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It’s possible that you’ve either uploaded files into the wrong place, or you had a corrupt download. Try downloading WP again, decompress the folder, and upload the “WordPress” folder to your server space again.
Anonymous
I am also getting the same errror when trying to install WordPress on XAMPP running WindowsXP, on step 2 MySQL crashes.
XAMPP is runing PHP5.0.3RC2, and I have alsomodified “Line 166 is this – #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so” to enable mod_rewrite, but I still have MySQL crash on Step2.
Could it be that I have no Mail server runinng?
I don’t have the Mailserver (or FileZilla on Xampp) running either.
Which version of Xampp are you using ? They released a dodgy one recently due to a mysql problem.
XAMPP for Windows 1.4.9
PHP Version 4.3.7
mySQL 3.23.49
is what I’m running with no issues.
I suspect the php5 is causing your problems.
Anonymous
Use this:
http://www.firepages.com.au/
Its like a hot knife on butter! And with the fact that I’m an idiot on these kind of things.
I had the same problem with wordpress and Xampp. After switing to from Php5 to Php4 everything works fine on localhost. The switching is easy via a batchfile (Windows-Installation)
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ebren
(@ebren)
Eureaka! (spelling?) Okay, I’ve got it. I’ve tried every possible tweak or edit in XAMPP but nothing works. So I followed the firepages.com.au link and found phpdev5 Beta. This works great. And, on top of mySQL not crashing, it doesn’t require that a stupid window stay open to run apache, php, and mysql. You can install everything as a service so its all set and up and running everytime you turn your pc on. Thanks whoever posted that Link!
Glad it works 🙂
As for the stupid window, google for ‘rbtray’ – minimises anything to the tray.
I had similar problems installing wordpress on XAMPP on Win XP. Since I was only trying to test, I decided to install directly on my website hosts environment. It worked fine there.
I am having a problem using WordPress locally with Xammp also. WordPress uploads and works just fine, but when trying to edit a file, such as part of a theme or a plugin, I cannot do this because windows has everything marked “read only” and I cannot change that through the usual method.
ideas, anyone?
Yup – do not use the WP editor.
Open the files you need to alter in Notepad (or similar – I use Notepad++ ) and just Save any changes.
Works better in fact as you don’t need to navigate around inside WP.
Yes i had the same problem tooo.. And i am a Xamp user and the crap wont want to complete the installation. It says this on step 3
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.php on line 705
i tried switching PHP from 4 – 5 and it still didn’t work.
A search for that error here should produce results.
If this is for a testblog, use a nightly ?
Hello “state of the art” experts,
anyone any ideas about this “Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array on line 705?”
I tried three times, but it didn’t work.
As I can see I’m not alone having this installation problem.
Milane posted:
Yes i had the same problem tooo.. And i am a Xamp user and the crap wont want to complete the installation. It says this on step 3
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-admin\upgrade-functions.php on line 705
i tried switching PHP from 4 – 5 and it still didn’t work.
shogun – using a nightly should sort that, but I believe that solution for that issue has been posted for hosted blogs.
