gehwokka

Thank you very much for reading my disorganized thoughts this far. I hope an expert will spot the problem and it will be a simple one.

Again thanks!

yes. That’s correct. The database exists, but the install script is not moving forward and populating tables.

Oooh, I had to change the dbHost too! When I had it set to ‘localhost’, the script balked, and gave me a hint that all was not well with the localhost setting. So I set it to the server that the MySQL is on, and the script worked up to Step 2.

Yes, I saw this. This poster goes into great detail – but mine is the problem NOT addressed. I should have mentioned this in the prior message – NO database tables are being created either! I checked this using PHPMyAdmin (which my ISP provides).

As far as the posting goes, he says (paraphrasing) “if you created tables, great. All you have to do is change your password, but if your script did not create tables, then the install failed”

I’m in the “install failed” category… Hence this posting…

any ideas??

Yes, I saw this. This poster goes into great detail – but mine is the problem NOT addressed. I should have mentioned this in the prior message – NO database tables are being created either! I checked this using PHPMyAdmin (which my ISP provides).

As far as the posting goes, he says (paraphrasing) “if you created tables, great. All you have to do is change your password, but if your script did not create tables, then the install failed”

I’m in the “install failed” category… Hence this posting…

any ideas??

By the way, just wanted to add that I’ve been impressed with how quick the response time is here. If I can get WordPress installed it looks like I’ve found a nice tool that I’ll put to good use… Hopefully you guys can get me over this installation problem…

thanks,

gehwokka

oops. The server stripped out the tags in the “now we’re going to create the database” section. When I look at the source code locally, that entire sentence is in a paragraph tag pair (“< p > < / p > “)

Hope this makes sense…

gehwokka

yes – when I first had the problem I registered and hunted for posts describing similar problems. None of the solutions posted seem to apply to my situation.

When I looked at the source code for the 2nd step, I noticed it was malformed html – this is the very last line:

Now we’re going to create the database tables and fill them with some default data.

Note absence of </body></html> tags.

I just stopped right there. I know a little PHP, but I’m not quite ready to go hunting about just yet. I’m hoping someone can see all this and go “oh, just do such and such” and it’ll work suddenly…

No. It’s just a nice box telling me about creating tables and filling with intialized data…

There’s nothing else happening. It just sits there. ??

I’m having the exact same problem too. I’ll be watching here to see if solutions are posted. This is frustrating! I hope it’s something silly and simple… ??

gehwokka