Title: install.php Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # install.php * [maginrose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maginrose/) * (@maginrose) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/) * I have completed all the steps to install WordPress and am typing in /wp-admin/ install.php but just get an error message saying the [page cannot be displayed](https://wordpress.org/www.maginrose.com/web/content/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php?output_format=md). I have checked my coding and deleted all of WordPress and up-loaded it a second time but with no success. I know that something is happening as my index page is appearing as the defalt [‘Your website is ready’](http://www.maginrose.com). * I am using Filezilla and have saved WordPress under web/content. The install page is under wp-admin and in the main WordPress directory. Please help. * Maggie Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323016) * Is there an index.html from your host in that directory? Delete or rename it? The only index.* file in there should be the one from WordPress. * Thread Starter [maginrose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maginrose/) * (@maginrose) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323025) * Thank you – I hadn’t noticed that these weren’t WordPress. Now I’m getting a 403 forbidden message – but I remember seeing some instructions for dealing with this, I will see if I can find them. * Thread Starter [maginrose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maginrose/) * (@maginrose) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323034) * I have found the instructions for the [403 forbidden error message ](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Installation#What_is_the_403_error_I_get_when_trying_to_see_my_site.3F) but the menu ‘Web options’ is not an available option on my Control Panel. Is this definitely referring to the websitesettings Control Panel? * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323036) * Hard to say. * Tell us again where you think you’ve installed WordPress? It doesn’t appear to be at [http://www.maginrose.com/](http://www.maginrose.com/) — is it in a subdirectory? * Thread Starter [maginrose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maginrose/) * (@maginrose) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323040) * Yes. It’s in a sub-directory. web/content. I checked with my host (Laughing Squid) and there shouldn’t be a problem with the page being index.php. Should the web- admin file be immediately under ‘WordPress’? Currently is is under wp-content? * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323044) * wp-admin is a directory and should be at the same level as wp-content. * What URL do you think the blog is at? (Laughing Squid could help with that) * Thread Starter [maginrose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maginrose/) * (@maginrose) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323045) * Actually, ignore that last bit of the previous post – I have two files called wp-admin, one directly under WordPress and one under wp-content. * Thread Starter [maginrose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maginrose/) * (@maginrose) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323048) * I’m sorry, do you mean my domain name? This is [http://www.maginrose.com](http://www.maginrose.com) or do you mean a different URL? * Thread Starter [maginrose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maginrose/) * (@maginrose) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323158) * Following on from the previous posts I have checked through all the steps again. I can confirm that if I put an html index page on my site then that works – what I can’t do is to install WordPress. I have filled in all the information on the congig file and uploaded the whole, unzipped WordPress directory onto my website under [http://www.maginrose/web/content](http://www.maginrose/web/content) but when I then try to open a page [http://www.maginrose.com/web/content/wp-admin/install.php](http://www.maginrose.com/web/content/wp-admin/install.php) or [http://www.maginrose.com/web/content/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php](http://www.maginrose.com/web/content/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php) I just get a message saying the link is broken. I have also tried moving the contents of the WordPress directory into the main ‘content’ directory as well as leaving them in the WordPress directory, neither strategies has worked. * If I delete my index.html page then I get a 403 error message which suggests to me that my site isn’t recognising any php files – but I don’t know what to do about this. My host ‘Laughing Squid’ indicates that it is php compatable and my MySQL is set to PHP 5, I am really at a loss as to how to proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323186) * The URL is [http://www.maginrose.com/wp-admin/install.php](http://www.maginrose.com/wp-admin/install.php) * When you upload to /web/content/ that’s what we call your ‘web root’ 🙂 * [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/) * (@henkholland) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323212) * Actualy, it is here now: [http://www.maginrose.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php](http://www.maginrose.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php) saying it is already installed and the login is here: [http://www.maginrose.com/wordpress/wp-login.php](http://www.maginrose.com/wordpress/wp-login.php) * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323219) * [http://www.maginrose.com/wordpress/wp-login.php](http://www.maginrose.com/wordpress/wp-login.php) is a 404 for me * [http://www.maginrose.com/wp-login.php](http://www.maginrose.com/wp-login.php) works. * [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/) * (@henkholland) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323225) * Sorry, Ipstenu. I swear I saw it. Seems he keeps shifting them. * [eggshen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eggshen/) * (@eggshen) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323429) * ok, so i was running into the same problem over and over again, and finally got it resolved! * im hosting with laughing squid, but i imagine that most hosts run the same way. * if youre getting the 404 error, make sure youre installing it into the correct directory. * when you log into your site with your FTP, there should be a folder named something like [http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com](http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com) * in that folder will be a folder called WEB, and a directory in WEB called CONTENT. this content folder is where you need to install all of your wordpress files. * you can create a subdirectory within /WEB/CONTENT if you like (and its probably a good idea. * then when you attempt to run the install.php, you simply open your browser and go to [http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com/WPDIR/wp-admin/install.com](http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com/WPDIR/wp-admin/install.com)( where WPDIR is the subdirectory you uploaded to) * everything in the /WEB/CONTENT folder is accessible through your browser. hopefully that helps and/or makes sense. * good luck! Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) The topic ‘install.php’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 14 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [eggshen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eggshen/) * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-12/#post-1323429) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics