Title: difficulty installing Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # difficulty installing * palmer * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/) * Having trouble installing wordpress. Have PHP running and MYsql latest versions as of 040816. I put a print out in the install.php file and it prints that at the beginning of the file. So I know it gets into the file. Is there a version of the install.php file with debugging code so I can see where it hands up? I really think you should show progress in that file so that one knows what errors to report here. I am not sure what to do next. It is not that I get a blank page at the end of the install process. It is rather more like the install process does not go anywere. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 40 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83038) * Okay.. which version of wordpress, and which version of PHP is it going on ? Is the server IIS ? * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83040) * If I try to insert print statements I get errors like Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in c:\cutting.web\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\install.php on line 15 which just means I put the print statement in the wrong place. But this shows that it is accessing the code in install.php So where does it go wrong? How about a debugging version. I don’t know where to put the print statements in PHP. * [southerngal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southerngal/) * (@southerngal) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83042) * Do you have WP installed? Why are you trying to put print it anything before it’s installed? Not being mean just curious. 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83043) * All the versions are the latest of yesterday. I am using Appache 1.3 MySql 5.1 Wordpress 1.2 mingus MySql is running with a database called wordpress inside it. user, password, etc have been quadrupal checked. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83044) * Neither do I …. but a lot of us here are used to dealing with install errors, and we very rarely fail. We do need to know details that I asked above though, and anything else about your system that you think could be important. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83045) * php version ? * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83046) * WordPress is installed in the htdocs directory. The only thing strange about my setup is that I am using virtual hosts in Apache. However, it seems that this is working ok. I ran a test program that could get to PHP from that directory. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83047) * PHP 5.1 * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83048) * Try a nightly – 1.3pre-alpha – download link above 1.2 will not install to php5 * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83049) * Where do I find that? * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83050) * Bleeding edge or unstable builds? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83051) * unstable – not the cvs stuff. It’s not that bad either 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83052) * I don’t see how you get to the unstable versions. All I can get to is under the CBS nightly builds. Where is the link to the unstable versions? * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83053) * I’ve been able to pick up . . . [http://wordpress.org/nightly/wordpress-2004-08-10.zip](http://wordpress.org/nightly/wordpress-2004-08-10.zip) Is that OK? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/#post-83055) * yep, try installing with that Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 40 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘difficulty installing’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 40 replies * 9 participants * Last reply from: [Chris J. 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