Title: Install Issues!  Please help!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Install Issues! Please help!

 *  [treborluap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/treborluap/)
 * (@treborluap)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/)
 * Hi, Can anyone help me?
 * im setting up a brand new blog but im having trouble. I have transfered everything
   to my site via ftp but cannot connect to the install page. I have created the
   database already and have checked the info in the file in the wordpress files.
 * I get this error page.
    =================
 * <?php
    define(‘WP_INSTALLING’, true); if (!file_exists(‘../wp-config.php’)) {
   require_once(‘../wp-includes/compat.php’); require_once(‘../wp-includes/functions.
   php’); wp_die(“There doesn’t seem to be a `wp-config.php` file. I need this before
   we can get started. Need more help? [We got it](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php).
   You can [create a `wp-config.php` file through a web interface](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/setup-config.php?output_format=md),
   but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create
   the file.”, “WordPress › Error”); }
 * require_once(‘../wp-config.php’);
    require_once(‘./includes/upgrade.php’);
 * if (isset($_GET[‘step’]))
    $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; function display_header(){
   header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//
   W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “[http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt);
   <html xmlns=”[http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221](http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221);
   <?php language_attributes(); ?>> <head> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content
   =”text/html; charset=utf-8″ /> <title><?php _e(‘WordPress › Installation’); ?
   ></title> <?php wp_admin_css( ‘css/install’ ); ?> </head> <body> <h1 id=”logo”
   ><img alt=”WordPress” src=”images/wordpress-logo.png” /></h1>
 * <?php
    }//end function display_header();
 * // Let’s check to make sure WP isn’t already installed.
    if ( is_blog_installed()){
   display_header(); die(‘<h1>’.__(‘Already Installed’).'</h1><p>’.__(‘You appear
   to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database
   tables first.’).'</p></body></html>’);}
 * switch($step) {
    case 0: case 1: // in case people are directly linking to this
   display_header(); ?> <h1><?php _e(‘Welcome’); ?></h1> <p><?php printf(__(‘Welcome
   to the famous five minute WordPress installation process! You may want to browse
   the [ReadMe documentation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/%s?output_format=md)
   at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information below and you\’ll be
   on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal publishing platform
   in the world.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?></p> <!–<h2 class=”step”>[<?php _e(‘First Step »’); ?>](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/install.php?step=1)
   </h2>–>
 * <h1><?php _e(‘Information needed’); ?></h1>
    <p><?php _e(“Please provide the 
   following information. Don’t worry, you can always change these settings later.”);?
   ></p>
 * <form id=”setup” method=”post” action=”install.php?step=2″>
    <table width=”100%”
   > <tr> <th width=”33%”><?php _e(‘Blog title:’); ?></th> <td><input name=”weblog_title”
   type=”text” id=”weblog_title” size=”25″ /></td> </tr> <tr> <th><?php _e(‘Your
   e-mail:’); ?></th> <td><input name=”admin_email” type=”text” id=”admin_email”
   size=”25″ /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><label><input type=”checkbox” name
   =”blog_public” value=”1″ checked=”checked” /> <?php _e(‘Allow my blog to appear
   in search engines like Google and Technorati.’); ?></label></td> </tr> </table
   > <p>_<?php \_e(‘Double-check your email address before continuing.’); ?>_</p
   > <h2 class=”step”><input type=”submit” name=”Submit” value=”<?php _e(‘Install
   WordPress »’); ?>” /></h2> </form>
 * <?php
    break; case 2: if ( !empty($wpdb->error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message());
 *  display_header();
    // Fill in the data we gathered $weblog_title = stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘weblog_title’]); $admin_email = stripslashes($_POST[‘admin_email’]); 
   $public = (int) $_POST[‘blog_public’]; // check e-mail address if (empty($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`‘));}
 *  $wpdb->show_errors();
    $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email,
   $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>
 * <h1><?php _e(‘Success!’); ?></h1>
 * <p><?php printf(__(‘WordPress has been installed. Now you can [log in](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/%1$s?output_format=md)
   with the **username** “`admin`” and **password** “`%2$s`“.’), ‘../wp-login.php’,
   $password); ?></p>
    <p><?php _e(‘**_Note that password_** carefully! It is a 
   _random_ password that was generated just for you.’); ?></p>
 * <dl>
    <dt><?php _e(‘Username’); ?></dt> <dd>`admin`</dd> <dt><?php _e(‘Password’);?
   ></dt> <dd>`<?php echo $password; ?>`</dd> <dt><?php _e(‘Login address’); ?></
   dt> <dd>[wp-login.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/../wp-login.php?output_format=md)
   </dd> </dl> <p><?php _e(‘Were you expecting more steps? Sorry to disappoint. :)’);?
   ></p>
 * <?php
    break; } ?>
 * <p id=”footer”><?php _e(‘[WordPress](http://wordpress.org/), personal publishing
   platform.’); ?></p>
    </body> </html>

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/#post-680895)
 * If your seeing all that code then you don’t have your server setup correctly.
   PHP isn’t working. You’ll need to do some more research on server setup.
 *  Thread Starter [treborluap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/treborluap/)
 * (@treborluap)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/#post-680905)
 * does anyone know how to correct php setup… or where to look for info
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/#post-680907)
 * Google is your friend. This really isn’t a server setup forum and as such this
   topic is closed.

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 * [Setup](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/setup/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-please-help/#post-680907)
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