Word Press Installer won’t start:

what, EXACTLY, are you putting in your chosen browser’s url box to try to access the install.php page?

Here is the MYSLQ log file info:
It states: ‘You have forced lower_case_table_names to 0 through a command-line option’ … not sure how that could be. I haven’t done anything thru command line…
The only editing I’ve done was to the wp-config-sample.php file and then saved it to wp-config.php

091117 12:14:53 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql
091117 12:14:53 [Warning] You have forced lower_case_table_names to 0 through a command-line option, even though your file system ‘/Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/’ is case insensitive. This means that you can corrupt a MyISAM table by accessing it with different cases. You should consider changing lower_case_table_names to 1 or 2
091117 12:14:53 [Warning] One can only use the –user switch if running as root

091117 12:14:53 [Note] Plugin ‘FEDERATED’ is disabled.
091117 12:14:53 [Note] Plugin ‘ndbcluster’ is disabled.
091117 12:14:53 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44253
091117 12:14:53 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
091117 12:14:53 [Note] /Applications/MAMP/Library/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: ‘5.1.37’ socket: ‘/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock’ port: 8889 Source distribution

This is what I put in the URL

https://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

Try https://localhost/~yourshortusername/public_html/

That will get you an index listing of your public_html directory; from there you will see the wordpress folder, if it’s in the right place. if not, drop it in and then go to install.php

Be sure personal web sharing is turned on in the Sharing Preference Pane.

Ok.
Personal web sharing is on in my preferences pane.

I had placed the word press folder in the htdocs directory per some instructions I received. I moved that info to my ‘sites’ folder and am now able to see an index of all the files and folders.
Now when I open up the install.php it shows us as a text document rather than starting the install.

Still working on it… getting closer but not there yet! ??

What kind of text document? php code? Than php isn’t running: Marc Liyanage – Software – Mac OS X Packages – PHP and/or Enabling PHP in Mac OS X 10.5.

Yeah… that’s what it looks like.
But all the files that I see in the browser look like links.

In any case I did everything described in ‘Enabling PHP in Mac OS X 10.5.
The changes did need to be made but I’m a bit confused as to why. It was my understanding that the MAMP install and config would cover all this… I guess not.

I’ve made all the changes and stopped and started my servers. Put this in my URL
https://localhost/~administrator/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php and it continues to open up the install.php in text format instead of the Word Press install dialogue.

Make a plain text file and call it phpinfo.php and put just this line in it:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

then put the file in the root of pubic_html, and then go to that file with your web browser. https://localhost/~administrator/phpinfo.php

If you see text that says “phpinfo”, then php isn’t running. If you see a long list of php configurations, then php is running.

Yup… PHP is running…

Strange. I have four different wordpress installs right now on localhost, and I never had issues installing or running.

I think you’ve got a bad URL in the database from all the attempts. So I’d install and use PHPMyAdmin to delete any databases and start over with a new database. It can be the same name and passowrd, just use PHPMyAdmin to clear it out and start over. You’ll need PHPMyAdmin anyway to export databases, and it’s a great tool. I use it all the time on localhost. phpMyAdmin

yeah.. I’ve already got that installed.

Are you familiar with the MAMP application?

I installed that and created a data base thru that. It has PHPMyAdmin built right into it.

I’ll delete the data bases and start over and see if anything changes. Actually I’m probably going to start right from the beginning and walk thru the steps again.

I might be messing you up as I don’t use MAMP; I use the OS X default apache/php/mysql under localhost without MAMP.

Does MAMP write to the .htaccess file? I’d check that for a mod_rewrite block that is confusing the wordpress installer.

Or reinstall MAMP, or uninstall it and try the default OS X way.

I’m having this exact issue, have been for a few days now. I religiously followed all steps in the tutorial I was using, downloaded & installed MAMP, downloaded & installed Word Press, created a new database within the MyPHPAdmin of MAMP, input the login etc in the config file…but when I go to launch the install, I get either a 404 page, or some gobbly gook code, or if I drag the file to my browser, it just shows the text within the file.

From the comments in some of the tutorials I’ve been following, this is a pretty common issue, but everyone seems to resolve it differently, none of which have worked for me.

HELP!!!

Run phpinfo as I pointed out above to see if you’ve got php installed with the right path.

You can’t just drag the file to the browser, as php won’t execute.

404ing might be .htaccess, if MAMP writes to that.

Songdotech,
I’ll check that out and let you know. I tried installing WordPress on my G5 using the method you described and didn’t get very far with that at all. Although with the knowledge that I’ve acquired in the last day I might go back to that machine and try again. I’ll check the .htaccess permissions and let you know.

I know what you mean shonnalemke. It can be very confusing when you watch someone else get it working but it just won’t for you! ??