I'm upgrading from an earlier version on another host. I followed these instructions
https://wiki.magento.com/display/m1wiki/Moving+Magento+to+Another+Server
and after much messing with permissions I can get the installation page up and set the locale, but every time I get to the database stage I get a 500 error.
The database is definitely there and the credentials correct, but the local.xml file just gets emptied.
Errors in /var/log/apache2/errorlog are as follows:
[Tue Oct 20 19:09:03.537555 2015] [:error] [pid 11535] [client 90.211.202.223:50872] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function insert() on a non-object in /var/www/html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Resource.php on line 133
[Tue Oct 20 19:09:04.658332 2015] [:error] [pid 11533] [client 90.211.202.223:50873] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function insert() on a non-object in /var/www/html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Resource.php on line 133
[Tue Oct 20 19:09:16.821380 2015] [:error] [pid 11566] [client 90.211.202.223:50880] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function insert() on a non-object in /var/www/html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Resource.php on line 133
[Tue Oct 20 19:17:07.399494 2015] [:error] [pid 11591] [client 90.211.202.223:51078] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function insert() on a non-object in /var/www/html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Resource.php on line 133, referer: http://my-site.co.uk/index.php/install/wizard/config/
I'm not expert enough to debug this - but I'm hoping someone can help.
