I went into MySQL to create a user, and the database and forums user had been created by the Softalicious install. The forums user had all priveledges, so I created an admin user and I gave all priveledges to the admin user also.
Still the same error.
I should have added more detail about the manual install:
I created the forums database and admin user, gave full priveledges to the admin user, FTPed all files to a forums folder in the public html folder, set folder permissions per install docs, everything went fine until I clicked the button on the second last page. At the top of that page it basically says don't change anything if you don't know what you're doing so I didn't
After clciking the button, the page just waited and waited then finally I got a TCP error.
Then the same error you saw above. I tried this about 3 times and always ended the same.
I read through the forums to see what I might be doing wrong, and each post I read suggested what I was already doing. Then I read that you can install it through Softilicous, so I deleted everything, i.e. the database and the entire forums folder.
I entered the details in the install page in Softilicious, it seem to wait for about a minute then eventually said done.
Then the same error you saw in the first post.
I'm deleting it all to try again. Will let you know how it goes, but I'm not confident it will be any different. Fingers crossed though
