Title: Great install/no functionality
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Great install/no functionality

 *  [nwhite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nwhite/)
 * (@nwhite)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-installno-functionality/)
 * I have at this point done 5 clean installs and all have had the same exact result.
   I tried with both version 1.5.1.2 and 1.5.1.3 database population is great, I
   can login everything is perfect except….
 * I can’t do anything, nothing! I try to change config setting and the changes 
   don’t take effect. I try to write a post but when I hit the publish button it
   just goes back to a blank post box. I try to edit or add a catagory but no changes
   take place.
 * I find the behavior very odd, as a clean install works perfect. Database tables
   are setup and the page functions, I just can’t update. The admin login and password
   work and I login, but I can’t change or add a thing.
 * MySQL 4.1
    PHP 5.0.4 Apache 2
 * Any ideas?

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 *  Thread Starter [nwhite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nwhite/)
 * (@nwhite)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-installno-functionality/#post-243498)
 * Yuck!
 * come on WordPress I have to turn on “register_globals” in php. Thats ugly!
 * anyways this fixes the issue
 *  [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
 * (@tomhanna)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-installno-functionality/#post-243518)
 * WordPress doesn’t require register_globals to be on. That may have fixed the 
   problem, but I suspect there is another issue.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-installno-functionality/#post-243518)
 * Status: not resolved

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