I have followed the instructions from skenow on starting a new XOOPS site to the letter with great success except I have a recurring problem with the installer not creating enough tables or giving me a blank page where there should be the final screen to set the admin name and password.

I took the suggestion and am using XAMPP to install locally on a removable drive.

MySQL client version: 5.0.45
phpMyAdmin - 2.11.1
XOOPS 2.0.17.1
XAMPP Control Panel version 2.5


I get 19 tables, then 12 tables, then no tables at all.

I have tried creating the database in advance and having the installer create it.

Could the problem be the use of a removable USB drive?

Suggestions from anywhere welcome.

After removing everything including and starting from scratch the same problem continued.

I finally used the back button on my browser to return to the previous installation page and have it create the database again.

The database built on itself until the proper tables were created. I don't know if that should have worked, but it did.

Problem solved.