Story so far.
I found my clear headed PHP chap, bought him a drink and watched him for 30 minutes.
He browsed localhost/vb/core/install/install.php and go the same result I did.
He then renamed the .htaccess and made another attempt.
The result found the install folder but stopped here.
Not sure why in the picture vB doesn't know what the Mysql version is.
Anyway, with the new query, he opened the .htaccess file to this bit.
Code:
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \
text/javascript \
application/x-javascript \
application/javascript \
application/json \
application/rss+xml \
application/vnd.ms-fontobject \
application/x-font-ttf \
application/xhtml+xml \
application/xml \
font/opentype \
image/svg+xml \
image/x-icon \
text/css \
text/html \
text/plain \
text/x-component \
text/xml
</IfModule>
He commented some stuff and checked the apache error log.
He concluded by asking me to go to apache modules and enable filter_module.
I then had vB5 installed and bought another round of drinks.