SKDavis

Great. I'll do a backup first, just in case.

My WP installs are all WordPress.org 4.9.8. Syno WP is STILL on 4.9.7 !!

This was all in php7

Hi Steve,

How do you do this please?

It can't be as simple as changing the Web Station Virtual Host setting, can it?

Thank you Steve. I used these instructions to set up an error log. This is where it gets weird. Next time around, with the error log ready to capture the error, installation sailed through, no error, no WSOD. So the error would appear to have been that there was no error log in which to capture the ...

I don't know if I have php error log enabled, nor how to enable it.

Here's a thought. I wonder if the problem is with the initiation of the installation screen in php7? Suppose I install it using php5.66 and then change the Web Station setting from 5.66 to 7?

Thoughts?

I tried installing wp.org version on my clean test box with nginx as the back-end and php7 as front-end. No difference. Hangs at the same place.

And finally, I have cleared out a load of redundant WordPress installs. Having done that I have compared my list of wordpress folders in \web with my list or wordpress data tables in phpmyadmin, and the latter has one table that I can't account for. It has no matching folders in \web. It is called s...

There's another thing that I think I can tidy up. I have Maria DB 5 installed. But from the php admin page it looks as though there are no installs dependent on it, so it can go.

I run everything out of subfolders, so there is nothing in the root apart from an index.html. I'm not sure why that's there. I use a different prefix for the tables. I have one application that I don't need - Lime Survey - that I am going to delete, just in case that's implicated. Web Station > Gene...