Installation “hangs” in step 2

  • Resolved gasbandit

    (@gasbandit)


    18 years, 10 months ago

    Hey all, I’m trying to set up wordpress, and manage to make it in the installation to step 2… and then the installation never changes from “Now we are setting up tables and filling them with default data.” As far as I can tell, it *is* doing that (as almost immediately 9 tables with 70-someodd entries appear in the database), and it is even creating an “admin” account and filling it in with an encrypted password and my e-mail address and everything… but it never gets to the point where it tells me what my admin password actually *is*. I tried altering the install.php file to create the admin account with a fixed password, but it didn’t work out.

    Anybody got any ideas?

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  • Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    Where are you doing this ?
    Who is your host ?
    Linux / Windows ?

    Thread Starter gasbandit

    (@gasbandit)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    Host is my own box on a localized network, for testing for right now. Running Windows NT 4.0, Apache webserver, PHP and MySQL (versions are all above those required by WordPress).

    Now, admittedly, it might be a smidge underpowered as it’s only a P200…

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    18 years, 10 months ago

    http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=site:wordpress.org/support+install+step+2&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

    Thread Starter gasbandit

    (@gasbandit)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    Ok, I figured it out… wasn’t anything anybody else ran into either… my webserver does not have sendmail enabled, so every time wordpress tried to send an e-mail, it would just hang there and never get resolved.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for posting back with your solution !!

    tenebreux

    (@tenebreux)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    um? sendmail? i get the same problem. installation hangs on step 2 as well; local pc, xp sp2, apache, mysql all recent versions and i don’t get the password for the admin account. why on earth is it generated automatically anyway? why not give the person installing the package the option to actually choose the password or let an automatically generated one be assigned?

    anyone help?

    forevernoob

    (@forevernoob)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    I resolved the step 2 hanging issue on my Windows 2000 Server, IIS5 installation by following these three steps:
    1. Ensure sendmail is enabled in php.ini
    2. Ensure sendmail is configured to the correct e-mail address and SMTP server name
    3. Ensure that the correct SMTP port is open on your firewall (usually 25, but could be something different if your ISP is blocking 25).

    I did these steps and everything magically started working!

    chrome45

    (@chrome45)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    in my php.ini file, all i see is

    [mail function]
    SMTP = localhost
    smtp_port = 25

    Do i need to change any of this? what is local host? Is something else needed to add to enable sendmail?

    Thanks, Ch

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