Local installation sticks at Step One

  • Resolved crunchy511

    (@crunchy511)


    17 years, 8 months ago

    I am trying to install WordPress locally to create a test environment(using instructions found on www.remarpro.com for installation and information in a book called Blog Design Solutions, Ch. 2 and 5).
    After I enter a blog name and email address and click on go to step two, it gets hung up and doesn’t move on to step two, nor do I receive an email to the address I’ve entered. When I check phpMyAdmin, the database now contains 10 tables. When I type https://localhost/wordpress/index.php into my browser, it opens a page that looks right: it’s the default theme and the title is present as I entered it in Step One. So something’s happened. Yet, on the original “stuck” installation page in my browser, the message in the bottom left part of the browser tells me “waiting for localhost”. This leads me to believe I don’t have something set up right, and it might be a simple fix.
    Does anyone know what I need to fix to get it to move on to step two and complete the installation? I am using Apache 2.2.4 and phpMyAdmin 2.10.2. (Also if you think my quickest fix would be to chuck this all in and follow the directions for installing WordPress locally using XAMPP, I’d appreciate that tip!)

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    It’s probably getting stuck trying to send the email. Make sure that your PHP settings are correct to send email. These would be in your PHP.INI file.

    Thread Starter crunchy511

    (@crunchy511)

    Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it!

    In case anyone else wanders through with the same problem, the text relevant to this issue in my php.ini now reads:

    [mail function]
    ; For Win32 only.
    SMTP = localhost
    smtp_port = 25

    ; For Win32 only.
    sendmail_from = [email protected]

    replacing “[email protected]” with my email address and “localhost” with the smtp information corresponding to this email address.

    I’m running into the same problem. Silly question, where can I find this php.ini

    Thanks

    Anthony

    I followed these directions and I am still having the same problem. Any suggestions?

    “waiting for localhost…”

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