Quote Originally Posted by Rick5150 View Post

What happened in my case was that the permissions for the admin/configure.php file on the host server was marked as 444 so when I went to overwrite the file with the modified file using Mozilla, it would not happen. I did not realize that there were failed transfers in the bottom tab as I rarely use Mozilla. I changed the permissions from 444 to 644 and it went through perfectly.
Sounds like I am chastising myself, but this is a "schoolboy error" (I am guilty of it myself - forgetting to give write permission back to a file before I call it up for editing...)