Title: install.php endless timeout: fresh install, Win2003
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# install.php endless timeout: fresh install, Win2003

 *  [daydreamllc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daydreamllc/)
 * (@daydreamllc)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-endless-timeout-fresh-install-win2003/)
 * Hi all, I am new to WP, but a web developer and server admin. We’re running Win2003
   SP2 with MySQL 5.0.41 and PHP 4.4.7. MySQL thinks it’s running on port 3306, 
   but we’re using “sTunnel 4.05” (stunnel.org) to actually run on 3307. My config
   looks like:
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress_ncdiabetesgroup_org’); define(‘DB_USER’,‘
   ncdiabetesgroup’); define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘mypassword’); //yes I have the real
   password in here. define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:3307’); define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘
   utf8’); define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);
 * I am able to connect to the db, because if I remove the “:3307” from localhost,
   it immediately gives a db connection error. As it stands now, nothing ever loads.
 * My user, ncdiabetesgroup, has full rights to the db. To double check this, I 
   even tried my root user, which of course has full permissions as well. NO change
   whatsoever using root versus ‘ncdiabetesgroup’
 * My actual db is still an empty schema as the installer never really does anything.
   I never even see the welcome screen. 🙁
 * I am beyond totally puzzled on this one. And with the famous 5 minute installation,
   I’ve been at it almost 3 hours. I have tried every combination of DB_HOST I can
   think of including: 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.1:3306, 127.0.0.1:3307, localhost, localhost:
   3306, localhost:3307, 69.59.155.174, 69.59.155.174:3306, 69.59.155.174:3307 etc.
   Anything that does not have 3307 attached will fail immediately. But the others
   again just timeout with no error.
 * Alternately, I am running the MySQL ADBC connector and it works like a champ 
   for everything else. Can WP run using a DSN?
 * You can view my page here: [http://www.ncdiabetesgroup.org/ncblog/wp-admin/install.php](http://www.ncdiabetesgroup.org/ncblog/wp-admin/install.php)
 * Any assistance would be **GREATLY** appreciated. Thanks so much community members.

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 *  [jasonjano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonjano/)
 * (@jasonjano)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-endless-timeout-fresh-install-win2003/#post-846379)
 * I encountered this exact problem and solved it by doing a command prompt and 
   typing in “php” to run the exe file in the php install directory. When I ran 
   the file it noticed that I had a parse error inside my php.ini file. Sure enough,
   once I fixed this, everything started working!

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