I deleted the contents of index.php and replaced with:
<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>
now everything appears to be working normally…I have no idea how the original index.php was corrupted on install.
Looks like my issue is resolved
I don’t think living in the phpBB2 folder is an issue. I can get to wp-admin/index.php without problems. All works normally. The page displayed when index.php is accessed is what appears to be the install instructions…etc.
Thanks for repling.