Title: Problem with install.php: Nothing Happens!!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem with install.php: Nothing Happens!!

 *  [kiashy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiashy/)
 * (@kiashy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/)
 * Hi!
 *  I decided to use WordPress in my site but I’m having a problem when I run install.
   php. When I enter in install.php I can just see a blank page and nothing happens!
   I haven’t got any feedback. Does anyone know what the problem is?
 * Thanks!!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/#post-804188)
 * First recommendation would be to delete the WordPress files, then reupload them.
   Make sure you use the ‘auto’ Transfer Type in FileZilla to upload the files.
 * Resource:
    [Uploading WordPress to a remote host](http://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_WordPress_to_a_remote_host)
 *  Thread Starter [kiashy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiashy/)
 * (@kiashy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/#post-804202)
 * Hi MichaelH, thanks for your post.
 * I’ve deleted all the files and uploaded to the server again but I’m still getting
   the blank page.
    I checked the ‘auto’ transfer setting and that’s ok. All the
   files are up.
 * Any other idea?
 * Thanks!
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/#post-804204)
 * Make sure your wp-config.php file doesn’t have extra white space at the end of
   the file. If necessary, start with a clean wp-config.php file (from wp-config-
   sample.php) and use that with the properly configured information.
 * Check with your host to make sure PHP is up and running. Verify that you also
   have enough memory allocated to PHP (ask your host).
 *  [Whitmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitmore/)
 * (@whitmore)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/#post-804214)
 * I’m having the same problems. My sysadmin suggested looking at my logs. Here’s
   what a tail -F… produced:
 * [Tue Jul 08 11:03:26 2008] [error] [client 97.112.79.7] ALERT – canary mismatch
   on efree() – heap overflow detected (attacker ‘97.112.79.7’, file ‘/usr/www/data/
   virtual/borealowl/htdocs/wp-includes/taxonomy.php’, line 18)
 * Strange! I can run a simple test.php with phpinfo() and it spills its php info
   guts just fine. Any ideas? BTW this is a BSD host.
 * I also thought of file permissions. What should they be, for example, for wp-
   config.php. Mine has a password for the mySQL database in it.
 *  [Whitmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitmore/)
 * (@whitmore)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/#post-804273)
 * This is what my sysadmin did:
 *     ```
       I added:
   
       ~    php_flag zend.ze1_compatibility_mode Off
       ~    php_value memory_limit 32M
   
       to the apache vhost config for the domain.
   
       The first line shuts off PHP4 compatibility.
       ```
   
 * And now it seems to come up okay.
 *  Thread Starter [kiashy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiashy/)
 * (@kiashy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/#post-804293)
 * Thanks for all the help.
    I will contact my sysadmin tonight.
 *  Thread Starter [kiashy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiashy/)
 * (@kiashy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/#post-804301)
 * Hi,
 *  I added one line int the .htacces file to allow error messages to be displayed
   and now I can see an error:
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   11520 bytes) in /webcp/docs/webs/256645/www/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.
   php on line 450
 * I tried adding the lines that Whitmore said but is still not working.
 *  Thread Starter [kiashy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiashy/)
 * (@kiashy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/#post-804302)
 * Thanks MichaelH, tomorrow I will call the host to see how much memory is asigned
   to PHP.

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 * Last reply from: [kiashy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiashy/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-installphp-nothing-happens/#post-804302)
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