install.php gives 500 internal server error

  • So I uploaded all the files, tried to run install.php. It gives me a 500 internal server error:
    An error occurred in the configuration of the server. Premature end of script headers: /home/class06/do/public_html/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
    Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.7,ja;q=0.3 Connection: keep-alive Host: https://www.amherst.edu Keep-Alive: 300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520 %response %stderr [Thu May 27 01:44:51 2004] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of /home/class06/do/public_html/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php failed
    The file you attempted to access /~do/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php is in a directory which seems to be controlled by user do.
    I chmod 755 everything, checked .htaccess and everything was fine there. I still get the error. Any ideas?

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  • I would contact your host about this.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Well I figured that part out, but now I get:
    Error establishing a database connection! This probably means that the connection information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect. Double check it and try again.
    The database is at mysql.amherst.edu
    I have
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘https://mysql.amherst.edu’);
    I’ve tried “localhost” and “mysql.amherst.edu” but no go. Any ideas?

    Have you checked the name/password you’ve typed in? Are they correct? I got that error when I made a typo in the DB_NAME.

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