Title: Extrememly Basic Install Questons
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Extrememly Basic Install Questons

 *  [holtzheimer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holtzheimer/)
 * (@holtzheimer)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extrememly-basic-install-questons/)
 * Obviously, I’m trying to set it up…. but the “readme.htm” says to “upload everything”–
   > I’m assuming FTP it to my hosting server. I did that. Now it says to “Open /
   wp-admin/install.php in your browser” —> does this mean to open my IE and go 
   to “File–> Open” and locate the /wp-admin/install.php file and then open it? 
   I tried that and all it does is show the text file called /wp-admin/install.php.
 * Why is that? I really don’t know what I’m doing. I know quite a bit about computers
   and basic web pages, but I’ve never place scripts in them before (my own, that
   is).
 * Is there a reason my IE browser opens this a just text instead of a page?

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 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extrememly-basic-install-questons/#post-493717)
 * It means go to [http://yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php](http://yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php)
 *  [aergonaut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aergonaut/)
 * (@aergonaut)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extrememly-basic-install-questons/#post-493718)
 * “Open in your browser” means browse to the script’s location on your server in
   your browser. So, if your site is at mysite.com, and you installed WordPress 
   in a /wordpress directory, you should open the URL [http://mysite.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php](http://mysite.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php)
   in your browser.
 *  [Brian Layman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianlayman/)
 * (@brianlayman)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extrememly-basic-install-questons/#post-493820)
 * BTW guys every time you use an address like YourSite.com or MySite.com some site
   parking twit gets another hit or twelve.
 * The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved an url or two specificly
   for examples.
 * If you use Example.com, Example.net, Example.org, or Example.info you are not
   going to be helping deliver traffic to someone you don’t know anything about.
   These four Example.TLD (top level domain) addresses are IANA_RESERVED and you
   can use them safely.
 * Note that other example sites like .US .be .dk .de .co.uk etc are all owned bu
   different companies. Only use the four mentioned above.
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extrememly-basic-install-questons/#post-493821)
 * nice to know Brian, thanks for the heads up.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extrememly-basic-install-questons/#post-493821)
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