[AMcDermott]

Originally Posted by kh99

If that's a "not authorized to do queries" specific message, the the only time that should happen is if the userid is not listed in $config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries']. We use APC for caching and I know we need to clear the cache before changes to php files will work, do you have something like that?

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

Yes, the error is "Not authorized to execute SQL queries".

My userid is in $vbbinstallroot/includes/config.php like so, 5201 being my userid on this forum:

    //    ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel.
    //    See the above entries for more information on the format.
    //    Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish
    //    to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = '5201';

The error message appears at the following location:

hxxp://forums.domain.com/admincp/queries.php?do=modify

I've tried an APC cache clearing script, server doesn't seem to be running APC.

Is there anything else it could be?

Edit: config file encoding seems ok, ANSI and it's obviously getting parsed correctly or VBB just wouldn't run, right?