Thanks for your reply Sephirot
that solved the permissions issues;
however when accessing the Admin CP it shows the main page blank WITHOUT any icons; like forum options, members, products etc.....
I dowloaded fresh copy of 3.8.2;
reploaded all files (just like the usual version upgrade)
2 things are happenings :
1. when I run
www.?????? /vb/install/upgrade.php
I get this error:
Fatal error: Could not open /home/public_html/vb/includes/xml/bitfield_vbulletin.xml in /home/public_html/vb/includes/class_bitfield_builder.php on line 130
2. Admin CP has no controls/icons to disable mods as I said earlier.
Regards