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    Hi There,
    I have been trying to install MODx Evolution 1.0.3 on a Ubuntu 9.10 x86 server with Apache 2.2.12, MySQL 5.1.37, PHP 5.2.10-2 and all the requirements listed in the installation guide.
    When the install starts, everything looks fine but when we get to the database connection prompt (http://url/install/index.php?action=connection) the page is blank (I have attached a screenshot here http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3414/captureley.jpg).
    I have tried this on IE 7/8, Firefox and Chrome.
    many thanks,
    Shane
      • 21257 MODX Staff
      • 730 Posts
      This could be many things. The first and simplest thing to check would be whether the install files are all there and that they’re complete. Sometimes FTP’d files get cut off or don’t make it at all, and that results in weird "half page" problems sometimes.
        Mike Schell
        Lead Developer, MODX Cloud
        Email: [email protected]
        GitHub: https://github.com/netProphET/
        Twitter: @mkschell
        • 26910
        • 4 Posts
        Hi there,
        Thanks for the reply. I have tried a wget to the www directory but still the same issue. I have doubled checked the directory permissions and that all seems ok.
          • 21257 MODX Staff
          • 730 Posts
          If you view source on that half-loaded page, are there any error messages at the end of it?
            Mike Schell
            Lead Developer, MODX Cloud
            Email: [email protected]
            GitHub: https://github.com/netProphET/
            Twitter: @mkschell
            • 26910
            • 4 Posts
            This what what I get on the view source, seems rather short...

            <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
            <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
            <head>
            <title>MODx &raquo; Install</title>
            <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
            <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
            <!--[if lt IE 7]>
            <style type="text/css">
            body { behavior: url(/assets/js/csshover3.htc) }
            </style>
            <script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/js/frankensleight.js"></script>
            <![endif]-->
            </head>

            <body>
            <!-- start install screen-->
            <div id="header">
            <div class="container_12">
            <span class="help"><a href="http://modxcms.com/forums/" target="_blank" title="Installation assistance in the MODx forums">Help!</a></span>
            <span class="version">MODx Evolution 1.0.3 (1 Apr 2010)</span>
            <div id="mainheader">
            <h1 class="pngfix" id="logo"><span>MODx CMS</span></h1>
            </div>
            </div>
            </div>
            <!-- end header -->

            <div id="contentarea">
            <div class="container_12">
            <!-- start content -->
              • 21257 MODX Staff
              • 730 Posts
              About the only thing I can see bombing right at that point before any more HTML gets to the browser involves a couple of checks to the MySQL database. Can you verify that PHP’s MySQL extensions are compiled in and that your MySQL server is running?
                Mike Schell
                Lead Developer, MODX Cloud
                Email: [email protected]
                GitHub: https://github.com/netProphET/
                Twitter: @mkschell
                • 26910
                • 4 Posts
                Looks like i’ve managed to fix it. Tried download the zip version and it run up first time (rather odd).
                Thanks very much for all your help!