Blank page, no HTML nothing during install.php

  • Hi,

    I’ve tried installing both WordPress 1.2 and 1.5 at my host and neither will install.

    I’ve got both running successfully on my home machine for development, but when I get to the install.php file with my webhost, the browser just shows an empty while page, and viewing source shows nothing at all. This is the same for both versions.

    My host is apparently running PHP 5.0.2 if that’s any help. Unfortunately I only have FTP access, so no command line options.

    The config.php file (which the wordpress installer is capable of producing for me) has the following setup

    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘golgotha_com_au_-_wordpress’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘golgotha’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxxx’); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

    that database name is what i’m given in my hosts phpmyadmin system when I create the database. Could that be a problem? Using any other name there causes a wordpress generated error message.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks
    Matt

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  • Don’t know if your host is Godaddy, but I had a similar problem last year when I first installed WP. I was the 1% who had to change the localhost. Unless you know, I would check to see if your host has their dbases routed to a different address. If so, you’ll probably want to enter it into ‘localhost’.

    Thread Starter matt_g

    (@matt_g)

    Hey Kiddeath,

    Cheers for that – I’ve contacted my host’s support people to see if there’s anything in that config that looks wrong.

    Cheers
    Matt

    Thread Starter matt_g

    (@matt_g)

    OK Found the problem – during the FTP transfer to the server, a whole bunch of the files in wp-includes were being cut short.

    No wonder it wasn’t working :/

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