Title: wordpress1.2.1 install error
Last modified: February 7, 2017

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# wordpress1.2.1 install error

 *  [lychen1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lychen1109/)
 * (@lychen1109)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress1-2-1-install-error/)
 * first, when I install wordpress1.2.1, in step1 to step3, there are many lines
   of database errors on the page, it says table wp_options can not been found. 
   I checked the file install.php, and guess the install script is checking if there
   is an old version product installed. And the process can continue to step4. In
   step4, it looks fine, no error info now, and it says success.
    then I was redirected
   to the login page, after I input the right user name and the password, I just
   got an empty page. Then I refer to index.php my wordpress installation, it gives
   the following response, it looks that the page is not load properly. ————————————————————————————`
   <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.
   org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/
   xhtml"> <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/1"> <title>my weblog</title> <meta
   http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="generator"
   content="WordPress 1.2.1" /> <!-- leave this for stats --> <style type="text/
   css" media="screen"> @import url( http:/wp-layout.css ); </style> <link rel="
   stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="http:/print.css" /> <link rel
   ="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http:/wp-rss2.php"/
   > <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="http:/wp-rss.php"/
   > <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="http:/
   wp-atom.php" /> <link rel="pingback" href="http:/xmlrpc.php" /> <link rel="archives"
   title="October 2004" href="http:/index.php?m=200410" /> <meta name='ICBM' content
   ="0, 0" /> <meta name='DC.title' content="my weblog" /> <meta name='geo.position'
   content="0;0" /> </head> <body> <div id="rap"> <h1 id="header">[my weblog](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress1-2-1-install-error/"?output_format=md)
   </h1> <div id="content"> <h2>10/13/2004</h2>  <div class="post"> <h3 class="storytitle"
   id="post-1">[Hello world!](https://wordpress.org/index.php?p=1")</h3> <div class
   ="meta">Filed under: <ul class="post-categories">
    - [General](https://wordpress.org/index.php?cat=1")
    -  — site admin @ 9:12 pm </div>
       <div class="storycontent"> Welcome to WordPress.
      This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
    -  </div>
       <div class="feedback"> [Comments (1)](https://wordpress.org/index.php?p=1#comments")
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      xmlns:trackback="[http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"&gt](http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"&gt);
      <rdf:Description rdf:about="http:/index.php?p=1" dc:identifier="http:/index.
      php?p=1" dc:title="Hello world!" trackback:ping="http:/wp-trackback.php/1"/
      > </rdf:RDF> --> </div> </div> <div id="menu">
 *  -  <li id="links">Links
 *  - Alex
    - Dougal
    - Matt
    - Mike
    - WordPress
 *  <li id="categories">Categories:
    - [General](https://wordpress.org/index.php?cat=1")
 *  <li id="search">
    <label for="s">Search:</label>  <form id="searchform" method
   ="get" action="/wordpress/index.php"> <div> <input type="text" name="s" id="s"
   size="15" />
 *  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" />
    </div> </form>
 *  <li id="archives">Archives:
    - [October 2004](https://wordpress.org/index.php?m=200410")
    -  <li id="calendar">
       <table id="wp-calendar"> <caption>October 2004</caption
      > <thead> <tr> <th abbr="Sunday" scope="col" title="Sunday">S</th> <th abbr
      ="Monday" scope="col" title="Monday">M</th> <th abbr="Tuesday" scope="col"
      title="Tuesday">T</th> <th abbr="Wednesday" scope="col" title="Wednesday">
      W</th> <th abbr="Thursday" scope="col" title="Thursday">T</th> <th abbr="Friday"
      scope="col" title="Friday">F</th> <th abbr="Saturday" scope="col" title="Saturday"
      >S</th> </tr> </thead> <tfoot> <tr> <td colspan="3" id="prev" class="pad">&
      nbsp;</td> <td class="pad">&nbsp;</td> <td colspan="3" id="next" class="pad"
      >&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tfoot> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="5" class="pad">&nbsp;
      </td><td>1</td><td>2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</
      td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</
      td><td id="today">[13](https://wordpress.org/index.php?m=20041013")</td><td
      >14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td> </tr> <tr> <td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td
      ><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td> </tr> <tr> <td>24</td><td>25
      </td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td> </tr> <tr> <td
      >31</td> <td class="pad" colspan="6">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>  
      <li id="other">Other:
 *  - [Login](https://wordpress.org/wp-login.php"?output_format=md)
    - [Register](https://wordpress.org/wp-register.php"?output_format=md)
 *  <li id="meta">Meta:
    - [RSS 2.0](https://wordpress.org/wp-rss2.php"?output_format=md)
    - [Comments RSS 2.0](https://wordpress.org/wp-commentsrss2.php"?output_format=md)
    - Valid XHTML
    - WP
 * </div>
    </div> <p class="credit"><!--19 queries. 0.074 seconds. --> <cite>Powered
   by **WordPress**</cite> </body> </html>
 * ———————————————————————————————
    I didn’t change anything, it’s just a basic 
   installation. Maybe you can save and check the above code to see what’s wrong.

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 *  Thread Starter [lychen1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lychen1109/)
 * (@lychen1109)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress1-2-1-install-error/#post-99846)
 * I am using the latest version 1.2.1
 *  Thread Starter [lychen1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lychen1109/)
 * (@lychen1109)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress1-2-1-install-error/#post-99847)
 * I have checked this, it is exactly like this.
    ` @import url( <?php echo get_settings('
   siteurl'); ?>/wp-layout.css );
 *  Thread Starter [lychen1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lychen1109/)
 * (@lychen1109)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress1-2-1-install-error/#post-99850)
 * some addtionals: I have installed version 1.2 of wordpress, it runs fine. Although
   during the installation I got the database error message too. When I install 
   version 1.2, I use the db name of wordpress. Then I created another db named 
   wordpress2 for my version 1.2.1 installation. I changed my IIS virtual directory
   to new folder where version 1.2.1 is in. Then I start the installation and got
   the wrong result as I described in the original post.
    So I actually have two
   questions: 1) Is the database error info common? Because the installation process
   can cotinue and my version 1.2 runs fine. 2) What’s likely the cause of the error
   of css path that TG has mentioned?
 *  Thread Starter [lychen1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lychen1109/)
 * (@lychen1109)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress1-2-1-install-error/#post-99853)
 * the database error info is like this:
    Database error: [Table ‘wordpress4.wp_options’
   doesn’t exist] SELECT option_name, option_value FROM wp_options And these two
   lines repeated many time and at the button of the page was the right words and
   the link to next step. like this [http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php?step=1](http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php?step=1)
   In step 3, it ask me the address of my installation, I enter [http://localhost/wordpress/.](http://localhost/wordpress/.)
   I don’t know what’s this for really.
 *  Thread Starter [lychen1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lychen1109/)
 * (@lychen1109)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress1-2-1-install-error/#post-99856)
 * I just found another thread that looks like same to my problem. [http://wordpress.org/support/2/14338](http://wordpress.org/support/2/14338)
   
   and some additions: after the installation, my first login redirect my to this
   url [http://localhost/wp-login.php?redirect_to=](http://localhost/wp-login.php?redirect_to=),
   and result in an empty page. I am just test wordpress on my local machine. And
   I am doing new installation, not a upgrade.
 *  Thread Starter [lychen1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lychen1109/)
 * (@lychen1109)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress1-2-1-install-error/#post-99858)
 * my enviroment is windows 2000 prefessional with sp4, php 4.3.9, mysql 4.0.21

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 * Last reply from: [lychen1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lychen1109/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress1-2-1-install-error/#post-99858)
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