Please help - Having trouble during Exponential installation

Friday 07 November 2008 8:40:34 am

I am having trouble during the first step of Exponential installation. Before explaining the issue here are my software versions:

Exponential : 4.01
Operating System: Windows Vista
MySql: 5.0.67
Php: 5.2.6
Apache: 1.3.41

I have installed all the individual components except Exponential successfully. This includes Mysql, PHP, Apache, PEAR, EzComponents. PHP is connecting with apache and mysql without any issues. I have also created the database for Exponential and set the permissions.

Here is the issue. When I unzipped the Exponential 4.01 into the apache htdoc directory I get the initial installation screen which sets my language as english (american). Once I click next nothing happens. I get the below error:

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Fatal error: Exponential did not finish its request

The execution of Exponential was abruptly ended, the debug output is present below.
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There is nothing in the debug output. I changed apache to debug mode and looked at the logs, but there is really no information. I have a bunch of 304 messages on the access log and after a post for index.php nothing happens.

I am stuck. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Friday 07 November 2008 9:41:47 am

I changed the following in the php.conf file

implicit_flush = on
display_startup_errors = on
error_log = "C:/php/error.txt"

Stopped and restarted apache. Both apache and PHP starts fine, but I don't get errors from PHP. The error.txt file never gets created. Exponential gives the same error during installation.

Can you let me know if I have to do anything else to get more error details from PHP ?

Sunday 16 November 2008 9:44:48 am

I was able to resolved the issue and the Exponential install worked like a charm. For other users benefit, this is what I did. Thanks.

max_execution_time = 200 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 200 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data

Updated the above values to 200.