Bad Request when running install.php for the first time

  • mandalek

    (@mandalek)


    19 years ago

    The following is the page I get displayed in my web browswer the first time I run the install.php install. The complete installation is new. I installed PHP and MySQL on the E: dirve and WordPress on the F: dirve in the website sturcure.

    Can Anyone give me some direction ?

    Thanks
    Matt
    [email protected]

    Bad request
    The page that you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, had its content expired, or is temporarily unavailable.
    ——————————————————————————–

    Please try the following:

    Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
    If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
    Click the Back button or open the home page for this Web site and look for other links to the information that you want.
    HTTP Error 400 – Request is badly formed.
    Internet Information Services (IIS)

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  • Thread Starter mandalek

    (@mandalek)

    I control the server. It is a Windows 2003 IIS 6 server. The addres is https://www.thenoc.us/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php and I still get the same error. Is it possible that I have some permissions errors?

    Thanks

    Les Bessant

    (@lesbessant)

    When I went to the link, Firefox offered to download install.php. Looks like IIS isn’t serving PHP correctly…

    Thread Starter mandalek

    (@mandalek)

    well somthing has changed. I reinstalled PHP5 and setup the cgi mapping. Now I get a blank page when loading the install.php fle.

    Thread Starter mandalek

    (@mandalek)

    and now this is what I get…

    CGI Error
    The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

    I must be doing somthing very simple wrong…and it seems to be on the IIS6 server side of things

    Les Bessant

    (@lesbessant)

    I get an error message when I go there.

    Can you try a phpinfo() and see if that works? Save the following in a new file and upload it to your site – call it something like info.php, and make sure there are no spaces before the beginning < or after the closing >:

    <?php
    phpinfo();
    ?>

    Thread Starter mandalek

    (@mandalek)

    I get the same error on everything PHP now..

    CGI Error
    The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

    Les Bessant

    (@lesbessant)

    Ah. Well, that takes us beyond the scope of the WP forums, I’m afraid.

    I’d guess it’s an IIS configuration issue – so you’d probably get more useful help elsewhere – most people here are more familiar with Apache.

    Thread Starter mandalek

    (@mandalek)

    Now that I have gone through the complete PHP and IIS6 install again. I actually get a responce from info.php…

    No input file specified.

    Is that what you where looking for ? I think I have gone around and around so many times, that I am getting confused and I know I can do this as it is not brain surgery.

    Thanks

    Matt

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    As it was said above: teaching you how to set up a server is not for the WP forum. Please, take your problem to a proper place.

    Instead of using CGI, use isapi. shown here – https://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2000/12/14/php_admin.html

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