Title: Step 2 does nothing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Step 2 does nothing

 *  Resolved [dsteiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsteiny/)
 * (@dsteiny)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/step-2-does-nothing/)
 * Hi,
 *  When I try to install WP on Solaris 7 – PHP 4.3.3 – MySlq 4.0.13 – it gets to
   Step 2 and does not go further. It says it is creating the tables and never goes
   beyond. What am I doing wrong?

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 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/step-2-does-nothing/#post-366784)
 * You have created the database first with name and user/password?
    And changed
   the wp-config.php accordingly?
 * If not, please do!
 *  Thread Starter [dsteiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsteiny/)
 * (@dsteiny)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/step-2-does-nothing/#post-366972)
 * Yes I have. If I do not do that, it fails on step 1 with an error.
 *  Thread Starter [dsteiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsteiny/)
 * (@dsteiny)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/step-2-does-nothing/#post-367103)
 * Ok, I figured it out.
 * In wp-db.php there is some logic that gets the tables out of the database to 
   see if they are there. On about line 167 there is a line:
 * while($i < msyql_num_fields($this_result))
 * which then calls mysql_fetch_field
 * The query was correctly returning $this_result as empty, but for some reason 
   when it made the call to mysql_num_fields, it was returning 1. When it got to
   mysql_fetch_field it silently died.
 * I added the “if($this_result)” right before the “while” and now it works fine.
 *  [rbaldoma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbaldoma/)
 * (@rbaldoma)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/step-2-does-nothing/#post-367161)
 * I’ve just try what you say, but it doesn’t works, It seems that all de database
   is created and tables too, but the second steps ends and didn’t give me the admin
   password.
 * Could you send me the wp-db.php to compare it to rbaldoma @ pesagrup.com ?

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