Title: Codeigniter and WordPress redirect to install.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Codeigniter and WordPress redirect to install.php

 *  [darioism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darioism/)
 * (@darioism)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-and-wordpress-redirect-to-installphp/)
 * I’m building a website which requires both Codeigniter and WordPress to work 
   side-by-side. So far I’ve gotten them to play nicely together, but I finally 
   ran into a brick wall.
 * Codeigniter runs the website, except for the WordPress blog which runs from a
   subfolder, for example: [http://mysite.com/wordpress/](http://mysite.com/wordpress/).
 * To display a page using Codeigniter, I need to call WordPress functions such 
   as get_header, get_sidebar, and get_footer. In order for these to work, I need
   to include wp-blog-header.php. However, as soon as wp-blog-header.php is called,
   the browser redirects me to the wp-admin/install.php page (which does not exist
   anymore).
 * I don’t believe this is a configuration problem, because the WordPress blog pages
   run fine by themselves. I did a repair on the entire database with no change.
   I’m thinking that WordPress is noticing that the request URL does not belong 
   to itself, so it sends a redirect header to the browser, but I’m not sure.
 * Anyone have any ideas on why it’s redirecting? Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [darioism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darioism/)
 * (@darioism)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-and-wordpress-redirect-to-installphp/#post-1704560)
 * Shameless bump cause I need HELP! Anyone? Would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 *  [gevans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gevans/)
 * (@gevans)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-and-wordpress-redirect-to-installphp/#post-1704571)
 * I’ve just run into the same problem today! Haven’t figured anything out yet
 *  [gevans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gevans/)
 * (@gevans)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-and-wordpress-redirect-to-installphp/#post-1704572)
 * Sorted, check out the following post;
 * [http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/126707/#635828](http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/126707/#635828)
 *  Thread Starter [darioism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darioism/)
 * (@darioism)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-and-wordpress-redirect-to-installphp/#post-1704578)
 * Thanks gevans. I think my issue here was that I was calling wp-blog-header later
   on in the CI code. When I moved wp-blog-header to the beginning of Codeigniter’s
   core index.php file, the problems went away. I was trying to avoid having to 
   load WP’s functions for every page load of the site, but it looks like there’s
   no way around it. Hopefully this tidbit will be able to help someone else in 
   the future.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [darioism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darioism/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-and-wordpress-redirect-to-installphp/#post-1704578)
 * Status: not resolved

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