Title: Cannot install WordPress
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Cannot install WordPress

 *  [normantang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/normantang/)
 * (@normantang)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress-2/)
 * Hello,
 * I cannot install WordPress. When I click on “wp-admin/install.php” I get an error
   message:
 * “wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We
   got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this
   doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the 
   file.”); require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.
   php’); $schema = ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) 
   == ‘on’ ) ? ‘[https://&#8217](https://&#8217); : ‘[http://&#8217](http://&#8217);;
   $guessurl = str_replace(‘/wp-admin/install.php?step=2’, ”, $schema . $_SERVER[‘
   HTTP_HOST’] . dirname($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) ); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step
   = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-
   8’ ); ?>”
 * I have already created a wp-config.php file. Why does this happen?
 * Thank you,
 * Norman Tang

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 *  [maryp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryp/)
 * (@maryp)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress-2/page/2/#post-359225)
 * Ok.. I went back to the original below Happy blogging..
    uploaded.. ran the install.
   php Same problem! ( p.s. I do have a support ticket into IPower)
 *  [Dickie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickie/)
 * (@dickie)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress-2/page/2/#post-359226)
 * if that’s the case then you could try
 * `
    define('ABSPATH', '/var/www/vhosts/ebooktalk.net/httpdocs/'); require_once('/
   var/www/vhosts/ebooktalk.net/httpdocs/wp-settings.php');  As the lsdt two things
   in your file… what you had before would not have worked anyway. This assumes 
   that your blog is at the root of your site.
 *  [maryp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryp/)
 * (@maryp)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress-2/page/2/#post-359227)
 * Fixed it.. the php was not turned on for this particular domain name.. it was
   newly added to the server.
    Thanks for the help.
 *  [Dickie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickie/)
 * (@dickie)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress-2/page/2/#post-359228)
 * Thought so… I assume that you have left the last two lines untouched?

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## Tags

 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 19 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [Dickie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickie/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-install-wordpress-2/page/2/#post-359228)
 * Status: not resolved

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