Well I went back to see in 7.7.1 zip the mysqli.inc.php is missing there.. so I went and downloaded 7.7.0 and there is was so I uploaded from 7.7.0 and
I passed by all steps and it said
Congratulations. You have successfully updated to UBB.threads 7.7.1.
Please remove the entire install directory. ... which I did
and it seems to work now I have open forum and posted a new thread


Morgan Johansson
BritBike Forum
https://www.britbike.com/forums/ubbthreads.php