wordpress/install.php?step=2 Error,

It since something is wrong from server side. I suggest contacting your hosting provider.

I am facing the same problem, and my host is on a linux server. They claim they can′t do anything because they don′t offer support to wordpress. I tried several versions and all of them have the same problem. Locally wp works fine. It′s got to be a server problem, right?

I was having similar problems with step=2 in my installation (summer 2009) and discovered that on the server side, I found remedy with Disable Canonical Redirection. My issue was “PHP is sending my browser’s location outside my wordpress folder” and the canonical redirect by the server was where the grievance was located. As an isolated experiment that can be done and undone, try the following-

What really solved the issue for me on my Concentric/XO Communication server was to Disable Canonical URL Redirection. (cite)

Create a text file with the following text and name it: disable-canonical-redirects.php

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Disable Canonical URL Redirection
Description: Disables the "Canonical URL Redirect" features of WordPress 2.3 and above.
Version: 1.0
Author: Mark Jaquith
Author URI: https://markjaquith.com/
*/
remove_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');
?>

Place this text file in wp-content/plugins/ and make it active. You may want to install the WordPress folder and add this plugin to its appropriate location and then run the installation script so as to activate this plugin at the get-go (if you are having trouble getting it activate in the dashboard or mid process). If this is the remedy, reply success.

I have the same problem.

When I upload the text file as written above the following error message appears:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: remove_filter() in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\gezond-verstand.be\httpdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\disable-canonical-redirects.php on line 9
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: remove_filter() in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\gezond-verstand.be\httpdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\disable-canonical-redirects.php on line 9

Can somebody help me with this? WordPress makes us believe that this easy to install but apparantly it is not at all easy to install.

Typically when you get an error that the file cannot be found, it is a path problem, meaning you are not pointing to the file.

A common mistake is to omit a folder that the file is in, for example root/folder/filename.ext.

Check to see if you are pointing to the correct file.

Gary

I had a similar problem: I couldn’t go beyond step2. The solution for me was to change to php5 with .htaccess.

so this might seem really stupid, but I was having same problem:

install.php?step=2 was bringing up 404 Not Found

but then I realised that of course it’s not found – WP was looking for install.php in the root directory, but it inside the ‘wp-admin’ folder. So I added ‘wp-admin/’ in front of ‘install.php’ int eh URL and everything now appears to be fine.

What had happened was I hadn’t manually gone to https://www.domain.com/wp-admin, but just https://www.domain.com and that had still brought up the introduction page…

hope this helps someone.

It helped me modelcitizen!

Same problem with the Install Step 2 404 error:
https://www.domain.com.br/install.php?step=2

It worked when I added the /wp-admin folder:
https://www.domain.com.br/wp-admin/install.php?step=2

Thanks!

Anyssa