Joomla version: 1.5
MySQL version: 5.1
PHP version: 5.2.16

I was looking forward to FreiChatX 5 because I couldn't install previous versions due to the backtick problem. Now I find that version 5 does not install at all.

Here's what I'm doing:
1) Go to http://intranet/freichat/installation/
2) Choose "Joomla" from the pulldown menu (installation fails for other options as well)
3) Confirm that arg.php is writable and configuration.php is readable
4) Confirm that all DB parameters are correct

When I click the final submit button, however, I get an http 500 error. When I check arg.php, $installed has been set to "true". When I check phpMyAdmin, no tabes have been created.

I had no problems installing the old FreiChatPure 2.5.0, so I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.

Please help!

In the last step you have to install a module ,

Download below module and install and enable it
http://code.google.com/p/freichatx-i/downloads/detail?name=mod_freichatx-i.zip&can=2&q=#makechanges

After that go to ~/freichat/arg.php

In the latter half you will find database parameters , make sure they are correct.

Thanks for the advice - I didn't have the module installed, so i installed that. But the result is the same - blank page after hitting final submit button with DB parameters.

The MySQL tables are not being created.

I know that the DB parameters are correct because I'm using the exact same ones to install other extensions without any problems. I'm envious of other users who've been able to install it so easily :)

Maybe if there was a SQL script I could execute to create the tables/fields manually, that might work...

Not sure if you have tried this, but have you tried the auto configuration where it sources off of your configurations.php file and does the work for you? (Just trying to help, I'm by no means a expert at this)

Below is the sql query you might want to execute.

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `frei_chat`;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `frei_chat` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `from` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `from_name` varchar(30) NOT NULL,
  `to` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `to_name` varchar(30) NOT NULL,
  `message` text NOT NULL,
  `sent` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `recd` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `time` varchar(15) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `frei_session`;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `frei_session` (
  `id` int(100) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `username` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `time` int(100) NOT NULL,
  `session_id` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
  `permanent_id` int(100) NOT NULL,
  `status` tinyint(4) NOT NULL,
  `guest` tinyint(3) NOT NULL,
  `status_mesg` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `permanent_id` (`permanent_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=78 ;