flanders

Actually, it might be user error (at least in my case).

After much trial and tribulation, I got install.php to run and it walked me through all of the steps. When I clicked the login link at the end I got the “no input file specified” error.

So I tried changing my file permissions, but that had no effect. I deleted the tables from my database and ran install.php again, and this time when it asked I specified the proper installation point of WordPress.

The first time it specified for me, but was wrong. I had trusted it and it used my website, http://wwww.xcursionists.com. However, my blogs are actually at a subdirectory, http://www.xcursionists.com/blogs. Once I specified that I was able to login successfully.

I went back and reset the permissions that I had changed and then tried it again, and it still worked, so it wasn’t the permissions. Could be that WP is looking in the wrong place for the files.

I’m having the same problem. This is on a Windows 2003 Server sitting next to me, running IIS 6.0. I’ve had nothing but issues along the way.

I installed PHP and mySQL and at first got nothing but blank pages when trying to run install.php. So I thought PHP wasn’t workign, and actually backed it down a version. Then, I actually saw the WordPress logo at the top, but got the infamous “Fatal Error…..line 52.” that seems fairly prevalent.

In trying to fix that, I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled several times, but here is what I’m currently running:

Windows Server 2003
IIS 6.0
PHP 4.3
mySQL 4.1.9

I followed the install instructions exactly (I’ve got them memorized by now), but now am getting the above error, “Error establishing a database connection.”

I’ve used mySQL Administrator to verify along the way that the db was created, and that the user was created with the appropriate permissions, and that all seems okay, but when trying to run install.php I still get the above error.

Also, I’ve tried “uploading” the files to my server by straight copying via UNC path, as well as copying them into my web via FrontPage 2003. An interesting note is that after moving the files to the subdirectory of my web where I want them, the first time I did this I opened wp-config.php in Notepad. There were little rectangular boxes that appeared. After much other playing with it, I ended up editing the file in Notepad to remove the boxes and get the file looking like it should. That’s when I seemed to make headway and got the WP logo at the top, along with the line 52 error.

However, if I open the files in FrontPage they always appear correctly. If I hit “Save” in FP, without changing anything, then if I open them in Notepad they are formatted correctly, and the little boxes are gone.

Any thoughts?