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1. silentbob84
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have successfully installed 2.x on my local system before, but it has been a while. I am developing a new blog for a client and I downloaded the 3.0 zip file and followed the 5-min install instructions.

   I created the db, extracted, modified and copied the files, loaded install.php in my browser. I entered the required details and pressed install.

   The browser redirects to install.php?step=2 . The page does not fully load - only loads the WP logo at the top, nothing else. I tried to access the blog and got 'Error establishing a database connection'.

   I checked the db, and only 6 tables have been created, wp_commentmeta, wp_comments, wp_links, wp_terms, wp_term_relationships, wp_term_taxonomy.

   I went to run the install again, it said it was already installed and I should repair the db. Once the repair had run, I got these errors:

   wp_users: Table 'sbb_blog.wp_users' doesn't exist
   wp_usermeta: Table 'sbb_blog.wp_usermeta' doesn't exist
   wp_posts: Table 'sbb_blog.wp_posts' doesn't exist
   wp_options: Table 'sbb_blog.wp_options' doesn't exist
   wp_postmeta: Table 'sbb_blog.wp_postmeta' doesn't exist

   I have deleted everything and started from scratch several times with exactly the same results. Any help would be great.

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/350395#post-1457535

3. silentbob84
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for your reply, but nothing in that post helped, its all related to a french hosting company.

   I have manually created the missing tables manually by taking the sql from /wp-admin/includes/schema.php and replacing $wpdb-> with the table prefix. Running the db repair now says there are no problems with the db.

   Without any .htaccess I still get 'Error establishing a database connection' when I try to view the blog.

   With 'AddType x-mapp-php5 .php' in the .htaccess file, php doesn't run - the code of index.php is displayed.

   With
   'php 1
   # BEGIN WordPress
   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
   # END WordPress'
   in the .htaccess file I get a 500 server error.

   Any other ideas?

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Try an empty .htaccess file.

5. silentbob84
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Empty .htaccess file produces the same results as no .htaccess, 'Error establishing a database connection'

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Try just using php 1 in your .htaccess file.

7. silentbob84
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I get a 500 internal server error

8. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I think there may be a problem with the way in which you're creating these .htaccess files. A correct but empty .htaccess file won't generate a 500 error.

9. silentbob84
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I didn't say an empty .htaccess file creates a 500 error, having 'php 1' causes the 500 error.

   An empty .htaccess file produces the same results no .htaccess file, i.e. the error message 'Error establishing a database connection'.

   Just to note, I am creating the .htaccess files with notepad and using 'Save As' and changing the file type to '*.*' then saving as .htaccess
   Is there a better way of doing this on windows?

10. Ipstenu
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #

    What kind of server is this? Windows or *nix?

11. silentbob84
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Its xampplite on windows

12. Ipstenu
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #

    So a local install on a Windows computer.

    I am officially out of my depth on that, but it may be in how you setup xampp. Have you read this: http://techyminds.in/installing-wordpress-locally-using-xampp-lite/

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