I am really confused why I can’t get past the install script. The button in Step 2 to start the install is all messed up looking, but I click on it anyways. It then keeps taking me to the same error:

Your attempt to do this has failed.

Please try again.

Any suggestions on what went wrong?

http://shareyoga.com/forums/bb-admin/install.php

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Can you try uploading all the files again? The button on that first screen should have some text in it, I think it says “next >” or something, but that’s not there. Maybe your download or upload got corrupted. The problem you describe is not a common one.

Also, what alpha version are you installing?

[@dkbrown Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

Just downloaded the most recent version, re-uploaded all the files again.

Version I uploaded is:

Version 0.9.0.4:

Still getting the same issue of the text not showing up on the buttons. Something weird is going on here.

Deleting it all and trying yet again.

[@dkbrown Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

PS My sense is that this has something to do with PHP “safe_mode” being turned on by my host. Trying to figure that out now.

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

What do you mean “text not showing up on the buttons”? Can you post a screenshot? Maybe it’s just a browser or CSS thing.

[@nightgunner5 Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

He did post a link, but if you don’t want to click it: http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8066/blankbutton.png

The button’s html value is blank. It’s not CSS.

Here’s the code to load the text for the button: https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags/0.9.0.4/bb-admin/class-install.php#L602

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Sorry, I missed the image link.

[@dkbrown Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

(She) (I’m female.)

It’s not just that the text isn’t loading onto the button. It’s just not working at all. I can click on the untexted button after providing the correct db info. It can’t get past the 2nd step.

[@mizparker Member 15 years, 7 months ago]

As if this guy’s problem isn’t bad enough, I’ve been through the install for the fourth time and when I try to go to the forum, at http://www.noseyparkernews.com/bb2/ I am always returned to the ‘Yada, yada, let’s get started’ page. I click on that button, and I get several hundred instances of this:

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /homepages/19/d271430659/htdocs/Nosey/bb2/bb-includes/wp-functions.php on line 113

until it gets tired, and asks me to stop or continue the script. All the correct information is in bb-config.php, and the first step of the installation confirms that that is true.

I’m using WordPress 2.7.1, with a standard, off the shelf theme.

[@nightgunner5 Member 15 years, 7 months ago]

mizparker, you don’t have any idea how many people have that same problem. Either switch to php5 or wait for the next version of bbPress.

[@mizparker Member 15 years, 7 months ago]

FWIW, there are 5065 instances of the error message before it gives up. I’m calling my hosting company to see if I can switch from a v 4 PHP to v 5 without a lot of hassle.

Thanks. I have extra domains, maybe I can just try it out on one of those.