Installating Prestashop - Stuck on Welcome Page

[LinusIT]

Hi

 

I have been trying all afternoon to install Prestashop but to no avail. I have downloaded the latest version (1.6.0.8) from Prestashop and uploaded via FTP. When I access the prestashop folder I get redirected to /install which is normal and all good. When I press "Next" it just reloads the page and won't go any further. I have tried changing the language just out of interest and this does exactly the same, reloads the page but no language change.

 

I have changed _PS_MODE_DEV_ to true in config/defines.inc.php and tried again but this doesn't show me anything different, no errors, just reloads the page.

 

I have successfully installed Prestashop many times before but this is the first time of trying version 1.6.

 

All help much appreciated.

[NemoPS]

Can you try with a previous one, like 1.6.0.6? Or even 1.5 on the same server if you can

[LinusIT]

I have solved the problem and it was basically my own fault.

 

I was installing prestashop onto my existing website under the folder "presta". In the root public_html folder was my sites .htaccess which had the following lines present:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

As soon as I removed this from the root .htaccess the installation worked perfectly.