By andrewbate on

Hi Guys,

My set up is this:

Drupal on Windows Server 2003 Standard running IIS 6, PHP 5.2.1 and MySQL 5.0.37

I administer MySQL using SQLyog.

When I go to "http://localhost/drupal/install.php" and enter correct details:

Database Type: mysqli
Database Name: drupalcms
Database Username: usereg
Database Password: passwordeg
Database Host: druaplserver01
Table Prefix: andrewb

...nothing happens at all when I click "Save Configuration", however if i knowingly make a mistake with te details (e.g. wrong username) then a error is thrown. So im lost as to why this isnt creating the database for me!

I am lost as I am really a ColdFusion programmer, and so arnt as familiar with the nature of PHP...

Any replies or suggestions would be great!

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ThatPerson’s picture

ThatPerson commented

For "database host", try "localhost".

xCharx’s picture

xCharx commented

Same problem as above, step where I need to provide db name, user and pass go nowhere, if I put wrong information, I get an error message, if I fill out with correct info, "save settings" doesn't do enything, just keeps me on the same page with empty fields again...

And my settings are "localhost", by the way...

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3nigma commented

I'm having the exact same issue, looking at the problem as well. I suspect it might be something like read/write access to settings.php (under site/default directory), but very suprised that the script isn't reporting the error.

I do wish this type of software was easier to install!. I had similar niggles with MySQL install, which came with a fancy MIS installer but despite completing the installation, MySQL didn't work if you change the installation directory to something else, doh!.

I'll keep you posted if I manage to get it working.

3nigma

UPDATE - Searching for "install.php" and found several forum entries. This appears to be a known problem, and as I had suspected, is due to access rights issue. Try this link: http://drupal.org/node/133769 for more info, and let us know how you get on. (I am at work at the moment but will try later tonight).

UPDATE 2 - Managed to access my server and changed the setting, all works fine now!

ashnazg’s picture

ashnazg commented

Problem I had trying to install:
- unzip files
- open browser to http://localhost
- white screen, no errors, nothing

Eventually figured out it was file permissions. I changed all files in entire Apache & Drupal installation to 777, and only THEN would the Database Configuration page appear.

I don't know what proper permissions go where, but this blanket 777 did at least prove to me it is a permission issue that I was seeing.

ashnazg’s picture

ashnazg commented

Since global permissions of 777 made the Database Configuration screen appear, thought I'd try 755 to attempt to add back a little security... no good. The page still appeared, but submitting it just refreshed it.

Back to 777... populated the db config details, this time it submitted correctly. I'm now looking at my "new Drupal website!"

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morekbps commented

I am having the same exact problem except changing the permissions for the entire drupal installation directory to 777 still did not fix the problem. Any ideas?

gonefishing’s picture

gonefishing commented

I had this problem and for me it was a problem with permissions. Don't change any file or folder/directory names eg; drupal-6.4.tar.gz must unzip to drupal-6.4

http://drupal.org/node/116431

http://drupal.org/node/131024

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value commented

Finally after hours of Googling useless posts and deadends I got it working.

FTP everything in place

chmod sites/default 777

leave default.settings.php iin sites/default

upload an empty file named settings.php

chmod settings.php 777

Install as usual.

If Drupal can not find default.settings.php it seems the installer will fail to write to settings.php and will loop you back to the Database Configuration page. This will appear to most to be a permissions problem with the settings.php file but is in fact due to the template file being missing.

Install.php should check for the existence of default.settings.php and output an error if the user simply renamed it instead of creating both files.

Architeck’s picture

Architeck commented

the only thing that worked for me was to manually set the values in the settings.php file on the following line

$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';

Geoff Palin

beyti7’s picture

beyti7 commented

it's just the thing that you shouldn't delete the default.settings.php (means don't rename it to settings.php) while adding settings.php to /sites/default