Title: WordPress Won’t Install
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress Won’t Install

 *  [ranger6350](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ranger6350/)
 * (@ranger6350)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-install/)
 * Hi-
    I get to the 2nd screen in install.php and there’s a lockup. I get the second
   screen info but nothing further happens. Have re-upped the files and talked to
   tech support for server . They say it’s an error with the WordPress files, in
   that the server is set up right and the error message is:
 * The error message is :
    [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: 
   make_db_current_silent() in /home/world/domains/worldsweeper.com/public_html/
   editorblog/wp-admin/install.php on line 139
 * Any ideas anyone? Thanks!

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-install/#post-249875)
 * Who is your host ?
 *  Thread Starter [ranger6350](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ranger6350/)
 * (@ranger6350)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-install/#post-249894)
 * It’s called esecuresite2.com, run by proweb. I have several php bulletin boards,
   phpmydirectory, etc., set up on this and other sites with them and have had no
   trouble.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-install/#post-249896)
 * Did everything upload as 4 folders and some files ? Or one big folder with many
   files ?
 * Have you checked that all files have fully uploaded and none have a filesize 
   of zero ?
 * Were all files uploaded in ASCII mode ?
 *  Thread Starter [ranger6350](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ranger6350/)
 * (@ranger6350)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-install/#post-249912)
 * 4 folders and the files. No zeros, all there. All in Transmit ftp’s default, 
   but it doesn’t typically make mistakes in that regard. I’m wondering if it’s 
   permissions, though. I see that index.php is all zeros, for example. So was wp-
   admin folder, but I changed it to 755 and that didn’t make any difference. install.
   php is set at 755. Any idea what those should be or is there a listing somewhere?(
   BTW, thanks for taking a look at this for me!)
 * The wp-config file is pasted below. I have tried it with WPLANG left blank the
   way it came and with ‘en.mo’ in that spot and it hasn’t seemed to matter. Here’s
   the code (except for the bottom that is supposed to stay the way it is), and 
   I’m sure it’s right in terms of correct paths/username, etc.
 * <?php
    // ** MySQL settings ** // define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘world_wordpress’); // The
   name of the database define(‘DB_USER’, ‘world_wordpress’); // Your MySQL username
   define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘songbirdworld’); // …and password define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);//
   99% chance you won’t need to change this value
 * // Change the prefix if you want to have multiple blogs in a single database.
   
   $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // example: ‘wp_’ or ‘b2’ or ‘mylogin_’
 * // Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
    // chosen
   language must be installed to wp-includes/languages. // For example, install 
   de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’ // to enable German language
   support. define (‘WPLANG’, ‘en.mo’);
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-install/#post-249919)
 * It may be the permissions. Try setting all of the directories to 755 and all 
   of the files to 644.
 *  Thread Starter [ranger6350](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ranger6350/)
 * (@ranger6350)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-install/#post-250290)
 * I changed all the permissions, re-uploaded all the files ‘just in case.’ Still
   no go. Do I have to change anything in the wp-config.php after the DB_HOST info?
   I.e., change the prefix or change to localize WordPress (see above code)? I tried
   it with no changes to that and with ‘WPLANG’, ‘en.mo’ as shown above, neither
   of which worked.
 *  [brunod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brunod/)
 * (@brunod)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-wont-install/#post-250349)
 * To make a short story, I had the same exact error message on step 2 of installation,
   I checked and some files had 0 bytes in size on my ftp directory. I cleared the
   directory, re-uploaded and voila! Blame it on my ftp client…
 * To make a longer story, this happened because I was having trouble uploading 
   due to my ftp client / hosting being slow (was using Cute FTP). I downloaded 
   Filezilla which I’m using often at work, re-uploaded the files, but with the 
   option to overwrite only if newer. Maybe that’s a bug in Filezilla, because the
   files having 0 bytes are not overwritten (it probably checks only for the timestamp
   and doesnt compare file sizes). Anyhow, I deleted all the files to make sure,
   re-uploaded and now it works.
 * Another open-source success story 🙂 Thanks for this great blogging tool, I have
   3 blogs up using WordPress for different topics :p

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