trejder

Well… it depends. In my situation (on my hosting server) there was a problem with PHP.ini variable “upload_tmp_dir”. It has to point to proper temporary directory and this directory has to have proper permissions. I wasn’t able to correct it, but my host admin was and after that correction files uploading started working.

Take a look here.

This is the first I’ve heard about the write permissions being different depending on the server. Can you please expand?

Why not – if you ask?
From WP-Codex official documentation:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_File_Permissions

The WordPress Database Backup Plugin requires the /wp-content/ folder be made writeable. In some cases, this may require assigning 755 permissions or higher (e.g. 777 on some hosts).

The problem was so stupid, that I’m even ashamed of talking about it! ?? I made a typo in password. No all seems to be fine. Except that I can’t force WP to switch to my (Polish) language. But this is off-topic here…

Hi,

There are many information in support and other sites about installing WP into existing database without creating new one for it. And it is quite easy – all one has to do is to correctly edit wp-config.php file.

But what about if my (anyone else) host does not allow of creating new users? Neither to giving them access to database(s)?

I’m stuck with something like that. I can’t create neither new database nor new user in my phpMyAdmin so I entered into wp-config all my current information (host, existing database and existing user login and password) I use to login to MySQL. And it unfortunatelly does not work. I see standard “Error” message saying that installation script can’t login to database and I fear that here is the point where my journey with WordPress ends. Before it actually has even started! ??

I’ve spent hours digging througs support, guide, forums and found nothing for such…

Any tip or idea what to do in such situation?

Best regards,
Tom