Title: Blank install.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Blank install.php

 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-installphp/)
 * Running Debian
    Apache Mysql (4.0.18) PHP (4.3.4) When I run through wp-admin/
   install-config.php the second step just has the WordPress header and is then 
   blank. I figure, ok, I probably need to manually edit the file. I copy wp-config-
   sample.php to wp-config.php and edit it so that it looks as follows: // ** MySQL
   settings ** // define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘gordy’); // The name of the database define(‘
   DB_USER’, ‘gord’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘MYPASSWORD’);//…
   and password define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to 
   change this value When I go to wp-admin/install.php I just get a blank page (
   IE 6 and Firebird 0.8) There is nothing in the source, and no errors logged anywhere)
   I have installed the php-mysql module as suggested in another thread. Restarted
   both Apache and MySQL. I have absolutely no idea what’s wrong. (the database 
   gordy exists and the user gord has permission to do pretty well everything to
   that database) Any ideas? (oh it’s WordPress 1.02)

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 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-installphp/page/2/#post-45741)
 * I still have the same problem with the blank install.php!!!
    I installed phpMyAdmin
   and it works just fine. Added user, granted him ALL privileges under the sun 
   and still BLANK. EL BLANCO. Please help.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-installphp/page/2/#post-45742)
 * I posted a fix here:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/index.php?action=vthread&forum=2&topic=9550&page=-1#20](http://wordpress.org/support/index.php?action=vthread&forum=2&topic=9550&page=-1#20)
 *  [krag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krag/)
 * (@krag)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-installphp/page/2/#post-45744)
 * Hi,
    I had the exact same problem with the same setup as the original poster (
   Debian, Apache Mysql (4.0.18) PHP (4.3.4)). So, I tried installing phpBB to check
   it wasn’t a general php problem and the phpBB install complained that php-mysql
   module wasn’t setup for use with MySQL ver4. I didn’t need to recompile, just
   a cheeky dpkg-reconfigure php4-mysql and a restart of apache did the trick for
   me. Hope this helps someone. Cheers, Craig.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-installphp/page/2/#post-45745)
 * install php-mysql (right version), (with Fedora 2: ‘yum install php-mysql’) and
   all will work!
 *  [ganges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ganges/)
 * (@ganges)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-installphp/page/2/#post-45749)
 * Sure!
    All perfectly work after **proper** installation all about php + MySQL
   modules Mandrake 10 Thanx
 *  [kbyrd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kbyrd/)
 * (@kbyrd)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-installphp/page/2/#post-45789)
 * Another successful fix.
    I’m running debian unstable, w/ apache2. “dpkg-reconfigure
   php4-mysql” worked perfectly for me.
 *  [zfade3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zfade3/)
 * (@zfade3)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-installphp/page/2/#post-45841)
 * Also check your php.ini file to see if you have a memory_limit = 8M setting. 
   The install.php script requires more than 8M to run.
 * Some default php configurations from package managers have the memory_limit set
   to 8M.
 * Change it to 16M that worked for me.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-installphp/page/2/#post-45841)
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