Title: Problem installing 2.6.1 — getting a FastCGI error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem installing 2.6.1 — getting a FastCGI error

 *  [simbosmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simbosmith/)
 * (@simbosmith)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-261-getting-a-fastcgi-error/)
 * Hi. Hoping someone can help me because i’m tearing my hair out.
    I have probably
   installed WordPress hundreds of times, but have never been stumped like this…
 * When I visit the normal install page I’m getting a ‘`500 Internal Server Error`‘,
   and the following two lines in my error log…
 * `Connection reset by peer: FastCGI: comm with server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" 
   aborted: read failed`
 * `FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/var/www/fcgi/php-
   cgi"`
 * After a little fiddling with the error display, I managed to get this further
   error to come up…
 * `WordPress database error Table 'MY-DATABASE-NAME.wp_options' doesn't exist for
   query INSERT INTO wp_options (option_name, option_value, autoload) VALUES ('cron','
   a:2:{i:1219260520;a:1:{s:17:\"wp_update_plugins\";a:1:{s:32:\"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\";
   a:3:{s:8:\"schedule\";s:10:\"twicedaily\";s:4:\"args\";a:0:{}s:8:\"interval\";
   i:43200;}}}s:7:\"version\";i:2;}', 'yes') made by add_option`
 * I would assume from the first two errors, that this is something to do with my
   server rather than wordpress, but my hosts seems to think there is a problem 
   with the code.
    Can anyone give a little clue as to what code I should be looking
   at?

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