I can’t reach step 3

  • I’ve installed some WordPress in some hostings without any problem (it’s very easy, yes).
    But in a new hosting, I can’t reach step 3. In Mozilla Firefox, it returns me a blank page, and IE returns me a “Page not found”.
    I’ve been looking for a solution, and the only thing that I can see, is that if I comment line 6 of install.php (require(‘upgrade-functions.php’);) I reach step 3 page (but, obviously, it doesn’t run…)
    Can anybody help me? Thank you very much.

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  • Try changing it to require('./upgrade-functions.php'); . Other than that, I would just contact your host and let them know that you’ve been able to install WP several times in other hosting situations with no problems but you’re having trouble on their server.

    Thread Starter lebyrus

    (@lebyrus)

    I’ve tried what you said, but it doesn’t run.
    I’ve contacted with my host. I hope that they can fix it. It’s very strange, really.
    Thanks ??

    I’ve got the same problem, but I’m installing it myself. My Apache logs show two bugs in the WP code…
    ### FATAL ERROR WHEN INSTALLING ###
    PHP Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /home/htdocs/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php on line 705, referer https://www.myurl.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php?step=2
    ### PARSE ERROR WHEN INSTALLING ###
    PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/htdocs/wordpress/wp-login.php on line 337, referer: https://www.myurl.com/wordpress/
    I’m amazed that this version of WP even got through QA, let alone released. Assumingly, this will be a problem for everyone who downloads this release. We should get to the bottom of this and get the code re-released. I really, really want to use WP, but this is unacceptable. Is there a previous version that can be downloaded?
    If not, I may resort to using Mambo…
    https://www.mamboserver.com/

    I was able to get install.php?step=3 working by commenting out line 746 that calls the upgrade_all() function. Based on the above Apache log, I assume this file lived in wp-admin/upgrade_functions.php
    Of course, this only solves part of the problem people are having with WP… The wp-login.php page is still buggy. I can’t remember how many times I’ve reinstalled, but only one time on one install was I able to log in.
    I’ve now reached a dead end because every request to the wp-login.php page is a 404 in the browser and Apache reports more problems…
    [notice] child pid 23004 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
    [notice] child pid 23025 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
    * Not sure if that is one page request or two.

    yes, commenting out the row 746 made me get through the complete install sequence also. But then weird things happen since stuff are missing in tables (the frist thing I noticed was tha category table missing fields). Adding those fields manually helps… …but is not really an option. Is there an update coming perhaps?

    I have exactly the same problems (step 3 & wp-login.php). Too bad for WordPress… many people might switch to other software :/ I’ll wait for next release, hoping it will appear really soon.
    The mentioned problems are platform/browser independent. I’m using FF0.9 & IE6 on WinXP, and FB0.7 & Konqueror on RH8. My host is running Apache 2.0.49, PHP 4.3.7, MySQL 4.0.20, and PhpMyAdmin 2.5.7.

    If it is not related to a particular platform or software version it is fascinating that there is no fix for this fatal problem. I tried downloading the latest build, and the same problem shows.

    It truly is amazing that this version got released. I don’t understand how some people are not having these issues. It is sad because WP has such great potential. I’m stuck waiting for the next release because Mambo, MoveableType and Blogger just do not appeal to me.
    Maybe together we can make enough of an uproar to get this fixed?

    I’ve been trying to install WP for days thinking it was something on my side causing this problem! Man, it’s actually a great relief to see it’s an error in the build. Whew, I guess suicide can be postponed for the moment..

    The weird part is that I installed this on a third-party server without any problem. I’m running the latest MySQL and PHP 5 (RC 2), but not sure why this would make any difference. I can’t find any requirements issue, so I have no idea why this is not working. Any ideas?

    Hi, I tried several times to install it under Apache 2.0.50, MySQL 4.0.20 and PHP 5.0.0RC3. Problems persist. Does anybody installed WordPress 1.2 successfully under PHP RC3???? I bet, this is the main cause of the problems. I’m not an expert at PHP, I can’t say/verify it..

    it’s one of those things that works alright on a linux server but not a windows server. happens to alot of php programs out there.

    This may be related to a problem I had previously. I could not get to step 3 either. The solution was to go back to step 2 and enter the URL to the WordPress installation again. The question in step 2 asks for the URL to your site, not to the WordPress installation. I originally had https://www.mysite.com/ entered as the URL to my site, and step 3 failed. When I changed it to https://www.mysite.com/wordpress/, which is where WordPress is installed, it worked fine.
    My suggestion to the developers of WordPress was to reword that question about the URL to the site, hopefully to avoid this problem in the future.

    Am I right in saying that there are some dependencies to do with later versions of php or mysql?

    Got the same problem, commented the one function out, but than some columns missing, and everything runs just bad.
    Any solution for that yet ? Don’t want to waste antoher day searching

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