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Hello All,

I am trying to install ExpressionEngine2.7.2 in RHEL 5.7. I have php 5.3.3 and when I submit the button Install ExpressEngine!, i see the page going to /admin.php?C=wizard&M=install_form&language=english&ajax_progress=yes and in the browser (chrome) net tab i see POST 200 ok, but then i see a blank page with no response.

The server where i am trying to install ExpressionEngine is different from where the MySQL server runs. I have verified the connectivity by using mysql and telnet commands.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Thanks
Jagan

I am having this exact same problem.  On the same step, with the same response.
Using firefox and Filezilla.

C=wizard&M=do_update&agree=yes&progress=no&ajax_progress=yes&language=english

I found the issue. I created a new php file named dbtest.php(see code below) to see if EE was able to connect to database. That’s when I noticed that the method to invoke MySQL itself was failing.Turns out my PHP installation did not have MySQL enabled. So i ran yum install php53-mysql and restarted apache. Once I did this I was able to complete the installation.

<?php
// Create connection
$con=mysqli_connect(hostname,username,password,database name );

// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno($con))
  {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
?>

Having the same problem. I’ll try that last poster’s solution.

In my case I’m running the same server with PHP + MySQL. Never had problems there before and nothing changed. I’m simply getting a blank page when trying to run

admin.php?C=wizard&M=do_update&language=english&ajax_progress=yes

Any ideas?

I was getting the same error. I was trying to update and would get stuck on a blank page after the license agreement. I went into my admin.php file and changed error reporting (line 65) from 0 to 1, so that it would display any php errors to me. This is where i found out that a third party plugin was causing a MySQL error and was preventing the update. Hopefully this helps everyone. And don’t forget to set error reporting back to 0 when you are done.