Title: Incomprehensible “parse error” message
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Incomprehensible “parse error” message

 *  [hdinin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hdinin/)
 * (@hdinin)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomprehensible-parse-error-message/)
 * What does it mean? And what do I do about it? And how do I prevent it from happening?
   It happens on log-in attempts.
 * I am not a programmer, coder, or anything of the sort. I design Web pages, but
   do not handle scripts.
 * Here’s the message:
 * Parse error: parse error in /home/cust2/user1420560/html/02138blog/wp-admin/index.
   php on line 165
 * Thanks for any assistance.
 * Howard

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomprehensible-parse-error-message/#post-745966)
 * I’d suspect a corrupted file. Try to re-upload a fresh copy of that file.
 * On a second thought: there is no line 165 in the index.php file of wp-admin folder…
   so, I am a bit confused.
 *  Thread Starter [hdinin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hdinin/)
 * (@hdinin)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomprehensible-parse-error-message/#post-746267)
 * Thanks for the reply. I’ve been traveling and just saw your response. In fact,
   despite my avowed ignorance, I know enough to have looked at the php script and
   saw that there was no line 165, so my mystification was only deeper. I finally
   solved the problem (in any event it went away) by updating to 2.5. The new installation
   seemed to solve whatever was causing this strange message, and also, more importantly,
   permitted me once again to login to my own blog…
 * Howard

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 * Last reply from: [hdinin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hdinin/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomprehensible-parse-error-message/#post-746267)
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