Title: “Launch /wp-admin/install.php in your browser”?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# “Launch /wp-admin/install.php in your browser”?

 *  [tiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiger/)
 * (@tiger)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/launch-wp-admininstallphp-in-your-browser/)
 * (I am new to all of this, so pardon stupid questions)
    I have made the changes
   to the “wp-config-sample.php ” file and saved it as “wp-config.php “. I then 
   uploaded everything. This was successful. I checked with my server to make sure
   that I had the MySQL set up correctly on their end, and that I had the username,
   password, and database name correct. But now, when I try to “Launch /wp-admin/
   install.php in your browser.” –that is, when I put into the address bar: ” my
   domain name.org/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php” (and I have tried leaving out
   the “wordpress” file name) I just get a “the page cannot be found” window in 
   my browser. Also, regarding the “wp-config.php ” info, am I right that if my 
   database name is Parmenides, the info in the file should look like this?: define(‘
   DB_NAME’, ‘Parmenides’); thanks

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 *  [eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eric/)
 * (@eric)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/launch-wp-admininstallphp-in-your-browser/#post-63641)
 * Database names can sometimes be different from what you expect, e.g. if you’re
   running the cpanel backend it prefixes all database and d/b user names with your
   account user name.
    However, if you get a 404 trying to access install.php then
   something more fundamental is wrong, you’re not even getting to the point where
   it tries to find the database. The only thing that comes to my mind though is
   obvious stuff like did you put the files in a subdirectory called something other
   than ‘wordpress’, or misspelled the address?

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eric/)
 * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/launch-wp-admininstallphp-in-your-browser/#post-63641)
 * Status: not resolved

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