Title: display error in wp-admin/install.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# display error in wp-admin/install.php

 *  Resolved [bpoblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bpoblog/)
 * (@bpoblog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-error-in-wp-admininstallphp/)
 * When I am opening install.php it is giving me this weird page.
 * “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’ ); ?> “
 * Please help.

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 *  [cms](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cms/)
 * (@cms)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-error-in-wp-admininstallphp/#post-491335)
 * Did you made a wp-config.php file or renamed wp-config-sample.php file to wp-
   config.php?
 * Have a look at
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install)
 *  [aban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aban/)
 * (@aban)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-error-in-wp-admininstallphp/#post-491338)
 * Yupe, edit the wp-config-sample.php. Save as wp-config.php then upload it to 
   your server…
 *  Thread Starter [bpoblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bpoblog/)
 * (@bpoblog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-error-in-wp-admininstallphp/#post-491339)
 * Yes I saved wp-config-sample.php as wp-config.php with all the information update.
   I reupload all the wordpress files but it is giving my same kind of page.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-error-in-wp-admininstallphp/#post-491352)
 * What are you opening it with? If you’re using a browser and getting that, then
   you may want to contact your host and ensure PHP is activated.
 *  Thread Starter [bpoblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bpoblog/)
 * (@bpoblog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-error-in-wp-admininstallphp/#post-491570)
 * Thanks a lot ur support. My host PHP wasn’t working. I can open it now the way
   it should be . Thanks all of u for ur help.

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 * [install.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/install-php/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-error-in-wp-admininstallphp/#post-491570)
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