Dolphin 7 Install hangs after Database stage

I'm new to Dolphin and want to set up a test system on my local machine (Vista 64 bit, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2.17, MySQL 5.5) so I can try Dolphin out before finding a host.

I've been using Apache and PHP for a while and that all seems good.

I ran through the hosting checklist and my setup matches the requirements.

When I run the install it just hangs on a blank browser window after the database stage - I've created the database and user successfully and can log in and create tables OK.

I've checked my Apache error log and that doesn't help - the last entry in the access log is:

127.0.0.1 - - [15/Jun/2011:11:19:27 +1000] "POST /install/index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 -

I must have done something wrong as I can't find any help anywhere!  No one else seems to have this trouble.

Any ideas for this newbie?

Thanks a lot!!

Is display_errors ON in your php.ini

Maybe an error is there, but you do not see it because that setting.

Check that.

Thanks but display_errors in ON but I'm not seeing anything - I turned on some other error reporting but that has not given me anything either.

 check your php error log file too. I think you will find description of that error there

In your php.ini see if short_open_tags are on or off.   this needs to be set to on.

I would also try and use php 5.3.6  as well.

Seeing you are on vista 64 bit also look into  running IIS 7 as well.

OK I'm trying to debug the install and it seems that it's my MySQL that's hanging - I tried running the ./sql/v70.sql file from the shell and it hangs there - when I break that down I'm getting errors when creating tables as the TEXT columns have DEFAULT values. So that's why I'm not seeing any PHP errors.  So now I need some MySQL help please! According to the MySQL manual, this is correct that TEXT columns can't have a default.  Thanks all!