podeas

I just realized that line 9 / 10 in the config file is wrapped. I added a line break around

// Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

and this seemed to resolve it: the script was choking and reading the line that was improperly wrapped (possibly by myself:

// Only numbers, letters, and underscores
please!

so it was choking on the “!” which was no longer commented out.

It’s now working on my original server, but I didn’t go back to the .zip version

I’m getting the same thing. I never had problems with installing 1.5, but with 2.0 I got 404s. and 500 internal server errors when I tried the .zip package.

then I tried the .tar.gz package and got part way through the installation (it said it installed, but the db tables weren’t generated). After inviting me to see the main page, it was now an internal 500 error.

I flipped from firefox to IE and all the same pages turned up as 404s, rather than 500s.

I checked my web logs and it says that
directory ../../wp-admin has rights to be written by others.

I did a 775 chmod of the above directory but still can’t display.

I’m now trying on a different server to see if there was some configuration change that my ISP committed, that’s preventing this from installing.

I still can’t see anything obvious that I’m doing wrong.