verycunning on "Can't make initial connection to WordPress.com?"

Set to 777
I set WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY to true (but did not change @ini_set('display_errors',0); ).
I still don't see anything in the file (size 0).
The full path to the directory is /public/blog/wp-content, I'm concerned that this needs to be set somewhere but perhaps isn't. (Otherwise blog site seems to work fine.)