] [autoindex:error] [pid 69145:tid 140002461718272] [client 10.30.9.122:57346] AH01276: Cannot serve directory /var/www/html/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.htm,index.php,index.php5,index.php4,index.php3,index.perl,index.pl,index.plx,index.ppl,index.cgi,index.jsp,index.jp,index.phtml,index.shtml,index.xhtml,index.html,index.wml,Default.html,Default.htm,default.html,default.htm,home.html,home.htm,index.js,index.php) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive Does that tell you anything?

Should I just do a clean install of IPB on the new server and then point it to the database somehow, rather than upgrading the existing one?

Okay, so I've run a PHPmyAdmin repair on all tables, and it came back with no repairs needed. Still locked out of the board, getting a 504 Gateway Timeout when trying to access the forum or ACP with any browser. Now what do I do?

That's the one that the upgrade script was telling me I had to repair before continuing. Hopefully once I am able to revive the board and get back to the ACP I'll be able to upgrade smoothly?

Thanks, rnorth. I'm attempting to do that right now. It's spending quite a few minutes on "Loading..." which is either because there are 250K posts in the db or because it's stuck in a loop. I do notice that the specific ibf_core_output_cache table that I was trying to repair now shows 0 rows, whereas it had a couple dozen yesterday. I wonder if that's significant.

In attempting to follow the requested steps on the ACP to request tech support for an upgrade, I clicked "Disable Third-Party" as prompted. That led to a Gateway Error and the entire site failing to load. My hosting support was able to resolve that, and the site is back, but now I can't access the board or the ACP. I'm needing to upgrade my Invision install prior to migrating to a new server, and now I'm stuck. There are also a couple of database repairs needed, and the Automatic Fix script doesn't work, and I'm not clear on how to run the queries that the upgrade script provides me. Where do I find help on this issue?