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Well, I gave up and tried Textpattern instead and the whole install worked perfectly and took about 3 minutes, using exactly the same database and user names…

The thing is, it

is

connecting to the server OK. The name of the database is now killerr_blog.

If I edit it in the config file so it’s called killer_blo I get the “We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the killerr_blo database.” message. But as soon as I change it to the correct name, killerr_blog, I get the Internal Server error message straight away.

I use H-Sphere to set up my database names and it requires that you have the user name prefix, in this case killerr .I have tried several different names but they all have to have that prefix. If I put the name in I get a 500 error, if I don’t it connects to the server but can’t find the database.
I tried the test connection php script and that works fine so I know my server is OK. I can connect to that database fine using phpMyadmin. Username and password are definitely OK. Host does not use vDeck.

Yes I tried ‘localhost’ but then it can’t connect to the server. With ‘216.157.145.55’ it can talk to the server, but then either shows an internal error if I use the ‘killerr_a’ database name (which is the correct name)or says it can’t find the database because the name is wrong. Basically using the killerr_a name causes an error – I have tried different database names, but they all have to have the ‘killerr_’ prefix, which seems to cause the error for some reason???