Local Installation Of Mt, Troubleshooting database initialization Options

[NicoGrrl]

Hi. I'm trying to install MT on my local XP machine. I'm hoping someone here can help me troubleshoot one of the last steps of the installation.

To install it, I'm mostly using instructions found here:
http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/archives/005302.php#more

I've installed XAMMP, an Apache distribution that includes and automatically installs MySQL, PHP and Perl. I've also installed the Perl Add-on, from the same source:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

As far as I can tell, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl are all installed correctly. I'm able to get to the Apache and MySQL control panels, and when I go to my phpMyAdmin I can see that the database named 'test' has been created, though it has no tables.

This 'test' database is the one specified in mt-config.cgi.

All the rest of MT's cgi files have been set to point to the correct Perl path, and the correct localhost. At no point do I get a 'file not found' error or an 'object not found' error from Apache, so the paths would seem to be correct.

When I browse to http://localhost/cgi-bin/mt/mt-check.cgi, everything seems to check out OK for using MT with MySQL.

Next, I go to http://localhost/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi. That URL is redirected to here:
http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/mt/mt-upgrade.cgi?__mode=install

This page says "Welcome to Movable Type! Before you can begin blogging, we need to complete your installation by initializing your database."

It also contains a 'Finish Install' button. When I click it, the URL changes to http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/mt/mt-upgrade.cgi (without mode-install appended, as above), and says "Initializing database... Starting installation... "

At this point, nothing else happens. The process never completes, and I'm never allowed to actually sign in to the system. No errors are shown.

I'm currently trying to do this with MT 3.2 (which is what the instructions are specifically for.) But I earlier tried with version 3.34, and got the same results: everything checks out OK, but the final initialization of the database just hangs, without any errors, etc.

The relevant settings in mt-config.cgi are:

ObjectDriver DBI::mysql
Database test
DBUser root
DBHost localhost
(no pw specified, as per instructions I'm following)

CGIPath http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/mt/

StaticWebPath http://127.0.0.1/mt/mt-static

Any ideas about what I'm missing here?

Thanks!

This post has been edited by NicoGrrl: Apr 20 2007, 07:44 PM