I installed Roksproket on my test server and when I had finished I exported the database. I then tried to install the database on my clients live web server and it failed. This is my investigation.

Cause

• Roksproket database on my test server was installed as ENGINE=Aria
• On new versions of cPanel and Xampp MariaDB is now the default database engine and Roksproket must just of used the default engine because it does not specify which one to use. This is a common thing.
• The Client's server was not using an upto date cPanel install that supports MariaDB

Solution

solution is to import into xampp and then export. this seems to cure it. just keep an eye out for ut8mb4 issues

Notes

The application could not be instigate was basically just database issues, in my case xampp (more like Windows) had changed the prefix from uppercase to lowercase.