I'd like to backup my phpBB forum/website (commercially hosted) on my home machine. To that end I have downloaded and installed XAMPP followed by the entire forum directory and the associated database. I then extracted the database in the mysql data directory which was ultimately visible from phpmyadmin. However, when I navigate to the forum directory I receive the following error,
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
I've started mysql with the supplied batch file.
config.php lists the currect database as "$dbname = 'phpbb_3';", which is now extracted into a subdirectory with the same name in the data directory.
Suggestions would be most helpful.
Thanks.