Drupal 6.9 installation stops at database configuration

Posted by rvarkonyi on January 15, 2009 at 11:19am

Hey guys,

I just downloaded the latest Drupal 6.9 release, tried to create a clean install as usual. For some reason the install stops at the database configuration. I type in the details as usual, hit Save and continue but the install won't go further. It reloads the same page with empty textfields. The functionality itself does work because I tried the to type in bogus database details and it did display an error message. The server I use works 100% correct, I'm sure, I have a lot of other drupal sites working perfect on it.

Thanks in advance,

Rob

Comments

Permission and/or default.settings.php

Posted by ainigma32 on January 15, 2009 at 11:25am

See here http://drupal.org/node/172885#comment-1018216

HTH

- Arie

Drupal 6.9 installation stops

Posted by Rask on January 15, 2009 at 1:28pm

Got the same problem. I have installed every single version of Drupal 6, and this has never happened before.

I am on a Mac using OS X 10.4 and MAMP.

Rask

have you modified this

Posted by lekso on January 16, 2009 at 1:23am

have you modified this variable:
$db_url = 'mysql://user:pass@host/dbName';

in settings.php

Don't delete the default.settings.php

Posted by jimejim on January 16, 2009 at 1:37am

Making sure not to delete the default.settings.php file is what did it for me. For some reason, the install requires it to exist, so don't just rename the file.

Thanks!

Posted by jyukers on January 16, 2009 at 3:30am

That fixed the problem for me.

If you were a god, I would

Posted by funkmon on March 13, 2009 at 11:22am

If you were a god, I would switch my religion to yours.

The problem is with write permissions

Posted by DJWelles on February 13, 2009 at 7:41pm

I found that the installation failed at the database screen because the WEB permissions for settings.php were not right (write). While the NT file permssions were correct IIS could not write to the file because the server web site file permissions were used. There are two ways to fix this (I think - I only tried the first one, but the second one should work as well).

1. Browse to settings.php in file explorer, right click and select Properties, select the Security tab, then the Add... button. Add in \IUSER_ and give it full control.

2. In the IIS Managemement Console, browse to settings.php, right click and select Properties, then check the Write box.

In both cases, don't forget to remove the write privileges as indicated inthe Drupal install documentation.

The solution is...

Posted by Shelhezan on February 14, 2009 at 5:37pm

The install.txt has a wrong information. You should cp ./sites/default/default.settings.php ./sites/default/settings.php and not mv it.

That's the riddle's solution.

Database Installation Step Hangs On

Posted by Paras Kuhad on February 28, 2009 at 6:09am

Thanks................I was having same problem..................initially I 'mv' it and..............it was causing chronic problems......when I kept default.settings.php preserved ...I was done...

Thanks a lot!!! I wasted my

Posted by DC_Linux_Admin on January 7, 2012 at 6:59pm

Thanks a lot!!!

I wasted my one hour in googling for this thing...i triedd everything...i played with my firewall, mysql, my.cnf.....

Thanks again..

windows server2008 and IIS 7

Posted by MarketUS on December 28, 2009 at 1:27pm

I just installed 6.15 manually and had trouble. I had to manually set permissions to make it work. Give the sites/default full controll and you are fine.

I suggest using the web platform installer for any windows installation, as wpi does all of the work for you.

I forgot this and went through the headache for over an hour.

Gues what I will do next time?