Jeff

Try 755 temporarily at the root and have it set as -R (chmod -R 755 /). Once it is complete, you can more directly lock down permissions after it is up and running.

In my Hosting company I just ticked a permissions option to re-inherit in the cPanel. However, for Linux/Bash/OSX, you will probably need to use:
chmod -R XXX (for whatever permissions level you want).

-R will Recursively go through all subdirectories/files and set the same permissions.

Cancel this…it was incorrect permissions. I had to forcibly set the root permissions to re-inherit. Evidently the ZIP and install.php file permissions were copied from the site I am copying FROM. Great product!

I may be incorrect…but if you are on Windows hosting, it is using IIS instead of Apache…and cannot parse the HTACCESS file(s) correctly since it doesn’t know how to handle them. This causes the link infrastructure in WP to basically blow up…and you’ll get error 500’s and 404’s pretty much everywhere. Basically, if you don’t stick with it “out of the box” for Windows, you’re dead in the water. I have the same problem…I’ll update this if I find a solution other than what I just mentioned.