Review Installing WordPress
Check host requirements: http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
Use Finding_server_info to see if PHP is on your account and that you are placing your files correctly.
I am having the same problem. I saw in another post about a blank page on install.php in which it was resolved by increasing the php memory, which one has to ask one’s server about,(unless one has the right server configuration). You can find it here:http://wordpress.org/support/topic/100384?replies=5
or by searching “blank page on install.php”
When I tried the previous instructions for PHP info, I received “page is not found on the server”. My server can find css files but not php files.
I haven’t asked my server about the memory yet, because they are a bit irritating to deal with. I want to figure out if it mught be due to missing htaccess files first.
I posted a question about htaccess that I can’t find. It would help if one could easily find the questions that one last asked. If there is such a way to do that , please clue me in.
Click on “member” under your name – or on Profile in the top right corner of the screen, and you will see all the topic where you posted (left) and all the topics you’ve started (right).
As for the Q: don’t jump around and try everything that is NOT related to your issue.
Blank page is one thing and 404 (not found) is a totally different issue.
Now, what is your “same problem”? (they are never the same unless you are on the same host and you did exactly the same mistakes as the original poster)
I receive a blank page when I view install.php in my web browser. There is empty code when I click “view source code”
When I open install.php in my FTP application or on my server Control Panel, code is dispayed pertaining to the installation process
When I view testinfo.php in my webbrowser I get “page not found on this server” message (no 404 message). View source reveals the following code:
<!–
– Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new
– “feature” to Internet Explorer. If the text of
– an error’s message is “too small”, specifically
– less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer returns
– its own error message. You can turn that off,
– but it’s pretty tricky to find switch called
– “smart error messages”. That means, of course,
– that short error messages are censored by default.
– IIS always returns error messages that are long
– enough to make Internet Explorer happy. The
– workaround is pretty simple: pad the error
– message with a big comment like this to push it
– over the five hundred and twelve bytes minimum.
– Of course, that’s exactly what you’re reading
– right now.
–>
