[Forum] 4.2.2 install won't finish

[efipaul]

I must have tried installing this software 20 times by now. I can access the install.php, start the scripts, and it freezes up at 78% every single time. I can let it sit for hours and it doesn't go any further. It gets 193 tables put into the database, then just stops and sits there. If I refresh the page, it says the install was not completed and I have to delete the database and start over. I don't believe it finished the install because when I deleted the install folder and go to the admincp link, I can login, but it just takes me immediately to a blank page. The forum home page is blank as well.

I have deleted and re-uploaded everything to the hosting and re-installed, re-downloaded a new copy of 4.2.2 and re-installed, and nothing will get past this point. When I look at the install progress details, it always gets to Template Groups items that start with P before it freezes. (Template Group: Page Navigation or one of the 3 or 4 after it)

Anyone have any ideas on something to try or what it might be?

[Teascu Dorin]

Usually if you right click and then click reload (To refresh the page) that file template group will be skipped and then the install should continue.

[beishe8]

Don't delete and start over again with install.
If refresh ( F5 ) does not work start again with upgrade.php instead of install.php

[efipaul]

Thanks all. I realized when I had it installed on a prior server, it was v3.6.9, so I'm attempting to install that now so I can restore all of my data. I can't believe how much I've been struggling with all of this. I'm up to my 5th day of going nowhere.