Title: can’t start installing wordpress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# can’t start installing wordpress

 *  [avibitto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/avibitto/)
 * (@avibitto)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-start-installing-wordpress/)
 * hello!
 * i had problems from the early beginning with the wp installation,
    i have done
   everything like the installation steps are showing. i must mention that im installing
   it in localhost (wamp/www) i made database with wordpress name edited wp_config.
   php and changed it to wordpress data base name root(the user) deleted the password”(
   empty) and left the localhost. i hope some1 can help me , i really dont know 
   where to start . what i got when i pressed on the install.php file is this message:
 * ERROR: %s’), $error); ?>
 * ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’
 * ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear
   your old database tables first.’).’
    ‘);} switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // 
   in case people are directly linking to this display_header(); ?>
 * ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information
   below and you’ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal
   publishing platform in the world.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>
 * error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill
   in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘weblog_title’]) : ”; $admin_email = isset($_POST[‘admin_email’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘admin_email’]) : ”; $public = isset($_POST[‘blog_public’]) ? (int) $_POST[‘
   blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address $error = false; if (empty($admin_email)){//
   TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘you must provide an e-mail address.’));
   $error = true; } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form(
   __(‘that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-start-installing-wordpress/username@example.com?output_format=md)’));
   $error = true; } if ( $error === false ) { $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install(
   $weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?
   >
 *  admin
    ‘. $password .’ ‘; } echo ‘
 * ‘. $password_message .’
    ‘; ?>

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 *  [rodpacker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodpacker/)
 * (@rodpacker)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-start-installing-wordpress/#post-1123668)
 * I am getting the same error on Vista64. I went through a bunch of tuts to fix
   file permissions but am still getting the same issue 🙁
 * Help pretty please?
 *  [issie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/issie/)
 * (@issie)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-start-installing-wordpress/#post-1123669)
 * I just keep having the same problem. Message as follows:
 * ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information
   below and you\’ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal
   publishing platform in the world.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>
 * error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill
   in the data we gathered $weblog_title = stripslashes($_POST[‘weblog_title’]);
   $admin_email = stripslashes($_POST[‘admin_email’]); $public = (int) $_POST[‘blog_public’];//
   check e-mail address if (empty($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die(‘
    ‘.__(“
   ERROR: you must provide an e-mail address.”).’
 * ‘); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die(‘
    ‘.__(‘ERROR:
   that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-start-installing-wordpress/username@example.com?output_format=md)’).’
 * ‘); } $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email,
   $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>
    admin
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-start-installing-wordpress/#post-1123670)
 * looks like php isn’t installed or configured correctly
 *  [geroge49](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geroge49/)
 * (@geroge49)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-start-installing-wordpress/#post-1123672)
 * You may need to completely clear out the database and re-do the install
 * “‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’
 * ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear
   your old database tables first.’).'”
 * seems to indicate this.

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