install hangs after creating tables

  • wxgirl

    (@wxgirl)


    19 years, 11 months ago

    Long time user of WordPress, but am hopelessly stuck trying to upgrad. I’ve resorted to a fresh install, which hangs at step 2. I get the message saying that WordPress is creating tables, but that’s it. Going through PHPMyAdmin, I can see that the tables are indeed created, but the only one that has been populated is the wp_options table which has 40 records. There are no users, so I can’t change my password – I don’t even think the install gets to this step.

    I’m pretty well out of ideas, and any help would be appreciated. I’ve even tried restoring my backup database into the new database, and it doesn’t work.

    For the record, my site is hosted remotely on a linux server, running apache 1.3.34, mysql 4.0.24-standard, and php 4.4.2. This all stemmed out of the fact that my site just quit working saturday.

    Thanks,
    Dawn

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    Almost makes you think that something has changed with your host.

    Interestingly, the upgrade-schema.php' script, after adding 40 records to the wp_options table executes this:
    if ( !__get_option(‘home’) ) update_option(‘home’, $guessurl);

    Just before that it add the option called 'home' to that table.

    That's the first time it uses the update_option. The update_option function is in the wp-includes/functions.php` file. Maybe the actual WordPress script files are corrupt–consider deleting and reuploading the WordPress distribution.

    Of course, you should (as you stated) have backups of both your database and your WordPress files before you start deleting things.

    Thread Starter wxgirl

    (@wxgirl)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    I have re-downloaded the wordpress package and re-uploaded to my web page several times. You are right that something seems fishy with my host. They blame it on the script, but even a rollback to version 1.5.2 doesn’t work. I appreciate your help.

    psiege

    (@psiege)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    This is the exact problem I’m now having, and it seems many others have too. But, each post ends without resolution. Can someone please help and post a resolution to this? I’m sure it’s server settings related, but its obviously a very common problem.

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