Title: install.php does not seem to create users Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # install.php does not seem to create users * [banania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banania/) * (@banania) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/) * Hi everyone, * I tried to install wordpress on my local computer, using wampserver. I followed the steps of the tutorial starting with extracting wordpress, creating the database and user, granting rights, and creating the config.php file. * I then launch install.php. * The script seems to install properly all the table of the database (so I guess there’s no error in my config file) but fail to create a user. * The message I should get, something like “installation done, did you expect more steps?” does not appear, and I only get the header wordpress. * When I refresh the page, install.php tells me wordpress is already install. I then click on “log in”, try to login, and fail to log in. When I try to display wp_users and wp_usermeta, it shows 0 recording! * FYI, I used the most simple login/password : wordpress/wordpress. * (i) do any one know from where the problem could come? (ii) is there any means to create manually an user, just to get started, using phpmyadmin? * Thanks a lot. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2366657) * Are there any errors logged in a file named error_log? * Also, do you know how to use something like phpMyAdmin to see your database? Do you see anything in the users table? * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2366897) * Hi banania, have you been able to make any progress on this issue? * Thread Starter [banania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banania/) * (@banania) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2366900) * Hi imh_brad ! * Hmm, no I haven’t been able yet to address the issue, as I’m on professional duty today and tomorrow in Holland. * I can’t answer your first question (by the way did you mean the error_log of wampserver? or is there and error_log in the wordpress folder?) * To your second question: yes I know phpmyadmin (and SQL by the way), and I checkes both the users and usermeta table : it seems that wordpress installation record any user in there! * Maybe I could do it “manually” but, when I tried to insert a record in user table, I did not know what to put in “key activation” field and “status” field. * Thread Starter [banania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banania/) * (@banania) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2366902) * God! My message is not very clear. * I meant : -“checked” not “checkes” -“no user” and not “any user” * I can’t answer your first question because my personal computer is at home. * And I forgot to thank you for your help (preventively :P). Sorry for being rude! 🙂 * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2366904) * Hi banania. I created a wordpress user for testing on my account. I set the username to newadmin and the password to password. This is what my database reflects: * user_login: newadmin user_pass: $P$BfwAgQDfxBMfOLlXnyYX9sshAo/zy7. user_nicename: newadmin user_email: [you@yourdomain.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/you@yourdomain.com?output_format=md) user_url: user_registered: 2011-10-26 12:36:46 user_activation_key: user_status: 0 display_name: newadmin * So you can leave the user_activation_key blank and user user_status as 0. * Give that a try and let us know how it all works out! * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2366937) * banania – You should check the error log of WAMP. * Thread Starter [banania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banania/) * (@banania) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2366986) * I’ll give a try at all that tonight guys, and tell you. * Thread Starter [banania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banania/) * (@banania) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2366999) * Ok, I try imh_brad solution, and wordpress just won’t log… * I then uninstall wp, re-run the install, and try to check at the error log as Ipstenu suggested : the wampserver error log was empty. * [Brad Markle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imh_brad/) * (@imh_brad) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2367005) * Hi banania, * Our of curiosity, if you check your wordpress tables, are any of the other tables empty? * When you went through the install, did you use any username/passwords with special characters / encoding / long length? You may want to try another install with short and basic user / pass combination (just for testing) * Thread Starter [banania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banania/) * (@banania) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2367006) * Answer to your first question : only the “wp_options” table have 96 lines, all the other ones are empty * Answer to your second question : no, I used something like user:wordpress, login: wordpress * 🙁 Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘install.php does not seem to create users’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/) * [meta user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/meta-user/) * [user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user/) * In: [Localhost Installs](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/) * 10 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [banania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banania/) * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-does-not-seem-to-create-users/#post-2367006) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics