milkymedia

Hey thanks for that, sorry for the delay, had to shelve a few things.

It worked when both open_basedir was off and permissions were set to public.

I changed back afterwards and all seems rosy!

Cheers

Dont install wordpress from cPanel.

If you already have stuff in your root folder then you can install the new site on another subdomain.

Create the subdomain in Cpanel (newsite.example.com or whatever) then copy the package and installer file into that subdomain folder.

Having created the new database, go to newsite.example.com/installer.php, enter the database details and off you go.

When you have resaved the permalinks, go to the settings page and change the bits (both of them) where it says newsite.example.com to the main domain name example.com.

Now, in cPanel go to domain manager and set your example.com domain to point at the subdomain newsite.example.com.

Done.

I’ve done this for hundreds of sites and its fine every time.

It needs an empty database, so I usually just create a new one. You don’t need to install over an existing wordpress install.

But if you want to do that, tick ‘Table Removal’ on the installer page, it will remove all tables from the database that already exists.