Rand Simberg

OK, it installed this time. I’ll turn off debugging. Thanks for the help.

He’s backed up and rebuilding databases now, so that should clear the problem up. I’ll let you know if it does (or doesn’t).

OK, sysadmin at my server finally looked into issue, and is seeing some corruption in an table in another database causing the problem. Unfortunately, it’s comments at my blog…

Or to a log?

The difference is that I have debugging turned on. Not sure what that means, though. Will it send error messages to the screen?

OK, except when I did that yesterday, it didn’t. Twice. Why will it this time?

I’ve got a shiny new database with no schema or tables. I’ve put the information for it into wp-config, and also enabled debugging. I assume that in theory, if I try an install, it will populate it with the schema and tables for WordPress. I want to hear from you before I try, though.

Been there, done that. Twice. I’m talking to sysadmin now, to see if I can get broader privileges. Frustrating to not be root on my own leased server.

I mean, I can edit tables in PHPMyAdmin, and even create them, but I don’t have any tables to edit, and I don’t want to manually create all those tables.

PhPMyAdmin doesn’t seem to have a command line that can do mysql commands, other than searches. It says “No Privileges” on the databases themselves. I really have limited ability to do much with databases, other than create them, using MySQL from DirectAdmin. I can try asking the server admin, but they weren’t very helpful yesterday, just told me that it was a problem with WordPress installation.

Thanks, but I don’t have permission to mysql from command line. I have to use DirectAdmin.

Never mind…