Hello Folks,
I’m trying to do a “manual” install of WordPress on one of my sub.domains hosted on 1and1, Windows. I’ve followed all of the steps outlined in 1and1 support page and on other sites.
I’ve tried to do the install twice. The first time I finally got through the installation steps, but when I tried to build a page, WP told me that it didn’t have permissions to write to the database. (I had installed WP in a subdirectory.)
The second time I got the following message, “Error establishing a database connection” and can’t get past that. This time I installed WP in a directory at the root level of my 1and1 domain space.
In both cases I pointed the domain name wp.deftfinn.com to the appropriate directory.
I’m at my wits end. And 1and1’s policy is that they won’t support manual installations, even though they have a support page that gives you the instructions to install WP, even including some nice screen shots.
Please help. The page I’ve linked to above, www.daftfinn.com, contains the config file and a screen shot of the error message.
Thanks,
Tom Sawyer