Title: Install.php generates blank page AND source.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Install.php generates blank page AND source.

 *  [chellsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chellsy/)
 * (@chellsy)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-generates-blank-page-and-source/)
 * I’m trying to install my blog at my website. [http://www.chellsy.se/phpinfo.php](http://www.chellsy.se/phpinfo.php),
   but it wont work it gives a blank page AND blank source when I go to the install.
   php file. Everything else I ever tried with php works, and other blogsystems 
   work. But I love wordpress, what can be wrong? I have been trying to figure it
   out all day and I just don’t have a clue anymore. Thanks for your help…

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-generates-blank-page-and-source/#post-621385)
 * where are you trying to install wordpress, whats the url?
 * this:
 * [http://www.chellsy.se/blog/](http://www.chellsy.se/blog/)
 * is pretty clear. no wp-config.php
 *  [rockhauler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockhauler/)
 * (@rockhauler)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-generates-blank-page-and-source/#post-621471)
 * I’m having a similar problem.
 * wp-config has been edited.
 * The install script generates the data base tables, enters the admin user, and
   password into wp_users.
 * At the point where the install script should generate an email to the admin email
   address, nothing happens. The remaining part of the html page generated by the
   install script, the part that displays the admin user account and password are
   not present in the generated html page. Nor does the word ‘finished’ appear.
 * At first I thougt it was because this was being installed on my LAN which does
   not have a working smtp Mail Transport Agent. That has proven to be false. I 
   see no evidence that the wordpress install script has generated the email to 
   that admin email address.
 *  [rockhauler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockhauler/)
 * (@rockhauler)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-generates-blank-page-and-source/#post-621480)
 * Work around:
 * In [this thread ](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/116321?replies=21) was the
   hint I needed to work around the blank html document returned by install.php 
   when it should have been the generated password for the admin account during 
   installation.
 * The install script stores a generated password, in the MySql database table as
   a MD5 function. Thus it is possible to enter into that database table, a known
   password with this MySql command entered from the MySql command line interface
   to your blog’s database:
 * MySql>update wp_users set user_pass=md5(‘password_of_choice’) where user_login
   =’admin’;
 * Then, when logging into your blog, as ‘admin’, with password ‘password_of_choice’,
   you will have control of your blog. Unless something else has failed.
 * This, of course, presumes that you have access to your MySql database, either
   via command line, or mysql client.
 * This only addresses the situation in my previous post where step two of the installation
   returns a document stating (more or less) entering data into database, and which
   should also return the admin account password, and the keyword ‘finished’ but
   fails to return that password.
 * If you have access to your MySql blog database you can see the generated data
   for the admin account with:
 * mysql>select user_login, user_email, user_pass from wp_users;
 * If your tables are not created, or there is no data, this work around won’t help
   you.
 *  [tirjasdyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tirjasdyn/)
 * (@tirjasdyn)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-generates-blank-page-and-source/#post-621586)
 * I’m having the same problem. I go to install php and get a blank page…nothing
   shows up and nothing has been generated.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [tirjasdyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tirjasdyn/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-generates-blank-page-and-source/#post-621586)
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