Actually it is all on the same server. I did the install from /etc where I created a new directory "zip", so the installation started at /etc/zip
That is also where the .db files are. There are some empty ones located at /etc/zip/edgetest however, that of course did not work pointing the 'dir' to that location. So I changed it to just /etc/zip where the full .db files are. Still it fails at the same location(