Installation of V2 Problem, stops at wp-admin/install.php

  • David Cameron Law

    (@seo-dave)


    18 years, 2 months ago

    Thought I’d give WordPress 2 a go for a couple of sites I have planned and stuck on my first test site (not tried WordPress before)!! Plan is to optimise the code so I have a fully SEO’d blogging script.

    Have followed the instructions up to where you run

    http://www.lilyblog.com/wp-admin/install.php

    And as you can see I get a blank file (you see the head of the file and main body tags etc…, but no content when viewing source). When I’ve made a mistake with a PHP file this is what happens, but all I’ve done is add the database info in the config file, so no code changes yet.

    I had a look through the code and saw it needs register_globals on, the server it’s on has register globals off. I’ve had problems with scripts like Oscommerce because of this, so have turned it on for this site via .htaccess

    Full contents of file-

    php_flag register_globals on
    DirectoryIndex index.php

    (didn’t help).

    Configuration info for the server is here http://www.lilyblog.com/test.php

    Once I got the helper install page to go to create a config file, but the resultant file was identical to the one I’d created and it made no difference anyway. Did show PHP was working though.

    I checked the database via PLesk/phpMyAdmin and no tables had been added, so it’s doing nothing when I run the install file! I created the database via Plesk control panel like I always do.

    I’ve created many sites using various PHP scripts using MySQL databases and so unlikely it’s an error on my part. I confirmed no typos by deleting everything and starting from scratch but no joy.

    Any ideas?

    David

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  • Thread Starter David Cameron Law

    (@seo-dave)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    I didn’t solve the problem with the first verion of WordPress 2.0, but the updated version 2.0.1 Release installed first time. Finally got my test site at http://www.lilyblog.com/ working.

    In between having the problem listed before I tried a few other CMS/blogging tools (textpattern, Nucleus CMS are two I almost went with) and none come close to how good WordPress is.

    From an SEO stand point it’s grwat, clean code, hyphenated keyword rich filenames, plenty of interlinking with keyword rich anchor text between sections etc… Hats off to whoever got these things added to WordPress.

    David

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