Cannot proceed past step 1 during installation

The only time I’ve seen this is when the server doesn’t recognize PHP files. Someone else may come along and have another suggestion – but I would recommend contacting your host and informing them of your problem. In fact, to ensure they treat the problem appropriately (many hosts will tell you it’s WordPress’ fault), open up Notepad and put this in the blank page:

<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>

Save it as “test.php”. Upload it to your server. Now surf to it in your browser and see if it also tries to download this file. If it does, it further proves it’s a server misconfiguration – and you can let the host know that a standard PHP file – not a WordPress file – won’t even open. (The code I gave you is directly from the people who created PHP – if you run it, you should see the output of your host’s PHP configuration.)

Yeah, I’ve already confirmed that PHP files work, I just finished installing SMF (Simple Machine Forums) and it’s working great. I have other PHP applications too. It’s only WordPress that’s having issues. Any other suggestions?

Did you upload them as ASCII (not Binary or “Auto”)?

Thats the only other thing I could think that would be doing it.

I used “Auto”.

Might try re-uploading your files as ASCII (except for the images, of course).

Darn, just tried that and still no luck. I’m amazed that ALL other PHP applications work just fine.

that *is* weird. I’ve never seen this happen before when PHP is working just fine. It’s very odd.

Sorry – but I’m out of ideas. All I can offer now is that you have a gremlin in the works somewhere – and I know that doesn’t help!

[EDIT : Maybe this’ll help?]

A shot in the dark–wonder if this is a PHP memory problem?

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/100384?replies=5#post-497827

I tried adding the increase to the config file no luck. However the server may not allow it so I’ve contacted the host to see if they can modify. I’ll let you know if it works. In the meantime, feel free to post any other suggestions to find and fix this nasty little gremlin. ??

Changed the mem setting on the server and still no luck. ??

Install4free

Alright, interesting note. I downloaded WP v 2.0 and run the install, and I now get further. I get to where it says “Now we’re going to create the database tables and fill them with some default data.” and it’s just hanging there. Doesn’t say anything else. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I’m having the same problem (hanging at the “Second Step” page). It does create the tables (I checked in MySQL, they’re there) but it won’t generate that username and password for me.

The funny thing is I installed another blog in a different folder the other day, and it worked just fine.

It seems that many people have this problem, but there aren’t many solutions. I checked my database that’s created, all the tables are empty other than wp_options, which has 40 records. I added some echo statements into install.php and it’s simply dying right after the “Now we’re going to…” statement, or right before the first flush(); It does not execute ANYTHING past that point.

Sorry it took so long to get back…

Have you checked your server error logs?

Skoochie – if you go that far, chances are it *did* create a username/password for you, it just got stuck somewhere and didn’t send you the info. You can look by logging into phpMyAdmin and looking for your “user” table. Get in there and see if an “admin” has been created. If it has, just edit it – look for the “password” part and change what’s in the field to whatever you want for your password. Be sure to select “MD5” from the dropdown, and save it. You should be able to them surf to your wp-admin page and log in with “admin” and whatever password you just created. (Can you tell I’ve had to do that a couple of times?;))

But yeah, P, I don’t know – I’d look at the error logs and see if they tell you anything. You got a *good* gremlin.