empty html body returned for wp-admin/install.php

  • Here is the steps I made to run WordPress on a RedHat 9 linux with apache. Unfortunately, I cannot make it run.
    1.) get sure apache works well on HTML and .php files: OK
    telnet localhost 80
    Trying 127.0.0.1…
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is ‘^]’.
    HEAD / HTTP/1.0
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:51:14 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.2
    2. mySQL runs well on command line
    mysql> create database wordpress;
    Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec)
    3.) tried to access a local test.php file via http:: OK
    An Example of PHP in Action
    The Current Date and Time is:
    3:22 PM Thursday, July 22 2004.
    PHP Information
    PHP Version 4.2.2
    System Linux stripples.devel.redhat.com 2.4.21-1.1931.2.274.entsmp #1 SMP Tue Jun 24 11:18:10 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
    Build Date Jun 29 2003 16:34:10
    4.) copied the whole worldpress 1.2 distribution files to
    /var/www/html/
    5) edited the wp-config.php
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘pass’); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this valu
    6) launched the browser at localhost/wp-admin/install.php
    all I get is a blank page.
    here is the view source for the returned URL:
    <html><body></body></html>, that is an html, and empty body tags.
    that is it!
    Can someone help me ?
    thank you.

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  • BAH, spoke too soon, I still get a BLANK page after running install.php even the new one *sigh*
    I had not created the wp-config.php file yet, but after I do I still get the blank page. I’m using PHP5 and IIS on Windows XP. Anyone have any other suggestions?

    This may help as it’s IIS:
    https://wordlog.com/index.php?p=32

    For those of you running Debian, Apache 2 and PHP4 I have a fix for this. The default php4 module doesn’t ship with mysql support installed.
    1) Double check to make sure you have libphp4.so installed.
    /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so
    2) Apt-get the php4-mysql package
    apt-get install php4-mysql
    This gets you the mysql.so package. Mine ended up here:
    /usr/lib/php4/20020429/mysql.so
    3) Head on over to /etc/php4/apcache2/php.ini and uncomment the following line:
    extension=mysql.so
    4) restart apache
    apache2ctl restart
    5) install.php will work now.
    Have fun.

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