homerboy

well I’ve tried everything I can think of. Gone through all the similar posts here which most seem to never be resolved. They just die out.

Tried some suggestions on 3rd party sights and still nothing. One post suggested that WordPress did not like the password structure of mySQL5 so I revert to mysql4 with no luck. Tried:

SET PASSWORD FOR some_user@some_host = OLD_PASSWORD(‘your_old password_here’);

with still no luck.
I don’t know what else to do at this point.

argggh lovely
Installed XAMPP nothing worked.
uninstalled and now I can’t even pull up the wrodpress dir on 8080

I get an error:
The system cannot find the path specified.

as an added bonus I also completely turned off Windows Firewall (not that it should matter but it can’t hurt)

well now I’m getting:
Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)

thanks for the reply
Little more to the story:

I do have my own host/server that I run… and was getting the above errors on that. I also have a remote server that at my friends company, set everything up there and was able to CHMOD the dir to 777 (recursive on files/dirs) and it works fine… well I’m still have a small problem with a plug though.

I’d still like to get this running on my home server but for the life of me can not get CHMOD to work on my server… gone in through both BulletProof FTPD and even broke down and tried FTPing in through IIS FTP with same results. I can NOT get the CHMOD to work 🙁