Can't get past first install screen

[Alan Owen]

Help!

I'm trying to get phpopenchat on my server to work, but am not having any luck. I can't get past the first screen for some odd reason of the installer. I know I installed the database correctly, because I can see the tables under the 'phpopenchat' database.

I installed the chat program under a folder called chat in my sites root directory.

First, I ran MYSQL and sent the
create database phpopenchat;
command.

With success, I sent
INSERT INTO user VALUES('localhost','phpopenchat',PASSWORD('*********'),
'Y','Y','Y','Y','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N','N');

The query was accepted. I sent FLUSH PRIVILEGES;, which was accepted.

I imported the preset database values into the created "phpopenchat' dB by using:
mysql phpopenchat C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Brittany\chat\db.schema
This was processed OK, and I saw the created tables by:
USE phpopenchat;
show tables;

(Although this is the structure IIS uses for websites, I'm using Apache 2.0.43 on Windows.net Enterprise)

I added the correct information into the defaults_inc.php file:
//database configuration
$DATABASENAME = 'phpopenchat';
$DATABASEHOST = 'localhost';
$DATABASEUSER = 'phpopenchat';
$DATABASEPASSWD = '**********;

Created a tmp folder under c:\

Added: php_value include_path ".:chat/includes"
to the .htaccess file under chat/html

Granted everyone full access to both .htaccess and defaults_inc.php.

Help! What am I missing? When I input the login name, password, and mysql location on the install page, and press next, I'm simply returned back t the first page.. no error!

Thank you for reading my post,
Alan Owen
Hemon School Department
Student Computer Technician

[Anonymous]

You dont have to do any of that as far as I can tell! I had trouble making sense of the instructions. Turned out all you had to go to intall, type in the info asked ie database, database url, username  & password. once you click next that takes you to another screen that alows you to confirm the database you want choos next again and the installer creates all the tables an populates them! I did not even use the default database but an existing one with a different name...no problem

Quite why this is not explained in the notes I fail to understand. I suspect they were never updated properly May pay to drop the tables you created and start again