Exact same thing happened to me. I had a look at the database in PHPMyAdmin and my user has no privileges. I am unsure as to how to grant all privilages to the user for the database. The control panel only lets me change the user password.
There is no data in the users table and it appears that there is an issue with the relationships in the database.
Looking into it a little further it said i had to place the database name in the $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘pmadb’]. I have no idea where that is. I have a ticket submitted with the host providers on this. I suspect it may have something to do with the installation as the instructions are quite clear about he db user have “All privileges”
Hey, nice you replied with this. Because I´ve found other people with similar or same error before. But it was with previous versions of wordpress, i don´t know if with 2.5 we are having the same problem as them or not.
Still, your error looks same as mine, because I also don´t have many privileges at the PHPMyAdmin. I also contact my hosting service, but requiring which version of PHP are using as this seemed to be raising the errors to others due to incompatible versions between PHP and WP.
I can´t help you with $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb']. I also don´t know what is it, who tell you that??, the server??, the hosting support?, the installation problem, i didn´t get this.
Seem like the solution would be that the hosting support would have to install wordpress… In your hosting you are not using a Fantastico Installer or something similar right??, (you upload the WP package and run it, don´t you?)
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Hi,
I am havening the same issue with these versions:
* wordpress-2.5
* php-5.2.5-win32
* window xp professional
* mySQL 5
* Apache 2.2 http server
I performed these steps:
The word press instructions require the
wp-admin/install.php
page to be loaded though a web browser that works fine, after putting the blog name in it and email address and checking the
“Allow my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati” then clicking the
“Install WordPress” button the system hangs for a while about 5 minutes and then it redirects the browser to
wp-admin/install.php?step=2 page appears with only a header on it.”
Word press must almost have things right since it corrects the tables in the db but almost its not enough
if i go to wp-login.php then this page rendered but the pwd is shown at the end of the previous process but is not displayed. so i click http://localhost/wp/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword so i enter my email and click “get new pwd” the system hangs again.
Hi NickJohnGray,
Soooooooo good!!, that´s the way to know the f***ing pass.
What makes me think that we don´t have exactly same problem. Because I request to get the pass in the email I input in the first-only step of the installation. And it worked, i got the email with a reset password link, and another with my new password. And I have logged in, I just did it. So I didn´t check if everything works perfectly, but I will.
Sorry NickJohnGray, check first with your hosting about incompatibility problems, or sql rights… On the other hand, you mention that the system hangs, but do you also get the download files dialog from your browser with php files???
this cool package solved all my problems and works perfectly , if you guys wanna have WP ruining on our own machine for development, this is the way to go,
just download: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
(the light version is perfect)
it contains Apache, mysql and php (lattest versions)
just extract the package to one of your root directory’s (with no spaces)
then download WP latest version and put it in the htdocs directory within that directory.
follow the WP 5 minute install
see http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/
for more info
