Second step installation errors

  • Resolved steve_williams

    (@steve_williams)


    20 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, I’m new to WordPress and trying to install 1.5.2 onto a Linux box. I’m following the 5 minute install and everything looks okay but I get the following error for all table queries during the ‘second step’. Please help:
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    Now we’re going to create the database tables and fill them with some default data.

    WordPress database error: [Table ‘wordpress.wp_options’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT option_name FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘siteurl’
    \
    …and so on for all table queries…

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    2nd step calls for creating your database and user. Are you using phpMyAdmin or cPanel to do that?

    See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

    Thread Starter steve_williams

    (@steve_williams)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, the server I have access to uses Plesk 7.5 Reloaded, which I used to create the database and user. It’s connecting okay – could it be a privileges issue as mentioned in the codex help but not showing as a ‘cannot create table’ error?

    Thanks.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Try following this installation guide: http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/plesk/

    Thread Starter steve_williams

    (@steve_williams)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, I’ve tried the workflows on the tamba2 and codex help pages but neither has solved the problem – I also logged in to mysql through the console to create the database and set user privileges directly in case that was it, but still no luck. I appreciate the help – any ideas what else it could be?
    PHP version 4.3.10-2.4
    MySQL version 3.23.58-16.FC2.1
    Plesk Reloaded 7.5.3
    Thanks for the help.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Any chance that you would be will to upgrade MySQL to at least v4.0.x?

    Thread Starter steve_williams

    (@steve_williams)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    I will try –
    I’m new to Plesk, and will have to find out how to upgrade 😉

    Thread Starter steve_williams

    (@steve_williams)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    WordPress installs fine on a shared hosting account I have – must be something to do with the dedicated server setup – maybe MySQL too old as you suggest?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    WordPress “requires” MySQL v3.23.23, but I also believe that WP v1.5.x has only been tested on MySQL v4.0.x and 4.1.x.

    Thread Starter steve_williams

    (@steve_williams)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    Took me a while to learn how (yum) but I’ve upgraded services to:

    PHP version 4.3.11-8.frhc2.art
    MySQL version 4.0.24-2.rhfc2.art

    Both are the latest stable releases that don’t bomb Plesk, but WordPress still gives same db ‘table doesn’t exist’ error? Thanks for your help so far – I’m stuck for ideas where to look next…

    Thread Starter steve_williams

    (@steve_williams)

    20 years, 11 months ago

    After trying all of the excellent advice given, I came to the conclusion that there must have been something wrong with the Plesk server setup.

    Considering all I’d done was add a domain and clicked the ”upgrade Plesk 7.5.2 to 7.5.3″ boxes, that’s worrying to say the least!

    Anyhow, got 7.5.2 re-installed and the bundled WordPress 1.2.1 has installed fine!

    Thanks for the help MichaelH & macmanx.

    stilgar

    (@stilgar)

    20 years, 7 months ago

    The problem seems to be a bug in the ioncube PHP optimzer. Disable it in /etc/php.ini (or upgrade it), and the installation should work.

    Related threads:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/14338
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/34884
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/44895

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