install.php – NOTHING HAPPENS!

That’s exactly the problem I have. It would be awsome if somebody knows the sollution to this. I also had a clean install and nothing happend in Firefox. In Safari on my Mac I got the following message:

Safari can’t open the page “https://harmonieoefening.nl/wordpress” because the server unexpectedly dropped the connection, which sometimes occurs when the server is busy. You might be able to open the page later.

This is a clean installation with an empty database. My other blog is on “https://harmonieoefening.nl/”. Here I still run WordPress 2.6.5 cause when I upgrade I have the same problem as stated above.

Is it possible the host is the problem?

if you deactivated all plugins, you might try increasing the php memory to 32M

I don’t know what that means or how to do it… ??

most decent hosts will do this for you

2 things to try:
1) add this line to the top of your .htaccess file
php_value memory_limit 32M

2) create a file in notepad called php.ini and put this in it
memory_limit = 32M
and upload it to your wordpress root (not all hosts allow this)

Thanks. I will try these and get back you to.

I tried the second idea, but it didn’t work (created new file in wordpress). I’m still getting a blank screen when I try /blog/wp-admin/install.php. Any more suggestions?

The page loads blank. What am I doing wrong?!?!

white pages, otherwise described around here as blank pages, are indicative of fatal PHP errors. what do the server’s error logs say?

where exactly does one find the .htaccess file? and people are also talking about a file called php.ini, where does one find that?

I added a php.ini file, but it didn’t do the trick either… and I can not find any file called .htaccess on my server…

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on some ftp clients you will need to turn on “hidden files” to see it

Okay, I’ve created and uploaded a file called .htaccess to the root folder in my blog, but it is a blank file. What is supposed to be in the file?

Where can I find the server logs?

I created a htaccess file with the line of code as described above (php_value memory_limit 32M), but nothing else in it. I also created a file called php.ini with the code as also described above.

Now when I load the install.php page it gives me an internal server error:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator to inform of the time the error occurred and of anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log

now what?

chmod .htaccess to 666
go to your admin – Settings – Permalinks
save the structure you want
test the resulots
chmod .htaccess to 644 for security

the log files usually can be accessed through your hosts’ control panel or via download – if not, ask your host to supply them

I chmod-ed the .htaccess file to 666, but still get the internal server error… Maybe I’m missing a step here, I’m a total noob…