Trouble installing Magento - "continue" doesn't work

Question

I am installing magento for the first time on my localhost, and I'm having trouble at database configuration step. I am installing the CE 1.7 version.

These are my settings:

When I click on continue, it reloads the same page instead of going to the admin page. I took the sample data for this magento version and created mysql database with above mentioned name, and created a new user, gave the user permissions for that db, before this step. Also, I set permissions 777 to the magento directory, but still no use. Tried all the steps mentioned here, but still getting the same error. I have restarted mysql, php-fpm, but still getting the same error.

I'm running on bitnami nginx stack. I will provide the conf files if you want. Please help!

Answer 1

I got this up and running after making some weird changes. I don't understand why it worked though.

I have changed the app/code/core/Mage/Install/etc/config.xml as mentioned here from

<extensions>
    <pdo_mysql/>
</extensions>

to

<extensions>
    <pdo_mysql>1</pdo_mysql>
</extensions>

But doing this DIDN'T solve the problem! In fact, the installer page now went into a redirect loop. I have reverted this change, and restarted the stack again.

This time, it was showing error messages when I was clicking on continue (strange). I have changed the connection host to 127.0.0.1 in app/etc/config.xml and this time it gave an error message like this: Error parsing body - doesn't seem to be a chunked message.

Checking the Skip Base URL Validation Before the Next Step box as mentioned here fixed the problem. Now the site is up and running... thanks to everyone! :)