It's a bit weird - yesterday it simply wouldn't let me convert the database - it just failed. I didn't save a copy of what came up because I ran out of time and was coming back to work on it today.
Today I've got further with it - it appears to have gone through the conversion process and I then get to this message:
In order to finish the conversion:
Open the /home/weareper/public_html/wapforum/conf_global.php on your server.
Locate the sql_utf8mb4 declaration, which may look like this:
'sql_utf8mb4' => false,
Or like this:
$INFO['sql_utf8mb4'] = false;
Change the false to true. If neither line exists, add the second version to the end of the file and change the false to true. Do not change any other aspect, including any comma or semi-colon after the false
I've gone into the relevant file and the second line already exists in the conf_global.php file. It was already flagged as true. I then click the finish button and it just goes back to the same page - nothing changes and it doesn't appear to complete the process.
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