[chrishajer]

> Permission denied in /home/michael/public_html/forum/bb-load.php on line 160

What are the permissions on this file /home/michael/public_html/forum/bb-config.php/ Should be 0644 or something like this -rw-r--r-- depending on how you can look at the permissions.

That’s read and write for the owner, read for anyone else. You’re getting a permission denied error, which means the file is there, but the process can’t read it.