Wp-admin/install.php Error

CMS & WordPress
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Dear forum members,

I have put a new Wordpress installation under a folder of my site : http://www.soapmarine.com/brokennailstudio/
I have created DB and user name with full rights.
Ok, than as usual I followed Step 1 of the manual installation, assigned DB name, user name and password, I got ‘All right and proceed to install’ message, I clicked ‘Install’ of the second step and bam! arrived at ‘Not found page’. I have redone this operation ten times, removed it, tried older version of wordpress, install under other folder, created new DB, checked the file install.php in the folder /wp-admin, it’s there; checked the rights, contacted my hosting provider (they dont know what is the problem). I put the Wordpress files via FTP, via File Manager as zip file and extracted the files under the right folder. Nothing works.

My DB tables in PHPadmin are empty.
I have done this manual instal previously, never had such problem.

Files are there, DB is there, what is the problem? Why it cant continue to install?

Thank you for your thoughts!

2

Check if there is a .htaccess file and check if there is a rewrite base somewhere.

3

I have some rewrite to block the bruteforce attacks.

# Disable Directory Browsing - Security > Settings > System Tweaks > Directory Browsing
	Options -Indexes

	<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
		RewriteEngine On

		# Protect System Files - Security > Settings > System Tweaks > System Files
		RewriteRule ^wp-admin/includes/ - [F]
		RewriteRule !^wp-includes/ - [S=3]
		RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !^(.*)wp-includes/ms-files.php
		RewriteRule ^wp-includes/[^/]+\.php$ - [F]
		RewriteRule ^wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/.+\.php - [F]
		RewriteRule ^wp-includes/theme-compat/ - [F]

		# Disable PHP in Uploads - Security > Settings > System Tweaks > Uploads
		RewriteRule ^wp\-content/uploads/.*\.(?:php[1-6]?|pht|phtml?)$ - [NC,F]

		# Filter Request Methods - Security > Settings > System Tweaks > Request Methods
		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|DELETE|TRACK) [NC]
		RewriteRule ^.* - [F]

		# Filter Suspicious Query Strings in the URL - Security > Settings > System Tweaks > Suspicious Query Strings
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \.\.\/ [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*\.(bash|git|hg|log|svn|swp|cvs) [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} etc/passwd [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} boot\.ini [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ftp\:  [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} http\:  [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} https\:  [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|%3D) [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(%24&x).* [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(127\.0).* [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(globals|encode|localhost|loopback).* [NC,OR]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(request|concat|insert|union|declare).* [NC]
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^loggedout=true
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^action=jetpack-sso
		RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^action=rp
		RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*wordpress_logged_in_.*$
		RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://maps\.googleapis\.com(.*)$
		RewriteRule ^.* - [F]

		# Reduce Comment Spam - Security > Settings > System Tweaks > Comment Spam
		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /wp-comments-post\.php$
		RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ [OR]
		RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(([^/]+\.)?soapmarine\.com|jetpack\.wordpress\.com/jetpack-comment)(/|$) [NC]
		RewriteRule ^.* - [F]
	</IfModule>
# END iThemes Security - Do not modify or remove this line

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
4

Try changing RewriteBase to :

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /yourwpdir/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
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