Title: Installation problems and errors
Last modified: August 18, 2016

---

# Installation problems and errors

 *  [gracebytes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gracebytes/)
 * (@gracebytes)
 * [22 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problems-and-errors/)
 * I’m having some problems with installing .72 beta 2 of WordPress.
    First this,“
   Copy wp-config.sample.php to wp-config.php.” is sort of confusing to me. Mostly
   because there isn’t a wp-config.php file. There is a wp-config-extra.php, so 
   I assumed that this is the file the instructions were talking about. Secondly,
   I may be a moron but, I’m not clear on what I’m supposed to be copying. I assume
   it is the contents of wp-config.sample.php to the contents of wp-config-extra.
   php. Is this right? Ok so, I did all that and I recieved this error Warning: 
   main(../wp-config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /
   home/gracie/public_html/wp-admin/wp-install.php on line 3 Fatal error: main():
   Failed opening required ‘../wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/
   local/lib/php’) in /home/gracie/public_html/wp-admin/wp-install.php on line 3
   Thanks for any help.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/)
 * (@cena)
 * [22 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problems-and-errors/#post-23705)
 * No. It means that when you alter wp-config-sample.php, you should SAVE AS ‘wp-
   config.php’ in your text editor. This creates a new file by that name.
 *  [lane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lane/)
 * (@lane)
 * [22 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problems-and-errors/#post-23706)
 * Actually, you want one file called wp-config.php in the root directory of your
   WordPress installation. There is none in the beginning, so you are making a duplicate
   of wp-config.sample.php and renaming that duplicate to wp-config.php
    On a Mac,
   this would look like: wp-config.sample copy.php rename wp-config.sample copy.
   php to wp-config.php (basically taking out “.sample copy”) open the file, change
   the contents of your newly created wp-config.php file to your settings. upload.
   You will not touch wp-config-extra.php at all. And you are not copying or pasting
   any code from one file to the next, you’re making an actual duplicate of the 
   file and renaming it. HTH Lane
 *  Thread Starter [gracebytes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gracebytes/)
 * (@gracebytes)
 * [22 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problems-and-errors/#post-23711)
 * It worked thanks! The way it was worded totally confused me :\

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Installation problems and errors’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [gracebytes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gracebytes/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problems-and-errors/#post-23711)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics