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I asked you if youradmin account had global moderator permissions. By default, the founder account is a member of the global moderator group. Therefore the founder user is a global moderator and would not be listed as a forum moderator Generally, forum owners also give global moderator permissions t...

Your admin account does not have global moderator permissions? That is usually one of the first things board owners set.

Please do not post duplicate topics.

It says your database server is down. This is a problem for your webhost.

If your admin is a global moderator, it would also not show.

Global Moderators are never shown on the forum moderator lists.
Global moderators can moderate any forum they can see, so to list them as forum moderators would be redundant.

You have a phpBB2 forum, not phpBB3.
You should restore the backup you made of index.php before you tried to edit it.

Clear your forum;s cache.
Use the bottom button on the front page of the Admin control panel.

That is pretty strange, considering index.php has only 136 lines.

Without seeing the error message, it is tough to diagnose.