Sedris

These word press boards are nice! I thought this kind of helpful civility had gone the way of the dodo on the Internets!

You’ve sold me. I’m not sure why I choose to do it manually. From here on out I use the ‘Create a Configuration File’ option.

Ross,

Thank you so much for your advice. Your instructions led me to think, maybe I gummed up the syntax of the wp-config file in all of my thrashing. So here is what I did:

I downloaded wordpress a second time so that I could have a completely clean version of the wp-config-sample file.

I am on a mac, and I was using textedit. For mac users, I can’t tell you how many times textedit has done me wrong. I think it was the culprit here. I downloaded TextWrangler from bare bones software and used that to edit the wp-config file. I could have, and should have, used Dreamweaver the first time around.

I copy and pasted the name database from my NaviCat connection into the config file.

When I ran the install script after uploading my clean wp-config everything worked. IT MAY HAVE BEEN A PROBLEM WITH A CURLY QUOTE.

For Intermedia users who may have a similar problem, I checked with Intermedia and the “owner” of a database has the maximum set of permissions.

Thank you, Ross. Your advice was a big help.