Comments on: WordPress MU redirect loop during install

By: Aubrey Florens

Aubrey Florens — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:40:09 +0000

Found out your site via live search the other day and absolutely love it. Carry on this fantastic work.

By: CareTaker

CareTaker — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:59:15 +0000

I think I just encountered this problem myself. Actually a tech from HG recommended that I take a look here. OK back to work

By: pkkelly

pkkelly — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:12:15 +0000

ta much for the tip! all I did was rename the wp-config.php file then start the sign up again and it worked….

By: Umair Jabbar

Umair Jabbar — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:33:09 +0000

Thanks for the solution, worked for me. Though it happened again with the new installation and the permanent solution which worked for me is increasing the script execution time form 30s in PHP.ini

hope it helps someone

By: Joseph H

Joseph H — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:39:18 +0000

I found a great tutorial to get WPMU working correctly on MAMP. I was bashing my head on the keyboard for hours until I found it:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/how-to-set-up-a-killer-wordpress-testing-environment-locally/

Lots of little tricky things like editing your hostfile and others to get it to work correctly! Hope it helps.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:07:55 +0000

Many thanks, I always do something like forget to fill a field in somewhere, first time forgot to change to my DB name and left default in place; did have enough sense to check config and manually update to correct DB name but never occurred that this redirect loop was because of empty tables. I did see a thread mentioning lack of tables as the issue but it didn’t really explain it in a way that was clear.

Thanks for explaining with clarity.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:32:57 +0000

Brad Thanks a lot that was a saver…

Jerry

By: JS

JS — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:50:23 +0000

Bradley,

I am having a problem with an installation loop that keeps referring me back to the install page. Is this the same problem you were having? The backend of my install works fine but the frontend of every MU blog is that same welcome/setup/install page!

See an example here: http://hunterdon-county.bestofnj.com/blogs/

John

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:03:10 +0000

Melton,

This issue can occur with any DB issue where the setup script is not able to write to the DB. The reason doesn’t matter as much with the exception of fixing the problem.
With what you are saying though, it sounds like you are having issues connecting rather than permissions issues.
As for creating any tables for WPMU, the script should do them all if it is able to connect to the DB server, open the DB, and has permissions to write to the DB. (Tables, rows, etc…)
You don’t need to give the user DB creation rights if you have created the DB already.
I would double check that you have your DB permissions set to allow external connections. (Look at the users that have the % in the hostname and use them as an example of setting up the hostname within your user permissions.
Please let us know if you get this working and if I was of any help in this response.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:15:41 +0000

That was really helpful. Thanks!