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Greetings and thanks in advance.

Yesterday, I downloaded the MyBB installation file, extracted it, uploaded the appropriate files FROM the upload directory (to /boards/) and changed the permissions as directed. I went to the /boards/install/ directory and did see the "welcome" screen. I kept "Send anonymous statistics about your server specifications to the MyBB Group" checked and clicked "next". That is where my adventure ends. I click next, it loads, but returns back to that very screen and does not progress to the License Agreement page.

I checked some settings, made sure the page wasn't being cached and such and still nothing. I deleted the entire directory and started over on an entirely different PC after re-downloading the file directly from mybb.com again. Same result... hang up at the welcome screen.

I kept the second install there. the location is tmrzoo.com/boards/

I have had vBulletin 3.8 installed in a /forum/ directory for a few years and just figured I'd keep it, migrate it and then remove /forum/ once MyBB was up and running.

I am on an Apache server running PHP 5 and MySQL 5. I am also using the Google PageSpeed service.

Any thoughts?

Something keeps redirecting from http://www.tmrzoo.com/boards/install/index.php to http://www.tmrzoo.com/boards/install/
That's probably the reason for your problem.

(2014-01-15, 05:42 PM)StefanT Wrote: [ -> ]Something keeps redirecting from http://www.tmrzoo.com/boards/install/index.php to http://www.tmrzoo.com/boards/install/
That's probably the reason for your problem.

That was it. I had in htaccess:

### re-direct index.php to root / ###
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*\/index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

I removed it and the install worked like a charm. The /install/ directory is now deleted.

Thanks a bunch for the help!