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Problems while installing Drupal 6.x

If you are facing problem on step 3 of Drupal installation where you enter your database name, username and password and after clicking Continue button the page just refreshes blanking out everything then the following fix applies to you if are on Windows 2003.

This problem has also been mentioned on Drupal website

1. Go to the sites/default folder.
2. Create an empty file by the name of settings.php in that folder.
3. Right click on settings.php and click on Security tab.
4. Search and add the IUSR_ account.
5. Give it read and write permissions on the settings.php file and proceed normally.

The installation will complete without a hitch.