Thanks, ravimallya. I actually downloaded the files directly from WordPress.org when I uploaded it. When it didn’t work, I deleted all the files and uploaded it via the wizard in my server. When I used the wizard, it worked. No fatal errors.
For whatever reason, when I did the wordpresss install wizard offered via my server, it worked with no issues. I don’t know why the manual install wasn’t working though. At least I have a canvas to play with now.
Esmi
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, though, it won’t help.
The install I posted about above was from a FRESH download of WordPress from the wordpress.org site. Since then, I tried re-uploading all files and folders repeatedly from a FRESH download, and keep running into the same error. So I need another way to solve this than to continuously re-uploading the files and folders.
