Have been fighting the hole night gave up when sun woke up again. this is the report of the install script: _____________________________________begin line 1 a.. PHP 4.3.4: ok a.. Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. MediaWiki will work correctly, but this setting increases your exposure to potential security vulnerabilities in PHP-based software running on your server. You should disable it if you are able. a.. PHP server API is cgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title) a.. Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. a.. PHP's memory_limit is 8M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. a.. Have zlib support; enabling output compression. a.. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. a.. Installation directory: /home/kunstibw/www.kunstbewegung.info/kulturprogramme a.. Script URI path: /kulturprogramme _____________________________________end then install gives up and page is never completed I read through the complete discussions about install problems and to picked up several idears like solution 1 ob_implicit_flush(); and solution 2 die("Got this far"); debugging took me a while but I found out that depending on which language I choose the breaking point in the script is at a different line in setup.php _____________________________________begin line 149 # if language is german latin1 code processing stops here die("Got this far"); # between here and wfProfileOut( $fname.'-database' ); wfProfileIn( $fname.'-language' ); require_once( 'languages/Language.php' ); $wgMessageCache = new MessageCache; # there for german latin language _____________________________________end _____________________________________begin line 178 # if language is english code processing stopps here die("Got this far"); $wgMessageCache->initialise( $messageMemc, $wgUseDatabaseMessages, $wgMsgCacheExpiry, $wgDBname, $wgSecondaryMessageDB ); _____________________________________end could it be possible that after all it could be solved by enlargeing the memory limit up to 20mb. but the install script said ok at that point? PLEASE help any solution eg "installation by hand" will be wellcomed with enormouse joy. here is a php info http://www.rlpdatenatelier.de/serverinfo/phpinfo.php the installation of wiki will be here www.kunstbewegung.info/kulturprogramme/ but the information in the phpinfo.php is nevertheless the same server etc. Thank you for any help with best greatings from Berlin your burgy zapp PS I have no idear where I can get the php error log files from because we use a stupid providertool for the server which mess up all standards and I am merely a semiprofessional http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l