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Yeah – something is timing out – I tried to install a plugin that was pretty large and it timed out, while a smaller plugin installed easily. I just downloaded the zip of the larger one and extracted under plugins, then activated it. It worked fine.

Not sure where the timeout occurs – I’ve looked at a few different files but nothing is really clear as to which timeout out applies where & when. Probably put in place as a security feature and is set just fine for a normal server.

I exported the db from the WAMP version on XP then imported to xampp and it seems to be working. I think the issue must be that the connection to the USB is slow and creating the tables gets timed out. May be time for a new USB stick, but would really like to figure out if this is really the problem and how to fix it.

I have installed WP on WAMP on my old XP machine and the install went without a hitch…
Perhaps I should just export the db and import into the xampp version?

@Ipenstu: I have done that at least 10 times with no change, only installs the same 5 tables.

@samuel B: Yes, I did what was indicated on that page. The instructions were the same as many other pages I reviewed to try to track down the issue.

Note that Apache, PHP, and MySQL work fine on the stick – have been using them for other sites as this is my testing environment.

Thank you for your response.

From phpinfo:
mysqlnd 5.0.8-dev – 20102224 – $Revision: 310735 $
PHP Version 5.3.8

Note that I finally got a list of missing tables after changing $cfg[‘ExecTimeLimit’] = 0; in xampp\phpMyAdmin\libraries\config.default.php – this gave it unlimited time to execute the repair as it had appeared to be running very slow.

Missing tables:
wp_users: Table ‘wordpress.wp_users’ doesn’t exist
wp_usermeta: Table ‘wordpress.wp_usermeta’ doesn’t exist
wp_posts: Table ‘wordpress.wp_posts’ doesn’t exist
wp_links: Table ‘wordpress.wp_links’ doesn’t exist
wp_options: Table ‘wordpress.wp_options’ doesn’t exist
wp_postmeta: Table ‘wordpress.wp_postmeta’ doesn’t exist

I re-downloaded the WP zip thinking perhaps something had been corrupted in the download. Ran the checksum on it and it was fine. Re-installed, etc. and no change.

Note that there is over 1.5 G left on thumb drive so it’s not a problem with capacity. I will try to install it to a WAMP system I have on another computer and see if I end up with the same issue.

Unfortunately, the point of putting it on the USB is that I use different systems between work and home and I really need it to be portable.

I have the same problem – fresh install, missing tables (xampp/usb/win7):
wp_users: Table ‘wordpress.wp_users’ doesn’t exist
wp_usermeta: Table ‘wordpress.wp_usermeta’ doesn’t exist
wp_posts: Table ‘wordpress.wp_posts’ doesn’t exist
wp_links: Table ‘wordpress.wp_links’ doesn’t exist
wp_options: Table ‘wordpress.wp_options’ doesn’t exist
wp_postmeta: Table ‘wordpress.wp_postmeta’ doesn’t exist

I have dropped db/reinstalled wp at least 10 times with no change. I only today was able to actually run the repair database function, up until now I got now results just returned to the repair page. To fix that I changed the $cfg[‘ExecTimeLimit’] = 0; in xampp\phpMyAdmin\libraries\config.default.php – this gave it unlimited time to execute as it had appeared to be running very slow.

Will WP work if I create these tables on my own?

These are the only tables that exist in the db:
wp_commentmeta
wp_comments
wp_terms
wp_term_relationships
wp_term_taxonomy

Update: still no luck, however 2 things popped out at me during research:
1. there is no ?> closing out the wp-config file (I added it). I removed all line breaks, too. Dropped DB, reinstalled, no change.
2. table wp_options doesn’t exist in wordpress db – should this have been generated on the install? Found reference to this table in another forum post where accessing the db was a problem – although not installed on local xampp