Blank page (does nothing) in install.php

[turbodig]

I'm having a heck of a time getting a fresh install to work.
I've chmod'd everything as per the instructions, but no luck.
Session is enabled, according to the phpinfo.  (although the configure command sez otherwise)

Platform is SUSE 9.0 SP2

Apache 2.0.49 /Mysql 4.0.18/php4.3.4

Any help would be appreciated...


Thanks,

Dig


Phpinfo follows..


HP Version 4.3.4

System    Linux susetest 2.6.5-7.191-smp #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 14:58:56 UTC 2005 i686
Build Date    Apr 22 2005 14:45:49
Configure Command    './configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--datadir=/usr/share/php' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--libdir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--with-_lib=lib' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/lib/php/bin' '--disable-debug' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-sigchild' '--disable-ctype' '--disable-session' '--without-mysql' '--disable-cli' '--without-pear' '--with-openssl' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs2-prefork' 'i586-suse-linux'
Server API    Apache 2.0 Handler
Virtual Directory Support    disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path    /etc/php.ini
PHP API    20020918
PHP Extension    20020429
Zend Extension    20021010
Debug Build    no
Thread Safety    disabled
Registered PHP Streams    php, http, ftp, https, ftps

Zend logo This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Zend Technologies

PHP Credits
Configuration
PHP Core
Directive   Local Value   Master Value
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browscap   no value   no value
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doc_root   no value   no value
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expose_php   On   On
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include_path   .:   .:
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sendmail_from   no value   no value
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apache2handler
Apache Version    Apache/2.0.49 (Linux/SuSE)
Apache API Version    20020903
Server Administrator    [no address given]
Hostname:Port    hxxp:susetest.meritcare.com [nonactive]:0
User/Group    wwwrun(30)/8
Max Requests    Per Child: 0 - Keep Alive: on - Max Per Connection: 100
Timeouts    Connection: 300 - Keep-Alive: 15
Virtual Server    No
Server Root    /srv/www
Loaded Modules    core prefork http_core mod_so mod_access mod_actions mod_alias mod_auth mod_auth_dbm mod_autoindex mod_cgi mod_dir mod_env mod_expires mod_include mod_log_config mod_mime mod_negotiation mod_setenvif mod_ssl mod_suexec mod_userdir sapi_apache2

Directive   Local Value   Master Value
engine   1   1
last_modified   0   0
xbithack   0   0

Apache Environment
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HTTP_USER_AGENT    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7. Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
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HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING    gzip,deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET    ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE    300
HTTP_CONNECTION    keep-alive
PATH    /usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
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SERVER_SOFTWARE    Apache/2.0.49 (Linux/SuSE)
SERVER_NAME    172.25.13.219
SERVER_ADDR    172.25.13.219
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REMOTE_ADDR    172.25.12.169
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SERVER_ADMIN    [no address given]
SCRIPT_FILENAME    /srv/www/htdocs/test.php
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GATEWAY_INTERFACE    CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL    HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD    GET
QUERY_STRING    no value
REQUEST_URI    /test.php
SCRIPT_NAME    /test.php

HTTP Headers Information
HTTP Request Headers
HTTP Request    GET /test.php HTTP/1.1
Host    172.25.13.219
User-Agent    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7. Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
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Accept-Encoding    gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset    ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive    300
HTTP Response Headers
X-Powered-By    PHP/4.3.4
Transfer-Encoding    chunked
Content-Type    text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

mysql
MySQL Support   enabled
Active Persistent Links    1
Active Links    1
Client API version    4.0.18
MYSQL_MODULE_TYPE    none
MYSQL_SOCKET    /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
MYSQL_INCLUDE    no value
MYSQL_LIBS    no value

