WordPress MU

After downloading the nightly build and copying it to my web directory (I own the server I'm installing on), I get the configuration page just fine. However, after clicking Submit, it just takes me to a blank page. View Source also yields a blank page.

I'm running SuSE Linux Enterprise 10. I know apache, php, and mysql are all working.

anything in the error log?

OK, just got back into the office...where would one find this "error log" of which you speak? I looked all over in my wordpress directory to no avail...is it perhaps not generating one?

Kevin

donncha is referring to the apache error logs. these are usually stored here: /var/log or in a subdirectory called apache or apache2

aha!
[Mon Jul 10 14:24:31 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: action in /srv/www/htdocs/wordpress/index-install.php on line 421

and the offending line in index-install.php is (first line is 421):

switch( $_POST[ 'action' ] ) {
case "step2":
// get blog username
// create wp-config.php
step2();
// Install Blog!
include_once('./wp-config.php');
include_once('./wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php');
make_db_current_silent();
populate_options();
do_htaccess( 'htaccess.dist', '.htaccess', $base, '');
printheader();
step3();
break;

any ideas?

You're not trying to run index-install.php directly, are you? You just run index.php and let it call index-install.php itself. I'm wondering if you are since it's breaking on that line.

nope...I'm going to http://localhost/wordpress/ and it's opening index.php on it's own which in turn (I'm guessing) is executing index-install.php.

That's only a warning. You should really use http://localhost.localdomain/ as "localhost" isn't a FQDN and will probably cause problems.

only know half of what I'm talking about so you'll have to bear with me...I couldn't figure out how to work in your "localdomain" idea...but what I did do was try the IP address of the server and I still get the same errors...is the IP address considered a FQDN?

Try what I suggested here: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1466&replies=7#post-7999

I went to that post, but I'm trying to do this from the SLES 10 server, not a windows client. Firefox.

Hostname script.

Can't say that it would run on an SuSE box (And I can't find the manual method) but it should work.

edit: SuSE instructions

The hosts file is /etc/hosts on a Linux/Unix box. Same instructions apply.

Check the php max memory in php.ini file and increase it to 32 or 64MB.
Check the webserver error log for more information

Try installing sendmail.
atp-get install sendmail

then reconpile your PHP

and restart apache.

The process abort if you're PHP can't send a mail.

It worked for me.
(conf : debian apache 2.2 PHP 5.2)