Thanks, Nuclear Moose, for that stunningly brilliant post. If the purpose of forums to be helpful, neither you nor pods have shown any amount of usefulness.
Moshu,
Thanks! It worked. If you look at my screenshot again (it hasn’t changed), to me it appeared to have granted nokicat_wp permissions, but in actuality, I hadn’t. I got the connection strings as well. Fundamentally all the control panels are the same, because aside from the gui, mine is exactly like yours with the user being granted permissions.
Thanks a lot,
Ryan
(btw I would still be interested in knowing what permissions I should & shouldn’t have on the folders)
Yes, didn’t you read my post and check out the links??!!
Yes, running the install file gives me the same screen. Also, currently, no permissions are restricted. Try it yourself: http://www.nokicat.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php