Title: Error:  PHP not running
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error: PHP not running

 *  Resolved [janvenator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janvenator/)
 * (@janvenator)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-php-not-running-2/)
 * Hello,
 * I just installed XAMPP and everything is running fine. Apache and MySQL are running,
   I’m able to get to both admin pages etc… I created a new database and a new user
   that has all privileges for that database.
 * I downloaded the newest version of WordPress (3.9.1), extracted it to C:\xampp\
   wordpress, renamed the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php and edited 
   it to reflect the new database, user, user password and hostname:
 * define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wp_rttheme18’);
 * /** MySQL database username */
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wordpress’);
 * /** MySQL database password */
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘blank’);
 * /** MySQL hostname */
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
 * I then use the WordPress readme.html file which tells me to click on wp-admin/
   install.php, which I do, and then receive the error: Error PHP is not running.
   I noticed in the url it says file:///C:/xampp/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php.
   I know that that won’t work through the browser so I’ve tried the following:
 * //localhost/xampp/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php but I received “Object Not Found!
   Error 404” with a link to ‘localhost’. When I click on local host it takes me
   to localhost/xampp and it’s the admin page for Apache. So I guess localhost is
   set to localhost/xampp? I tried another url //localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.
   php, same error.
 * I’m guessing WordPress can’t connect to PHP somehow or that I’m using the wrong
   URL?
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [janvenator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janvenator/)
 * (@janvenator)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-php-not-running-2/#post-5144288)
 * Anyone? If it helps, I read ALL of the other related posts I could find and none
   helped me.
 *  Thread Starter [janvenator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janvenator/)
 * (@janvenator)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-php-not-running-2/#post-5144296)
 * Just figured it out. Apparently you HAVE to unzip the contents of WordPress to
   it’s own folder under xampp\htdocs. Why, I don’t know. But that’s the only location
   that I was able to get WordPress to work in.

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 * Last reply from: [janvenator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janvenator/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-php-not-running-2/#post-5144296)
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