Title: difficulty installing Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # difficulty installing * palmer * [21 years, 10 months 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 10 replies - 31 through 40 (of 40 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/2/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/?output_format=md) [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/2/?output_format=md) 3 * [Kitten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kitten/) * (@kitten) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83093) * mysql 5 might be the problem, I know 4.0.18 works fine. * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83107) * Yes, as is clearly listed on the requirements page: [http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/](http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/) MySQL is required to use WordPress. That means PHP must be able to talk to MySQL. I would suggest you try installing on a less bleeding-edge configuration. * [palmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palmer/) * (@palmer) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83119) * Sorry I just realized that I have MySQL 4.0 instead of 5.o Actually it is 4.0.20a- debug So I don’t think that it is MySQL that is the problem. I can connect to it. I created the wordpress database in it. It seems to be working fine. Did I mention I was using Windows 2000 Pro? Still would like some help if anyone has some ideas. I am feeling lost. I followed the instructions for the installation of all the separate products. Seems to me your advertisement of it being easy to set up might be a smidg overstated, especially from the various posts I have read in these forums. But I would really like to get it running if possible. Any suggestions as to what to try next would be appreciated. * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83123) * Can you try it with PHP 4? PHP 5 is still pretty buggy and there have been reports of numerous scripts, including WP, not working with it. * [palmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palmer/) * (@palmer) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83125) * I got mysqlControl Center to work and can see my databases there. That seems to be working OK even though I could not get phpmyadmin to load the mySql module even after I unblocked it in the php.ini file. So it looks like MySQL is working fine. Not sure where the problem lies. * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83130) * Palmer, your experience is not indicative of most WP users. Newer does not mean better, the very latest version of things is seldom the most stable. PHP 5 has quite a few bugs and problems as is well documented in the PHP bug tracker. The problems you’re having are server configuration issues, not WordPress issues per se, and you would have the same problems with any PHP and MySQL application you tried to run. Arguably the best place to get support for that would be the respective forums of the server software you’re trying to use, but here you are and we’re trying to help you. Try to separate out the complicated stuff. Create a simple PHP script that connects to your database using [mysql_connect](http://us3.php.net/mysql_connect) and selects the database you set up. * [korgan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/korgan/) * (@korgan) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83135) * Palmer: You’re trying to install a nightly build of software that is not finished yet. Have you tried installing WP1.2? It truly is very easy to install and use on a working installation of Apache, MySQL and PHP>4.1. WordPress does not support PHP5.0 because of several bugs that are known to exist within PHP5.0. WP1.3 _WILL_ support PHP5.x, but not till they release several of the bug fixes that are currently in the CVS builds of PHP, which again is not stable yet. So far it seems your Apache configuration is a big problem. I have not ever seen anyone have as many problems as you appear to be having with this setup at the moment. On Windows or Linux. If you could paste actual error messages as they appear in the browser, that would help a lot. * [korgan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/korgan/) * (@korgan) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83136) * Palmer: If you can, join #wordpress and people can help you work on the problem live instead of just working through the forums. You will also find a number of the developers in that channel as well. irc.freenode.net #wordpress * [palmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palmer/) * (@palmer) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83326) * I would just like to note that your requirements say * PHP version 4.1 or greater* MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater * (optional) The Apache mod_rewrite module, for the cruft-free URI functionality Notice the “or greater”. This is not really true. You should specify the versions that wordpress works with. * [Chris J. Davis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisjdavis/) * (@chrisjdavis) * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulty-installing/page/3/#post-83348) * > Notice the “or greater”. This is not really true. You should specify the versions > that wordpress works with. * That is what the words “version 4.1 or greater” mean. That means that this product works with 4.1 or revisions above. We have already stated numerous times that PHP 5 is buggy as hell and cannot be used with WP. From what I can tell your apache conf is hosed. You need to wipe that conf file and start over with the one that ships with apache. Maybe check out #apache for some answers since this is NOT a WP problem. The 5 minute install is based on some presuppositions, like you have you system set up correctly before you install WP. Fix those problems and then try, I would imagine you will have a much easier time of it when your system is actually set up for it. 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