Title: Installation problem: "Error: PHP is not running"
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Installation problem: "Error: PHP is not running"

 *  [shendun172](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shendun172/)
 * (@shendun172)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-error-php-is-not-running/)
 * Hi,
    I got the following error when installing: “WordPress requires that your
   web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is
   turned off.”.
 * But I can open the test .php files when putting then under /var/www/html/HelloWorld.
   php and open the file of file:///var/www/html/HelloWorld.php, or through [http://localhost/HelloWorld.php](http://localhost/HelloWorld.php)
 * Does anybody know what’s the problem? Thanks!
 * P.S: Where should I put the unziped dir of wordpress?
    /var/www/html/wordpress
   or somewhere else?
 * Shendun

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 *  [dpnpradhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpnpradhan/)
 * (@dpnpradhan)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-error-php-is-not-running/#post-2393699)
 * first of all clearly tell me what r u going to do r u going to install it on 
   localhost or web server??
 *  Thread Starter [shendun172](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shendun172/)
 * (@shendun172)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-error-php-is-not-running/#post-2393702)
 * Hi,
    I’m trying to install it on my localhost(may publish it later to public),
   I have Apache, mysql, php installed on my linux desktop already(Fedora 14). Thanks!

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 * [not running](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/not-running/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

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 * Last reply from: [shendun172](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shendun172/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-error-php-is-not-running/#post-2393702)
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