Title: Installation error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Installation error

 *  [mathickman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathickman/)
 * (@mathickman)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-36/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m trying to install wordpress — I adjusted the wp-config.php file ok and fed
   it my db details. However, it throws the following error:
 * `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in /data01/mhickman/public_html/
   wp/wp-includes/class-phpass.php on line 50`
 * Had a quick look at that line of code and it appears to be something to do with
   generating the password — the database details are all ok, since it creates the
   tables no problem.
 * Any thoughts??
 * TIA,
 * Mat

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 *  Thread Starter [mathickman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathickman/)
 * (@mathickman)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-36/#post-1379080)
 * Ooooh, this could be an FTP issue — think the file might have been corrupted 
   during the upload. Starting over…
 *  Thread Starter [mathickman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathickman/)
 * (@mathickman)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-36/#post-1379081)
 * It was an FTP error. That line of code kept on getting corrupted. Initially I
   uploaded using Windows Explorer (lazy/ silly, I know). I then used SmartFTP, 
   on ‘auto’ mode (which would’ve been ASCII for PHP files) and it kept corrupting
   that file. I then put it on Binary mode and it kept corrupting it.
 * Eventually, I opened the remote file in HTML-Kit, the local file in WordPad and
   replace the contents of the remote version with the local one, saved it and all
   ok.
 * However, I’m now a little nervous — which other files might have got corrupted
   without me knowing about it??

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 * Last reply from: [mathickman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathickman/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-error-36/#post-1379081)
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