i've installed 3 times ERPAL thinking i've been doing something wrong with it, but nope, for some bizarre reason it is takes me to the "Drupal already installed" page. at first glance i can't see what's wrong with the set up. i did this both as a localhost and with a virtual host name and in all instances it's given me this error. the problem isn't my VH because i have other VH install in this dev environment and haven't had any problems with it.

any tips on what i should be looking for would be greatly appreciated.

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manuelBS’s picture

manuelBS commented

Please increase your mysql servers max allowed packet size in your my.cnf file to 3M, reatart the mysql server and please give me feedback if it works

cnergis’s picture

cnergis commented

I had the same problems on a vanilla VM install, and yes your suggested fix resolves the issue and gets the site up and running. Thank you.

andrisek’s picture

andrisek commented
Status: Active » Needs review

@liza Please try it that way and give us Feedback, so that I can close this issue.

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ehowland commented

This worked for me. I was getting 

An AJAX HTTP error occurred. HTTP Result Code: 500 Debugging information follows. Path: http://localhost/install.php?profile=erpal&welcome=done&locale=en&id=2&op=do StatusText: error ResponseText:

I was using MAMP and there was no my.cnf file, so I needed to create one at /Applications/MAMP/conf/my.cnf. It only contains: 

[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet=3M

But it stopped my getting redirected over and over to http://localhost/install.php

manuelBS’s picture

manuelBS commented
Status: Needs review » Closed (fixed)
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msds commented

Thank heavens for this. - THREE WEEKS - I was going CRAZY installing XAMP, WAMP and others and saying all manner of unprintable things about DRUPAL!

At last a fix that works -BUT because I was using WAMP it has no my.cnf file so .....
looking at support site StackOverflow I came across the answer.

Instead of my.cnf, find the MYSql my.ini file - it should be at:

Drive:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.5.8\my.ini [-nb: the mysql version number will be the version you have installed]

Open that with an editor and you should find the entry for 'max_allowed_packet'. Set that as described above to:

max_allowed_packet=3M

Restarted MySql, selected ERPAL and up came the friendly ERPAL duck ... no more %^^(*() 'Drupal already installed' !

Now I'm off to play ERPAL.