Install fails in step 3 at end?

  • im a new wordpress user on apache 1.3.2 as localhost on win98.
    my wordpress files are in the localhost doc-root.
    when i run wp-admin/install.php it completes step 1 and step 2 with no errors, and completes the
    database step correctly.
    it seems to fail on the code

    <?php
    // Do final updates
    upgrade_all();
    ?>

    because i never get a password or a login screen. it just ends silently, no error message.
    when i inspect the db the random password and admin account are there all right.
    anyone know what the problem might be? how can i defeat it?
    thanks
    bruce

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  • Can you login at all by going to /wp-login.php ?
    Password help here:
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/
    Which version of wp ? Have you checked that the mysql and php versions are correct for wp ?

    Thread Starter just_bruce

    (@just_bruce)

    yes i have checked per the documentation. i cant log in at all using wp-login.
    i just saw a thread last nite from increa “step 3 of install gives me no password” which deals with a similar problem. he found a bug(?!?) in the code of upgrade_functions at line 705

    $query = 'DESCRIBE '.$tableusers.' user_pass';
    $res = $wpdb->get_results($query);
    if ($res[0]['Type'] != 'varchar(32)') {
    $wpdb->query('ALTER TABLE '.$tableusers.' MODIFY user_pass varchar(64) not null');
    }

    the suggestion from ringmaster is to replace
    $res[0]['Type']
    with
    $res[0]->Type
    and that worked for him getting a clean step 3.
    im going to try this today and see if it works.
    is this code an issue with others? beyond the post “step 3 of install gives me no password”?
    im not having any other problems with the install so far (except i had the wordpress in the wrong place the first time thru!)

    Thread Starter just_bruce

    (@just_bruce)

    Well i got it to work but i don’t know what i did. I reloaded the database several times, and looked at the Apache error log, which pointed me to line 84 of update_functions.php. I fixed a character, probably put there by me!
    After several database cleans and reruns i finally got thru it and now most is ok.
    I have another problem but this track can end.

    I have the same problem. This step 3 thing is really weird. I think it is a persistant bug because it happened with another version I had months ago as well. I am running a Mac OSX system 10.3 php 4+ and mysql.
    Please help me if you can

    sorry i dont have any more ideas about it. the install is still working but i sure don’t want to try a reinstall– a last resort only!
    i tried putting “got here’s” in the code of the update_all() but this seemed to break everything sometimes, and i could not really track down where it was failing. maybe it just had to do with the cached version being different from the edited version, or not getting the database fully flushed in between tries.

    Help – I’ve tried several times to install and WP still gives me error at Step 3

    Not surprisingly, I had the same problem using Apache 2.0.50. It “hung” at step 3. Changing line 705 of the upgrade_functions.php file as indicated above made it work. (generated a username and password for me).

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