SugarCRM 4.5.0d Setup Wizard Step 6 previous entries not sticky.

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I've researched the forums and I've gone back to the beginning of the month looking at the posts for install problems. Obviously I'm not the only one who gets extremely frustrated with the install. I'm into my fourth day of trying to get this to work. Some problems seem to occur over and over again. Mb_strings for example. Why not just fix it automatically during the install. A lot of people are reinventing the wheel here. My existing Apache, PHP and MySql all seem to work fine with each other but I can't get sugarCrm to install. I have the feeling that you just can't get there from here...

Windows NT INSIGNIA-PC 5.1 build 2600 XP Home
Sugar Suite 4.5.0d
Apache 2.0.55 (win32)
PHP 5.1.2
MySql 5.0.15-nt

***
* I created the database sugarcrm
* I created a user sugarcrm with full privilages.
* I created a table within that data base and populated it with values.
*
* CREATE TABLE `jml` (
* `id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0'
* ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
* I have verified that I can use php to access the mysql database and retrieve the values for id.
***

Install seemed to procede normall until Step 6/7

Database Configuration
* Host Name / Host Instance [localhost]
* Database Name [sugarcrm] []Create Database
* Database Username [sugarcrm] []Create User
Database Password []
Re-enter Database Password []
Drop and Recreate Existing Sugar tables?
Caution: All Sugar data will be erased
if this box is checked.
Populate Database with Demo Data? [x]
Use multi-byte text in demo data? [x]

Database Account Above Is a Privileged User?
* Privileged Database User Name [root]
This privileged database user must have the proper permissions to create a database, drop/create tables, and create a user. This privileged database user will only be used to perform these tasks as needed during the installation process. You may also use the same database user as above if that user has sufficient privileges.
Privileged Database User Password [****]
Step 6: Confirm Settings

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* My selections from the previous steps did not stick. All of the missing information had been entered.
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Database Configuration
Database Name (will not be created)
Database Username (will not be created)
Drop and Recreate Existing Sugar tables? No
Populate Database with Demo Data? No
Privileged Database User Name
Site Configuration
URL of Sugar Instance
Sugar Updates Config
Automatically Check For Updates? No
Advanced Site Security
Use a Custom Session Directory for Sugar? No
Use a Custom Log Directory? No
Provide Your Own Application ID? No
Locale Settings & Language Pack
Default Date Format: 2006-12-23
Default Time Format: 23:00
Default Language: US English
Default Name Format: David Livingstone
Import/Export Character Set (Email, .csv, vCard, PDF, data import): UTF-8
Export (.csv) Delimiter: ,
Default Currency: US Dollars
Currency Symbol: $
Currency Code (ISO 4217): USD
1000s Separator: ,
Decimal Separator: .

The following language packs have been installed:
Name Version Date Published Uninstallable Description
none

Step 7: Perform Setup
Creating Sugar configuration file (config.php)

Creating Sugar application tables, audit tables, and relationship metadata...

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* Never got any further than this
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* No errors or warnings were given
* Is it possible to hack the process and do the database setup thru mysql?
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[kpit]

Have you done the phpinfo to find out the php configuration?

also check you php.ini for max execution time and max memory usage limits.

Maximum memory needs to be set to 50M to 64M and max execution time to about 45 seconds. 30 seconds is usually enough but if you have a slow or busy machine it may take more time. to complete a large operation. the following are settings I use in my PHP.

max_execution_time = 30	 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 60	 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 64M	  ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (default 8MB)

For window you also have to make sure the modules do not have a semicolon ( ";" ) at the beginning of the line.

extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_bz2.dll
extension=php_cpdf.dll
extension=php_crack.dll
extension=php_curl.dll
;extension=php_db.dll
;extension=php_dba.dll
;extension=php_dbase.dll
;extension=php_dbx.dll
extension=php_domxml.dll
extension=php_exif.dll
;extension=php_fdf.dll
;extension=php_filepro.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_gettext.dll
;extension=php_hyperwave.dll
extension=php_iconv.dll
;extension=php_ifx.dll
;extension=php_iisfunc.dll
extension=php_imap.dll
;extension=php_interbase.dll
;extension=php_java.dll
;extension=php_ldap.dll
extension=php_mcrypt.dll
extension=php_mhash.dll
extension=php_mime_magic.dll
;extension=php_ming.dll
;extension=php_mssql.dll
;extension=php_msql.dll
;extension=php_oci8.dll
extension=php_openssl.dll
;extension=php_oracle.dll
;extension=php_pdf.dll
;extension=php_pgsql.dll
;extension=php_printer.dll
;extension=php_shmop.dll
;extension=php_snmp.dll
extension=php_sockets.dll
;extension=php_sybase_ct.dll
;extension=php_w32api.dll
extension=php_xmlrpc.dll
extension=php_xslt.dll
;extension=php_yaz.dll
extension=php_zip.dll

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I was really hoping that the fixes that you recommended would have solved the problem. I made all of the changes and rebooted just to be sure. We did fix all of the issues at Step 2 except "PHP-JSON Module", but in the end the results were the same.