Title: install.php: Failed at Step 3
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# install.php: Failed at Step 3

 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-failed-at-step-3/)
 * My configuration:
    Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 I searched through the forum
   and found that many people got the same error: installation failed at step 3.
   I am not able to fix my problem by the solutions provided though. The page doesn’t
   load in IE and doesn’t give me any error messages. It went through step 1 and
   2 fine. Does anyone have a fix? Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-failed-at-step-3/#post-49344)
 * mySQL is 3.23.32
 *  [wantmoore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wantmoore/)
 * (@wantmoore)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-failed-at-step-3/#post-49345)
 * Which version of WordPress are you trying to install? The current release is 
   1.0.2 and the current beta/nightly releases will be 1.2 something.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-failed-at-step-3/#post-49414)
 * i tried both. same problem! “Page cannot be displayed!”
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-failed-at-step-3/#post-49417)
 * Did you edit your wp-config.php using MS word? If you used anything but the simplest
   text editor, you might have some problems due to the editor mucking up the file
   with formatting and stuff.
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-failed-at-step-3/#post-49419)
 * yeah, we cant rule that possibility out! 🙂
    we get some real noobies here… me
   comes to mind! 🙂

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 5 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-failed-at-step-3/#post-49419)
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