Install.php generates blank page AND source.

where are you trying to install wordpress, whats the url?

this:

https://www.chellsy.se/blog/

is pretty clear. no wp-config.php

I’m having a similar problem.

wp-config has been edited.

The install script generates the data base tables, enters the admin user, and password into wp_users.

At the point where the install script should generate an email to the admin email address, nothing happens. The remaining part of the html page generated by the install script, the part that displays the admin user account and password are not present in the generated html page. Nor does the word ‘finished’ appear.

At first I thougt it was because this was being installed on my LAN which does not have a working smtp Mail Transport Agent. That has proven to be false. I see no evidence that the wordpress install script has generated the email to that admin email address.

Work around:

In this thread was the hint I needed to work around the blank html document returned by install.php when it should have been the generated password for the admin account during installation.

The install script stores a generated password, in the MySql database table as a MD5 function. Thus it is possible to enter into that database table, a known password with this MySql command entered from the MySql command line interface to your blog’s database:

MySql>update wp_users set user_pass=md5(‘password_of_choice’) where user_login=’admin’;

Then, when logging into your blog, as ‘admin’, with password ‘password_of_choice’, you will have control of your blog. Unless something else has failed.

This, of course, presumes that you have access to your MySql database, either via command line, or mysql client.

This only addresses the situation in my previous post where step two of the installation returns a document stating (more or less) entering data into database, and which should also return the admin account password, and the keyword ‘finished’ but fails to return that password.

If you have access to your MySql blog database you can see the generated data for the admin account with:

mysql>select user_login, user_email, user_pass from wp_users;

If your tables are not created, or there is no data, this work around won’t help you.

I’m having the same problem. I go to install php and get a blank page…nothing shows up and nothing has been generated.