It looks like it isn't reading config.inc.php at all. The // in the languages//generic.php should look like languages/english/generic.php. And like you said it's not reading the config[dbtype]. Unfortunately I haven't a clue of installing on vservers. I know there was some path issue that had to be tweaked when running the PERL version and I'm guessing that this is probably the same type of problem.
Have you looked at any of the posts for installing the PERL version? This might give you an idea of how you need to set the paths.
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