@luceos so the upgrade process wasn't really successful so I decided to get a clean installation of the latest version of flarum and compare the tables of the new and old one and see whats missing and manually add it in myself....and it succeeded!!!! I was able to get all my data from the beta 2 version to the new beta 5 version....
but then came the catastrophe.....
once I logged out, all it showed was the forum title and that line under it.....nothing else....refreshing wont help
so may I know what went wrong there? Also can I give you the credentials to login to the host im using so that you can personally have a look at the db and the files to see if anything is wrong?