Got it fixed. Ended up wiping out the folder entirely, recreating and re-extracting all the files in place, overwritting things back the way they were.
Seems to be a server/FTP issue. No idea what though.
Thanks for your help.
creating the file? Yes, it says its got a connection, then when you hit to install, it loops back to this again. Which happens to be another problem, because it sends me through new install flow apparently when this happens, but its not, its an upgrade.
Had it set 775, tried 666 as you suggest, still no joy. I get:
There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.
Create a Configuration File
