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I finally figured it out. There was not an issues caused by Mantis. The problem was related to the interaction between PHP and the MySQL database. The php.ini file for the Apache server was configured to use the default socket location, however the MySQL server was not configured to use that ...

My database section in config/config_inc.php looks like this:

# --- Database Configuration ---
$g_hostname = 'localhost:3306';
$g_db_username = 'myuser';
$g_db_password = 'mypassword';
$g_database_name = 'bugtracker';
$g_db_type = 'mysqli';

I have also tried using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost ...

I am trying to update our instance from 1.2.17 to 2.25.2.

I have followed the update guide but when I go to mantisbt/admin/install.php
The page reports the following error:
"Config File Exists but Database does not"

So it seems like the database cannot be found.

I have double checked that all ...