WordPress Installer Error

You may need to repair the database.

Access your WordPress database via phpMyAdmin (you’ll find this in your hosting account’s control panel), check all of the tables, and choose “Repair tables” from the pull-down menu.

Hi,

I am trying to make fresh install and getting this error. After unzipping WordPress zip on first visit it throws error.

I’m not seeing this with a normal manual install of 5.5.2.

What version of PHP and MySQL are you running?

Tried installing on
MySQL 5.7.32, MySQL 5.6.25, MySQL 5.5.62
PHP 7.3.21, PHP 7.2.33, PHP 7.1.33

MySQL 5.5.62 definitely won’t work: https://www.ads-software.com/about/requirements/

The others should be fine though.

I suspect something may be very wrong with your server environment, otherwise this would be reproducible with a normal manual install, and we’d have far more than just this report (especially since you claim it affects all the way back to WordPress 5.1).

Hi,

Is there anyway by which you can check on any of our servers. We have tried installing on various platforms.

No, WordPress installations are entirely self-contained, we have no more access than any normal visitor.

I recommend making sure you meet the requirements: https://www.ads-software.com/about/requirements/

Also, have you tried repairing the database yet?

Hi,

It’s a Fresh install. I have downloaded package from https://www.ads-software.com/latest.zip and unzipped on server. When we visit installer. It redirects to URL/wordpress/wp-admin/setup-config.php and throws error.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by punitsoftac.

Yeah, as mentioned before, I can’t reproduce that error on a fresh manual install.

Please make sure your server is meeting the requirements: https://www.ads-software.com/about/requirements/

If it’s still not working, can you share the details of the server environment you’re on?

I can try to reproduce that environment, or at least try on a few more environments, tomorrow morning.

Hi,

Server Environment :
MySQL : 5.7.32
PHP : 7.4.11
Apache : 2.2.34

Note : It works if I replace following code of wp-includes\functions.php Line number 1756

Original Code :

$described_table = $wpdb->get_results( “DESCRIBE $table;” );
if ( is_array( $described_table ) && count( $described_table ) === 0 ) {
continue;
}

Replaced with :

if ( ! $wpdb->get_results( “DESCRIBE $table;” ) ) {
continue;
}

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by punitsoftac.

Hi, I am having same issue.

I just uploaded fresh installation of WP and I am getting this error (instead of wizard).
My PHP Version : 7.3

Database is irrelelevant at the moment since I am not even able to provide host / username / password.

I also encountered it. Just download the previous version and install it. It worked for me.

https://www.ads-software.com/wordpress-5.5.1.zip

Which version of MySQL are both of you running?

(side-note, please don’t provide any usernames/passwords here, we would never ask for that anyway)

10.5.6-MariaDB MariaDB Server

But it doesn’t matter, because the database was empty and I am trying to install fresh copy of WP. Latest version isn’t working with “One or more database tables are unavailable. The database may need to be repaired” error, so I installed version 5.5.1.