I've been running wpmu for long time, never had any problems installing but this time on my first try with VPS is driving me crazy.
Installer's first page aka Step 1 shows properly. But it doesn't go to Step 2, or even if I type in wrong database name or password to generate error popups, it returns blank.
Wpmu and wp-content are now 777. Apache, PHP, MySQL running properly so far. What are the options, or where should I look further when this problem happens?
Blank scree = error.
Check the error logs. They may be in the etc/httpd/logs folder, depending on your OS.
can't find error yet. Only ones I have is that some stupid error with favicon, which I don't have anything on my clean install environment...
WordPress is too genius, that something like this happens rarely, so we're not ready to solve this. ;)
favicon errors are the apache error log, you need your php error log
I'm using CentOS, after googling I found out by default CentOS generates php error logs on /var/log/httpd/error_log. But when I took a look, there're no php errors reported so far.
Just in case I've also increased php memory limit to 50, but that doesn't seem to change or solve this problem.
I got this solved by installing phpmyadmin. Wonder how phpmyadmin relates to this problem though... I had databases created without phpmyadmin at first time, using ispmanager pro.
n/w thanks everyone for your input.