[eluser]andrewtheandroid[/eluser]
[quote author="Michel-Ange" date="1258315224"]@andrewtheandroid : the problem comes perhaps from writing database config file : PHP has perhaps not privileges to write in /application/config.
To be sure everything is OK after the database setup (step 2), check the file :
/application/config/database.php
Are all the required config items present : hostname, username, database, password ?[/quote]
the settings weren't being written and so I reconfigured the permissions and tried again and it worked! thanks!