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Could use a little help here. I had Elkarte running on another website awhile back and I didn't have this problem.

I just purchased another domain and started building my site through iPage. I've created the database, assigned a user name and all that stuff for it. It just fails during installation at the database input window. All my information is correct. I've re-installed the software twice, ElkArte_v1-0-10_install. I just tried a fresh install using Elkarte-development.zip with the same results.

The new database is named elkarte and my user and pass are correct. I just can't get past this window in the installation!

Any ideas?

Hey Bodacious.  Hope you are well. Dumb question perhaps. Does your database have proper permissions?

Hey thanks for the response, and hope all is well with you also!

This is a new site and I have only made two databases for it, so far. One for Wordpress and the other one for Elkarte. I have myself as the Admin on both of the databases w/all permissions granted.

Interestingly, I had the same problem when I first installed Wordpress. The way I finally fixed that was by editing a file called wp_config.php. I manually inputed my database info to it, reuploaded this file to site and the installation proceeded without a hitch.

I haven't been successful in getting this method to work with Elkarte.

I got it working. It wouldn't except 'localhost' so (tried this before) I used the iPage sever name and it installed. I must have misspelled it the first few times according to there tech, lol. They're a pretty good and cheap(er) service, but them guys act lost when it comes to using a ftp to install software.

Thanks guys!

Good deal! Glad it's working. Kudos on the followup. It may help someone down the road.