install.php can't get past

[Sir Yendor]

In reading the install manual, I have got to the page called:

running the vBulletin install.php script.

I get the desired page to show up http://myipaddress/forums/install/install.php, but I can't get past that page. Everytime I enter the customer number (the exact same number I used to enter this members area), I keep getting brought back to the same page.

Is there a possible problem with the config.php page?

Is it possibly because we have not set the DNS pointers to this server so I'm using the IP address instead of the domain name?

Thanks

[poolking]

Try disabling any popup blockers you have running whilst you run install.php

[Sir Yendor]

thanks for the idea, but that didn't help. I've tried to copy and paste the customer number as well as typing it in manually. I've tried it in IE and Netscape. I have cleared all cookies and doen just about everything I can imagine but nothing works.

If it makes any difference, I am in the process of moving from one server to another. I've followed the instructions for coping the database then uploaded all the originally downloaded files to my new server and that's where I'm at now.

Any further ideas?

[Steve Machol]

You don't run install if you are moving servers. You just copy the vB files and restore the database.

[Getox]

It could be PHP
my friend runs a server off his PC and one of the scripts that was on there
didnt work, you would click install and it would keep going back to the same page every time.
maby if the server or the php.

[poolking]

It could be PHP
my friend runs a server off his PC and one of the scripts that was on there
didnt work, you would click install and it would keep going back to the same page every time.
maby if the server or the php.

Getox,

Steve has already pointed out the fact that install.php shouldn't be run when transferring to another server.