Thank you for these responses.
The latest detail is that the installation seems to only work if I select the Default-Beginner template. I was trying to use the mulitlingual, which did not work, nor did the Default-Intermediate. For my part, hey, it is working. For PW, I think you still have a bug somewhere.
Hi Ivan,
The installer (mysite/install.php) verifies system requirements. Everything is green up to that page.
pwired,
I actually decompressed the files locally and uploaded them whole via ftp. My webhost provides a somewhat strict interface, allowing only ftp, not ssh and only preapproved apps can be installed (via an installatron interface). I have not outright asked yet, however it seems to me that there is no way to decompress a zip file remotely.
The strictness of the access to remote resources might well be at play here.
The place in the install.php where it gets uppitty about dbEngine is on the last page of the install sequence, where it is serverside building the form for advanced options. While the following does not seem relevant to the php loading of this last in the series of installation screens, another detail is that InnoDB is NOT supported by my host or my MySQL.
