Blank screen on installation

  • So I my boss wants to start a blog. I spend a few moments talking him out of using Movable Type and into using WordPress. I have been using WordPress for the last several years and have always loved it. One of the greatest selling points I told him was the very quick install. He took my advice and now a day and a half, 4 different major installations, and endless apache logs, the installation is not working.

    The installation creates the tables and simply halts. On 2.3.1 go to an empty page with no HTML source. In all 2.0.* version it displays “Now we’re going to create the database tables and fill them with some default data.” then doesn’t do anything else.

    Versions tried:

    2.3.1
    2.0.3
    2.0.11
    2.0

    Server information:

    MySQL 4.0.17
    PHP 4.3.10
    Apache 1.3.37

    Notable points:

    – Our (*.html) extensions are routed as perl scripts. Other than the readme.html I haven’t found any other file that is using that extension.

    – We are hosting on Pair Networks.

    – The tables are created, but are never updated with the information that I enter in the first step.

    – This appears to be a common thread, but none of them seem to be resolved.

    – When I run the installation the Apache error logs include the following text.

    [notice] child pid 91978 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

    Any help would be appreciated. I really don’t want to use Movable type.

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    Thread Starter twism113

    (@twism113)

    Thank you for the response Michael. I had done a few Google searches on Segmentation Faults and the results were pretty all over the place and none seemed to fit my situation.

    After much investigate it turns out that it was an issue related to FastCGI. If I disable it, WordPress installs fine. As soon as I enable FastCGI WordPress no longer works.

    I have found some threads about issues with FastCGI in the 2.0.5 release and the plugin that is available for it. Does anyone know if these issues are supposed to be resolved in the 2.3.1 release or if there are any plugins available for a release past 2.0.5?

    Thanks for the assistance.

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