Title: Error message on install.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error message on install.php

 *  [eliasjordan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eliasjordan/)
 * (@eliasjordan)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-on-installphp/)
 * I am trying to install wordpress. But after I entered all of my information in
   wp-config. I open up install.php and this message pops up:
 * 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) $_POST[‘
   blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address if (empty($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/error-message-on-installphp/username@example.com?output_format=md)’).’
 * ‘); } $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email,
   $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>
    admin
 * What do I do? I am using Yahoo as a Web Host.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-on-installphp/#post-1086233)
 * looks like php isn’t enabled on the server
    you or host need to do this

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

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-on-installphp/#post-1086233)
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