Title: Initial WordPress Install keeps repeating itself
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Initial WordPress Install keeps repeating itself

 *  Resolved [holtenj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holtenj/)
 * (@holtenj)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-wordpress-install-keeps-repeating-itself/)
 * I’m installing WordPress, and I get past the Database page, it says:
    “Alright
   sparky! Blah blah blah ‘Run the install'”. So I press that. Then it says there’s
   no wp-config.php. I click: ‘Create a Configuration File’.
 * Now I’m back to “Welcome to WordPress!” I click ‘Let’s go!’
 * Enter my Database information, and I’m back to “Alright sparky” . . .
 * Anyone have any idea why I’d be stuck in this apparent html temporal loop? 😀
 * Thanks much!
    -Jim

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 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-wordpress-install-keeps-repeating-itself/#post-4811927)
 * Before you click on the “Run the install” button, check if there is actually 
   a **wp-config.php** file in the root of your WordPress installation. This file
   should be created after you enter your database information and hit “Submit”.
 * You could also manually create a **wp-config.php** file but renaming **wp-config-
   sample.php** and enter your database info in there.
 *  Thread Starter [holtenj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holtenj/)
 * (@holtenj)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-wordpress-install-keeps-repeating-itself/#post-4811934)
 * There is no wp-config.php there even after running the loop several times.
 * I tried creating my own wp-config.php, but that seems to create a whole new problem.
   It then says that WordPress is already installed and wants me to login. “You 
   appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old
   database tables first” and the only option available is ‘Log in’.
 * Trouble is . . . I haven’t gotten to the stage where a login is created.
 * Clicking ‘Log in’ takes me to a login page (not the WordPress normal login page,
   but some odd page listing the name of the old non-wordpress site, though the 
   URL shows the correct URL for my WordPress install I just uploaded). It doesn’t
   matter what I enter at this stage, as it goes from “<www.sitename.com>/WordPress/
   wp-login.php” to “<sitename.com>/wordpress/wp-login.php” (notice the lowercased
   wordpress and lack of a www. ) and claims it can’t find the page.
 * Odd. I hope that helps diagnose the issue a bit more.
 * Thanks much! 😀
    -Jim
 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-wordpress-install-keeps-repeating-itself/#post-4811948)
 * Is it possible that the database is an old one, created by someone else for another
   site?
 * The database details you’ve entered in wp-config.php obviously are for a database
   that already exists. Maybe you should set up a whole new database from scratch
   and use that for your new installation?
 *  Thread Starter [holtenj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holtenj/)
 * (@holtenj)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-wordpress-install-keeps-repeating-itself/#post-4811962)
 * I thought of that as well, so I created a new database with a new user with full
   privileges, and the results were exactly identical, unfortunately.
 *  Thread Starter [holtenj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holtenj/)
 * (@holtenj)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-wordpress-install-keeps-repeating-itself/#post-4812058)
 * Found the problem. Apparently when I set my WP_HOME to the dynamic site name 
   found in the site setup, it didn’t redirect properly. Once I set it to the static
   site name, it worked fine.

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