Title: Installing on a subdomain, wp-admin/install.php issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Installing on a subdomain, wp-admin/install.php issues

 *  [JimGR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimgr/)
 * (@jimgr)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-on-a-subdomain-wp-admininstallphp-issues/)
 * I am currently trying to install wordpress on a subdomain (blog.domain.com) which
   is pointed to my hosting service (domain.com is pointed at a Blogger blog hosted
   elsewhere, which I’m taking down later and replacing with a static page) and 
   failing miserably. I have some limited HTML/CSS knowledge but I suspect I’m running
   before I can walk here and need some help.
 * The root domain has a public_html folder in my FTP client, I was instructed by
   my registrar’s support to create a folder ‘blog’ in here and upload the wordpress
   files here to install to blog.domain.com. All files are there and I’ve edited
   wp-config.php for the MySQL database (fairly certain I have this done right…).
 * However, when I try to access blog.domain.com/wp-admin/install.php in my browser
   I get the following:
 * Not Found
 * The requested URL /wp-admin/install.php was not found on this server.
 * Apache Server at blog.xyz.xyz Port 80
 * If I just access blog.domain.com then I can’t tell if this is working. It displays
   the contents of the index.html file that my registrar placed in the public_html
   folder when I bought hosting from them.
 * What am I doing wrong?

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-on-a-subdomain-wp-admininstallphp-issues/#post-2203300)
 * The subdomain name you created is it redirected to blog folder.
 *  Thread Starter [JimGR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimgr/)
 * (@jimgr)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-on-a-subdomain-wp-admininstallphp-issues/#post-2203309)
 * I created an A record ‘blog’ for the domain in the DNS settings that points to
   the IP address I was given when I signed up for the hosting and I have a folder
   within public_html (one down from root, which only has that and ‘logfiles’) called‘
   blog’ to which I have uploaded the WP files.
 * Does that answer the question (I’m not terribly sure if it does…)?

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-on-a-subdomain-wp-admininstallphp-issues/#post-2203309)
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