Dear megant!

I got the same problem, want to install concrete 5.5.0 on my local machine running on wamp 2.2a for 32bit win7. I tried for 3 days now, focusing on the uac and the user rights. In fact i didn't forthcome and i can't confirm that the problem located there.

As a solution i get the latest stable version of concrete and had no problem to install and running it at the first try.

If there's a solution for this problem it would be glad to get it.

Problem: Installing concrete5.5.0 following the steps of the "Installing on Specific Hosts" and the INSTALL-File. The installation stands still at "installing dashboard". No errors, database was set up.

greetings,
chriba

I was having the same problem on my Win 7 laptop and tried installing it on my home iMac. IT WORKED almost flawlessly (a few permission issues), but now I can backup everything installed (folders and database) and copy it over to my laptop.

I know sounds tedious, but maybe you can mount a linux/ubuntu (or any other) virtual box temporarily to install LAMP and Concrete5, backup everything and copy it to your main installation.

You can probably even use one of those bootable ubuntu cd/dvds. It is the long road, but now I am trying out the LATEST Concrete5.

Same problem ....:(
XAMPP - WINDOWS 7 64
Help please.. Is possible manual install!

I can confirm now that it works the way I did it (installing i on a mac firstt and then moving everything to my Win7 installation)
Try doing something similar, as I mentioned, with a temporary linux installation.

Well, I found something, maybe it helps.

When the installation process stops, console drops an error message:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'error' of null

And the concerning code line is in single_pages/install.php line 38

success: function(r) {
if (r.error) {

I have the same problem...

I can't reproduce this on XAMPP on Windows or IIS on Windows, with the latest version of concrete5 in github.

The one thing I noticed that was weird with XAMPP is that they default their error reporting to strict standards – which most PHP installs don't do and which concrete5 doesn't support. So you see a slew of errors at the top of the installation screen and this will hamper the concrete5 installation process. Change php.ini to use E_ALL ^ ~E_NOTICE as its error_reporting level and this goes away, and xampp installed concrete5 5.5.1 just fine for me.

OK but how can I solve the problem ? because I want to use Wampserver....

To solve the problem you have to go in the my.ini file and go under [mysqld] and write: default-storage-engine=MyISAM
and you have to save the file...

I have just had this issue happen on a LAMP server, and don't seem to be able to get passed it?, previous installations have worked but they where all prior to 5.5.2.1

Could it be anything else that causes this issue?

I'm having the same problem, trying to install on an XAMPP, Win 7. I've tried everything suggested here, including using concrete 5.5.0, but get the exact same results... that is no results!

I've spent two days just trying to get this thing installed, so I can try it out. Does anyone have any idea of how to fix this?

I had the exact same problem, and fixed it by:
1) Downloading Concrete5 5.5.2.1 (April 18, 2012)
2) Ensuring that both the config/ and files/ directories are writable by the IUSR_MachineName

I dropped all tables, re-ran the web-install, and everything is now working beautifully.