database problem at setp 4

Installation
1

Hi,


I have wamp 3.0 installed (wampserver3_x86_apache2.4.17_mysql5.7.9_php5.6.15) on windows 8 pro.
i get a error at installation step 4 it reads " Errors occurred in populating the database; empty your database, remove …/config.php and try again. " 

i tried removing the config.php file and emptying the database. the database collation is utf8_general_ci

please help

Regards,
Dheeraj

2

Dheeraj,

Thanks for getting in touch, and sorry to hear you are having problems with Gibbon. Are you using v10 (stable) or v11 (development) code?

To try and troubleshoot this issue, you could edit /installer/install.php and add two lines after line 387. In these two lines enter the code:

  • print $e->getMessage() ;
  • exit() ;

This will cause the code to show a more detailed message to the screen, and then stop the script.

If you let me know the contents of the message, we can advise further.

Thanks,

Ross

3

Hi,


I’ll surely try that out and let you know

regards,
Dheeraj

4

Hi,


I’m using stable version 10. after the modifications you suggested i’m getting following error
INSTALLATION - STEP 3
Notice: Undefined variable: e in E:\wamp\www\gibbon\installer\install.php on line 388
Fatal error: Call to a member function getMessage() on null in E:\wamp\www\gibbon\installer\install.php on line388
regards,
Dheeraj

5

Dheeraj,

It looks like you might not have gettext installed on your server stack: this is what deals with translation. Can you check to see if it is installed.

It might be worth also switching to v11, which just came out today.

Thanks,

Ross