Installation stalls

Hi everybody,

I’ve just downloaded ModX and I’m trying to run the installation, but the install simply stalls.

I get to the point where it says ’Creating database ’modx’:’ and then stops.

No error messages or anything.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
PdV

Web Server:
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PHP version 5.0.5
MySQL version 5.0.15
Operating System and version WindowsXP Pro

Browser/Client:
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Browser name and version Internet Explorer 6
Operating System and version WindowsXP Pro

The web server is installed on a memory key and is up and running with a couple of other php-powered sites working OK off of a database.

Anything else you’d like to know, just let me know.

Fixed it!

I think there’s a bug or something in the script, because if the database doesn’t exist it stalls on ’Creating database’.

I went into phpMyAdmin and created an empty modx database and re-ran the install script and it worked perfectly.

Over to you guys

Cheers,
PdV

Are you sure the database user you specified has "create database" permissions on your database server?

Hiya!

Yes it does. I only have two users registered in MySQL: ’root’ and ’paul’ (the default user for phpMyAdmin), both with all privelages.

I tried using both users for the installation, but neither worked until I created an empty DB using ’paul’.

Manually create the database prior to running the installer and let us know if that helps.

He did. It does.

So resolved now?

I believe this is actually a bug and should be logged in the tracker. If the database does not exist, and the user has priveleges, then something else in the install script is preventing the creation of the database container, and I experience this consistently on my local XAMPP installation. It may be another issue with the backticks syntax and the way the install script is passing it to the create table command. I’ll take a look if someone will open the bug.

Confirmed and logged under #139, http://modxcms.com/bugs/task/139

Thank you pdv for reporting. If you come across another thing like this, just dont hesitate to post here.

best regards,

zi

I’ve seen this before and from the test I think it’s a PHP 5 bug (maybe 5.0.5). Once the create database function is called the system hangs up. If you even did a test for the create db function it still hangs up.