Did your new installation server support MySQLi ? If not then change settings.php. Make it like this : $db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Roger arelem@bigpond.com wrote:

Yes that the first thing I tried. I tried with the original settings.php and then the copied settings.php which was $db_url = mysql on the copy and on my pd mysqli so I changed that. I also tried changing password and user name, nothing helped

It's got to be something I've overlooked! Roger