Title: Error on Step 2 Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Error on Step 2 * [ketlan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketlan/) * (@ketlan) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/) * Hi all. I have a problem here with not being able to get WordPress to install at all. The download was fine and I’m installing to my own server (Apache and MySQL on my own machine – from which I run loads of stuff). I used PHPMyAdmin to set up a database, set up the Apache http.conf file to give me access via the net, restarted the server and went into install.php. No problem there – I entered a name and email address, clicked to carry on and the page just stayed on Step2 forever. I killed the process and dropped the entire database (though it’s worth noting that nine tables had been created in it) then set the whole thing up again, just to hit the same barrier. PHP 4-223 and Windows 2000 Pro, by the way. Any ideas, folks? Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217177) * Are you saying that page 2 was blank, or didn’t go anywhere? * Thread Starter [ketlan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketlan/) * (@ketlan) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217179) * Blimey, that was a quick response. No, not blank – I got the message stating that the installation was adding tables to the database (which it seems to have done) but it stayed on that same page for about as long as it took for me to make a cup of tea. 🙂 I’ve tested it three times now and always get stuck at the same point. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217181) * Hm, you might want to read through this tutorial (it guides you through setting up WordPress locally on your PC): [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/) * Thread Starter [ketlan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketlan/) * (@ketlan) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217182) * Blimey, that was a quick response. No, not blank – I got the message stating that the installation was adding tables to the database (which it seems to have done) but it stayed on that same page for about as long as it took for me to make a cup of tea. 🙂 I’ve tested it three times now and always get stuck at the same point. * Thread Starter [ketlan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketlan/) * (@ketlan) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217183) * Blimey, that was a quick response. No, not blank – I got the message stating that the installation was adding tables to the database (which it seems to have done) but it stayed on that same page for about as long as it took for me to make a cup of tea. 🙂 I’ve tested it three times now and always get stuck at the same point. * Thread Starter [ketlan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketlan/) * (@ketlan) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217184) * Blimey, that was a quick response. No, not blank – I got the message stating that the installation was adding tables to the database (which it seems to have done) but it stayed on that same page for about as long as it took for me to make a cup of tea. 🙂 I’ve tested it three times now and always get stuck at the same point. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217185) * Hm … might I suggest putting a cap on whatever is continually submitting your posts? * Thread Starter [ketlan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketlan/) * (@ketlan) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217186) * Sorry about that triple posting. I don’t see a delete button. I’ll take a look at that turorial. Thanks. * Thread Starter [ketlan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketlan/) * (@ketlan) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217191) * I read the xampp thing but it doesn’t really apply because I use phpdev (and have done for the past couple of years). Though no great expert, I’m no novice with working with PHP, Apache and MySQL either but this has me baffled. Everything looks right to me. Oh, I should mention that I’m trying to install 1.5.1.2 Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Error on Step 2’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/) * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/) * [tables](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tables/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 9 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [ketlan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketlan/) * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-step-2/#post-217191) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics