UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Thread Like Summary - Upgrading to 7.7.5: Error:

Upgraded php from 5.4 to 7.4.16
Started getting these messages:
Deprecated: __autoload() is deprecated, use spl_autoload_register() instead in /home/wsmith/html/board/libs/phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php on line 45

So decided to upgrade UBB from 7.6.1.1 to 7.7.5
During the upgrad, after the screen:
Config file update

The next screen shows:
/home/wsmith/html/board/styles/ubbthreads_1617365481.css.php is not writeable. Please fix permissions and refresh this page.
But there's no such file.

Help!

Thank you, Gizmo and Ruben, for your suggestions.

Rolling back php creates a big mess and breaks a lot of things, so did not try that. Looked for but couldn't find any dot files in the styles directory.

Ultimately, I decided to take a chance. Created a zero-byte writeable file ubbthreads_1617365481.css.php that the upgrade script was looking for. Resumed the upgrade and it went through! After the upgrade I checked to see what happened to that file. Still the same zero byte file.

Anyway, things are good now.

Thanks again for your responsiveness. I appreciate it.