Wow – good job, to both of you. Splanters, I had actually already used the host ftp manager to update the permissions – but I had only known to try it because my host support-person suggested it – but that didn’t fix it. But Kafkaesqui, you suggested to look at whether the file is 0 bytes. It was not 0, but guess what – it was half the size on my host as it was on my local drive – God only knows why! I did a search for the “add_filter” function and it wasn’t in the file! So there was definitely a screw-up in my upload… So back to Splanters idea to start from scratch – I deleted the host directory, started over, and the install worked! By the way, I did not touch the permissions on the 2nd go-round, so in my case it was not necessary. But thanks to BOTH of you. What a strange error – I’ve used CuteFTP for years and never run into a bad upload – Again, THANK YOU!
Rex
