I’ve checked that the db user has full privileges which is the case too . . .
Error log within wp-admin gives plenty of errors relating to the COLLATE change;
[11-Dec-2010 14:30:51] WordPress database error COLLATION ‘latin1_general_ci’ is not valid for CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ for query CREATE TABLE wp_29_terms (
term_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
name varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”,
slug varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”,
term_group bigint(10) NOT NULL default 0,
PRIMARY KEY (term_id),
UNIQUE KEY slug (slug),
KEY name (name)
) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE latin1_general_ci made by wpmu_create_blog, install_blog, make_db_current_silent, dbDelta
[11-Dec-2010 14:30:51] WordPress database error COLLATION ‘latin1_general_ci’ is not valid for CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ for query
The previous attempt ’28’ to create a site before the COLLATE change gave loads of error (I’ve just listed the first few here);
[11-Dec-2010 14:03:36] WordPress database error Table ‘justbcsh_wpmu.wp_28_options’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT option_name FROM wp_28_options made by wpmu_create_blog, install_blog, populate_options
[11-Dec-2010 14:03:36] WordPress database error Table ‘justbcsh_wpmu.wp_28_options’ doesn’t exist for query INSERT INTO wp_28_options (option_name, option_value, autoload) VALUES (‘siteurl’, ‘https://main.just-2bme.com’, ‘yes’), (‘blogname’, ‘My Site’, ‘yes’), (‘blogdescription’, ‘Just another WSW Clients Information & Resources site’, ‘yes’), (‘users_can_register’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘admin_email’, ‘[email protected]’, ‘yes’), (‘start_of_week’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘use_balanceTags’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘use_smilies’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘require_name_email’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘comments_notify’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘posts_per_rss’, ’10’, ‘yes’), (‘rss_use_excerpt’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘mailserver_url’, ‘mail.example.com’, ‘yes’), (‘mailserver_login’, ‘[email protected]’, ‘yes’), (‘mailserver_pass’, ‘password’, ‘yes’), (‘mailserver_port’, ‘110’, ‘yes’), (‘default_category’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘default_comment_status’, ‘open’, ‘yes’), (‘default_ping_status’, ‘open’, ‘yes’), (‘default_pingback_flag’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘default_post_edit_rows’, ’10’, ‘yes’), (‘posts_per_page’, ’10’, ‘yes’), (‘date_format’, ‘F j, Y’, ‘yes’), (‘time_format’, ‘g:i a’, ‘yes’), (‘links_updated_date_format’, ‘F j, Y g:i a’, ‘yes’), (‘links_recently_updated_prepend’, ‘‘, ‘yes’), (‘links_recently_updated_append’, ‘‘, ‘yes’), (‘links_recently_updated_time’, ‘120’, ‘yes’), (‘comment_moderation’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘moderation_notify’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘permalink_structure’, ‘/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/’, ‘yes’), (‘gzipcompression’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘hack_file’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘blog_charset’, ‘UTF-8’, ‘yes’), (‘moderation_keys’, ”, ‘no’), (‘active_plugins’, ‘a:0:{}’, ‘yes’), (‘home’, ‘https://main.just-2bme.com’, ‘yes’), (‘category_base’, ”, ‘yes’), (‘ping_sites’, ‘https://rpc.pingomatic.com/’, ‘yes’), (‘advanced_edit’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘comment_max_links’, ‘2’, ‘yes’), (‘gmt_offset’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘default_email_category’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘recently_edited’, ”, ‘no’), (‘template’, ‘twentyten’, ‘yes’), (‘stylesheet’, ‘twentyten’, ‘yes’), (‘comment_whitelist’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘blacklist_keys’, ”, ‘no’), (‘comment_registration’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘rss_language’, ‘en’, ‘yes’), (‘html_type’, ‘text/html’, ‘yes’), (‘use_trackback’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘default_role’, ‘subscriber’, ‘yes’), (‘db_version’, ‘15477’, ‘yes’), (‘uploads_use_yearmonth_folders’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘upload_path’, ”, ‘yes’), (‘blog_public’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘default_link_category’, ‘2’, ‘yes’), (‘show_on_front’, ‘posts’, ‘yes’), (‘tag_base’, ”, ‘yes’), (‘show_avatars’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘avatar_rating’, ‘G’, ‘yes’), (‘upload_url_path’, ”, ‘yes’), (‘thumbnail_size_w’, ‘150’, ‘yes’), (‘thumbnail_size_h’, ‘150’, ‘yes’), (‘thumbnail_crop’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘medium_size_w’, ‘300’, ‘yes’), (‘medium_size_h’, ‘300’, ‘yes’), (‘avatar_default’, ‘mystery’, ‘yes’), (‘enable_app’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘enable_xmlrpc’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘large_size_w’, ‘1024’, ‘yes’), (‘large_size_h’, ‘1024’, ‘yes’), (‘image_default_link_type’, ‘file’, ‘yes’), (‘image_default_size’, ”, ‘yes’), (‘image_default_align’, ”, ‘yes’), (‘close_comments_for_old_posts’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘close_comments_days_old’, ’14’, ‘yes’), (‘thread_comments’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (‘thread_comments_depth’, ‘5’, ‘yes’), (‘page_comments’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘comments_per_page’, ’50’, ‘yes’), (‘default_comments_page’, ‘newest’, ‘yes’), (‘comment_order’, ‘asc’, ‘yes’), (‘sticky_posts’, ‘a:0:{}’, ‘yes’), (‘widget_categories’, ‘a:0:{}’, ‘yes’), (‘widget_text’, ‘a:0:{}’, ‘yes’), (‘widget_rss’, ‘a:0:{}’, ‘yes’), (‘timezone_string’, ”, ‘yes’), (’embed_autourls’, ‘1’, ‘yes’), (’embed_size_w’, ”, ‘yes’), (’embed_size_h’, ‘600’, ‘yes’), (‘page_for_posts’, ‘0’, ‘yes’), (‘page_on_front’, ‘0’, ‘yes’) made by wpmu_create_blog, install_blog, populate_options
[11-Dec-2010 14:03:36] WordPress database error Table ‘justbcsh_wpmu.wp_28_options’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_28_options WHERE option_name = ‘home’ made by wpmu_create_blog, install_blog, populate_options, __get_option
[11-Dec-2010 14:03:36] WordPress database error Table ‘justbcsh_wpmu.wp_28_options’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_28_options WHERE option_name = ‘siteurl’ made by wpmu_create_blog, install_blog, populate_options, __get_option, __get_option
[11-Dec-2010 14:03:36] WordPress database error Table ‘justbcsh_wpmu.wp_28_options’ doesn’t exist for query INSERT INTO wp_28_options
(option_name
, option_value
, autoload
) VALUES (‘home’, ‘https://main.just-2bme.com’, ‘yes’) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE option_name
= VALUES(option_name
), option_value
= VALUES(option_value
), autoload
= VALUES(autoload
) made by wpmu_create_blog, install_blog, populate_options, update_option, add_option
[11-Dec-2010 14:03:36] WordPress database error Table ‘justbcsh_wpmu.wp_28_options’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT autoload FROM wp_28_options WHERE option_name = ‘blodotgsping_url’ made by wpmu_create_blog, install_blog, populate_options, delete_option
[11-Dec-2010 14:03:36] WordPress database error Table ‘justbcsh_wpmu.wp_28_options’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT autoload FROM wp_28_options WHERE option_name = ‘bodyterminator’ made by wpmu_create_blog, install_blog, populate_options, delete_option