Quote Originally Posted by ts232
Yep, I went through the list. I don't know how to find out if the caveats are what is tripping me up. I just found out that my host has the mod_security apache module enabled by default. Perhaps that's screwing things up. I'm going to try disabling it temporarily and see if it works.
Nope that didn't fix it. For now I'm using mysqldump from the shell. Can't find any info about the mentioned security restrictions being implemented on my host. If anyone has any ideas I am all ears, otherwise I'll stick with the shell approach.