WP 2.7, installtion never gets complete, getting database error

  • Resolved hues

    (@hues)


    17 years, 3 months ago

    I am trying to install WordPress2.7 on my website http://www.huestechnologies.com/site

    I get the following error on the page.

    WordPress database error Table ‘newdb.wp_options’ doesn’t exist for query INSERT INTO wp_options (option_name, option_value, autoload) VALUES (‘cron’,…..

    I checked the database through PhpMyadmin and found out that there are 10 tables and the table newdb.wp_options contains 30 entries.
    I added these values through PhpMyAdmin.

    Whether I edit the database or not, when I proceed with entering the values given in the error message, I am directed to the page http://www.huestechnologies.com/site/install.php?step=2 which shows error message that the page is not found. While I think the page should be http://www.huestechnologies.com/site/wp-admin/install.php?step=2

    If I enter this url in the browser I get the same error message again.

    If I edit the database then sometimes the installation is shown as complete and I can open the blog, but in that case I can not login to admin because the installation never gets completed properly and there is no user or anything is created. ( only 33 values in the table “newdb.wp_options” and all other tables are empty )

    Before this I have installed around 15 wordpress and never faced any problem. Many of wordpress are running properly on this same server, so I assume there is nothing to do with server settings.

    My server is running Php 5.6.2.

    This is highly frustrating, I am trying to do this for last three days and tried it many many times. I even tried installing WP 2.6.5 but no success.

    Need help desperately.

    Thank you for any support for the problem.

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  • figaro

    (@figaro)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    Just a shot in the dark here but I’ve never seen, or used, a period in the database prefix such as newdb.wp_ It may not be a problem, but have you tried to create the database with table prefixes like newdb1_ without using the dot? Again, don’t know if this could be a problem, but may be worth a look.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    copy a new wp-config.php from wp-config-sample.php
    leave off putting anything in the 3 secure keys – try the install again

    Thread Starter hues

    (@hues)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    newdb is the database name and wp_options is the name of the table. So newdb.wp_options points to the table wp_admin in database newdb.

    Thread Starter hues

    (@hues)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    I tried with all three options

    • adding 3 secure keys
    • leaving the value as it is in as it is in wp-config-sample.php and
    • keeping the key area blank

    But no difference.

    Thread Starter hues

    (@hues)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    I tried clean install again with WP 2.7. I generated 4 security keys at http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

    Now the database error is gone.
    Now when I run
    http://www.huestechnologies.com/site/wp-admin/install.php

    I get http://www.huestechnologies.com/site/wp-admin/install.php?step=2
    but the page shows nothing except WordPress logo.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    hey – looks like you got it
    excellent

    Thread Starter hues

    (@hues)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    No Samboll, I did not get it. Blog is available at http://www.huestechnologies.com/site/ , but I can not log in to admin. The installation does not get completed.

    I do not have any login info to log in. Even providing email address which I used while installation does not help to retrieve the password, because wordpress is not installed properly.

    I created a user in wp-user table through phpmyadmin and when I try to login at http://www.huestechnologies.com/site/wp-admin/ using the newly created login I get a message

    You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

    I will try to do clean install again today.

    Thread Starter hues

    (@hues)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    It looks like some file which I was uploading was corrupt somehow.
    I downloaded fresh copy, and started all over again and now I got it without any problem.
    Thank you Samboll and figaro for looking into the problem.

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