install script fails silently.

  • ianhobson

    (@ianhobson)


    18 years, 7 months ago

    I followed the 5 minute quick install, but….

    …/blog/wp-admin/install.php gives me a blank screen. There is nothing in the http cache, nothing in the the page source, nothing in the transfer log. nothing in the error log, and no tables in the database.

    So I tried to access the readme.html and license.txt files – they were served. Conclusion – I have uploaded the files to the right place.

    I’ve clearly done something silly – but without an error message to go on, I don’t know what – or how to test.

    Help gratefully received.
    Ian

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  • Thread Starter ianhobson

    (@ianhobson)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Further information
    the MySQL database name is correct
    the MySQl user and password are correct.
    I’ve added ?xx after the URL to defeat any caching – same result. Still nothing in access or error log – which worries me somewhat.
    I cleared all local content and reloaded. The favicon download was logged and nothing else.

    I can browse the rest of the site fine – and those pages are logged.

    Why are WP pages not logged?

    Jeremy Clark

    (@jeremyclark13)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Does your webserver default documents have index.php in it.

    Thread Starter ianhobson

    (@ianhobson)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Yes.
    The line from Apache2’s httpd.conf is

    DirectoryIndex index.php home.html index.html home.htm index.htm

    Note – index.htm is processed oddly – if it is not a htm file, it will be processed by a php script. This is not happening.

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