Title: Can Anyone Help?? – Parse error: syntax error. Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Can Anyone Help?? – Parse error: syntax error. * Resolved [Cormie Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cormie-design/) * (@cormie-design) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/) * Im trying to create a website using WordPress, i have done a few before and don’t think i’ve done anything different but when i try to access the **wp-admin/install. php** it keeps showing me this message – * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /homepages/40/d333408217/ htdocs/legenderry/wp-includes/option.php on line 225 * Does anyone know what the problem is??? * Thanks. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/page/2/?output_format=md) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905408) * Try re-uploading all files & folders from a **fresh** download of WordPress. * Thread Starter [Cormie Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cormie-design/) * (@cormie-design) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905458) * Just tried that there and its still showing the same message. Would it have anything to do with the SQL database information i am adding to the wp-cinfig.php file? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905461) * Try deleting the wp-config.php file and allowing WP to create it as part of the install process. * Thread Starter [Cormie Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cormie-design/) * (@cormie-design) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905464) * Naw, still showing the error after i deleted the wp-config.php file????? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905467) * Did you re-upload using a fresh download of WordPress? * Thread Starter [Cormie Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cormie-design/) * (@cormie-design) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905473) * yea * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905475) * Can you try another download and re-upload? We need to rule out the possibility that you have two corrupted downloads. * Thread Starter [Cormie Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cormie-design/) * (@cormie-design) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905479) * Just completed the fresh download and re-install and its still showing the same error message: * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /homepages/40/d333408217/ htdocs/legenderry/wp-includes/option.php on line 225 * ?? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905505) * OK – bear with me. I’m going to see if I can get some more eyes on this one. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905516) * What hosting company and package are you using? Do you know what version of PHP your hosts are running? * Thread Starter [Cormie Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cormie-design/) * (@cormie-design) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905519) * Im using 1 and 1 hosting, unfortunately i don’t know about the PHP. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905520) * Haha! We have found a culprit thanks to some other gifted forum volunteers. There is indeed a bug in 3.4 that is only triggered on hosting that runs PHP 4 **and** PHP 5. That’s certainly the case with 1&1. The gory details are available at [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21316](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21316) if anyone is interested. * In shirt, we think that WP is trying to use PHP 4 and then erroring out when it should – instead – be generating a message along the lines of “You need PHP 5.2.4 to run WordPress”. Since you’re using 1&1, there may be a way around this. Try adding * ``` AddType x-mapp-php5 .php AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php ``` * an .htaccess file on your domain’s root folder. That should force PHP5, if I remember correctly. * Thread Starter [Cormie Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cormie-design/) * (@cormie-design) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905533) * Happy days, thats it sorted now, thank you very much for the help Esmi 🙂 * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905578) * Excellent! Glad we were able to find a fix for this. 🙂 * [benhunt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benhunt/) * (@benhunt) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/#post-2905586) * Brilliant, you just fixed my problem too. Thank you so much! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Can Anyone Help?? – Parse error: syntax error.’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 17 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [MegWi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/megwi/) * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-help-parse-error-syntax-error/page/2/#post-2905623) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics