Blank install.php

  • Running Debian
    Apache
    Mysql (4.0.18)
    PHP (4.3.4)
    When I run through wp-admin/install-config.php the second step just has the WordPress header and is then blank. I figure, ok, I probably need to manually edit the file.
    I copy wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and edit it so that it looks as follows:
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘gordy’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘gord’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘MYPASSWORD’); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
    When I go to wp-admin/install.php I just get a blank page (IE 6 and Firebird 0.8) There is nothing in the source, and no errors logged anywhere)
    I have installed the php-mysql module as suggested in another thread. Restarted both Apache and MySQL. I have absolutely no idea what’s wrong. (the database gordy exists and the user gord has permission to do pretty well everything to that database) Any ideas? (oh it’s WordPress 1.02)

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  • Thread Starter Anonymous

    I still have the same problem with the blank install.php!!!
    I installed phpMyAdmin and it works just fine. Added user, granted him ALL privileges under the sun and still BLANK.
    EL BLANCO. Please help.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    I posted a fix here:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/index.php?action=vthread&forum=2&topic=9550&page=-1#20

    Hi,
    I had the exact same problem with the same setup as the original poster (Debian, Apache Mysql (4.0.18) PHP (4.3.4)).
    So, I tried installing phpBB to check it wasn’t a general php problem and the phpBB install complained that php-mysql module wasn’t setup for use with MySQL ver4.
    I didn’t need to recompile, just a cheeky dpkg-reconfigure php4-mysql and a restart of apache did the trick for me.
    Hope this helps someone.
    Cheers,
    Craig.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    install php-mysql (right version), (with Fedora 2: ‘yum install php-mysql’) and all will work!

    Sure!
    All perfectly work after proper installation all about php + MySQL modules
    Mandrake 10
    Thanx

    kbyrd

    (@kbyrd)

    Another successful fix.
    I’m running debian unstable, w/ apache2.
    “dpkg-reconfigure php4-mysql” worked perfectly for me.

    Also check your php.ini file to see if you have a memory_limit = 8M setting. The install.php script requires more than 8M to run.

    Some default php configurations from package managers have the memory_limit set to 8M.

    Change it to 16M that worked for me.

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