Installation Problems

I just experienced the same symptom. In my case, I had a functioning site and then replaced the file assets/cache/siteCache.idx.php with the version from SVN. What happens then is that the site tries to grab the settings from that cache file, but it is empty, so no settings actually get set, and I get the same symptom on the front end as brentmferguson.
I wonder if for some reason on brentmferguson’s server configuration, the install goes successfully, and the system goes into a state of thinking that the cache file contains the system settings, but it doesn’t (maybe it’s not writeable or something), then this could happen. Maybe that server config doesn’t report file permissions or errors properly to php?

brentmferguson, if you still have this configuration sitting there unsolved, maybe try deleting assets/cache/siteCache.idx.php (if it exists) then making sure that the web server has write permissions on the assets/cache directory.

I’m pretty sure its do with the paths in php.ini on the server.

doc_root = "/"
user_dir = "/"

these should be blank on windows hosting, you can check what values are set on your website by making a phpinfo file

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

I checked the php info file and both of those fields show no value.

I still need to check into netProphET’s suggestion.