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mysql.default_password   no value   no value
mysql.default_port   no value   no value
mysql.default_socket   no value   no value
mysql.default_user   no value   no value
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mysql.trace_mode   Off   Off

openssl
OpenSSL support    enabled
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overload
User-Space Object Overloading Support    enabled

pcre
PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) Support    enabled
PCRE Library Version    4.3 21-May-2003

posix
Revision    $Revision: 1.51.2.2 $

session
Session Support    enabled
Registered save handlers    files user mm

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session.bug_compat_42   On   On
session.bug_compat_warn   On   On
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session.cache_limiter   nocache   nocache
session.cookie_domain   no value   no value
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session.save_path   /tmp   /tmp
session.serialize_handler   php   php
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session.use_trans_sid   Off   Off

snmp
NET-SNMP Support    enabled
NET-SNMP Version    5.1

standard
Regex Library    Bundled library enabled
Dynamic Library Support    enabled
Path to sendmail    /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

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tokenizer
Tokenizer Support    enabled

xml
XML Support    active
XML Namespace Support    active
EXPAT Version    1.95.6

Additional Modules
Module Name

Environment
Variable   Value
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TERM    linux
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progress    39
INIT_VERSION    sysvinit-2.85
REDIRECT    /dev/tty1
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PWD    /
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LINES    25
HOME    /
SHLVL    2
splash    silent
sscripts    41
_    /sbin/startproc
DAEMON    /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork

PHP Variables
Variable   Value
_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]   172.25.13.219
_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7. Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"]   text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]   en-us,en;q=0.5
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"]   gzip,deflate
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET"]   ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
_SERVER["HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE"]   300
_SERVER["HTTP_CONNECTION"]   keep-alive
_SERVER["PATH"]   /usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
_SERVER["SERVER_SIGNATURE"]   <address>Apache/2.0.49 (Linux/SuSE) Server at 172.25.13.219 Port 80</address>
_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]   Apache/2.0.49 (Linux/SuSE)
_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]   172.25.13.219
_SERVER["SERVER_ADDR"]   172.25.13.219
_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"]   80
_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]   172.25.12.169
_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]   /srv/www/htdocs
_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"]   [no address given]
_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]   /srv/www/htdocs/test.php
_SERVER["REMOTE_PORT"]   4019
_SERVER["GATEWAY_INTERFACE"]   CGI/1.1
_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]   HTTP/1.1
_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]   GET
_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]   no value
_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]   /test.php
_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]   /test.php
_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]   /test.php
_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]   /srv/www/htdocs/test.php
_SERVER["argv"]   

Array
(
)

_SERVER["argc"]   0
_ENV["CONSOLE"]   /dev/console
_ENV["TERM"]   linux
_ENV["SHELL"]   /bin/sh
_ENV["get_module_list_done"]   true
_ENV["progress"]   39
_ENV["INIT_VERSION"]   sysvinit-2.85
_ENV["REDIRECT"]   /dev/tty1
_ENV["COLUMNS"]   80
_ENV["get_includes_done"]   true
_ENV["PATH"]   /usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
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_ENV["resume"]   /dev/ida/c0d0p2
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_ENV["_"]   /sbin/startproc
_ENV["DAEMON"]   /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork

[Oldiesmann]

I suggest finding a better host, as it appears this one has no clue what they're doing.

PHP and MySQL are both out of date, and several of the configure commands seem to contradict what's actually enabled:

--without-mysql (mysql support not included), yet it says "MySQL Support enabled"
--disable-sessions (disables sessions - stupid idea), yet it says "Session Support enabled"
--enable-safe-mode (enables Safe Mode - really annoying feature), yet it says "Safe Mode Off"

Other problems:
No GD support - GD is a popular graphics library that's bundled with PHP. SMF uses this library for  resizing avatars and displaying image attachments as pictures under the post. Without GD, these functions will be unavailable.

--without-pear - I see absolutely no use for this option. PEAR has to be installed seperately (it's a PHP library), so if your host doesn't want it, they shouldn't have installed it in the first place (and this is assuming that PEAR is actually installed, which it probably isn't).