• I’ve gone through the instructions for installing WordPress and come to the point where I am supposed to run the script /wp-admin/install.php. However, when I visit that page, nothing happens. It only develops a blank page. There are no errors or anything to say what has, or hasn’t, gone wrong.

    Does anyone know what this means, or how I might fix it?

    You may have to prompt me for more details, as I’m not sure what else to provide.

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  • Post the contents of your wp-config.php.
    X out sensitive info.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    I took out the comments, but this is all of it.
    ‘localhost’ is different, but that is what shows up in the location where the installation instructions told me to look for the host.

    <?php

    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘yroot’);
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxx’);
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘bodyflashn.com’);

    $table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

    define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

    define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
    require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);?>

    Aw crap – are you on yahoo hosting? Sorry about that.
    2 guesses
    Try this wp-config.php 1st:

    <?php
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');    // The name of the database
    define('DB_USER', 'yroot');     // Your MySQL username
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'xxxxx'); // ...and password
    define('DB_HOST', 'bodyflashn.com');    // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
    
    // You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
    $table_prefix  = 'wp_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
    
    // Change this to localize WordPress.  A corresponding MO file for the
    // chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
    // For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
    // to enable German language support.
    define ('WPLANG', '');
    
    /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
    
    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
    require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
     define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false'); // use persistent connections?
    ?>

    No spaces at the top or bottom of file.

    The db connection probably isn’t bodyflashn.com
    Back when I did yahoo installs it was localhost
    Install the phpmyadmin one-click and log into it. You can find your db connection there.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    Yup, It’s Yahoo.

    I’m trying to use WordPress to integrate into a client’s web site so she can update her “products” page without my having to do it for her all the time. This is my first attempt at using WordPress like this. After getting this install to work (I hope!), its off to creating a new theme based on the site.

    I tried the changes you made, plus changing host to “localhost”. Did you change anything besides the last line? That’s what I added to my config file. It still just gives me a blank page.

    I don’t have any input for your problem, but I wanted you to know that your post helped me solve my own WordPress issue. Thanks! I hope your problem is soon resolved!

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    https://bodyflashn.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

    This is the address of the page in question. Perhaps someone will see what my problem it.

    I’ve followed all the directions for the installation, but I’m still getting a blank page when I run “install.php”.

    I also checked to see if there were any files with a size of 0K (zero kilobytes), but there are none. Everything seems to be present and accounted for.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    I also checked and found that the memory alocation for PHP is set to 20M, so this shouldn’t be a memory problem either.

    I’ll post more details as I come to understand them.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.6.3-pl1
    MySQL 4.1.14 running on bodyflashn.com as yroot@localhost

    This is more information that I found in my phpMyAdmin control panel.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.6.3-pl1
    MySQL 4.1.14 running on bodyflashn.com as tepaq@localhost

    This is what it says if I log in under the name that I created when I installed the phpMyAdmin control panel.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    Server: bodyflashn.com

    This is what it shows at the top of the phpMyAdmin control panel in the “privileges” section.

    If this is a Yahoo host then try ‘mysql’ for the DB_HOST.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    I tried this, but unfortunately, it did not change anything. I still get a blank page.

    If you have other ideas, I’m eager to hear them. I still haven’t gotten this thing to work.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    When I run the script and the use “view source” for the resulting page, the code looks like this:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>
    <HTML><HEAD>
    <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=”text/html; charset=windows-1252″></HEAD>
    <BODY></BODY></HTML>

    The HTML is generated, but there is nothing in the body of the document. This is consistent with what has been happening all along.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    I don’t know if this is significant, but I just tried a few other .php files to see if I would be able to view any of them. They all come up blank.

    It doesn’t appear that any of the .php files are viewable for me. The files I tried were the index.php files within the WordPress directory and the links.php file. As noted above, they all come up as blank pages.

    Thread Starter grizdog

    (@grizdog)

    Has anyone else ever had this problem before? I’ve read other similar issues, but none of those seem to apply to my particular problem.

    I hope I can get some more feedback on this, as I still have not been able to install this software to my host.

    It’s Yahoo hosting, for those of you who know how to install this software for that particular hosting.

    I’m basically looking to set up an easy way for a non-webmaster individual to be able to add product details to their web site. If you know of another, easier way, that doesn’t involve as much set up time (3 days and counting), I’m all ears!

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